Rotation Discussion

[Baldkin]

There has to be a 33 year old converted shortstop with a wicked knuckle ball we can give a shot, right?

[wiguy94]

13 minutes ago, Baldkin said:

There has to be a 33 year old converted shortstop with a wicked knuckle ball we can give a shot, right?

Is that David Fletcher’s music??

[Playing Catch]

I think that the idea that the Brewers are burning out their bullpen because they have the most total bullpen innings is a fallacy. Or, perhaps it's true, but that it isn't any more true for the Brewers than any other team.

They simply don't seem to be treating individual pitchers any differently than any other team. Here is the fangraphs database for the Brewers bullpen, but toggle to the Cardinals... toggle to just about any other team, and I don't see there being a major difference in how they're using guys.

Most of us acknowledged that the Brewers were going to need a lot of pitchers to cover a lot of innings. Starters, relievers, swingmen, waiver-guys, DFA a lot of guys, bring up kids like Myers and Rodriguez.

Well, so far that is EXACTLY what they are doing. I don't remember times where I thought they were abusing guys by pitching them multiple days in a row, or for multiple innings. I think it helps a lot that they've enjoyed some blowouts to keep guys like Megill's IPs down. Conversely, all 3 high-leverage Cardinals relievers have 30+ IPs so far.

[Underachiever]

8 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

I think that the idea that the Brewers are burning out their bullpen because they have the most total bullpen innings is a fallacy. Or, perhaps it's true, but that it isn't any more true for the Brewers than any other team.

They simply don't seem to be treating individual pitchers any differently than any other team. Here is the fangraphs database for the Brewers bullpen, but toggle to the Cardinals... toggle to just about any other team, and I don't see there being a major difference in how they're using guys.

Most of us acknowledged that the Brewers were going to need a lot of pitchers to cover a lot of innings. Starters, relievers, swingmen, waiver-guys, DFA a lot of guys, bring up kids like Myers and Rodriguez.

Well, so far that is EXACTLY what they are doing. I don't remember times where I thought they were abusing guys by pitching them multiple days in a row, or for multiple innings. I think it helps a lot that they've enjoyed some blowouts to keep guys like Megill's IPs down. Conversely, all 3 high-leverage Cardinals relievers have 30+ IPs so far.

Great post. The notion that the bullpen will run out of gas is typed out on this site as fact and rarely challenged. 

[RobertCrawley]

A discussion of getting Flaherty from the Tigers. We'd give up a lot and have him for just the year.

 

https://fansided.com/posts/mlb-rumors-jack-flaherty-trade-package-brewers-tigers?utm_source=RSS