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  1. gregmag
    That’s super interesting. Thank you!
  2. gregmag
    On the broadcast last night, Ben McDonald was talking about how the Brewers’ offense is built to win in the postseason, because it gets difficult to hit home runs off great pitching so you need to be able to play small ball. Of course, that’s the exact opposite of the conventional line, repeated over and over again this year, that only home runs win in the postseason. Has anyone done an actual, thorough analysis of postseason offense? I’ve heard over and over the stat that teams that hit home runs win more postseason series, but that’s not useful information by itself. I suspect that teams that hit more singles or doubles or steal more bases also win more postseason series, because all of those things contribute to winning games.
  3. gregmag
    Oh, then I bet I’m missing others, because I missed that one. I was having a hard time finding a good list – did you find a comprehensive one, or did you just see that in some Brewers info? I’m really curious about this.
  4. gregmag
    I first started noticing baseball in 1977 and became a full-fledged fan just in time for the first great run of Brewers success in the late 70s and early 80s. IMHO there hasn’t been a better Brewers team than this one, ever. At one time or another, we’ve had better players at just about every position, but these teams over the past few years have been the most complete Brewers teams I’ve ever seen, and they keep refining the formula. There’s a reason they’re likely to break the franchise record for wins for a second straight year.
  5. gregmag
    I have to say, as a Brewers fan who has put up with living among Cardinals fans for almost 20 years now, that I’m very happy the Cardinals have become a different kind of team. Mármol likes to provoke conflict, and that’s annoying. But the whole “Cardinal way“ thing seems to have receded into humility. The present team is young and hungry. I can’t think of any of their players who irritate me, although they’re young and have plenty of time to ingratiate themselves. Seeing how they reacted to this made me happy for the team, their fans, and the rest of us.
  6. gregmag
    If I’m counting right, there were six 20-run shutouts from 1901 until a month ago. Half our nation’s history. Six. That’s far rarer than a perfect game, a player hitting four homers in a game, a triple play, or just about any other amazing baseball feat you can think of. The fact that the Brewers have done it twice in a month is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in baseball.
  7. gregmag
    He’s had 1.5 straight superstar-level months and 2.5 of the last 3.5. He was coming back from injury in May and had a crappy July. Great players have crappy months. To my eyes, though I haven’t watched every plate appearance, he seems to have reined in his worst chase tendencies as the season has progressed (though his strikeouts have been weirdly consistent from month to month). I’m having a hard time seeing him, at least this year, as notably inconsistent.
  8. gregmag
    Brewers narratives with all potential NL playoff opponents, in arguable order of fraughtness: 1. Cubs: obvious. 2. Dodgers: have broken our hearts twice in NLCS; Death Star to our rebel alliance. 3. Braves: eliminated us once; stole our team in 1965; bonus points for embarrassingly retrograde name/logo/fan rituals. 4. Phillies: eliminated us once; lying crybabies about 2025 All-Star Miz (who should absolutely wear a Savannah Bananas cap next time he warms up in their ballpark, but I digress). 5. Padres: came into MLB the same year we (Pilots) did and are racing us to see who can end our/their title drought first. 6. Diamondbacks: backed up the money truck for our former ace; and hey, here’s a team that we eliminated once!
  9. gregmag
    "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" -- Mark 8:36
  10. gregmag
    The Cubs are closer in the standings to the Cardinals than to the Brewers. They’re also down to the second wild card.
  11. gregmag
    Comments like this are such a tell. “You responded to my argument with information. I don’t want to admit that your information refutes my argument. Instead, I insist that all information is worthless. Now that I’ve undermined the whole basis of reasoned discussion, here’s some information that doesn’t address your points at all but sounds good to me and — who knows! — might even fool a few other people.”
  12. gregmag
    Playing “major league baseball’” in Texas right now is a great hustle.
  13. gregmag
    I only listened to that game on the radio, but I will never forget it. I was in school in Michigan, so I was able to get the Blue Jays’ radio feed, back in the days when you had to practically use your body as an antenna to try to pick up out of town games. The Brewers had their best shot at the playoffs in years, but then the Blue Jays traded for David Cone, which was really deflating. Cone was set to pitch the next day, so he was charting pitches in the dugout. I remember feeling like the Brewers’ outburst that night was a defiant gesture against their fading postseason hopes. The Jays won the division, Bando gift-wrapped Molitor for them in the off-season, and that was basically the end of the Brewers for the better part of two decades.
