Fear The Chorizo

Honestly that's a bigger hurdle for them making up ground than if they had 0 games left against the Brewers - because the brewers are the toughest matchup the cubs have left on their schedule. It would actually surprise me if the cubs dont lose more ground after those 7 games compared to gaining

There's a reason the Brewers are 7 wins better than the Cubs at this stage of the season, whether cub fans admit it or not... The brewers are a better team.

I think a big differentiator is the Reds' defense stinks...and that's being generous. They've got some young talent with pop, but they struggle with keeping teams off the scoreboard and many of their young position players aren't going to win gold gloves. They remind me of the Fielder/Weeks/Braun brewers teams when they all came up together - it took a few seasons of tweaking pitching staffs to turn those teams into playoff contenders. I agree that their core is better positioned for success in future years than the Cubs....but both organizations are way behind the Brewers in that regard.

Blame it on Ohtani's interpreter and act like it's all good otherwise

PCA is on some kind of power hitting heater for himself the last month...but with the HR binge has come a notable increase in Ks and no discernable, even a decrease, in his walk rate. I don't know why teams throw him strikes until he proves he can be ok with taking 2-3 walks a game while waiting for pitches he can do damage with. Been a bit since the Brewers faced him, but they have 6 games against him this season and PCA has a 0.248 OPS against them, by far the lowest in MLB opponents this season. 12 ks in 25 plate appearances with 4 walks and 1 hit. 7 more games left for PCA to improve on that obviously....but maybe the White Sox should go to school on how Milwaukee has pitched him (PCA's OPS against the pale hose is 1.573!!)

You send him from 3rd no matter what when you know Yelich is up next with zero shot to drive him in from 3rd Everyone in the stadium knows it - even Yelich

They've got the best record in MLB by 1.5 games in late August - I'd say whatever dynamic there is going on in the clubhouse, it's working. Any sort of perceived clubhouse angst likely stems from its highest paid player being it's worst on-the-field producer at the moment, and other key vets slumping a bit (Contreras) or dealing with nagging injuries (Turang). Also, plenty of youth still finding its way at the big league level (Pratt, Lara, young arms everywhere)

Lockridge is headed down the same road as Perkins was - once Sal has proven he can throw, Lockridge will either go down to AAA or get DFA'd.

A white hot Chourio is fun towards the top of this order

Neither did the dodgers Ryan is not young and Smith is not anywhere close to MLB reqdy

Garbage article i could have written with all my "insider" knowledge, too. Nothing about the fact the package the dodgers sent Detroit was far less valuable than anything else offered, because the article doesnt cite the other teams offers specifically. Reads like the Tigers needed to get the Skubal deal done early so they had more time to work out a Mize trade before the deadline - lmao.

I am not convinced that if pitchers just didnt throw Armstrong strikes, he wouldnt just revert back to being a liability offensively for half a season. He has been much better at drawing walks this season compared to being awful at it, but there's still a ton of swing and miss in his game. He also has a very, very punchable face.

Probably - give it another 3 or so games effectively playing shorthanded before the Brewers retroactively IL him for most of August

I'm officially done with mlbtv, unless baseball gets its crap together and stops having 75 streaming services and cable networks siphon off games i can't watch as an out of market brewers fan... Half their games I cant see - it's infuriating.

Snell and Glasnow are probably having chicken fights in a private Vegas swimming pool, just counting down the days until they have to actually get on the mound to make their $$$$$$$$. It is truly sickening knowing the next time through the rotation, Lauer will be replaced by Snell for his Annual August Spring Training ramp-up to October. They're fine letting PCA pimp around the bases against an arm that won't even see the playoff roster now - just as it was equally as meaningless for the Brewers to go 6-0 against the Dodgers last regular season.