Dodgers (Sasaki) vs Brewers (Gasser): 5/23/26, 6:15pm

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

The brewers have a good team and can realistically improve in multiple positions.   Let’s see if they try

ive kind of given up in woody and Priester this year but they would look good in gassers spot 

I thought Gasser was pretty similar to Sproat, Crow & Henderson, except instead of 4-5 innings the effectiveness only lasted 3.

[Jim French Stepstool]

33 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Murphy loves him. No chance 

At whatever point he's removed from the roster, the decision as to whether he's (A) let go or (B) optioned wouldn't be up to Murphy.

[Brian]

31 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

The Brewer loyalty to Perkins is maddening.

He’s sucked for almost a year. Let him go. No optioning. Just let him go.

Rengifo is a liability also on this team. 

[HarryDoyle]

4 minutes ago, willie key said:

The brewers have a good team and can realistically improve in multiple positions.   Let’s see if they try

ive kind of given up in woody and Priester this year but they would look good in gassers spot 

I doubt they will try. The organization is too enamored with their Moneyball 2.0 philosophy. All the talk we have here about getting rid of guys like Rengifo, Harrison to improve the left side of the infield along with Perkins, but I just don't see that happening. Arnold is going to ride or die with those guys. We saw this last year. There were one or two glaring weak spots in the roster, specifically the dormant offense down the stretch, and it was exposed against the Dodgers.

[wiguy94]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

I doubt they will try. The organization is too enamored with their Moneyball 2.0 philosophy. All the talk we have here about getting rid of guys like Rengifo, Harrison to improve the left side of the infield along with Perkins, but I just don't see that happening. Arnold is going to ride or die with those guys. We saw this last year. There were one or two glaring weak spots in the roster, specifically the dormant offense down the stretch, and it was exposed against the Dodgers.

Last year we saw the Brewers pretty quickly ditch Capra and Dunn and replaced them with Durbin so not sure where you're getting this idea that the Brewers are going to keep someone like Rengifo and Perkins on the roster all year (they literally already optioned Perkins to AAA twice this year btw)

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Kind of just one of those games to me.

Manufactured runs in the first by taking advantage of an error and getting some good batted ball luck (along with some strong EV). After that, it wasn't a good situation.

I honestly thought Sanchez getting thrown out at third in the first was the biggest play of the game. You've got Sasaki on the ropes, and you need a hit to score anyway. That just seemed like a bad gamble to let them off the hook, when you could've had the starter pushing 40 pitches in the first. 

Not at all worried about what this one means. Playing the best team in baseball, you go into Sunday with a chance to win the series. Been a good week no matter what.

[willie key]

At least cardinals lost one game

[Brian]

Murphy said Gasser was tipping his pitches on Fox 6 Sports. 

[AKCheesehead]

Hmm. I wonder how much, if any, advantage might have been gained for gas’s next game by quietly helping him fix it. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, Brian said:

Murphy said Gasser was tipping his pitches on Fox 6 Sports. 

Yep. His last one or two innings, a lot of runners on 2B were tapping their hats just before the pitch was thrown.

[igor67]

With Hall, Patrick, Ashby, and Drohan already the team we don't need a traditional sacrificial long reliever, just someone else you can plug in a little more regularly and get a solid inning out of so they don't go too long in between appearances. Gasser might actually be that guy and have Crow starting.

[BruisedCrew]

8 hours ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

 

I honestly thought Sanchez getting thrown out at third in the first was the biggest play of the game. You've got Sasaki on the ropes, and you need a hit to score anyway. That just seemed like a bad gamble to let them off the hook, when you could've had the starter pushing 40 pitches in the first. 

Sanchez getting thrown out was a bonehead play, but I have a hard time thinking of it as a turning point, even though tit would have put at least a few more pitches on Sasaki..

Ortiz would have been up next and chances are he would have ended the inning. Even one more run might not have made a difference given that the offense was dormant the rest of the night after that inning. 

[Brian]

Hopefully we have better luck with Sproat today. Flush Yesterday. 

[BarremlensTSSC]

9 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I thought Gasser was pretty similar to Sproat, Crow & Henderson, except instead of 4-5 innings the effectiveness only lasted 3.

Henderson pulled a little bit of a Houdini act in game 1 if I'm being honest.  He was competitive, but he probably could have thrown the same pitches all night and just as easily have given up 3+.  If I'm being honest I just don't have a ton of faith in Gasser even going into last night.

[SF70]

Gasser’s velo needs to tick back-up and command needs to improve or he’s just a depth starter for this team. 

Gasser sitting at 91 with the occasional 92 isn’t going to cut it in this rotation, especially with his gross lack of command.

[Outlander]

2 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

Sanchez getting thrown out was a bonehead play, but I have a hard time thinking of it as a turning point, even though tit would have put at least a few more pitches on Sasaki..

