Brewers (Sproat) vs White Sox (Kay): 3/29/26, 1:10pm

[BarremlensTSSC]

I dunno.  Seems like Sproat could have used coach/catcher finding ways to slow things down that half inning.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Obviously a tough outing...but his OF defense did Sproat zero favors.

[Sugarrayray]

As putrid as Sproat has been, a couple things I am bummed about -

This ump has been equally as bad.

Really don’t think it’s a good idea to have Quero start his first game with an equally big start for Sproat.

The Sanchize dropped a pick off at first that would have been an out.

Perk inexplicably had his worst jump of his career and let a pop fly drop.

All this to say, aside from the double play, Sproat got zero help from anybody.

[RobertCrawley]

Going to lose that one.

[Sugarrayray]

Last two swings by Lockridge looked like AAA fodder to me.

Time for Perk to make up for his folly.

[adambr2]

Perkins has been completely useless since last August.

[Fear The Chorizo]

6 minutes ago, Sugarrayray said:

As putrid as Sproat has been, a couple things I am bummed about -

This ump has been equally as bad.

Really don’t think it’s a good idea to have Quero start his first game with an equally big start for Sproat.

The Sanchize dropped a pick off at first that would have been an out.

Perk inexplicably had his worst jump of his career and let a pop fly drop.

All this to say, aside from the double play, Sproat got zero help from anybody.

That doesnt even include Frelick trying to rob a warning track flyball and having it bounce out of the park to get out of the 2nd with zero runs scored instead of two

[Bulldogboy]

Can't afford to get way behind went your bottom three are minor leaguers.  

[Bulldogboy]

I have a feeling we are going to see more Lockridge than we should. 

[edfunderburk]

I love to watch Brewers baseball 

I hate to watch bad baseball 

Those are usually not present on the same day 

Unfortunately, today is one of those rare days 

[HarryDoyle]

Please no more defending Sproat. He should've been pulled after the second inning.

[edfunderburk]

There had to have been better options available to replace Vaughn than Quero. 

That transaction seemed odd initially & today’s game has validated my concerns.

 

[edfunderburk]

Sproat looks awful 

[endaround]

1 minute ago, edfunderburk said:

There had to have been better options available to replace Vaughn than Quero. 

That transaction seemed odd initially & today’s game has validated my concerns.

 

It's Quero or Black.  And Quero allows for RH stacking. Not sure I would go that way but there is logic to it.

[edfunderburk]

Murakami would look good in a Brewers uniform - especially for two years & $17M

[Fear The Chorizo]

 

1 minute ago, edfunderburk said:

Sproat looks awful 

 

The difference between great and awful when you hit 98 on the gun isnt very much.  Command and pitch selection plus subpar outfield defense all killing him today.

Sproat's secondary stuff needs something that doesnt stay on plane and break in on lefties.  Even his change looked like a lazy cutter today instead of dying down and away.  And he needs to be able to hit the right parts of the zone with it.

[Frisbee Slider]

Woodford for three, Koenig, Anderson then Bauers in the ninth.

[RobertCrawley]

How many times in the early months of the season have we heard people on this bulletin board calling for the team to get rid of Freddy, Yelich, Abner, etc. when they had rough starts?

It's a long season.

[RobertCrawley]

IMHO, we shouldn't use the ABS challenge unless it's a potential game scoring or otherwise critical moment in the game.

[edfunderburk]

This lineup - especially with Sproat as the starter - doesn’t feel like a Murphy “win today” lineup. Today’s game is 180 degrees opposite the first two games. We look like the White Sox today. Uninspired baseball through three innings. 

[willie key]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

IMHO, we shouldn't use the ABS challenge unless it's a potential game scoring or otherwise critical moment in the game.

Honestly it’s just dumb 

[edfunderburk]

3 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

The difference between great and awful when you hit 98 on the gun isnt very much.  Command and pitch selection plus subpar outfield defense all killing him today.

Sproat's secondary stuff needs something that doesnt stay on plane and break in on lefties.  Even his change looked like a lazy cutter today instead of dying down and away.  And he needs to be able to hit the right parts of the zone with it.

Thus, Sproat looks awful

[HarryDoyle]

4 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

IMHO, we shouldn't use the ABS challenge unless it's a potential game scoring or otherwise critical moment in the game.

Absolutely. Three games into the season and the challenges are being used way too liberally, and it's making the umpires look good when they've been bad for seven years or so. Sort of an "I told you so." that they don't deserve.

[adambr2]

11 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

IMHO, we shouldn't use the ABS challenge unless it's a potential game scoring or otherwise critical moment in the game.

You never know in baseball when a moment will turn into that. 

I agree that you need to take the situation into account, but the “borderlineness” of a call should be taken into account, too. If it’s an egregiously bad call that you know you’re going to win, I am fine with challenging it regardless of situation. I think we know those when we see them.

If it’s borderline, absolutely, consider the situation and score.

From what I can tell so far, batters are too eager to challenge and pitchers/catchers are too reluctant. Seems like batters are forgetting that a pitch that just barely clips the zone is the same degree of a strike as a pitch right down the middle.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, adambr2 said:

You never know in baseball when a moment will turn into that. 

I agree that you need to take the situation into account, but the “borderlineness” of a call should be taken into account, too. If it’s an egregiously bad call that you know you’re going to win, I am fine with challenging it regardless of situation. I think we know those when we see them.

If it’s borderline, absolutely, consider the situation and score.

From what I can tell so far, batters are too eager to challenge and pitchers/catchers are too reluctant. Seems like batters are forgetting that a pitch that just barely clips the zone is the same degree of a strike as a pitch right down the middle.

I agree with that. If it's completely obvious, yes, challenge. No borderline challenges, though, unless it's important to the outcome of the game, in my view.