mtrebs

At least he didn’t have to come in. A series win!!! And some offense!

And now Hader has to warm up… geez

Well, Woodruff and Burnes are some of the best pitchers in baseball this year and they almost have a guaranteed loss when they pitch…

I guess I’ll say that at least Stearns is doing something to try to right the ship.

If Adames is good defensively that will trend with the all defense approach. Unfortunately we’ll still lose because we won’t be scoring any runs, but at least we won’t be giving up free runs on as many errors. Wish we kept Arica… sigh.

Except for the Brewers, who never seem to have anyone decent to use as a DH. Would have been perfect for Braun’s final years, but now we might as well have the pitcher bat.

Not sure where you got the idea of turning these guys into .300 hitters. I never said anything along those lines. While I can’t guarantee there aren’t any adjustments being made, by watching these guys game after game they appear to be doing the same thing… watching strikes go down the middle, swinging at high stuff out of the zone, swinging away in nearly all situations, not taking advantage of shifts by trying to hit to the gaps. You can tell me that small ball produces less runs all you want. The current approach isn’t working this season and didn’t work last season. They aren’t scoring runs now. Something NEEDS to change, unless they are satisfied with their current offensive production, even if it’s short term. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if it’s going away from the norms of the modern baseball approach. They should be doing whatever they can to get on base and move runners over.

I still think that Counsell should be on the hot seat. The Brewers refuse to make any adjustments at the plate and continue to fail to produce. Their opponents are making adjustments, bunting runners over, playing small ball, etc. Yeah, the players are the ones that need to produce, but it’s up to the coaching staff to give them direction on their approach at the plate. All this being said, I think Counsell is pretty safe, at least at this point.

Vogelbach should have walked there. That wasn’t a strike.

I don’t expect most MLB hitters (outside of pitchers) to bat under .220. Anyone below that is underperforming in my book. It seems like below .250 used to be a bad hitter. Wish that was still the case.

Look at those batting averages! The sad thing is they were probably mediocre for the time. Now they’d be All-Stars…

Yep, even a mediocre offense would make this team a contender.

While the result is disappointing for both, having no offense is much worse in my opinion as the games are extremely boring and once the Brewers give up one or two runs the game is essentially over. At least with the 2009 team there was some excitement and you never knew if they’d come back and score a few runs to win the game late.

That’s what we thought of the 2020 Brewers and somehow the 2021 Brewers are even less fun.

If you're looking at going over budget for a year, I think Attanasio has shown he will do that. If you're thinking of competing with the "big boys" for a top free agent at 10 years/$350+MM, we're going to be out. Signing a "monster" contract while already having Yelich on the team would mean that the ownership group would have to accept putting in millions of their own dollars in annually for years, or filling the rest of the team with pre-arby guys, of which we have a limited supply because our farm is horrible. No business owner anywhere is going to willfully set it up so that they are guaranteed to lose millions of dollars a year out of their own pocket for every year in the foreseeable future. I'll recant that a bit... the old Tigers' owner knew he was going to die, so he didn't care if he spent his money, but he left it up to his heirs to sort out the mess, and the Tigers have been bad since he died. But, he's dead so it doesn't bother him. Any business owner who doesn't plan on dying soon, and doesn't want to leave a mess for his family when he's gone, will not willfully set himself up in a situation where he will be guaranteed to lose millions of dollars annually for the foreseeable future. Yeah, I don’t think anyone foresees the 10-year/$350M deals (so I guess that throws out my dream car analogy), but what I’d be hopeful for is that if he believes we have a real good shot, that he’d increase payroll significantly for a few years to acquire key pieces that may be available for shorter term deals. Kind of like when we picked up Moose and Grandal, but maybe for 2-3 year deals. Of course, there needs to be players that would sign that type of deal within the next few seasons.

What if in this case Yelich was that dream car? That's likely the scenario the Brewers are in. Fair enough. Hope we didn’t get a lemon.

This is a good summary of my view better expressed than I did above. This analogy is good, but it’s missing one thing. There’s an assumption that you are looking for cars within your budget that would not deplete your savings or take away funds from other budget items. But let’s say there was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get your absolute rare dream car in this scenario. Now, you might decide that it’s worth it to eat into your savings or maybe you won’t take vacations for a few years while you pay off the dream car. That’s what we need Attanasio to do. I know it’s a big ask and extremely unlikely, but if he really believes there’s an opportunity to put together a team that really has a chance at winning a World Series in a few year window, I’m hoping he’d spend more than the normal budget and make that push.

Yes, if these three continue to pitch as TOR starters and Attanasio doesn’t open the pocketbook for offense this off-season, then he never will. This is our window. Make it count by getting some good offensive production at 1B and 3B.

Yes!!!

The most feasible is to completely change the approach at the plate. Throw analytics out that says to just swing away in basically all situations. Play old school baseball, focusing on moving runners over. Sure, but this isn’t going to happen. I know. Although the Cardinals were doing that in the last series, so maybe teams are starting to bring it back. Or maybe that was just against us because they knew if they could score one run it likely could be enough to win.

The most feasible is to completely change the approach at the plate. Throw analytics out that says to just swing away in basically all situations. Play old school baseball, focusing on moving runners over.

At this point I hope the Brewers get no-hit as many times as it takes for some sort of action to take place that changes either the approach, management personnel, or player personnel. This team is in trouble and the status quo can’t remain.

I agree. It’s one thing of the batters don’t produce, but they never make any adjustments to their approach at the plate. I know analytics says to not play small ball but instead swing away, but it obviously isn’t working (and didn’t in 2020 either). At what point are they going to realize this and change their approach. I’m afraid never.

I wonder what the probability charts have for winning percentage right now. Do they take into consideration the putrid-ness of the Brewers offense?

On the radio, Eucker said "Hang in there folks, we haven't batted yet." I need that optimism. Ha! Remember he’s compensated to appear optimistic.