Pirates (Jones) vs Brewers (Henderson): 8/4/26, 6:40pm

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, OppoTaco said:

Great callback. And I would say, yes, 7th... if at all. Clearly, he is not getting through this on his own... he is just spiraling. Time off, work with the coaches, sit down and watch every home run of your 2018 season to remember who you are, and come back ready to contribute.

I agree with most of this but I also think he needs to understand and accept - the guy he’s watching hit all those homeruns in 2018 is gone. He doesn’t exist anymore.

[Jimbo]

1 hour ago, cragi said:

We already saw how quickly Rengifro turned his bat around elsewhere. starting to really doubt our hitting instruction.

Thursday, I was in an Irish Pub in San Rafael and they had the Giants game on TV.  Rengifo batting *second* for the Padres and sure enough, rips a gapper.

 

[OppoTaco]

3 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

I agree with most of this but I also think he needs to understand and accept - the guy he’s watching hit all those homeruns in 2018 is gone. He doesn’t exist anymore.

Okay... his 2025 film then. After looking at his splits this year, I have the perfect formula. Yelich plays: Day games, against righties, at AM Fam, and is immediately pinch-hit for when he goes 0-2 or 1-2 in the count. 🤣

[TURBO]

29 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

 

 

“Where would you want me to hit him, seventh?” he said. “No, it makes it worse. You can’t take the ‘C’ off his uniform, you know what I mean? You don’t do that. You believe in him more. You show him love. Give him direction and believe he’s on it.”

 

Man really backed himself into a corner with this quote. 

 

[edfunderburk]

Pretty funny 😏

[Brewcrew82]

Yelich has finally been moved down to the 7 spot folks....

[tmwiese55]

I'm not nearly as low on Yelich as portrayed here lately as its often an overreaction to hot/cold streaks we see over and over around here through the season.    But, the season is long and is a mental grind and right now is as good of any time to have him hit the DL and take a break, recharge, then try to get ramped up by the playoffs.  Everyone else is healthy right other than Frelick, so its a good time to go down and let the others split the DH days.  If someone else gets hurts the day after its bad luck. But chances are that won't happen and if someone else does get hurt or also massively slumps in two weeks then boom bring him back.  IDK, or maybe they do the have this on the radar and are waiting for Frelick to be back to do it. 

Dodgers do this stuff all the time to rest guys. 

[adambr2]

holy crap I can’t believe he did it

[adambr2]

I find it a little hilarious that he moved him to the very spot that he said you can’t move him to or you’d be ripping the C off his jersey. I would have thought he’d have put him at 6 or 8 just to avoid that pickle.

[hoosier]

Sprout (and Stallings) to Nashville, May and Senzatela to the 26. 

https://x.com/Brewers/status/2084723725790835135/photo/1

[adambr2]

Ortiz not in the lineup I called. The only guy who did anything last night.

Well, baby steps. 

[wiguy94]

10 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Ortiz not in the lineup I called. The only guy who did anything last night.

Well, baby steps. 

Ortiz had 2 weakly hit infield singles last night. I get he had 3 hits but we can be honest and say he was very lucky to get 2 of those hits.

[hoosier]

I have been waiting for the day when someone introduces a metric to gauge the run or win differential involved in filling out a lineup card. I suspect I will be waiting for a while longer. 

[jason21nl]

15 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Ortiz had 2 weakly hit infield singles last night. I get he had 3 hits but we can be honest and say he was very lucky to get 2 of those hits.

He hustled his ass off for two of those hits.  

[RobertCrawley]

You gotta guy in the office who is known by everyone in the industry because he kicked ass at sales/design/coding, whatever. But he's been at it for 30 years and is not carrying his weight anymore. Of course, there are those in upper management who want his ass out the door now, but lots of others say he has earned and is owed a certain respect for what he was and who he is.

[owbc]

Lara's in and Yelich is batting seventh???

What are we supposed to complain about now???

[cragi]

3 hits is an automatic trip to the bench if you’re one of the younger guys. Spread the wealth and get someone else hot.

[long ball]

Ya I’m not real on board with Hamilton playing essentially the strong side of the platoon right now. I knows it’s only a couple weeks, but he’s .211/.318/.263 since coming back from the IL. Joey has been pretty good for about 2 months now and I think we’d all agree his defense is a real asset at third. 
 

joey could totally go back to slumping hard any day now, but that’s not right now. 
 

I’d prefer to see Joey in there daily right now. 

[StearnsFTW]

4 minutes ago, owbc said:

Lara's in and Yelich is batting seventh???

What are we supposed to complain about now???

I'm guessing that won't be a problem.

[titanrick]

Just now, long ball said:

Ya I’m not real on board with Hamilton playing essentially the strong side of the platoon right now. I knows it’s only a couple weeks, but he’s .211/.318/.263 since coming back from the IL. Joey has been pretty good for about 2 months now and I think we’d all agree his defense is a real asset at third. 
 

joey could totally go back to slumping hard any day now, but that’s not right now. 
 

I’d prefer to see Joey in there daily right now. 

Agreed,  I keep hearing the TV guys (either tandem) say that Hamilton is good defensively.  And he does make some good plays on occasion.  But he also seems very shaky at times and short-hops a couple throws each game, which could easily become errors.  I tense up every time a grounder goes his way.

[tmwiese55]

2 minutes ago, titanrick said:

Agreed,  I keep hearing the TV guys (either tandem) say that Hamilton is good defensively.  And he does make some good plays on occasion.  But he also seems very shaky at times and short-hops a couple throws each game, which could easily become errors.  I tense up every time a grounder goes his way.

Yea its not so much that Hamilton is bad, idk he seems fine. But Ortiz is absolutely elite at 3B D.  Add in that he's been hitting so well and I don't see the need for this strict platoon right now.  Hamilton can probably play for one of Ortiz/Pratt once each per week, fine thats baseball.  But strict platoon seems off for this at the moment, once Ortiz regresses then reconsider.   And I'm one that doesn't try to overtinker based on hot/cold streaks, but Hamilton best case as a hitter is just blah anyway, not like there is some hope of him becoming legit good. Add in the elite D of ortiz and I think its clear

[trwi7]

13 minutes ago, owbc said:

Lara's in and Yelich is batting seventh???

What are we supposed to complain about now???

I know the Wisco uniforms are a Friday thing but we haven't seen what uniforms they're wearing yet.

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, JoeyWiemerTruther said:

old friend called up for MLB debut with Giants 

Oh geez.........If he picks up a couple of hits for San Fran, someone will have to be sacrificed😄.

[willie key]

Just hit the ball.   

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

where do you guys see Yelich hitting 7th?  On MLB, I see Bill at Cleanup and Yelich at 5th