  14. gregmag
    The big question with Frelick is whether his injury was impeding him and whether he’s over it now. Okay, that’s two questions. If we get 2025 Sal Frelick back, that’s a better baseball player than 2026 Luis Lara. BTW, I don’t mean to rag on Lara; I love him. It’s more that I think Frelick’s situation has some nuance to it, and setting up Lara for success is also complicated.
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    These incessant pop-up ads with audio that’s impossible to turn off are intolerable. It’s bad enough that I need to take a break from this site for a while. I don’t mind video ads, but ads that make it impossible to browse for fear that I’m gonna disturb whatever room I’m in are way too much.
  16. gregmag
    I don’t get the point of the comparison. Durbin and Collins are doing exactly what most of us would’ve expected. Mona and Seigler are running with opportunities they were buried too deep in the depth chart to get here – happy for them. Rengifo has had a great 87 plate appearances – good for him. As Cheez points out, the guy who actually replaced him here has been better in that time. We all know that Contreras and Yelich are struggling. So what’s the point – that we should’ve gotten rid of those guys instead of some of the guys we got rid of? That our coaching is screwed up? Seems unlikely that a couple of vets would get screwed up by coaching, and in Yelich’s case, you can’t coach age. Most of those other guys are either 21 and raw, on the upswing recently, or doing pretty much what you would expect. The exception is Frelick, but we may find out that he was playing hurt. I just don’t see anything here.
  17. gregmag
    That young man has a distinctive charisma. It’s really interesting to watch him grow up in public. He strikes me as a very smart, disciplined player who hasn’t figured out how to deal with frustration. He’s been taking some hacks that I don’t think he would’ve taken when he first came up, digging himself deeper into his slump. But he seems to feel at home in the outfield. He knows he’s already a star out there.
  18. gregmag
    Now that Max Scherzer has bumped Walter Johnson from tenth place on the career strikeout list, everyone in the top ten pitched at least as recently as the 80s, and none pitched in MLB before the 60s. The earliest career ending in the group is Gaylord Perry, 1983.
  19. gregmag
    Yeah, Lara needs a reset. You can tell from his body language that he’s frustrated. We worried about his playing time, but I think he’s had to play too much in Frelick’s absence. Something like two days on, one day off would be ideal. Take some swings, have some issues, then watch and learn.
  20. gregmag
    Long-term I’ll take Chourio. I think Sveum’s post puts the question in good perspective. Two years in age is huge. Development isn’t linear; the fact that Chourio hasn’t improved from 20-22 doesn’t say much if anything about what he can do from 23 on. In addition, Crow-Armstrong relies a lot on raw speed, which is usually the quickest tool to deteriorate.
  21. gregmag
    I’m fine with questioning the Brewers’ decision makers (cough, deadline fiasco, cough), but I don’t see any reason to assume they don’t consider stuff that fans have been talking about since the beginning of time. Hot streaks aren’t some mystical phenomenon that transcends human understanding. Hot streaks happen for reasons, and they end for reasons. The org’s job is to understand those reasons as well as possible and make decisions based on that understanding. I can’t say the Brewers are making the right decisions, but I’m pretty confident they’re following the right process.
  22. gregmag
    If only that were true. These are the same folks who would have traded Turang, Chourio, Mitchell, etc. for rentals at past deadlines. The only way we won’t have to hear them cry about “going for it“ is if we keep doing it their way, deplete our development pipeline, and drop out of contention. We’re not close to there yet, but yesterday was a great start.
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    I would be very grateful if the mods would stop this troll from starting a new thread every time a media outlet validates his numbingly repeated opinion.
  24. gregmag
    Whatever any of us thinks about this trade, kudos to Brandon Sproat for making such a strong effort to justify it.
  25. gregmag
    Has anyone ever picked up a hitter at the deadline whom you can reasonably argue made the difference in getting that team to the World Series? I asked the hive mind last week about deadline trades that actually moved the needle as far as the 2026 Brewers need to move it — from losing the LCS to winning it. What people came up with were basically some starting pitchers: Cone, Verlander, Sutton IIRC. We could all be forgetting someone, of course, and I certainly can’t sit here and say it’s impossible to pick up a hitter who could get a team over that line. But if a strategy has rarely if ever worked before, I have a hard time getting upset about not pursuing it.
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