Confidence in the current roster's offense to win the WS

[Turning2]

Take the poll. I'm not going to add caveats for the various rating levels like "7 - if the pitching stays healthy", "8 - if they get a few lucky breaks" etc. 

[MrTPlush]

I see a hell of a lot of regression potential, little upside potential, and a lot of black holes that are definitely black holes.

I mean compare our line up to that of the Braves or Dodgers…who also have pretty good pitching.

Better odds than last year for sure though.

[StearnsFTW]

I voted 4.

 

Not very difficult to upgrade the problems though.

 

3B and RF.

 

Ortiz isn't going anywhere, nor should he in my opinion. 

 

With the pitching we have (when healthy) I'm fine with an all-glove SS.

[LouisEly]

I went with "4" as well.  

They need some upgrades, but this early in the year players are expensive.  (Case in point - had to give up K.C. Hunt just to get the pile of garbage known as Jake Woodford.)  Almost every team thinks they are still in it (and don't want to lose 4 months of paying fans thinking they are giving up this early), and if they aren't still in it, they probably don't have many players worth acquiring. 

Deals will be made, but not likely until the All-Star break.  Just have to stay above water until then.

[Frisbee Slider]

Was it the offense that let us down this series?

[igor67]

Yes pitching had 3 excellent games, offense was great for 2, I only give today an OK because scoring 6 garbage time runs to make it look like a good day isn't the same.

[sveumrules]

The Brewers offense as currently constituted has received...

210 PA of 72 wRC+ from Sal Frelick
182 PA of 53 wRC+ from Luis Rengifo
164 PA of 78 wRC+ from David Hamilton
141 PA of 58 wRC+ from Joey Ortiz
74 PA of -7 wRC+ from Blake Perkins

Put it all together and those five players have combined for -37.3 batting runs. Throw in another 43 brutal PA from Greg Jones and Luis Matos earlier in the season and that is 814 PA (36% of the team total) adding up to -43.1 batting runs.

Fun side question, at the end of the year will those seven players PA be more or less than 36% of the team total?

So three to four less than zero lineup spots per game, plus Chourio, Vaughn, and Yelich each missing sizable chunks of the season to date, and I'd say being 6th in MLB at 5.02 runs per game so far is more cause for celebration than for concern. 

The Brewers will undoubtedly make changes to the offense twixt now and September, so I'm not sure how relevant the offense as constructed today really is. Will adding rookies like Pratt, Jett, and/or Lara plus maybe trading for a bat at the deadline be enough to close the gap between the Brewers and the presumably more legit offenses of the Dodgers, Braves, Nationals, Pirates, and Yankees ahead of them in the R/G column? Probably not. Will it raise the floor of the bottom third of the lineup? Maybe, maybe not.

The future is uncertain, but what is more certain is that should the Brewers ever happen to win a World Series before any of our peepholes close up on this world it will involve no shortage of miracles along the way, and probably won't be because they had a team that instilled the most confidence on an internet screen.

[Brian]

6/5/26 Pitching injured list: 

Logan Henderson

Jared Koenig

Angel Zerpa

Rob Zystryzny

Quinn Priester

Brandon Woodruff

D.L. Hall

Grant Anderson

No way we keep winning with this. This poll is boxing limits on the confidence why we will or won't win the WS. 

 

[Turning2]

I borrowed this poll query from the Brewers Territory Youtube channel with Hogg and Knebel. They answered 5 and 6 respectively. I voted 7. They can hit. They can score at a respectable, competitive level. It's just the hot or cold tendency and lack of power that holds them back. Can't have the big guns go cold in October. That's likely true with many teams.

[Outlander]

13 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Was it the offense that let us down this series?

It's hard to say that when they average 8 runs a game in a 4 games series but the one time they faced a decent pitcher they failed miserably. I think we have seen this team can win in the regular season but for this question and winning the World Series the current offense isn't enough to win a World Series. Is it good enough to win the division, yes.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I wouldn't go higher than a 3 even if they were performing optimally because I don't think it's realistic for them to beat the Dodgers in a 7-game series. Shohei could blow out a knee and it's a blip on their radar. It's a league problem not a Brewers problem. I think they're one of the top 5 teams in baseball. There's just unfortunately a Great Rift Valley between 1 and everyone else.

There is always the chance they get lucky at the right time, it's baseball after all, and any team is capable of losing 3 in a row at a bad time. It's just going to take a ton of luck for the talent LAD has acquired to go collectively cold at the right time.

 

[Turning2]

38 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I wouldn't go higher than a 3 even if they were performing optimally because I don't think it's realistic for them to beat the Dodgers in a 7-game series. Shohei could blow out a knee and it's a blip on their radar. It's a league problem not a Brewers problem. I think they're one of the top 5 teams in baseball. There's just unfortunately a Great Rift Valley between 1 and everyone else.

There is always the chance they get lucky at the right time, it's baseball after all, and any team is capable of losing 3 in a row at a bad time. It's just going to take a ton of luck for the talent LAD has acquired to go collectively cold at the right time.

 

Definitely a league problem. As mentioned, this was part of a recent Brewers Territory episode. The overall theme of the show was mulling whether MIL needs to add a bat or two. I was a bit surprised that they both voted so low actually. 

[BruisedCrew]

I would say 3 with an emphasis on “as currently constructed”.

But I am also skeptical that the Brewers will make any significant changes to improve the offense. That skepticism extends to getting significant help from current farmhands. 

The 33 runs scored the last 4 days will bump up the RPG for the season, but I still see the offense that scored just 4.15 RPG in May (just 10th best in the NL). 

My more immediate question is not whether the offense is good enough to win the WS, but whether it’s good enough to win games if the pitching falls off from its spectacular May. 
 

 

[BruisedCrew]

5 hours ago, Brian said:

6/5/26 Pitching injured list: 

Logan Henderson

Jared Koenig

Angel Zerpa

Rob Zystryzny

Quinn Priester

Brandon Woodruff

D.L. Hall

Grant Anderson

No way we keep winning with this. This poll is boxing limits on the confidence why we will or won't win the WS. 

 

This is the bigger concern for me in the short term. If Henderson, Woodruff, and Koenig can all come back reasonably soon and be effective, that would help a lot. 

I assume Hall is going on the IL, and hopefully it won’t be a long term stay. But given the nature of the injury and his injury history I’m not expecting a short stint.

I also expect nothing from Priester and won’t be surprised if he ends up having surgery with the hope of being ready to go full speed for spring training next year. 

Maybe Anderson can avoid the ILbut you don’t want to go to Coors Field without a full complement of relievers. 

[Opening Day]

12 teams in playoffs.  8 1/3% shot, 1 out of 10 is obviously 10%.  Could be convinced to go up to 2 if they get the bye.