Why the Brewers Keep Giving Anthony Seigler Opportunities Against Right-Handed Pitching

“If he’s such a good hitter, why can’t he hit?”  
I am a fan of letting young players develop like we did with Joey Ortiz, and Bryce Turang, but not in the middle of a pennant race. 

The only thing I see in him is a player that can fill in at 4 different positions in a pinch.  Seigler’s ambidextrousness is what awed the scouts I am guessing. 

He's 26, has played 442 games in the minors where he's hit .227.  His one offensive talent appears to be his ability to swing at strikes and lay off balls outside the zone.  He's an ideal leadoff hitter at the AAA level.

Seigler has some attributes that make him a decent last man on the bench.  But he should not be taking AB's from Durbin in critical games.

There is no stronger force in the universe than the power of a small sample size in the mind of a Baseball fan. The average baseball fan will look at Seiglers (lack of) prospect status, they'll look at his minor league stats prior to the last year, and they'll look at the first few handfulls of plate appearances, and they'll deduce that he's terrible and that view won't change for a long time, not even if he does well. Swing decisions, Statcast "xstats", none of it will matter, the tiny sample size stat line will dominate the conversation. And the prevailing opinon on here has been wrong so, so many times. Usually because they make their mind up based on absolutely nothing. Or, statistical illiteracy in various forms. 

Now will Seigler turn out to be a good player? I don't know. But what he has done so far, such as what has been pointed out in the article, absolutely suggests he should get more chances. Brewers like their good swing profiles, and they seem to understand a thing or two about batted ball profiles. I like to do what I usually do, and trust that they know what they're doing. They won't always be right, but more often than not they will be. And I do think they're right about Seigler. 

I'm far from a knee jerk person.  I get what they're trying to do with him and want to give him a good fair chance, and generally he'd been getting some better results until recently.   To me, the first time I started thinking enough is enough was the defensive F ups in saturday's games.  I know one wasn't technically an error but a good defender at least keeps it in the infield.   The other was a huge botch to cost them runs.   

I'm at the point that they should tone down the platoon a bit. Sure, some starts to keep giving him a try and to rest others.  But PH at clutch situation purely because of platoons I think can go away, maybe management has agreed too since they didn't do it last night and it ended up with Durbin hitting a big HR

On 8/26/2025 at 12:11 PM, tmwiese55 said:

I'm far from a knee jerk person.  I get what they're trying to do with him and want to give him a good fair chance, and generally he'd been getting some better results until recently.   To me, the first time I started thinking enough is enough was the defensive F ups in saturday's games.  I know one wasn't technically an error but a good defender at least keeps it in the infield.   The other was a huge botch to cost them runs.   

I'm at the point that they should tone down the platoon a bit. Sure, some starts to keep giving him a try and to rest others.  But PH at clutch situation purely because of platoons I think can go away, maybe management has agreed too since they didn't do it last night and it ended up with Durbin hitting a big HR

Two more defensive botches tonight and really still not much to show for results at the plate lately either.  The way this team treats D its shocking the leash he's gotten just due to defense.  Probably have to keep tapering off the platoon more as the month goes on.  The way it is as of now you can't start him in a playoff game, might as well get Durbin abs against righties to prep for it as much as possible.    

But still, starts here and there to rest others and to keep him involved are fine. But the time has to be coming that enough is enough

   No reason why this guy is still on the best baseball team in MLB.  Can't hit and his defense is getting worse not better. I can see it already. Game 7 of the world series. It's the 9th inning the Brewers are down by 1 run with 2 out and the bases loaded. They send up lil Anthony to the plate to pinch hit for Durbin who was 3 for 3 and attempting to hit for the cycle.

   Afterwards in a devastated Brewer clubhouse Pat Murphy tells reporters that while he's disappointed  in the outcome he doesn't regret the decision because the metrics chart said it was the right move.