Giants (Roupp) vs Brewers (Drohan): 6/1/26, 6:40pm

[adambr2]

Just now, folly412 said:

Perkins really didn't want to have to come up there.

Well, the feeling is mutual.

[duewizard]

I like Perk and I'm sure it has been a tough year with one of his parents passing but he needs to go to Nashville and work on himself to get his timing back.

 

[adambr2]

Just now, duewizard said:

I like Perk and I'm sure it has been a tough year with one of his parents passing but he needs to go to Nashville and work on himself to get his timing back.

 

I honestly think he just needs a fresh start somewhere else.

[willie key]

Vaughn better not be hurt.   He’s our most consistent hitter

[BarremlensTSSC]

Just now, willie key said:

Vaughn better not be hurt.   He’s our most consistent hitter

I honestly don't think he is.

[BarremlensTSSC]

16 runs on 18 hits... and no home runs.

[jason21nl]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

I honestly think he just needs a fresh start somewhere else.

Been calling for that for a while now. He doesn’t need to get sent down and take up playing time from someone else.  He just needs to be sent out of the organization completely.   

[edfunderburk]

2 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

16 runs on 18 hits... and no home runs.

Bunty came close … so did Turang

[duewizard]

1 minute ago, jason21nl said:

Been calling for that for a while now. He doesn’t need to get sent down and take up playing time from someone else.  He just needs to be sent out of the organization completely.   

Hadn't even considered it. 100% agree

[TURBO]

2 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

Also, Rock mentioned Erickson and I realized I haven't had a "why are we sending him?!" moment yet I don't think? 

Have any of you hiccupped at a Matt Erickson move yet?

Erickson was notoriously conservative coaching 3B for the Timber Rattlers.  I mean REALLY conservative.

It doesn't surprise me that he is the same way with the Brewers.

[BarremlensTSSC]

5 minutes ago, duewizard said:

I like Perk and I'm sure it has been a tough year with one of his parents passing but he needs to go to Nashville and work on himself to get his timing back.

 

Competely agree.  Keeping him as a late inning defensive replacement/pinch runner would be a little more defensible if they weren't regularly playing 3 other light hitters every day.

[Jopal78]

10 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Don't look at Giants current payroll. Buster Posey should be ashamed of this product 

Why would he be ashamed? I think he’s President of Baseball Ops because besides a fluke year they haven’t been good in a decade. Probably too early to say if he has a clue what he’s doing. 

[yourout]

3 minutes ago, jason21nl said:

Been calling for that for a while now. He doesn’t need to get sent down and take up playing time from someone else.  He just needs to be sent out of the organization completely.   

Bundle him into a trade for a corner

[LouisEly]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

Bundle him into a trade for a corner

I'd rather not have to increase the prospect haul we need to give up.

 

[yourout]

And just like that we have a 5.5 game lead in the division. 

Wouldn't it be fun having a 10 game lead at the break?

[Bulldogboy]

3 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

Why would he be ashamed? I think he’s President of Baseball Ops because besides a fluke year they haven’t been good in a decade. Probably too early to say if he has a clue what he’s doing. 

Spending 230 million dollars on this mess is shameful. Every move he's made has blown up including hiring a manager with no pro experience. 

[TURBO]

13 minutes ago, willie key said:

Vaughn better not be hurt.   He’s our most consistent hitter

What?

Dude spends as much time on the bench as he does in the line-up.

I think most consistent goes to Bauers and Turang, even though Turang had his recent slump.

[BarremlensTSSC]

1 minute ago, Jopal78 said:

Why would he be ashamed? I think he’s President of Baseball Ops because besides a fluke year they haven’t been good in a decade. Probably too early to say if he has a clue what he’s doing. 

I mean, I guess.  Maybe I'm just biased against hiring guys like that to run organizations because I remember when Sal Bando, who I loved to watch play, was named GM for the Brewers mostly because Bud and Harry Dalton liked him and he kept the gig for 8 years while presiding over the departure of Paul Molitor and the implosion of a 1992 team that was probably the second best team in MLB and never got to .500 again while getting to keep the job for damn near a decade. 

Posey better be good as President of Baseball Ops because he's more or less impossible for the Giants to fire.  It could work out, I guess, but I'm sure as hell glad it's not the Brewers problem.

[yourout]

2 minutes ago, TURBO said:

What?

Dude spends as much time on the bench as he does in the line-up.

I think most consistent goes to Bauers and Turang, even though Turang had his recent slump.

Vaughn has the highest BA and OPS.

[Bulldogboy]

17 minutes ago, TURBO said:

What?

Dude spends as much time on the bench as he does in the line-up.

I think most consistent goes to Bauers and Turang, even though Turang had his recent slump.

That's Murphy fault. He should be playing way more than he has been no doubt 

[Jopal78]

35 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Spending 230 million dollars on this mess is shameful. Every move he's made has blown up including hiring a manager with no pro experience. 

I don’t know, Devers had a .948 OPS in May and . Adames had an .829 OPS those are the two big stars he acquired. 
 

Besides the hitters that slumped in April his inherited star starting pitchers Ray and Webb  haven’t pitched well so far this season. 

[markedman5]

Man lots of negative posts for a 16-2 win………

Tied for best record ever at this juncture in the season…….highest run differential too…….

 

[BarremlensTSSC]

The home run thing.... the players who appear to be experiencing some bad luck on their home run totals vs. expected home runs (per baseball savant) are Chourio (-1.1), Contreras (-.8) Mitchell (-.7), Sanchez (-.3), Perkins and Rengifo (-.2), and Ortiz (-.1).  When you look at year to year only Sanchez, Turang and Bauers are on pace to exceed their 2025 HR totals, and for Bauers he's already done it by the end of May (9 HR this year, 7 last) in about 80% of the plate appearances he had all last season already under his belt.  Sanchez has matched his 2025 totals and already exceeded the 2025 plate appearances.  The team's HR totals to date were certainly hurt by Chourio, Yelich and Vaughn missing time but the power hasn't returned when they did.

In short, aside from Bauers who is likely experiencing a career year, and Turang, t's essentially a team wide underperformance from HR totals projected for the offseason and it's not like the actual batted ball profile supports the notion that this is just some bad luck thus far.  One would think that the HR totals will pick up with warmer weather but I guess we'll see.  

Vaughn and Chourio are probably the best hope to find their power stroke. (With apologies to Yelich who I unfortunately think has regressed to his 2023 power form).  Chourio's average launch angle, EV, and barrel % are all exceeding his first two seasons and his actual slg % is lower than his xslg by over .060.  So, as his -1.1 HR-xHR number suggests, he appears to be getting a bit unlucky to not be doing more damage or what is still a relatively small sample (104 plate appearances).  Vaughn's sample size remains even smaller than Chourio's (72 PA, 64 AB) so while there are some warning signs I don't think it's fair to conclude anything at this point.  I'd like to think that Contreras will at some point reaquire his power stroke which and his slg - xslg gap is -.035

Seems clear that this team isn't going to start hitting massive amounts of home runs.  I think it's fair to expect Chourio to start hitting HRs at a faster pace and probably soon.  It's hard to say if Contreras will recover his power that disappeared with the fracture last year..  But it's probably also fair to expect Bauers to fall off the 27-28 HR pace he's currently on.

[BarremlensTSSC]

7 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Man lots of negative posts for a 16-2 win………

Tied for best record ever at this juncture in the season…….highest run differential too…….

 

I must have the right guys ignored.

[wallus]

12 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Man lots of negative posts for a 16-2 win………

Tied for best record ever at this juncture in the season…….highest run differential too…….

 

Bad manager, bad players.....