Brewers (Sproat) vs Athletics (Perkins): 6/10/26, 8:05pm

[wallus]

10 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Vaughn 176 wRC+
Bauers 148 wRC+
Chourio 143 wRC+
Turang 139 wRC+
Yelich 121 wRC+
Mitchell 116 wRC+
Contreras 108 wRC+

The Brewers have seven effective regulars.

League average for a #9 hitter is a 76 wRC+ which Hamilton (90 wRC+) clears easily.

The evidence is pretty clear, the Brewers have scored the 3rd most runs in baseball while playing at a 100 Win pace thus far.

Both of those numbers are ahead of my personal expectations so hard for me to be too disappointed. 

Here comes the goal post moving...

[Turning2]

11 hours ago, rccola42 said:

Yanking a guy at 68 pitches might be overthinking the game.

Maybe Murphy is keep a limit on his innings count for the year. He threw around 140 last year between AAA and MIL. And they have other young arms in the rotation that aren't built up for 150+ yet either. Maybe he is trying to milk them all out as best as possible. Just a guess. 

[Trail]

12 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

He's more capable of playing in the infield than players who have never played in the infield. Yes that's blatantly obvious. That doesn't mean he's capable of starting and playing 9 innings at 3B. 

Regarding Vaughn, I didn't look it up, but I seem to remember that the Sox had him play a little 3B...I'd guess he also played it in the minors.  Its not like its completely foreign to him.  They also had him in the outfield a little.  I'd kind of wondered whether the Brewers would ever try this.  At 1st, you need to handle line drives and hot grounders down the line.  I don't know anything about his arm and surely range is a problem, but I wouldn't be against them playing with it a little bit.  Playing he and Bauers together more often could be huge.  The guy's hitting .360...how do you sit him down??  (these things don't last forever!)

[Trail]

If this is the game where we look back and say "here's where Sproat figured it out", then this game was important, regardless of the outcome.  Tough (make that weird) environment and a great performance.  Murph, I think, knew to get him out while everything was very positive.  

[cragi]

I think losing 2 games in a row in a bandbox with your aces sitting out and bad umping is the ideal time to pronounce judgments regarding the impending futility of your team