Ortiz would have been up next and chances are he would have ended the inning. Even one more run might not have made a difference given that the offense was dormant the rest of the night after that inning. 

I agree, those types of plays tend to have an impact longer term on the game. Who knows what would have happened but certainly would have been better than the rest of the game ended. Plus, their bullpen may have been worse off today.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

22 minutes ago, SF70 said:

Gasser’s velo needs to tick back-up and command needs to improve or he’s just a depth starter for this team. 

Gasser sitting at 91 with the occasional 92 isn’t going to cut it in this rotation, especially with his gross lack of command.

This.  I used a bit of hyperbole with his age, but right now Gasser looks like a AAAA player to me.

Patrick has been awesome for us out of the bullpen, but I’m going to be frustrated if we continue to throw Gasser and Sproat as starters while keeping Patrick in the bullpen.

 

 

[SF70]

35 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

This.  I used a bit of hyperbole with his age, but right now Gasser looks like a AAAA player to me.

Patrick has been awesome for us out of the bullpen, but I’m going to be frustrated if we continue to throw Gasser and Sproat as starters while keeping Patrick in the bullpen.

 

 

If I’m Arnold I’m optioning Gasser for Crow when eligible to be re-called and he can be our fifth starter. Then when Woody is ready, I’m optioning Sproat so he can work on his command/pitches and we can gain the extra year of control.

Misiorowski-Harrison-Woodruff-Henderson-Crow.

Of course injuries can change this plan.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

17 minutes ago, SF70 said:

If I’m Arnold I’m optioning Gasser for Crow when eligible to be re-called and he can be our fifth starter. Then when Woody is ready, I’m optioning Sproat so he can work on his command/pitches and we can gain the extra year of control.

Misiorowski-Harrison-Woodruff-Henderson-Crow.

Of course injuries can change this plan.

Having woody back would be awesome, but as much as I love the guy, I wonder if he’s pitched his last game as a brewer?  That injury looked really bad.

[wiguy94]

3 hours ago, igor67 said:

With Hall, Patrick, Ashby, and Drohan already the team we don't need a traditional sacrificial long reliever, just someone else you can plug in a little more regularly and get a solid inning out of so they don't go too long in between appearances. Gasser might actually be that guy and have Crow starting.

I’d be down with getting rid of Woodford and activating Zastryzny off the IL. I know his ERA is good but Hall has shown to not be reliable as a middle reliever because he can’t throw strikes. He can move to the more mop-up/long man type of role and Rob Z can be the middle reliever type. That way we won’t have a guy in the pen who only pitches two times in 19 days like Woodford just did.

[SF70]

1 hour ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Having woody back would be awesome, but as much as I love the guy, I wonder if he’s pitched his last game as a brewer?  That injury looked really bad.

Reports of him sitting 92-93 and touching 94 in his 50 pitch bullpen speaks of good arm health so I’m expecting him to be fine moving-forward. 

[RWeeksFan23]

14 hours ago, adambr2 said:

The Brewer loyalty to Perkins is maddening.

He’s sucked for almost a year. Let him go. No optioning. Just let him go.

I mean, he hits lefties, and he plays a quality center field. That isn't nothing. Not a guy you just 'let go'.

[adambr2]

4 minutes ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

I mean, he hits lefties, and he plays a quality center field. That isn't nothing. Not a guy you just 'let go'.

Sure you can. Guys like Blake Perkins get DFAed every month. They’re not a commodity. Whatever he was prior to last August, he just isn’t that guy anymore. You can’t justify keeping a guy for no other reason than playing a quality CF.

And he doesn’t really “hit lefties”, his splits against them are .222/.323/.333/.656.

It just looks better than the other side because the way he hits righties is so ungodly bad that he literally doesn’t have a single hit against one in 35 plate appearances.

[Jim French Stepstool]

I don't keep track of such stuff around MLB, but I suspect it's pretty rare to DFA someone who still has options. Perkins will be replaced at some point but I doubt he'll be DFA'd. Right now Lockridge is hurt, and they have no inclination to have Lara come here & sit half the time which is what I think would happen. Those two things supersede Perkins hitting .110 or whatever it is.

They might be thinking more heavily about Lara if Mitchell was struggling too, but he's showing some semblance lately. In his last 16-17 PAs Mitchell has K'd only three times, which for him is David Eckstein territory.

[cragi]

3 hours ago, SF70 said:

If I’m Arnold I’m optioning Gasser for Crow when eligible to be re-called and he can be our fifth starter. Then when Woody is ready, I’m optioning Sproat so he can work on his command/pitches and we can gain the extra year of control.

Misiorowski-Harrison-Woodruff-Henderson-Crow.

Of course injuries can change this plan.

I dont see any chance of optioning Sproat. His first few innings each appearance prove he can beat good offenses. That makes him valuable to the pen, regardless of whether or not he is the odd man odd soon