Brewers (Misiorowski) vs Nationals (Irvin): 5/1/26, 5:45pm

[Brandon Glick]

A night at The Miz.

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Trevor Megill	26	0	0	0	12	38
Shane Drohan	0	0	10	0	60	70
Jake Woodford	0	0	35	0	10	45
Grant Anderson	0	0	0	25	8	33
DL Hall	0	0	0	42	0	42
Brian Fitzpatrick	0	0	0	24	20	44
Abner Uribe	13	0	0	0	0	13
Aaron Ashby	28	0	0	0	0	28

[Underachiever]

Drohan was so good yesterday. That bullpen chart looks completely different if he didn't do what he did.

[Frisbee Slider]

Miz for six. Ashby for two. Uribe for one.

[jay87shot]

1 hour ago, Underachiever said:

Drohan was so good yesterday. That bullpen chart looks completely different if he didn't do what he did.

Agree, when he came in I kind of was thinking he would throw 3 or 4 and then get demoted just to replenish the bullpen. However he likely pitched his way into keeping the 26 man spot for the time being. He did enough that everyone outside of himself and Fitz probably. 

I really like Mitchell leading off yesterday. It really doesn't make a difference if leadoff pops out, grounds, or strikes-out so his strikeout issues are lessened. Later in the game if they bring in a lefty it is easy to pinch hit. 

Looking for a big start from Misi.

[yourout]

Interesting the due to the recent big scores the Brewers now have the best run differential in the division. +38

Cubs are +35

[BruisedCrew]

26 minutes ago, yourout said:

Interesting the due to the recent big scores the Brewers now have the best run differential in the division. +38

Cubs are +35

Shows how misleading run differential can be, especially early in the season, when a generally scuffling,offense has an unusual number of double digit outbursts. 

[CheezWizHed]

1 hour ago, BruisedCrew said:

Shows how misleading run differential can be, especially early in the season, when a generally scuffling,offense has an unusual number of double digit outbursts. 

In the long term, run differential is actually pretty predictive of reality.  When you see a playoff team with a winning record and a barely positive run differential, it always sniffs out the pretender. 

Certainly right now, both our RD and record are in the small sample sizes.

[liveforoctober]

This is a side tangent but every year it is always fascinating how going into the year I think some version of "we have 400 outfielders - there is no way we need Akil Baddoo. We have 800 starters, Carlos Rodriguez won't sniff the big leagues this year. We have 5 lefties in the bullpen! We need to trade 2 of them!"

... and yet here we are May 1st and I WISH Akil Baddoo was healthy. Not only did we already need Carlos but he has thrown well and we will need him again AND we have already dipped into multiple parts of the other AAA depth for starters.  We have already lost 3 of those aforementioned lefties and have needed 2 MORE lefties to come up and solidify the bullpen.

Every year.

Doesn't matter if it's Greg Jones, Steward Berroa, Anthony Siegler, Eric Sogard the 2nd time, Daz Cameron, Erick Fedde, Mitch White, Brewer Hicklen, Dallas Keuchel, etc etc

There are 15 times each year, no matter what, where I am watching someone step into the batter's box or take the mound and I'm thinking... "How on earth did we get to this point?"

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, jay87shot said:

 

I really like Mitchell leading off yesterday. It really doesn't make a difference if leadoff pops out, grounds, or strikes-out so his strikeout issues are lessened. Later in the game if they bring in a lefty it is easy to pinch hit. 

 

I wouldn't like to see it on a regular basis, especially when we get some regulars back. But you're right, there are worse spots for him to be hitting than leadoff. Do whatever damage you can; if you touch air, do it with no one on base.

Ideally, 6, 7 or 8 IMO.

[sveumrules]

2 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

Shows how misleading run differential can be, especially early in the season, when a generally scuffling,offense has an unusual number of double digit outbursts. 

Has the offense been generally scuffling though? 

Average runs per game is 4.51 so far this year and they have 16 games scoring five or more runs (14 W - 2 L) with the other 14 games scoring four or fewer runs (2 W - 12 L).

I’d say they’ve been more feast & famine, but either way to be running a 99 wRC+ and scoring 5.33 R/G (5th in MLB) with no Chourio or Vaughn, no Yelich for half the season, plus a number of spots with terrible production is more impressive than not all things considered.

Things could and probably should be much worse than they’ve been.

A big part of the Brewers positive run differential is that they are also 6th in MLB at 4.07 RA/G.
 

[markedman5]

5 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Miz for six. Ashby for two. Uribe for one.

Ashby hasn’t pitched since Sunday………somebody should check Murph for a concussion.

[Jim French Stepstool]

5 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Miz for six. Ashby for two. Uribe for one.

It's gotten to the point where I think you really want to get Ashby in the game tonite, even if things are comfy. Four days off is quite a bit for him. Touch & feel.

[markedman5]

54 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

This is a side tangent but every year it is always fascinating how going into the year I think some version of "we have 400 outfielders - there is no way we need Akil Baddoo. We have 800 starters, Carlos Rodriguez won't sniff the big leagues this year. We have 5 lefties in the bullpen! We need to trade 2 of them!"

... and yet here we are May 1st and I WISH Akil Baddoo was healthy. Not only did we already need Carlos but he has thrown well and we will need him again AND we have already dipped into multiple parts of the other AAA depth for starters.  We have already lost 3 of those aforementioned lefties and have needed 2 MORE lefties to come up and solidify the bullpen.

Every year.

Doesn't matter if it's Greg Jones, Steward Berroa, Anthony Siegler, Eric Sogard the 2nd time, Daz Cameron, Erick Fedde, Mitch White, Brewer Hicklen, Dallas Keuchel, etc etc

There are 15 times each year, no matter what, where I am watching someone step into the batter's box or take the mound and I'm thinking... "How on earth did we get to this point?"

 

[adambr2]

I get that you don’t want to burn a challenge this early unless you’re sure, but strike 1 to Contreras was clearly Ball 4.

[edfunderburk]

Nice level swing by Contreras … scores the run … keeps the chain moving

[Underachiever]

Sacrificing to get to Perkins is odd.

 

[Bernies Sponsor]

I really don’t feel the need to see another Blake Perkins plate appearance, thanks Murph 

[Bulldogboy]

Small sample but Black hitting 400 should mean he stays when people get healthy. 

[adambr2]

Perkins literally cannot do anything.

[ClosetBrewerFan]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Small sample but Black hitting 400 should mean he stays when people get healthy. 

Agreed.  Have to believe he stays and Jones and Perkins go down when Vaughn and Chourio are ready.  We will still have plenty of OFs with that group.

[willie key]

15 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Small sample but Black hitting 400 should mean he stays when people get healthy. 

Actually calling up someone who has just a modicum of talent instead of out tried and true ways of some retread goof that has hit .160 as a cup of coffee for the  Rangers and triple aaa experience but at least we don’t worry about service time or whatever might work better?

[edfunderburk]

Contreras is impressive … red hot!

[ClosetBrewerFan]

Black should be our cleanup hitter going forward.

[Bulldogboy]

Black making a statement 

[edfunderburk]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

Actually calling up someone who has just a modicum of talent instead of out tried and true ways of some retread goof that has hit .160 as a cup of coffee for the  Rangers and triple aaa experience but at least we don’t worry about service time or whatever might work better?

Friendly question - after reading your post twice: 

Are you sober?