Brewers (Crow) vs. Astros (Teng): 5/29/26, 7:10pm

[YelichPosse]

I love Sal but - is it me - or does he have the softest contact of anyone who looks like they swing as hard as he does? 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

1 minute ago, Bulldogboy said:

Murphy is not interested 

Not really sure why we're just letting Okert have every good matchup and letting the 'Stros get him through 2 innings.

EDIT: Maybe we're just trying to get Ashby a shot at win #10, I guess?

[DonBarclay]

Just now, YelichPosse said:

I love Sal but - is it me - or does he have the softest contact of anyone who looks like they swing as hard as he does? 

Except it only looks like he swings hard. One of the worst bat speeds in all of MLB. His max effort simply isn’t good enough to produce results. 2025 was the outlier season for Sal. 

[Bulldogboy]

This offense is just not going to get it done without upgrade 

[jason21nl]

1 minute ago, YelichPosse said:

I love Sal but - is it me - or does he have the softest contact of anyone who looks like they swing as hard as he does? 

He just looks like he swings really hard.  His swing is trash.  

[nate82]

Frelick looks like a little league player at the plate and is hitting like one.  If you ever wondered what a little league player would do at the plate in an MLB game you have your answer with Frelick.  

[YelichPosse]

For the record I know his swing is garbage but man does it look high effort ! Haha 😂 

For the warts this team has - it’s an absolute wonder we are in this position! What a time to be a Brewers fan. 

[BarremlensTSSC]

13 minutes ago, CheezWizHed said:

And a 2 month DL stint...

Was thinking the same thing, and that's if it's not a blown shoulder.  Then he's done for the year.

[yourout]

2 minutes ago, jason21nl said:

He just looks like he swings really hard.  His swing is trash.  

Swinging to hard actually slows down the bat because the rest of the body is out of sync then.

[Gump]

Surprised nobody is the game on a Friday night. 

[RobertCrawley]

1 minute ago, YelichPosse said:

For the record I know his swing is garbage but man does it look high effort ! Haha 😂 

For the warts this team has - it’s an absolute wonder we are in this position! What a time to be a Brewers fan. 

At some point, you'd think someone would tell him to develop a beautiful, powerful swing.

[jason21nl]

Just now, yourout said:

Swinging to hard actually slows down the bat because the rest of the body is out of sync then.

Correct.  His helmet almost always flys off so his head is moving and he almost always goes to a knee which basically zaps any power.  I’m not a MLber but I’ll die on the hill that his swing is garbage

[Bulldogboy]

3 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Frelick looks like a little league player at the plate and is hitting like one.  If you ever wondered what a little league player would do at the plate in an MLB game you have your answer with Frelick.  

Yet we keep benching Vaughn. Just play the best players. Murphy has trouble with this concept. 

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, YelichPosse said:

For the record I know his swing is garbage but man does it look high effort ! Haha 😂 

For the warts this team has - it’s an absolute wonder we are in this position! What a time to be a Brewers fan. 

These past few years have been wonderful.

[liveforoctober]

Ashby for the 8th so we can take the lead and then Uribe for the 9th and then drop the appeal?

[RobertCrawley]

Ok. Let's get one or two and beat these guys.

[nate82]

The team needs to find an injury for Frelick to send him down and sit him for a bit.  He just plain out sucks right now and isn't helping the team at all.  

[liveforoctober]

Okay, after that first at bat no one gets to swing until he throws a strike.

[yourout]

2 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Ashby for the 8th so we can take the lead and then Uribe for the 9th and then drop the appeal?

California has Angels in the outfield and we have vultures in the bullpen.

[BarremlensTSSC]

7 minutes ago, DonBarclay said:

Except it only looks like he swings hard. One of the worst bat speeds in all of MLB. His max effort simply isn’t good enough to produce results. 2025 was the outlier season for Sal. 

It honestly looks like he got it in his head this year to swing inside out more often to maximize contact and use his speed.  The problem is that it leaves him behind pitches and even when he's on time he's not dropping the head of the bat in the same place in the hitting zone (which is consistent with Trueblood's article/analysis earlier this week), and his swing speed suffers, which robs him of exit velocity. The HR totals last year were pretty clearly outliers.  But with an approach similar to last year his BABIP would be nearer his career norms and he'd have a lot more value than he's shown this season thus far.

[jason21nl]

Alright boys.   It’s time to go

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, nate82 said:

The team needs to find an injury for Frelick to send him down and sit him for a bit.  He just plain out sucks right now and isn't helping the team at all.  

He can be optioned. No injury necessary.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Here we gooooooo..... Let's steal it late boys!

[adambr2]

Kind of would have just liked to see us keep taking until 2 strikes. That was Ball 3.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Uribe is up.  I'll be pretty surprised if we don't see him at some point tonight.