Brewers (Patrick) vs Padres (Cease): 9/24/25, 3:10pm

[HarryDoyle]

Kept him in one too many batters. Had to bring in Ashby there.

[RobertCrawley]

1 minute ago, trwi7 said:

How do you leave him off the roster?  Immediately gives up a homer.

He looked like Cy Fedde until that.

[brooks_quichenick]

Seems like Merrill would be when you'd want to bring Ashby in?? Why is he even warming up?

[Bulldogboy]

Like i said Fedde should never see a lefty. Poor decision. 

[Samurai Bucky]

22 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

For the statheads. Joey is currently the 101 rated player at shortstop. Using DRS Ortiz is currently-2. Mookie Betts is first at +17. Apparently he's incredible defense isn't all that incredible according to the stats. If he was prime Ozzie Smith fine. Is he better than Mono? Sure. Not enough to justify an auto out.

Strictly as an FYI:  Here are the fangraphs numbers for the Brewers at Shortstop sorted by DRS.  There are some other numbers on there, too.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?lg=all&season=2025&season1=2025&ind=0&stats=fld&pos=ss&type=1&sortcol=12&sortdir=default&pageitems=2000000000&qual=0&team=23

[HarryDoyle]

If Jansen can get a hit, surely Chourio can.

[RobertCrawley]

I guess the hope is the team has an exciting home stand against the Reds where they hit the ball well and launch themselves into the postseason.

[RobertCrawley]

That's more Jackson like.

[adambr2]

If you were going to bring in Ashby anyway why would you wait until AFTER Merrill? Just makes no sense.

[RobertCrawley]

Good baseball.

[Bulldogboy]

Just now, adambr2 said:

If you were going to bring in Ashby anyway why would you wait until AFTER Merrill? Just makes no sense.

It's why this postseason will be interesting as Murphy has no feel for running a game

[brooks_quichenick]

Beautiful sequence from Chourio and Turang there. That's Brewers baseball

[adambr2]

Ugh. Just did not carry.

[RobertCrawley]

The Cat.

[sveumrules]

4 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

It's why this postseason will be interesting as Murphy has no feel for running a game

The Brewers 188 wins since Murphy took over are the most in baseball.

The Brewers +17.40 Win Probability Added from their relievers is 2nd most in MLB since Murphy took over.

How many wins do you think he has cost them with his lack of feel for running a game?

Which managers do you believe have a good feel for running a game and how many extra wins do you think they've gotten for their respective teams over the last two years?

[Fear The Chorizo]

3 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

It's why this postseason will be interesting as Murphy has no feel for running a game

The other aspect of things could be that Murph would much rather wait to have Ashby get Merrill out in a key late game situations a couple weeks from now in the playoffs and give him less looks at pitches to look at from him now.  Curious move on its own but everything isnt in a vacuum in these situations right now

[RobertCrawley]

4 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

The Brewers 188 wins since Murphy took over are the most in baseball.

The Brewers +17.40 Win Probability Added from their relievers is 2nd most in MLB since Murphy took over.

How many wins do you think he has cost them with his lack of feel for running a game?

Which managers do you believe have a good feel for running a game and how many extra wins do you think they've gotten for their respective teams over the last two years?

I wish some of the guys on the board were the Brewers manager. We'd have 158 wins right now.

[adambr2]

Not very many great RH options in this pen without Megill. Mears needs a strikeout in the worst way.

[HarryDoyle]

Walk Cronenworth to set up the double play?

[RobertCrawley]

Sit down on the bench, Fermin.

[adambr2]

Wahh, wahh, wahhh Fermin. It was a strike.

[HarryDoyle]

It was a strike, but that hasn't been called one until now. I don't really blame Fermin arguing that.

[HarryDoyle]

I'm not trusting Mears right now. He hasn't looked all that great today.

[RobertCrawley]

1 minute ago, HarryDoyle said:

It was a strike, but that hasn't been called one until now. I don't really blame Fermin arguing that.

I blame him. That's been called a strike.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

I'm not trusting Mears right now. He hasn't looked all that great today.

When Mears is spotting his pitches, he's been effective. But he will leave a meatball too often.