Brewers (Rea) vs Padres (Cease): 6/21/24, 8:40pm

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Ya boy, Blake is up over 200 PA by now. Since Mid-April, he's at 79 wRC+, .220/.296/.324 with a 28% K rate. 

Honestly 79 wRC+ would be a hot streak for Contreras at this point. Contreras wRC+ is flirting with the 50's since May 17th. Perkins in that same time frame has a 100 wRC+.  

[Jim French Stepstool]

58 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Pat Murphy disaster class tonight. Let Rea see the top of the order a 3rd time which turned our 3 run lead into a 1 run deficit. Used Milner against the same pocket of the order that he gave up a run against last night. Used Peguero with runners on base.

We'll never know, but it seemed to me Murphy bent over backwards to try to get through the sixth inning w/Rea because the only LHP they wanted to have to use tonight was Koenig & he wanted to save him for the next time the order flipped (of course he wound up having to use Milner too). Then the other decisions, which I agree weren't ideal, became unavoidable.

[beekay414]

15 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Honestly 79 wRC+ would be a hot streak for Contreras at this point. Contreras wRC+ is flirting with the 50's since May 17th. Perkins in that same time frame has a 100 wRC+.  

Since June, one of them has a BABIP of .333 and an average of .224 with a 30% K rate while the other has a BABIP of .255 with an average of .221 and a 17% K rate. I'll let you figure out which is which. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

The back half of this game eerily reminded me of the series in Atlanta last year. Hard hit balls fell. Softly hit balls fell. Want a home run? OK, just tear one off your HR coupon book, good for whenever you want to use it. It's a shame too. Padres were poor defensively. Still, can't bring myself to shed any tears for Rae. I never thought I'd see a baseball game where the momentum would turn on a two out, no one on walk to Kyle Higashioka, but it happened. No excuse.

I'll give the offense credit for putting up tough ABs & finally breaking through in the fifth despite Cease A) throwing really well and B) being rewarded with a ridiculous strike zone.

[wiguy94]

12 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Since June, one of them has a BABIP of .333 and an average of .224 with a 30% K rate while the other has a BABIP of .255 with an average of .221 and a 17% K rate. I'll let you figure out which is which. 

Fast guy who hits a lot of ground balls has higher BABIP than slow guy who hits a lot of ground balls. 
 

I don’t really know what you’re trying to do here? Perkins even with his offense slumping has still been better than your guy Frelick and Chourio and Perkins slumping has nothing to do with Contreras slumping so don’t know why you brought it up in a game thread of a game Perkins didn’t even play in. 

[wiguy94]

23 hours ago, beekay414 said:

 

I mean yeah he’s still clearly been the second best OF behind Yelich this year and pretty much everyone would agree with that. His 200 PA slump is better than Chourio has hit all season and barely worse than Frelick’s season number and Perkins plays significantly better CF defense than Frelick. So yeah still a starting OF.

[beekay414]

lol

[beekay414]

lowest wpa on the team

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[Brian]

7 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I'll give the offense credit for putting up tough ABs & finally breaking through in the fifth despite Cease A) throwing really well and B) being rewarded with a ridiculous strike zone.

I agree 100% the strike zone, it was atrocious. There were about 1/2 dozen calls for SD pitchers that were clearly out of the strike zone. If I was a gambler I would be saying the game was fixed. 

I was against the automated strike in years past but I am leaning to having it now, behind the plate. In a tight game with a few bad strike and ball calls can shift the entire game and I didn't even mention what it can do to your bullpen. Terrible umpire calls behind the plate yesterday. 

[mtsportsfan]

31 minutes ago, Brian said:

I agree 100% the strike zone, it was atrocious. There were about 1/2 dozen calls for SD pitchers that were clearly out of the strike zone. If I was a gambler I would be saying the game was fixed. 

I was against the automated strike in years past but I am leaning to having it now, behind the plate. In a tight game with a few bad strike and ball calls can shift the entire game and I didn't even mention what it can do to your bullpen. Terrible umpire calls behind the plate yesterday. 

Absolutely! That ump must have had money on the game. Trying not to sound like homer, but any call seemingly went against the crew last night. Thankfully replay overturned some , but the strike zone was horrible!

[Brian]

Jakob Junis activated. The plan calls for Junis to pitch out of the bullpen for now, but he could be an option to rejoin the rotation at a later date, if needed. Junis will be activated from the 60-day injured list for this weekend's series in San Diego, but he could be used in relief initially, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports.