Dodgers (Yamamoto) vs Brewers (Sproat): 5/24/26, 1:10pm

[jason21nl]

Turns out the Dodgers are still our daddy

[yourout]

I truly think the only way we can beat these guys would be in a five game set. 

[brewmann04]

WW need hitting 

[trwi7]

7 minutes ago, willie key said:

It sucks that we wasted 20 million dollars on woodruff when that would have been a perfect rental fund to use to add a bat this year

I think you're dreaming if you think we would spend that money on a rental bat or really any bat.

[HarryDoyle]

This weekend was just a reminder that no matter how well you are playing, you don't stand a chance in October.

[willie key]

5 minutes ago, trwi7 said:

I think you're dreaming if you think we would spend that money on a rental bat or really any bat.

I think they would with a one year rental this year.   I agree not a long term guy

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

2 minutes ago, trwi7 said:

I think you're dreaming if you think we would spend that money on a rental bat or really any bat.

We should’ve kept Peralta.

 

[willie key]

13 minutes ago, yourout said:

Yeah we did that with our heart and not with our head.

We already donated to the woodruff family college fund the last two years.   How much goodwill does that guy have

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

5 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

This weekend was just a reminder that no matter how well you are playing, you don't stand a chance in October.

I think we still have a chance, but this shows you just how important the number one seed is.  Last year was pretty optimal with LA getting the third seed… unfortunately Philadelphia just crapped the bed.

I could see a scenario this year where we are the number one seat. The Braves are number two and the Dodgers are number three..  maybe Atlanta gets lucky and knocked off the Dodgers in the divisional round.  I’m sure the Braves would be tough, but they are not the Dodgers.

[BarremlensTSSC]

29 minutes ago, yourout said:

That's been our biggest issue in the playoffs. If teams don't hand us runs we struggle to score.

It's a bit more defensible in the playoffs because with the days off they are literally seeing the best teams best pitchers pretty much every night.  Still not good enough but understandable to a degree.  

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

I think we still have a chance, but this shows you just how important the number one seed is.  Last year was pretty optimal with LA getting the third seed… unfortunately Philadelphia just crapped the bed.

I could see a scenario this year where we are the number one seat. The Braves are number two and the Dodgers are number three..  maybe Atlanta gets lucky and knocked off the Dodgers in the divisional round.  I’m sure the Braves would be tough, but they are not the Dodgers.

We play in a much tougher division than the Braves and Dodgers do, ergo, they have softer schedules than us and will pile up more wins than we will. Plus, they both are better than us. Mark A and Arnold can keep doing what they're doing with the limited resources they have and win division titles, but in the end it's the larger markets with better talent that win the World Series. It's Billy Beane Moneyball all over again.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

1 minute ago, HarryDoyle said:

We play in a much tougher division than the Braves and Dodgers do, ergo, they have softer schedules than us and will pile up more wins than we will. Plus, they both are better than us. Mark A and Arnold can keep doing what they're doing with the limited resources they have and win division titles, but in the end it's the larger markets with better talent that win the World Series. It's Billy Beane Moneyball all over again.

You are probably right. And that might be our fate… so that leaves us with 2 choices.

be content with making the playoffs but never really making noise (Packers) or be willing to have a down season here/there to load up and “go for it” every so often.

guessing our cheap owner will stick with #1 so he/ownership can pocket $50 million whenever we host 5 playoff games.

this is a fun summer team, but it’s going to take a Sabathia/Greinke type move on top of a strong core to probably make the WS.  Even then, there is no guarantee (see the Padres the past few years)

[HarryDoyle]

19 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

You are probably right. And that might be our fate… so that leaves us with 2 choices.

be content with making the playoffs but never really making noise (Packers) or be willing to have a down season here/there to load up and “go for it” every so often.

guessing our cheap owner will stick with #1 so he/ownership can pocket $50 million whenever we host 5 playoff games.

this is a fun summer team, but it’s going to take a Sabathia/Greinke type move on top of a strong core to probably make the WS.  Even then, there is no guarantee (see the Padres the past few years)

It was brought up earlier as to how serious the organization is about winning a World Series. Publicly they would say very serious but privately leave out "with the limited resources we have" part, thereby in reality saying they are not serious and they just want to be good enough to keep selling tickets every year.

I've already resigned myself to the almost certainty that I will never see a World Series title in my lifetime unless massive changes are made to the system. The Dodgers winning the World Series again this year may be the best thing to happen to us and would bring a lockout for 2027, and even then, it might be pointless because the player's union is just too powerful. I can't imagine why our best players would want to sign extensions here if they want to win a World Series. 

