Cubs at Brewers; Wednesday, July 30 @ 1:10 p.m.: Freddy Peralta (2.81 ERA, 3.66 FIP) vs. Shota Imanaga (3.12 ERA, 4.70 FIP)

[Team Canada]

2 minutes ago, tmwiese55 said:

I'd guess they didn't want to mess with the defensive aspects of catching in such a big game and with one of our best pitchers.  Probably still getting him up to speed on that side of it and he'll get out there for a game in WAS.   Plus an off day tomorrow for Contreras. 

Yeah that's totally defensible. What is much more questionable is Yelich DHing instead of Jansen,

[BruisedCrew]

With the announcers talking about it probably being his last game as an Oriole, O,Hearn belted a 2 run HR. 

[RobertCrawley]

Let's get the bat on the ball and sweep this thing!

[Devinep]

You’d think we have Cal Raleigh catching the way Murphy can seem to give him a rest. But really, Contreras has been closer to Joey Ortiz. Plus Jansen vs a lefty is a good bat and Contreras should be at most DH today. It’s becoming asinine at this point 

[OldHeidelberg]

17 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Yeah that's totally defensible. What is much more questionable is Yelich DHing instead of Jansen,

With the day off tomorrow it's not too likely Yelich will sit. I don't see Jansen pushing $26 million Yelich into a DH platoon quite yet. 

[Team Canada]

1 minute ago, OldHeidelberg said:

With the day off tomorrow it's not too likely Yelich will sit. I don't see Jansen pushing $26 million Yelich into a DH platoon quite yet. 

Yelich has sat against lefties plenty of times. You're right that maybe the day off is playing into Murphy's decision.

[Brian]

2 minutes ago, Devinep said:

You’d think we have Cal Raleigh catching the way Murphy can seem to give him a rest. But really, Contreras has been closer to Joey Ortiz. Plus Jansen vs a lefty is a good bat and Contreras should be at most DH today. It’s becoming asinine at this point 

Not sure if that statement is correct because Contreras has 17 hits and 2 walks in the last 15 games. Also 8 hits in the last 7 games .286 which is better than his career numbers. 

[tmwiese55]

Another thing to note on Contreras playing so much again this year is that they did this last year too and he seems to hit a wall at the end of the year.   And that's before factoring in his finger issue and that he's not near the hitter this year as last

ETA: seems memory was skewed by the playoffs, his 2h and september was not as bad as I thought

[OldHeidelberg]

4 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Yelich has sat against lefties plenty of times. You're right that maybe the day off is playing into Murphy's decision.

Yeah, I know, and I think he just did before a day off last week. But he doesn't always and is our biggest power threat this year. I would just rather see him in the lineup than Jansen I guess, maybe just need time for the new guy to grow on me a bit,  

[Devinep]

27 minutes ago, Brian said:

Not sure if that statement is correct because Contreras has 17 hits and 2 walks in the last 15 games. Also 8 hits in the last 7 games .286 which is better than his career numbers. 

The LHP and hitting better yesterday is why I’d probably DH him instead of Yelich today, but Contreras has a 706 OPS in the last week so it’s not like he’s been on fire. his 649 OPS over June and July shows how much he’s struggling.  

[Brian]

There's our Ace again, boy he gives up a lot of runs early just like Burns did. 

[Brewer77]

Little do all these Cubs fans know, we have them right where we want them in a 1-0 hole

[Fear The Chorizo]

Freddy off to a wonderful start once again

[kevinisaname]

Bad 0-2 pitch to PCA. Hopefully he can get a better one to Kelly here.

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, Bulldogboy said:

Jansen getting a dose of reality. He's here in case of injury. Not because of injury. Watching Yelich against a lefty should be fun and hitting cleanup? 😀

That makes NO sense at all...  Murphy being Murphy.

[wildcat83]

47 minutes ago, Devinep said:

You’d think we have Cal Raleigh catching the way Murphy can seem to give him a rest. But really, Contreras has been closer to Joey Ortiz. Plus Jansen vs a lefty is a good bat and Contreras should be at most DH today. It’s becoming asinine at this point 

Probably has a lot more to do with it being a big game and he’s only been here 2 days to learn the staff.  Don’t need to have Freddy face the Cubs throwing to a new catcher.

[TURBO]

42 minutes ago, Brian said:

Not sure if that statement is correct because Contreras has 17 hits and 2 walks in the last 15 games. Also 8 hits in the last 7 games .286 which is better than his career numbers. 

Yeah, I think this board is being way too hard on William...

[kevinisaname]

Got out of it, but a long inning for Freddy.

[Team Canada]

Hopefully he got his 30 pitch inning out of his system early.

[adambr2]

52 minutes ago, Devinep said:

You’d think we have Cal Raleigh catching the way Murphy can seem to give him a rest. But really, Contreras has been closer to Joey Ortiz. Plus Jansen vs a lefty is a good bat and Contreras should be at most DH today. It’s becoming asinine at this point 

If Cal Raleigh is the bar, every other catcher in the league is going to be closer to Joey Ortiz offensively. 

[adambr2]

Well, only the 1 run of damage at least. And a relatively fresh pen thanks to Ashby.

[Brian]

Well only One run is ok, he usually gets better from here on out.

[Devinep]

Just now, adambr2 said:

If Cal Raleigh is the bar, every other catcher in the league is going to be closer to Joey Ortiz offensively. 

 Nowhere did I say anything close to Cal Raleigh being the bar. My point was that for a catcher to be playing as much as Contreras, you’d think he was hitting like Raleigh. Because he is hitting more like Ortiz (650 OPS last 2 months), maybe a reasonable amount of days off would help. It sure wouldn’t hurt 

[kevinisaname]

Velo seems to be back from the White Sox game from Shota.

[adambr2]

Come on Sal. Got a break on what should have been Strike 3 and then took the next pitch anyway.