Jacob Misiorowski gets the call to the show!!!

[Underachiever]

5 minutes ago, young guns said:

100% of his hits given up are homers.  DFA the bum!

100% of his runs allowed. And he’s allowed more runs than hits. 

[markedman5]

Mis has a .5 war after 2 starts……..lol.

[Underachiever]

Miz has more wins than hits allowed. That’s almost impossible.

[markedman5]

 

[rickh150]

I am all for a 6 man rotation...add Woodruff to save innings on our young guys.....well, save on everyone is fine too.  Skip a start here and there. Play match up with the opponent a bit.  I'm fine starting Hall or Ashby too when their innings are lacking.  

Brewers have Henderson in the wings too...so many seemingly good options.  

[Team Canada]

Thanks to the rainout, Wednesday will now be Skenes vs Miz. Oooh boy.

[Dragonbait]

Wish it was Tuesday... as I got tickets to Tuesday. Le sigh.

[zurch1818]

Plus his BABIP is still .000!  Look out Skenes.

[AKCheesehead]

9 hours ago, Team Canada said:

Thanks to the rainout, Wednesday will now be Skenes vs Miz. Oooh boy.

Yes indeed! I went ahead and got tickets for Dad and I.  Will almost certainly be the only game of the year for either of us, here's hoping we get a good show. 

[Dragonbait]

80F with the roof closed (rain expected).... gonna be a warm one Wednesday.  Lots of heat. 

[AKCheesehead]

2 hours ago, Dragonbait said:

80F with the roof closed (rain expected).... gonna be a warm one Wednesday.  Lots of heat. 

Where are you getting that report?  Everything I've seen is calling for morning showers, upper 60s for a high.

[Frisbee Slider]

Wall Street Journal with a story on Misiorowski.

It is paywalled. Remarkable that a Brewers prospect garners this much attention.

 

[endaround]

2 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Wall Street Journal with a story on Misiorowski.

It is paywalled. Remarkable that a Brewers prospect garners this much attention.

 

Yeah, its almost been a year since that happened.

[Team Canada]

Quick comparison of Skenes and Miz including some of the ways that Miz is off the charts.

https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/jacob-misiorowski-vs-paul-skenes-statcast-breakdown

[HarveysWBs]

The sakura, or cherry blossom tree, is revered in Japan not just for its beauty, but for its poignancy. Blooming for at most only two weeks every year, they are cherished while in full flower, as picnickers and revelers bask in the fleeting glory and ponder their own mortality.

I thought of this as soon as Miz got the call and is already in the top 10 in all-time number of pitches over 101 mph. Such things are not meant to last. The human body is not designed to throw like he is throwing a baseball, and if he keeps doing this, his arm will inevitably fail, and likely sooner rather than later. But just like one cannot bid the cherry blossoms to cease their unfolding, one would not tell such a rare talent as Misiorowski not to pitch.

In a vacuum, the only logical thing for the Brewers to do would be to trade him, probably as soon as this winter. I don’t think such a pitching asset—so much talent over so many cost-controlled years—has ever hit the market, and the return would probably be astronomical. What could the franchise become after a trade like that? The mind fairly boggles. But, of course, the average fan would hate the organization for that, maybe for a generation, and I see no way of explaining the move to even the clubhouse, much less the fan base.

So instead, I suppose the brass and the fans alike have to hope against hope for eternal springtime, willing the blossoms to cling to their branches, at least for a few hundred innings. But what a sight those precious few years promise to be!

[OldHeidelberg]

15 hours ago, HarveysWBs said:

 

I thought of this as soon as Miz got the call and is already in the top 10 in all-time number of pitches over 101 mph. Such things are not meant to last. The human body is not designed to throw like he is throwing a baseball, and if he keeps doing this, his arm will inevitably fail, and likely sooner rather than later. But just like one cannot bid the cherry blossoms to cease their unfolding, one would not tell such a rare talent as Misiorowski not to pitch.

 

I read a couple of posts about this in the game thread yesterday, my first thought was sure, but the climb will get steeper.  He probably will get hurt but in this spin rate era is it really that unheard of anymore for a guy to keep doing that? He is a very tall guy. If anyone has the list off the all time 101 pitches please post it, I would think deGrom for one might be up there and he made it a while before getting hurt. 

