Pitching rotation during the 18 games in 17 days stretch

[formerlybis]

Some off-day guessing about how to manage this stretch:

6/26 - 6/28 CHC: Miz, Harrison, Woodruff. The article about this weekend's probables says that Gasser is available for some innings before rejoining the rotation in the Cincy series, which is ... confusing if they're really doing a 5-man rotation. More logically, they'd move one of Sproat/Drohan/Gasser to long relief and out of the rotation.

6/29-7/2 CIN: Guessing Sproat, Drohan, (Gasser?), Miz. I've already blown the 5-man rotation here, but I'd also guess that Drohan gets moved to long relief in the next series.

7/3-5 @ARI: Harrison, Woodruff, Sproat - or Henderson? If Henderson does come up (and this would be on the early side), I would think Sproat or Drohan go down. If it's Sproat, let him pitch this one and then go down

7/6, 7/7 x2, 7/8, and 7/9 @ STL: Gasser (possibly Henderson pushes in here, which moves everyone back a day) on the 6th and Miz for one of the games on the 7th. The other game? Yeah, too early to tell what the situation will be and who they call up - maybe Crow. The last two might be Harrison and Woodruff, each on 4 days rest.

7/10-12 @PIT If Miz does pitch on the 7th, then Sunday the 12th would be his spot - not ideal if he's going to throw an inning at the ASG. If you go back to the Cincy series and throw him in game 3, then he could go on game one of the Cards series and Saturday of this series

[markedman5]

Doesn’t seem likely to me that they will send Sproat down…….they seem pretty committed to developing him up here. 
 

If/when Henderson is ready I would assume Gasser goes back down but we have some time before that decision has to be made.

[formerlybis]

3 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Doesn’t seem likely to me that they will send Sproat down…….they seem pretty committed to developing him up here. 
 

If/when Henderson is ready I would assume Gasser goes back down but we have some time before that decision has to be made.

That's probably just me favoring Gasser as he seems the more "established" at the big-league level. I was surprised the Brewers weren't using him as the starter on Sunday. It's not a clear-cut decision about who should be the 5th starter.

[patrickgpe]

Well they have 7 now. I would assume Drohan goes to the pen / Nashville and the Brewers will have a 6 man rotation for the time being. Once Henderson is ready, i have no idea what they will do. Nobody out of the 6 deserves to be taken out of the rotation presently. 

[cragi]

if the Brewers were willing to stick out with a younger Sproat as a starter through the roughest part of his starts, what makes anyone think they would bail on him while he's now been stacking some quality starts? and even if they did remove him from the rotation, he would still be a valuable long reliever.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Sproat isn't going anywhere after his last start - having piggyback options and 6 man rotation options through this stretch to get to the AS break makes alot of sense now that Woodruff is back.  I'd assume Koenig gets activated tonight, too - which adds another high leverage reliever to the mix.

With this stretch, I think you send Perkins back down and add the extra pitcher in Koenig to the roster.

[cragi]

4 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

With this stretch, I think you send Perkins back down and add the extra pitcher in Koenig to the roster.

13 pitcher max

[formerlybis]

1 hour ago, cragi said:

13 pitcher max

 

2 hours ago, patrickgpe said:

Well they have 7 now. I would assume Drohan goes to the pen / Nashville and the Brewers will have a 6 man rotation for the time being. Once Henderson is ready, i have no idea what they will do. Nobody out of the 6 deserves to be taken out of the rotation presently. 

The issue with the 6-man rotation is the 7-man bullpen - we've got Patrick, Ashby, Anderson, Koenig, Uribe, and Megill as 6 of them. One of Gasser/Sproat/Drohan has to join them now, or two of them if they truly are going to 5-man. And one of them has to go to AAA when Henderson returns.

[jay87shot]

6 man rotation Misi, Harrison, Woodruff, Sproat, Gasser, Drohan. If Henderson comes back through him in for Drohan or Gasser and maybe you can do a bullpen day somewhere. We should be fine, they may needed to shuffle pitchers between AAA and the bigs a little more if the pen gets overused.

[BruisedCrew]

I saw the item about Gasser being available in the bullpen for this series before joining the rotation in the Reds series.

I thought Murphy had said previously that they would be going to a 5 man rotation. One way to reconcile the two statements would be to have Gasser start on Tuesday but be available for relief if needed early in the weekend. That would leave Sproat, Gasser, Mis, and Harrison for the Reds with Drohan taking over for Gasser as the bullpen option. That would set Mis, Harrison, Woodruff, Sproat and Gasser as the 5 man rotation until Henderson returns. 

[markedman5]