Brewers (Sproat) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 5/6/26, 12:15pm

[RobertCrawley]

If you're hitting .184, you have to field that.

[adambr2]

You don’t hit nearly well enough to boot that ball.

[RobertCrawley]

Always love beating the Cards.

[liveforoctober]

Let's see if the vulture did enough to grab the win here.

[liveforoctober]

Holy smokes a Jason Alexander sighting in Houston...

[adambr2]

I’ll take a split in St Louis. Still trending in the right direction. Catch em one at a time - tough part of the schedule coming up, so hopefully we can get through it okay.

[folly412]

4 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Let's see if the vulture did enough to grab the win here.

3 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Holy smokes a Jason Alexander sighting in Houston...

 

[wiguy94]

20 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

I wonder what our record would be if Chourio hadn’t been injured 

Better haha

[liveforoctober]

Jett Williams 2-4 today ... avg up to .244 with a .351 OBP. OPS climbs above .700 finally.

A couple good weeks is all he needs.. we have a few 40man roster spots open now too.

[markedman5]

 

[Samurai Bucky]

6 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

Where would we be without an AI agent to give us this information?  Pretty cool, though.

[Jim French Stepstool]

It might be time to do away with the 'starter has to go 5 innings' thing to get credit for a win. If he goes less, leaves with a lead that's never relinquished & the BP load is diced up among 3-4 pitchers then leave it up to the official scorer. 

I get the strategy today---off day yesterday, off day tomorrow, guys in the pen who haven't thrown a lot, and Sproat seems to hit a wall around 65-75---but I thought this was a good day to try to get him through five since we had a cushion. Iffy first two innings, then a great one, then another iffy one.........I'd have given him a batter or two into the 5th to try to 'build' a little more.

Hamiltons' ability to get the ball down & get to full speed immediately---I don't know if I've seen anything like it. Ortiz being behind him dampens it somewhat, but not enough to take it away from him. I'd actually love for him to be hitting 9th but when he & Ortiz are playing together you just can't.

Hitless today but Tyler Black put up a terrific AB in the opening inning. Really seems to be seeing the ball.

D L Hall is becoming quite unsung, in a very good way.

[Brian]

4 hours ago, cragi said:

brewers look really gunshy on these challenges right now

The team probably got chewed out for over doing it the 1st month.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Sorry I had to work and missed that one today.  Highlights were fun.

 

Also, after the last 6 years I don't even know what to do with a Brewers team who's actual record is worse than their Pythag.  It's disorienting.

[yourout]

6 hours ago, markedman5 said:

Welcome back Andrew!

I bet Murph sleeps a bit better having those 2 back in the lineup.

[BruisedCrew]

For the time being I want to see Bauers in the lineup every day against RH starters. And when Yelich gets back, if nothing else changes I would seriously think about using Bauers in the outfield with Vaughn at 1B. 

[liveforoctober]

Just a quick check in on the 3 bigger trades we made this off season:

Out (BRef numbers):

Collins (.2 WAR)

Mears (.4 WAR)

Durbin (.5 WAR)

Mona/Seigler (0 WAR combined)

Peralta (.6 WAR)

Total: 1.7 WAR outbound

 

In 

Zerpa (-.7 WAR)

Harrison (1.1 WAR)

Hamilton (.5 WAR)

Drohan (-.1 WAR)

Sproat (-.3 WAR)

Jett (XX)

Total: .5 WAR inbound

 

A lot more goes into it than just pure person to person comparisons but initial reaction is the Brewers absolutely stole one from Boston, short term lost the NY trade (expected), and unfortunately took it on the chin with KC.

Long term love what Drohan and Sproat are showing glimpses of and Harrison is a prize so those two trades will (should) pay dividends. Let's not talk about the KC deal for a while.

Both Durbin and Collins seem to be rebounding after slow starts... will be interesting to see where these numbers end up around the all star break and after. Drohan seems to have found a spot in the pen and Sproat has looked better and maybe we get a Jett appearance at some point?

[TURBO]

2 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Just a quick check in on the 3 bigger trades we made this off season:

Out (BRef numbers):

Collins (.2 WAR)

Mears (.4 WAR)

Durbin (.5 WAR)

Mona/Seigler (0 WAR combined)

Peralta (.6 WAR)

Total: 1.7 WAR outbound

 

In 

Zerpa (-.7 WAR)

Harrison (1.1 WAR)

Hamilton (.5 WAR)

Drohan (-.1 WAR)

Sproat (-.3 WAR)

Jett (XX)

Total: .5 WAR inbound

 

A lot more goes into it than just pure person to person comparisons but initial reaction is the Brewers absolutely stole one from Boston, short term lost the NY trade (expected), and unfortunately took it on the chin with KC.

Long term love what Drohan and Sproat are showing glimpses of and Harrison is a prize so those two trades will (should) pay dividends. Let's not talk about the KC one for a while.