[Frisbee Slider]

15 hours ago, HarveysWBs said:

In a vacuum, the only logical thing for the Brewers to do would be to trade him, probably as soon as this winter.

I understand the thinking. At the same time, Miz is super affordable for multiple years. It would be disappointing to lose him for a season but not financially ruinous. 
There are no guarantees that whoever we receive from a Miz trade would pan out, even if they are proven MLB talent.

[Frisbee Slider]

What are the odds Misiorowski is considered for this year’s all star game?

[Outlander]

For baseball it would be a good idea to market young players like Misiorowski and get him into the game. For just the Brewers I don't know if it is a good idea.

[sveumrules]

18 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

What are the odds Misiorowski is considered for this year’s all star game?

He doesn’t have enough time in MLB to really be considered in the initial voting, but if he keeps this up twixt now and then I could see him named as a replacement pitcher for one of the guys that inevitably won’t be able to pitch in the game.

[Brian]

53 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

What are the odds Misiorowski is considered for this year’s all star game?

With only 16 innings pitched.  Most All Star Starters will have 80 + innings pitched already. 

If he goes and gets shelled like Josh Hader did in 2018, it could screw him up mentally for a long long time.  I hope he doesn't make it personally. 

[SeaBass]

I think it's pretty hard to justify a rookie with about a month of service time being awarded an all star spot. Which is what Misiorowski will be at when July 15 rolls around. 

Last season Skenes was called up in early May. That made it easier to award him a spot with how much he dominated. Misiorowski just made his debut June 12th.

MLB has been here time and time again with rookies making incredible debuts in a short time and more often than not they don't make it. Yasiel Puig and Elly De La Cruz had a ton of hype behind them and didn't make it despite a lot of national talk about how they should. And those guys played every day unlike a starting pitcher. Puig ended up only making one career appearance in the ASG, De La Cruz looks like he'll be an annual participant for the near future at least.

I'm ok with Misiorowski just being a rookie this season, I don't think he needs an all star game appearance to validate anything. Next year is soon enough.

[liveforoctober]

16 hours ago, HarveysWBs said:

The sakura, or cherry blossom tree, is revered in Japan not just for its beauty, but for its poignancy. Blooming for at most only two weeks every year, they are cherished while in full flower, as picnickers and revelers bask in the fleeting glory and ponder their own mortality.

I thought of this as soon as Miz got the call and is already in the top 10 in all-time number of pitches over 101 mph. Such things are not meant to last. The human body is not designed to throw like he is throwing a baseball, and if he keeps doing this, his arm will inevitably fail, and likely sooner rather than later. But just like one cannot bid the cherry blossoms to cease their unfolding, one would not tell such a rare talent as Misiorowski not to pitch.

In a vacuum, the only logical thing for the Brewers to do would be to trade him, probably as soon as this winter. I don’t think such a pitching asset—so much talent over so many cost-controlled years—has ever hit the market, and the return would probably be astronomical. What could the franchise become after a trade like that? The mind fairly boggles. But, of course, the average fan would hate the organization for that, maybe for a generation, and I see no way of explaining the move to even the clubhouse, much less the fan base.

So instead, I suppose the brass and the fans alike have to hope against hope for eternal springtime, willing the blossoms to cling to their branches, at least for a few hundred innings. But what a sight those precious few years promise to be!

Nolan Ryan threw 150 pitches at 100mph  every 120 hours for 26 years before his arm went.  Let's keep Miz around for a few years before we get scared of the what ifs please.

[Brian]

17 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Nolan Ryan threw 150 pitches at 100mph  every 120 hours for 26 years before his arm went.  Let's keep Miz around for a few years before we get scared of the what ifs please.

Nolan Ryan also didn't throw a 1/2 dozen pitches like they do now days, Fastball, Curveball, Changeup was it for him.  That's the key to longevity I believe and location, location, location. 

[SeaBass]

7 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Nolan Ryan threw 150 pitches at 100mph  every 120 hours for 26 years before his arm went.  Let's keep Miz around for a few years before we get scared of the what ifs please.

I am so tired already of people commenting, just on the internet in general, about Misiorowski eventually getting hurt when they're clearly talking about his arm.

As far as I've seen his near misses with injury have been when he rolled his ankle on the mound in his debut and yesterday in the first inning where his landing foot slipped a little and it looked like his knee hyperextended a tad bit. I'm just rooting for the guy to keep standing upright at this point.