Rockies at Brewers; Saturday, June 28 @ 3:10 p.m.: Quinn Priester (3.68 ERA, 4.27 FIP) vs. Antonio Senzatela (6.48 ERA, 5.21 FIP)

[treego14]

[treego14]

Because we have a dome,

Someone is gonna' wish he was at home!

Senzatela praying for rain and an umbrella!

This is one scared fella'!

Quinn will win again!

Priester will once again knock 'em on their kiester!

Our righty will be mighty!

CR will need a DR.

MB will stand taller than Wemby!

[willie key]

I can’t believe how many games we are winning 9-8, 10-6 etc.   I would have thought we would be losing almost all the games that are high scoring

 

At least our averages don’t make me throw up when I look at box score.  Starting lineup looking more respectable by the day

[formerlybis]

1 hour ago, willie key said:

I can’t believe how many games we are winning 9-8, 10-6 etc.   I would have thought we would be losing almost all the games that are high scoring

 

At least our averages don’t make me throw up when I look at box score.  Starting lineup looking more respectable by the day

I understand the point you’re making about high scoring games not supposing to be the Brewers’ forte, but this latest stretch has followed a script of getting out to a big lead, taking the foot off the gas, and letting the opponent back in it late. Taking the foot of the gas is obviously a subjective observation, but I can’t be the only one thinking it.

[Frisbee Slider]

Hot take? Priester is our # 3 starter.

[Brian]

44 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Hot take? Priester is our # 3 starter.

Priester has been pitching good but not enough info yet for me to be #3.  Today will tell everyone a lot more about Quinn "The Hawk" Priester. 

[sveumrules]

Kind of interesting feature on the FanGraphs leaderboards where you can select Active Roster instead of the default obviously being everybody who has been on the team at any point all year. For instance…

Full Season Hitting
97 wRC+ (17th) | 389 R (7th) | 11.2 WAR (13th)

Active Roster Hitting
102 wRC+ (18th) | 370 R (4th) | 11.8 WAR (10th)

[everything slides up a notch with just 181 PA of Mitchell, Capra, Dunn and Drew Avans removed from the equation. Pretty crazy they only scored 19 runs combined but I guess when you’re never on base]

Full Season Pitching
94 ERA- (13th) | 99 FIP- (16th) | 10.4 rWAR (10th)

Active Roster Pitching
74 ERA- (2nd) | 90 FIP- (7th) | 12.8 rWAR (3rd)

[lot bigger difference on the pitching side with the jump in Active Roster numbers illustrating just how solid the current thirteen guys have been aside from the inevitable blip here or there]

[Underachiever]

Thanks, @sveumrules. Nice to see those pitching numbers. There has been a number of posts about how poor our bullpen has been, but as you mentioned, aside from blips, it's been really good. And your numbers bear that out.

[sveumrules]

2 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

Thanks, @sveumrules. Nice to see those pitching numbers. There has been a number of posts about how poor our bullpen has been, but as you mentioned, aside from blips, it's been really good. And your numbers bear that out.

Megill (27 IP)
63 ERA- | 66 FIP- | +0.30 WPA

Anderson (40 IP)
76 ERA- | 96 FIP- | +0.33 WPA

Uribe (39 IP)
51 ERA- | 74 FIP- | +0.58 WPA

Mears (33 IP)
53 ERA- | 62 FIP- | +0.64 WPA

Koenig (33 IP)
105 ERA- | 86 FIP- | +0.57 WPA

Ashby (15 IP)
28 ERA- | 55 FIP- | +0.32 WPA

Hall (14 IP)
75 ERA- | 109 FIP- | +0.19 WPA

Rob Z (13 IP)
49 ERA- | 103 FIP- | +0.37 WPA

Yeah, so that’s eight of eight with positive win probability added, seven of eight with better than average run prevention and six of eight with better than average peripherals.

Maybe start giving Ashby the lefty leverage innings Koenig has gotten all year and give Jared some lower leverage spots with his recent struggles, but other than that hard for me to complain too much about the current pen group.

[Jim French Stepstool]

I don't know what his numbers are since the change, but major props for moving Turang to the 5-6-7 hole. I for one thought it was a head scratcher of a move but he's really taken to it, as has Frelick to the leadoff spot.

[edfunderburk]

Hoskins has had a few “very good” defensive plays this week 

[edfunderburk]

Surely hope this “rag arm” doesn’t have his best game of the season today

[HarryDoyle]

Pour the base runners on!

[Brian]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

Pour the base runners on!

12 game hitting streak for Turang. 

[HarryDoyle]

Just missed it.

[Brian]

Quinn Priester ERA last 7 games ERA 2.29 and Hoskins beaned. 

[HarryDoyle]

Is anybody else's audio about a second behind the video?

[sveumrules]

52 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I don't know what his numbers are since the change, but major props for moving Turang to the 5-6-7 hole. I for one thought it was a head scratcher of a move but he's really taken to it, as has Frelick to the leadoff spot.

Looks like Frelick to leadoff was June 12th, since then the Brewers have a 136 wRC+ (2nd) and 90 R (1st) with a 10 W - 3 L record so it’s definitely been working (even if its ultimately unsustainable long term)

Hoskins (50 PA of 79 wRC+) has been the only bad regular during the stretch, Chourio has been more frustrating (61 PA of 104 wRC+) than bad, but after that the regulars are at…

Contreras (55 PA of 116 wRC+), Ortiz (49 PA of 123 wRC+), Frelick (62 PA of 127 wRC+), Turang (55 PA of 151 wRC+), Durbin (52 PA of 167 wRC+), Collins (50 PA of 178 wRC+), and Yelich (57 PA of 193 wRC+).

Pretty fun couple weeks either way.

[Brian]

2 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

Is anybody else's audio about a second behind the video?

Not me on Fanduel. 

[duewizard]

Nice play Quinn!

[markedman5]

Joey!

[duewizard]

Joey!

[Brian]

Joey, Joey, Joey, Joey.

[kevinisaname]

I'm not going to complain about Joey because he had a big home run, but what is he batting with the bases loaded? I'm just curious since it seems like he is not very good in those situations.

[markedman5]

Hell of a bounce back start for Priester