Pirates (Keller) vs Brewers (Misiorowski): 4/25/26, 6:10pm

[BarremlensTSSC]

Just now, adambr2 said:

You can play him every day in Milwaukee . He doesn’t currently have better option blocking him. 

True, until Chourio is back.  The way Murphy uses his players Chourio, Mitchell, Frelick and even Perkins are going to get starts.  Once Chourio is back innings in the OF get scarce.

[BarremlensTSSC]

7 minutes ago, yourout said:

Going to get swept at home again tomorrow aren't they.

Nope!  They're gonna salvage the series!

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

You can play him every day in Milwaukee . He doesn’t currently have better options blocking him. 

The bench being what it is, I thought Matos was a slightly better fit for the roster. You can justify Jones if he's at least fundamentally sound but he obviously hasn't been.

[adambr2]

That Zerpa trade looks rough. I’ll take Mears back and they can keep the change.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Longest streak without a home run since 2002.  I'm pretty sure the 2026 Brewers are gonna win more than 56 games!

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 minutes ago, wallus said:

Send down Zerpa, call up Henderson. 

They won't go with Ashby in the pen & DL Hall the only other lefty. Nor should they.

[Jim French Stepstool]

18 minutes ago, bensheeps said:

I can understand this logic, but if that is the case then it is time to try Eddys Leonard.

He's been playing LF a lot for Nashville.

Can play the IF too to add to the versatility.

Has some pop in the bat (3 HR's in the last two days) with decent HR numbers last year in AAA as well.

@BarremlensTSSCis correct in that Lara isn't going to come up here unless he plays regularly. If they wanted to make a change Leonard would be a better choice.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

6 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

That Zerpa trade looks rough. I’ll take Mears back and they can keep the change.

Hated that trade at the time. I didn't care about Collins or Durbin, but Mears was extremely dependable. 

[BruisedCrew]

Has there been any word about the reevaluation Chourio was supposed to have this weekend?

[ghostdrew]

Omg people why even watch if all ur going to do is complain

[BarremlensTSSC]

1 minute ago, ghostdrew said:

Omg people why even watch if all ur going to do is complain

Come on!  Go back and look at all my exclamation point posts on the first two pages.  lol  I did ok for a while there.

[Bernies Sponsor]

7 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Has there been any word about the reevaluation Chourio was supposed to have this weekend?

Sounds like the reassessment will be Monday at the earliest 

 

[BarremlensTSSC]

Braylon Payne went 2 for 4 tonight and hit his 5th home run of the season already.  Kid is 19 and tearing up High A  (OPS 1.250) while playing CF.  If you're in Wisconsin get out to see the TRats and Payne/Pena/Dinges/Fischer/Adamczewski before one or more of them get moved p.

[wiguy94]

Murphy continuing to trot Zerpa out there as a leverage arm when RHH are hitting him like they are prime Barry Bonds on double the steroids is extremely annoying. 

[wiguy94]

48 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

They won't go with Ashby in the pen & DL Hall the only other lefty. Nor should they.

Drohan is in the pen. 3 LHP should be plenty. Zerpa can't get RHH out. Needs to go to AAA until he's back on track because tossing him out there right now if it isn't against a stretch of 3-4 LHH is basically asking to give up runs.

[wiguy94]

NVM

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Drohan is in the pen. 3 LHP should be plenty. Zerpa can't get RHH out. Needs to go to AAA until he's back on track because tossing him out there right now if it isn't against a stretch of 3-4 LHH is basically asking to give up runs.

Yeps. Forgot about Drohan.

[Brian]

Red Sox part ways with Cora and 5 members of staff amid rough start to '26. 

[BruisedCrew]

30 minutes ago, Bernies Sponsor said:

Sounds like the reassessment will be Monday at the earliest 

 

Ah.The report I saw on Yahoo (and attributed to McCalvy) did not include the word “after”, giving the impression that the evaluation would be.done over the weekend. 

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, Brian said:

Red Sox part ways with Cora and 5 members of staff amid rough start to '26. 

You mean winning a series over the Brewers didn’t save them?

[Jim French Stepstool]

8 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Murphy continuing to trot Zerpa out there as a leverage arm when RHH are hitting him like they are prime Barry Bonds on double the steroids is extremely annoying. 

I think Murphys' mindset was Zerpa had Cruz(L), Lowe(L & poor vs LHP), and then was fine with turning around Reynolds who is OK RH but with less pop. Whether he anticipated Ozuna hitting for Lowe I have no idea.

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I think Murphys' mindset was Zerpa had Cruz(L), Lowe(L & poor vs LHP), and then was fine with turning around Reynolds who is OK RH but with less pop. Whether he anticipated Ozuna hitting for Lowe I have no idea.

I'm sorry but a 5 year old could have anticipated Pittsburgh pinch hitting Ozuna for Lowe in that spot. If our manager couldn't see that coming it's a huge red flag. The point is you cannot keep using Zerpa in leverage spots when he's incapable of getting RHH out. He either needs to be in a low to mid leverage LOOGY type role or he needs to be in AAA. 

He's an absolute disaster right now and is costing us games. Has giving up a run or allowed an inherited runner to score in 7 of his 9 outings in April. 

[RobertCrawley]

1 hour ago, ghostdrew said:

Omg people why even watch if all ur going to do is complain

I won’t complain if they win

[adambr2]

1 hour ago, ghostdrew said:

Omg people why even watch if all ur going to do is complain

No one on this board complains more than you. You just complain about people complaining, constantly.

[Bulldogboy]

No sense of urgency i can see. Just we will get a couple guys back soon. What about the bullpen?