Brewers (Ross) vs Royals (Singer): 5/8/24, 1:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

An excellent comeback win last night (that I slept through)!

[treego14]

It's the 3rd game of the series -- the rubber match ...

A game we shall snatch!

Let's get more than one Dinger against Mr. Singer!

Get the smile ready, Mr. Ross -- don't forget to Floss!

[Underachiever]

How did I not notice that the Royals closer's name was James McArthur????? 

Adames should have hit that ball, flipped the bat, and said:

[BruisedCrew]

I’m doing my part to help the Brewers today

Because the Brewers have had so much trouble scoring against starting pitchers the last five games, I picked up Singer for my fantasy team. That usually leads to a pitcher giving up at least a run per inning and picking up a loss. 

[SeaBass]

Yelich reinstated, Black optioned back to AAA. Let the Bauers hate ensue.

[treego14]

4 minutes ago, SeaBass said:

Yelich reinstated, Black optioned back to AAA. Let the Bauers hate ensue.

Bauers does have a picture-perfect swing, though.

[treego14]

Welcome back, Yelli! 

Keep that back as flexible as jelly!

[Team Canada]

[Lathund]

Was hoping we might have been done with the automatic platooning at 3B after yesterday, but seems not. RHP means Dunn starts. I don't get it. It's not even a case of just looking at surface numbers either. Dunn has a .263 xwOBA, Ortiz .311. Dunn walks 4% and strikes out 38%. Ortiz 16 and 20% respectively. Dunn sports a .364 BABIP, Ortiz .321. And while you can't really read too much into platoon splits with these small sample sizes, Ortiz has so far performed much better against righties. Can't really be about defense either, Ortiz had a couple bad throws early on but is clearly a very good defender overall. So even if one was to think Dunn was better, it wouldn't be by a whole lot. And I don't buy the "Ortiz is a starter, but we're giving Dunn a run for now" reasoning either. 

Only good explanation would be if Ortiz was carrying some minor injury that needed managing. But at this point it's costing them. If Ortiz was the LHH and Dunn RHH it would be different, the distribution of RHPvsLHP would mean the playing time balance made sense. But it doesn't now. 

[Bulldogboy]

Black should have stayed. Now it's Sanchez at first base which is scary. I guess Monteserio is staying thanks to his ph yesterday. Dunn is Keston Hiura with no power. Why is he being given the long look.

[RightFieldCoder]

Dunn doesn't bounce throws to first. Not saying I agree with decision but it may be the explaination.

[Team Canada]

4 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Now it's Sanchez at first base which is scary

It's still going to be mostly Hoskins and Bauers. Black would probably be sitting today regardless. When Yelich is DHing this is a potential lineup regardless of Black being here or not.

[beekay414]

We treat street min vets better than our prospects and we wonder why their development grows stagnant and they become AAAA players.

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

We treat street min vets better than our prospects and we wonder why their development grows stagnant and they become AAAA players.

I wonder if there's any bias coming from the person with Tyler Black as their profile picture...

[HarryDoyle]

It’s about time they moved Turing to lead off.

[Jim French Stepstool]

53 minutes ago, Lathund said:

 

Only good explanation would be if Ortiz was carrying some minor injury that needed managing. 

I speculated about that the other day--maybe a balky elbow or something. I'm in favor of Ortiz getting the lions' share of PT, but have to admit Dunn has looked better at 3B than I'd ever have imagined.

[beekay414]

13 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

I wonder if there's any bias coming from the person with Tyler Black as their profile picture...

You'd have a point if it were only about one prospect.

[Jim French Stepstool]

I don't know if it'll be half the time, 75% or whatever, but we'll probably see a goodly dose of Yelich DHing. That keeps Black on the bench quite often. Better he get 4 AB a day. It also means w/the late game moves you may need Bauers to play a corner OF.

I'm also on board w/Turang leading off. As long as he keeps the same approach & they don't suddenly put the brakes on him on the bases ("Oh, gee, we can't take the bat out of Contreras' hands!!!") it should work well.

[Team Canada]

7 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I don't know if it'll be half the time, 75% or whatever, but we'll probably see a goodly dose of Yelich DHing. That keeps Black on the bench quite often. Better he get 4 AB a day. It also means w/the late game moves you may need Bauers to play a corner OF.

That's a reasonable guess at their rationale, yeah.

[yfinn6]

As they mentioned last night on the broadcast, having Yelich means you can rotate more players into/out of the lineup to keep them fresh. 

As for Dunn, I'm not sure what to think. His defense plays and he can put together pretty good at bats but he has a really big hole in his swing in the upper part of the zone. I would say the Brewer management feels he can learn in the Bigs, like Chourio, but his lack of hard contact lately has me wondering. 

Bauers is a player that I think probably has the shortest leash, even though he can play in the outfield, too. 

I guess they want Black playing every day in AAA rather than 3-5 days a week up here, if that's what it would've been. Some of these are good problems to have, IMO. 

[wiguy94]

13 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I don't know if it'll be half the time, 75% or whatever, but we'll probably see a goodly dose of Yelich DHing. That keeps Black on the bench quite often. Better he get 4 AB a day. It also means w/the late game moves you may need Bauers to play a corner OF.

I'm also on board w/Turang leading off. As long as he keeps the same approach & they don't suddenly put the brakes on him on the bases ("Oh, gee, we can't take the bat out of Contreras' hands!!!") it should work well.

And when Contreras isn't behind home plate they will want him DH'ing. Just not a ton of DH PA if Yelich and Contreras are going to be getting 2/3 to 3/4 of the PA there.

[beekay414]

My issue has much less to do with Black because the reasoning there makes sense and has more to do with Chourio riding the pine in favor of Bauers playing the OF for the sake of R/L splits or perceived splits (Chourio is hitting better vs RHP than LHP and his AVG vs RHP is 20 points higher than JB's career avg vs RHP). Play Chourio. I get the occasional rest for the kid but 3 times in 7 games in favor of Bauers in LF makes zero sense to me.

[TURBO]

Yelich back!  YAY!

Dunn in the line-up.  BOOO!

Chourio on the bench and Bauers in the line-up.  BOOO!  Would make a lot more sense if Bauers was at 1B for his defense, but having him start in the OF while Chorio rides the pine is stupid.

Ortiz and Hoskins hit homers yesterday, but see the bench today. 

Are we sure that Counsell isn't writing out the line-up cards and texting them to Murphy?

[Team Canada]

3 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Ortiz and Hoskins hit homers yesterday, but see the bench today. 

What someone did yesterday is almost never going to play into a lineup decision.

[Brock Beauchamp]