[BruisedCrew]

3 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

The fans this weekend booing Ohtani like he's Manny Machado.

I was at the game today and I think a lot of that is a reaction to the thousands and thousands of fans decked out in Dodger blue (seemingly 90% of them with Ohtani’s name on the back. They cheer his every move and Brewers fans respond. 

Going to Dodgers games isn’t much better than Cubs games. it’s hard to tell sometimes who the home team is. 

[wallus]

We won one of three at home without our top two pitchers going. No series in May is going to make or break us

[BruisedCrew]

2 hours ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

And it costs us the game

Scoring just 1 run was a significant factor. 

[TURBO]

3 hours ago, adambr2 said:

I don’t hate it, you have to play the long game with Miz and Harrison this year and make sure you have them at their best in October, but this rotation is not very deep with Woodruff and Priester on the shelf.

I like Logan. If Priester doesn’t recover soon and start showing some signs of last years’ guy in his rehab starts, they may need to look for a starter in July.

Which is why all the pre-season talk of our tremendous starting pitching depth was just talk.  People saying we should trade some of our starting pitching for a bat or 3, LOL.

We always need starting pitching, ALWAYS!

[adambr2]

9 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Which is why all the pre-season talk of our tremendous starting pitching depth was just talk.  People saying we should trade some of our starting pitching for a bat or 3, LOL.

We always need starting pitching, ALWAYS!

My post about him earlier was obviously a joke (sort of) but it’s ironic how good of a fit Freddy Peralta would be for this team.

Miz, Harrison, and Peralta in a playoff series?

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

My post about him earlier was obviously a joke (sort of) but it’s ironic how good of a fit Freddy Peralta would be for this team.

Miz, Harrison, and Peralta in a playoff series?

No thanks. I've seen enough of playoff Freddy for one life time

[Jim French Stepstool]

4 hours ago, adambr2 said:

It kind of seemed like in the 5th that Murphy was challenging Sproat and willing to lose the game to do it. I’m not saying right or wrong, but it seemed like in the 5th he was hoping for that inning to be a turning point in Sproat’s season.

Unfortunately it was not, though I imagine we would have lost the game regardless of what the 5th inning strategy was.

I felt the same way. He did it on Friday w/Henderson too, although you had some leeway there. With the job Henderson (Jim) & Hook have done with some of these youngsters, I'll trust the decision-makers AFA when to pull & when to encourage a little growth.

[Bernies Sponsor]

3 hours ago, wallus said:

We won one of three at home without our top two pitchers going. No series in May is going to make or break us

Just as sweeping the season series last year meant absolutely nothing come October

[Jim French Stepstool]

4 hours ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

It's a bit more defensible in the playoffs because with the days off they are literally seeing the best teams best pitchers pretty much every night.  Still not good enough but understandable to a degree.  

Yeah, which is why hanging your hat on the run-prevention is so important. Without extraordinary batted-ball luck on both sides of the ball, you aren't going to beat a team like this walking seventeen batters in two days. Credit LA---like I mentioned, their plate discipline was so good it was bordering on ridiculous---but there's room for growth from this staff, and hopefully they keep moving in the same direction.

[Brian]

5 hours ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Why punt when we have better options?  Personally, I think the idea of punting is dumb when we can move people up and down on the shuttle.

and if we’re going to punt, send the fringe MLB players down after their start.  Gasser and Sproat are a waste of a roster spot over the next 4 games.  If our bullpen is getting taxed, might be nice to bring someone up who can contribute.

Arnold has done a phenomenal job bringing in talent… but we have approaching 10 guys on our 26 who just don’t meaningfully contribute

frelick and Yelich are struggling, but they have a solid mlb track record from other seasons.

hamilton, wood, rengifo, gasser, Perkins, Sproat no so much.

add that to guys like Ortiz, Sanchez, abd Hall that are normally the 25/26th men on the roster

Well I agree with everything except about Sproat.  I think Sproat has potential but the Brewers must clean up the walks.  Also, MLB needs to do something about payrolls.  Dodgers out spend the Brewers by almost 300 million/year. Kind of crazy to allow that.

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

Scoring just 1 run was a significant factor. 

It was. But facing Yamamoto today, I think it was much more significant that you allowed five. 

[yourout]

17 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

It was. But facing Yamamoto today, I think it was much more significant that you allowed five. 

Honestly the Dodgers staff and defense mean we are going to struggle to score more than 3 runs a game against them. The Brewers lack of slugging just wont allow big innings without help from the opponent by walking guys and errors against decent pitching.