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    Week in Review: Falling Face First

    Kyle Ginsbach

    By Kyle Ginsbach

    It might not have been, statistically, the worst week of the season, but make no mistake, the Brewers fall flat of their face this past week. If you missed it, here's the brief recap of the dreadful week.

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    Weekly Snapshot

    Record Last Week: 2-5 (34-32)

    Runs Scored: 26

    Runs Surrendered: 28

    Standing: 2nd in NL Central (1.0 GB)

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    Game 60 | CIN 2, MIL 0

    Game 61 | MIL 4, BAL 3

    Game 62 | MIL 10, BAL 2

    Game 63 | BAL 6, MIL 3

    Game 64 | OAK 5, MIL 2

    Game 65 | OAK 2, MIL 1

    Game 66 | OAK 8, MIL 6

    NEWS AND NOTES

    As usual, the Brewers continued to constantly shuffle their major-league roster. Here's yet another laundry list of injuries and transactions from the last week:

    HIGHLIGHTS

    There wasn’t much in the way of highlights this week, but the one position player who can say he had a good week is Joey Wiemer. The Brewers rookie slashed .364/.417/.773 this past week, and recorded a handful of masterful plays in the outfield. One of those endeavors included being the first player in franchise history to have two outfield assists in the same inning. 

    Julio Teheran has continued to be excellent as an emergency addition to the Brewers rotation, delivering another fantastic start in a loss to Oakland. 

    Corbin Burnes had, perhaps, the best start of the season against the Orioles, logging eight scoreless innings, striking out nine, walking none, and allowing only two hits. The Brewers would go on to win 10-2, in one of the bright spots of this June Swoon.

    LOWLIGHTS

    The Brewers ended their week by becoming the first team to get swept by MLB’s worst team, the Oakland Athletics. Not only does this mark a new low for the Brewers, but they’ve now fallen out of first place by failing to beat the worst MLB team of the last decade. There were other lowlights last week, including spotty defense, a vanishing offense, but there is no lower than getting swept by the Athletics at home. 

    Brewers offensive ranks over the last 30 days:

    • 26th in OPS
    • 26th in SLG
    • 28th in OBP
    • 27th in AVG
    • 15th in HR
    • 25th in Runs
    • 3rd in Strikeouts

    It may be easy to pile on an individual(s) for a poor stretch of one or two weeks, but this offense has been bad, if not awful, as a unit for a month now. If the Brewers wanted to win this past week, the offense needed to step up at least a little. They didn't.

    TRENDING STORYLINE

    The Brewers' health and offense are the only major concerns going into next week. The offense ranks near the bottom in nearly every category over the past month, and the long list of injuries isn't doing them any favors. Getting bats like Winker and Urias back into the consistent major-league schedule is something that’ll begin to happen this next week, but neither have yet produced offensively. Both Keston Hiura and Sal Frelick could find themselves on the parent club soon, too, but both have battled injuries as of late. The Brewers don’t have the luxury to be picky; they just need offense from any source they can find.

    LOOKING AHEAD

    The Brewers will head to the Twin Cities before returning to Milwaukee next week. Both the Pirates and Twins have had similar issues offensively to Milwaukee, but have been playing better comparatively as of late. There are two off days next week, something the Brewers are glad to see in the midst of their scuffle.

    TUESDAY, 5/16: BREWERS @ TWINS - RHP Corbin Burnes vs RHP Pablo Lopez

    WEDNESDAY, 5/17: BREWERS @ TWINS - TBD vs. RHP Bailey Ober

    FRIDAY, 5/19: PIRATES @ BREWERS - TBD vs. TBD

    SATURDAY, 5/20: PIRATES @ BREWERS - TBD vs. TBD

    SUNDAY, 5/21: PIRATES @ BREWERS - TBD vs. TBD

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    Ro Mueller

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    I’m grateful to Attanasio for hiring Stearns, Counsell and Arnold, then actually going for it in 2018 and 2019.

    But I think it’s also necessary to call him out for the present underperforming state of the team. Matt Arnold made some real off-season magic in adding Contreras, Anderson, Owen Miller, Miley, Payamps, Wilson, Peguero, Rea, etc. with quite meager means.

    With even $5 million of additional funds, I can’t help but imagine that Arnold would have done additional magic to improve the team and put us well ahead by this point in our terrible division.

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    jerichoholicninja

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    $5M buys you nothing. That'll get you maybe an above average reliever or a utility bench bat. The offense is trash and has been trash for years. The front office needs to totally overhaul how it evaluates hitters and probably totally overhaul the entire hitter group. The team is in the bottom third of the league in K%, runs per game, AVG, OBP, and SLUG. About the only thing they appear to do well statically is draw walks but when you suck in every other offensive part of the game that doesn't help all that much. The whole pitching and defense thing can only get you so far. At some point you have to actually put runs on your side of the scoreboard.

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    Ro Mueller

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    27 minutes ago, jerichoholicninja said:

    $5M buys you nothing. That'll get you maybe an above average reliever or a utility bench bat. The offense is trash and has been trash for years. The front office needs to totally overhaul how it evaluates hitters and probably totally overhaul the entire hitter group. The team is in the bottom third of the league in K%, runs per game, AVG, OBP, and SLUG. About the only thing they appear to do well statically is draw walks but when you suck in every other offensive part of the game that doesn't help all that much. The whole pitching and defense thing can only get you so far. At some point you have to actually put runs on your side of the scoreboard.

    Thanks. Trying to be realistic. To me, Arnold somehow made a tolerable stew out of three tomatoes, one potato, celery and croutons. Attanasio needs to do right by him and open the checkbook - $5m, $10m, $20m - anything. Give Arnold a chance to boost this roster.

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    jerichoholicninja

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    The idea of "if we only we could or were willing to spend X-amount more dollars" just doesn't matter to me. Good players come at all price points. Arnold and Stearns have both pretty much focused on the all or nothing sluggers and the no bat, utility players and the results have continually been the same. When the sluggers are hot they can make up for the wet noddle bats. When they're not, every great 7IP/3R pitching performance goes to waste.

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    Jopal78

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    It’s not really an issue of money, it’s the decision making in allocating that money. 
     

    65 million dollars or so goes to just 5 players: Yelich, Burnes, Woodruff, Adames and Winker. 
     

    Of those x Adames has been bad at the plate, Winker has been bad period, Woodruff has been injured. Burnes is fine, and Yelich hits like a CFer but plays left.
     

    Next, another 11 million or so is going to deferments or salary for players no longer with the Brewers: Kolten Wong (salary and deferments), Braun, Cain, Voit, Hiura.

     

    Thats half the payroll, and all they have is Burnes and a mediocre Yelich as valuable contributors. 
     

     



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