Brewers at Pirates; Saturday, May 24 @ 3:05 p.m.: Quinn Priester (4.66 ERA, 5.18 FIP) vs. Mitch Keller (3.88 ERA, 3.41 FIP)

[edfunderburk]

1 minute ago, SomewhereInTime said:

Used to be 120 pitches you go to the bullpen, then 100, now 80, all while injuries continue to skyrocket

It proved to be another classic bad decision by Murphy to pull his starter early 

Alexander needs to join Payamps in the DFA camp

[Brewer77]

We can piss and moan about the pitching decisions all day along, but the offense has scored 1 run

[SomewhereInTime]

Turned the game off the second I saw Alexander on the mound.  Another dumb early hook of a starter.

[SomewhereInTime]

Just now, Brewer77 said:

We can piss and moan about the pitching decisions all day along, but the offense has scored 1 run

Yeah but there isn't much you can do about that.  They either hit or they don't.  A manager can definitely make better decisions in managing the pitching staff.

[Austin Tatious]

Alexander will be sent out soon when DL Hall is activated.  

[edfunderburk]

What a disappointing season to date

Tomorrow marks the 1/3 mark of 2025 & at best … if we win today & tomorrow  (which won’t happen) … we are a .500 team

[folly412]

5 minutes ago, yfinn6 said:

Alexander sucks but I was informed there are no other possibilities as "half the team is on the IL". 

[edfunderburk]

The Pirates are a bottom five team in baseball & they are playing better than the Brewers in this series … 

[edfunderburk]

1 minute ago, folly412 said:

Hopefully dreams come true

Can you create one for Murphy being DFA’d?

[SomewhereInTime]

2 minutes ago, Austin Tatious said:

Alexander will be sent out soon when DL Hall is activated.  

Probably.  I think if I remember right he has some innings based incentives in his contract, so they will definitely cut him before he gets to those.

[yourout]

4 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

What a disappointing season to date

Tomorrow marks the 1/3 mark of 2025 & at best … if we win today & tomorrow  (which won’t happen) … we are a .500 team

I know Pittsburgh's bad but I'm not sure we're not going to finish closer to last in the division than we are first

On edits. After the next half inning we will be closer to the bottom than we will be the top

[edfunderburk]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

I know Pittsburgh's bad but I'm not sure we're not going to finish closer to last in the division than we are first

I don’t disagree … it is hard to admit, but we are much more similar to Pittsburgh than we are to Chicago 

We need to flush a good number of players off this roster

[Austin Tatious]

The 40 man roster creates limitations.  Tyler Jay is another guy who could easily be up here.  But they’d have to release a guy like Peguero who is on the 40.   

[yourout]

Bullpen is fried.

[edfunderburk]

1 minute ago, Austin Tatious said:

The 40 man roster creates limitations.  Tyler Jay is another guy who could easily be up here.  But they’d have to release a guy like Peguero who is on the 40.   

Cut Alexander ASAP if Jay can help us

[Brewer77]

11 minutes ago, SomewhereInTime said:

Yeah but there isn't much you can do about that.  They either hit or they don't.  A manager can definitely make better decisions in managing the pitching staff.

If this score holds, it’ll be the 10th time the Brewers have scored 2 runs or less in the month of May. Doesn’t matter who is calling the shots if you need your pitching to put up 1 or 0 half the time out

[yourout]

Wonder if a team is ever went a full season without a ninth inning come from behind when.

[RobertCrawley]

Double freakin play to end the game.

Yet another good start wasted.

[yourout]

6 minutes ago, Brewer77 said:

If this score holds, it’ll be the 10th time the Brewers have scored 2 runs or less in the month of May. Doesn’t matter who is calling the shots if you need your pitching to put up 1 or 0 half the time out

Our Hydra hitting coaches need to hit the pavement as well.

[Brewer77]

We got 6 hits from Durbin and Ortiz and they still only scored 1 run

[yourout]

We may have some help coming back for the pitching staff but there is almost nothing waiting in the wings to help the hitting.

[edfunderburk]

8 minutes ago, Brewer77 said:

If this score holds, it’ll be the 10th time the Brewers have scored 2 runs or less in the month of May. Doesn’t matter who is calling the shots if you need your pitching to put up 1 or 0 half the time out

Unfortunately - the score held

Another loss to a horrible team 

We may be equally bad as these Pirates 

[RobertCrawley]

The roster changes are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[wiguy94]

Pat Murphy sucks but moral of the story is the team sucks and a manager is only as good as the team in front of them

[LouisEly]

31 minutes ago, yfinn6 said:

Alexander sucks but I was informed there are no other possibilities as "half the team is on the IL". 

Until Quintana, Woodruff, Hall, Cortes, and Gasser come back off of the IL, your choices are:

• Alexander
• Elvin Rodriguez
• Easton McGee
• Elvis Peguero
• Bryan Hudson
• Craig Yoho
• Tobias Myers

Take your pick of which walk or hit machine should occupy that bullpen spot.