Both Durbin and Collins seem to be rebounding after slow starts... will be interesting to see where these numbers end up around the all star break and after. Drohan seems to have found a spot in the pen and Sproat has looked better and maybe we get a Jett appearance at some point?

Great insight, and it will be worth re-visiting at the all-star break and season's end.

Thanks for the information.

[Trail]

18 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

It might be time to do away with the 'starter has to go 5 innings' thing to get credit for a win. If he goes less, leaves with a lead that's never relinquished & the BP load is diced up among 3-4 pitchers then leave it up to the official scorer. 

I get the strategy today---off day yesterday, off day tomorrow, guys in the pen who haven't thrown a lot, and Sproat seems to hit a wall around 65-75---but I thought this was a good day to try to get him through five since we had a cushion. Iffy first two innings, then a great one, then another iffy one.........I'd have given him a batter or two into the 5th to try to 'build' a little more.

Hamiltons' ability to get the ball down & get to full speed immediately---I don't know if I've seen anything like it. Ortiz being behind him dampens it somewhat, but not enough to take it away from him. I'd actually love for him to be hitting 9th but when he & Ortiz are playing together you just can't.

Hitless today but Tyler Black put up a terrific AB in the opening inning. Really seems to be seeing the ball.

D L Hall is becoming quite unsung, in a very good way.

I have to agree.  The rules were made for a different time.  Maybe "starter goes 4, leaves with the lead (and they keep it), and no one else goes more than 2"?  

[Frisbee Slider]

Looking ahead to the Yankees series…

Max Fried, LHP

Cam Schmitter, best RHP in AL

Carlos Rodon, LHP

[ReverendBrewmeister]

17 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Looking ahead to the Yankees series…

Max Fried, LHP

Cam Schmitter, best RHP in AL

Carlos Rodon, LHP

Good to have the right-handed bats of Chourio and Vaughn return, especially prior to facing Fried and Rodon.

[Frisbee Slider]

11 minutes ago, ReverendBrewmeister said:

Good to have the right-handed bats of Chourio and Vaughn return, especially prior to facing Fried and Rodon.

Do we need another right-handed outfielder this weekend? Chourio and Lockridge. 

Mitchell, Frelick, Bauers and Black are all left-handed and could not reasonably be expected to perform well. Mitchell has cooled off considerably as of late..

[liveforoctober]

3 hours ago, Trail said:

I have to agree.  The rules were made for a different time.  Maybe "starter goes 4, leaves with the lead (and they keep it), and no one else goes more than 2"?  

I agree some form of human judgement should be allowed. If we are allowing official scorers to judge an error vs hit based on how hard a ground ball is hit in their opinion, etc ... how are we not allowing someone to objectively look at yesterday's game and make the determination that Sproat was the most important pitcher when we had the lead from start to finish..

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, Trail said:

I have to agree.  The rules were made for a different time.  Maybe "starter goes 4, leaves with the lead (and they keep it), and no one else goes more than 2"?  

That's not a bad idea. Or you can just leave the whole thing up to the official scorer. If the starter goes say 3.1 and leaves with a 6-1 lead, the BP guys aren't effective but never relinquish the lead & you win 9-7 the starter might be the most effective of the group despite getting pulled early.

[Jim French Stepstool]

5 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

Just a quick check in on the 3 bigger trades we made this off season:

Out (BRef numbers):

Collins (.2 WAR)

Mears (.4 WAR)

Durbin (.5 WAR)

Mona/Seigler (0 WAR combined)

Peralta (.6 WAR)

Total: 1.7 WAR outbound

 

In 

Zerpa (-.7 WAR)

Harrison (1.1 WAR)

Hamilton (.5 WAR)

Drohan (-.1 WAR)

Sproat (-.3 WAR)

Jett (XX)

Total: .5 WAR inbound

 

A lot more goes into it than just pure person to person comparisons but initial reaction is the Brewers absolutely stole one from Boston, short term lost the NY trade (expected), and unfortunately took it on the chin with KC.

Long term love what Drohan and Sproat are showing glimpses of and Harrison is a prize so those two trades will (should) pay dividends. Let's not talk about the KC deal for a while.

Both Durbin and Collins seem to be rebounding after slow starts... will be interesting to see where these numbers end up around the all star break and after. Drohan seems to have found a spot in the pen and Sproat has looked better and maybe we get a Jett appearance at some point?

The KC deal has gone from a narrative of "Zerpa sucks" to "Zerpa was obviously hurt", but either way yeah, we're in the hole there. Big picture it's a philosophy of selling high re Durbin & Collins along with a final year of Peralta in exchange for a passel of young arms. The ones who are healthy & throwing, I can easily see why we wanted them.

It's easy to miss Durbin given the rough patches (offensively) on the left side of the INF. He was one of my favorites, but we shouldn't close the book on Rengifo just yet.