Guardians (Williams) vs Brewers (Sproat): 6/17/26, 6:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Will Sproat be the goat or the GOAT?

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	0	16	0	0	12	28
Shane Drohan	0	78	0	0	0	78
Joel Kuhnel	0	12	0	0	11	23
Grant Anderson	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drew Rom	0	32	0	0	0	32
Chad Patrick	0	39	0	0	0	39
Abner Uribe	0	0	22	0	18	40
Aaron Ashby	0	0	27	0	23	50

 

[formerlybis]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Will Sproat be the goat or the GOAT?

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	0	16	0	0	12	28
Shane Drohan	0	78	0	0	0	78
Joel Kuhnel	0	12	0	0	11	23
Grant Anderson	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drew Rom	0	32	0	0	0	32
Chad Patrick	0	39	0	0	0	39
Abner Uribe	0	0	22	0	18	40
Aaron Ashby	0	0	27	0	23	50

 

Again, you could remove Drohan from the bullpen grid. Guessing Mr. Anderson will be called upon at some point of this game. Short turnaround to tomorrow's game, so that always puts pressure to eat some innings tonight, Mr. Sproat.

Williams is tough opposition, and could get to 10 wins tonight (in a non-vulture-y method).

[TURBO]

So no Vaughn tonight since we are facing a righty?

FREE ANDREW VAUGHN!

[Frisbee Slider]

17 minutes ago, TURBO said:

So no Vaughn tonight since we are facing a righty?

FREE ANDREW VAUGHN!

I completely understand that Andrew Vaughn deserves more at bat's. I can see the argument against not playing Vaughn over Bauers or Yelich against RHP. The team is also not ready to give up on Frelick after 200 AB.

[TURBO]

25 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

I completely understand that Andrew Vaughn deserves more at bat's. I can see the argument against not playing Vaughn over Bauers or Yelich against RHP. The team is also not ready to give up on Frelick after 200 AB.

I can see him not playing over Bauers, and maybe Yelich, but being benched for Frelick? 

INSANE!

Continue throwing Bauers into an OF spot, DH Yelich if you must, and have Vaughn at 1B.

Keep all 3 bats in the line-up on a daily basis.

[Frisbee Slider]

9 minutes ago, TURBO said:

I can see him not playing over Bauers, and maybe Yelich, but being benched for Frelick? 

INSANE!

Continue throwing Bauers into an OF spot, DH Yelich if you must, and have Vaughn at 1B.

Keep all 3 bats in the line-up on a daily basis.

That essentially means giving up on Frelick in the near term. Sal has had 1,200 reasonably good at bats and 200 bad ones. Frelick has three more years of control left. Vaughn has one additional year left. 

All that to say, I agree that Vaughn needs to be in the lineup nearly every day.

[liveforoctober]

I wonder what the respective splits are against RHP between AV and SF?

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, liveforoctober said:

I wonder what the respective splits are against RHP between AV and SF?

Frelick - .258/.339/.342 for a .307 wOBA

Vaughn - .266/.329/.344 for a .305 wOBA

So basically identical production wise against RHP this year. Expected numbers are pretty comparable as well. 

I do like that they put Frelick ahead of Mitchell though. Now when Cleveland brings in a LHP for that pocket of LHH they can pinch hit Vaughn for Frelick instead of Mitchell which is what they were going earlier this season.

[liveforoctober]

I was thinking about Kuhnel last night. The crooked hat, the garbage man physique, the hint of confusion in his eyes.. He has a little bit of a John Rocker aura to him. 

I think if he purposely sailed a 98 mph seed to the backstop every other appearance and then looked at his hand like he wasn't quite sure what happened... I think it would make him fractionally more effective. Just give the hitters a fragrance of doubt that he entirely knows what he is doing :)