mtrebs

Is it bad that I when I can’t watch the game I check the score to “see how bad the Brewers are losing and to see if they’ve even scored yet”?

Yeah, it’d be nice to have someone dominant besides Hader in the bullpen.

Me too.

Hope that doesn’t cost us the game.

Uggh, how can you not tag him there Hiura?

I’ve seen a couple mentions of there being cheaper options. Since MLB contracts are guaranteed, if no one else claims him, aren’t we stuck with his salary anyway? What if he clears waivers and rejects assignment to the minors?

I always find it interesting that people base record or ranking with how well a team is. True, the Brewers are only a game back and are a few games over .500, but this team has been awful the last few weeks. Nothing is really going well and they are fortunate to be in their position at this point. They are by no means playing like a contending team.

Too many times with the bases empty and two outs where we give up runs because of bloop singles and walks.

Same for Jeffress...

This is foolish talk. We are right in the middle of the race. No need to pull away.

Ball 4, Perez!

We’ll hit another solo home run in the bottom of the 9th.

If Shaw drops below .145 than that’s the last straw for CC. .100 is the new .200

Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside-the-park_home_run): Single game records Major League and National League – Tom McCreery – 3 – 1897 American League – 17 tied – 2 Most of these were probably before there were outfield fences though.

Yeah, this has HR written all over it. Or error...

Yeah, this has HR written all over it.

Wow, we should send this comment to Stearns. If that doesn't get him to act, nothing will!

lol Was just going to post something just like that! Hopefully he doesn't hit a "standard" home run against us now. That tends to be the case when former Brewers play us.

OK, the inside-the-park HR is non-standard...

Follows the standard game: Down early, starter exits early, offense can't get the big hit with multiple runners on, combination of Yelich/Moose/Grandal hits solo home run, get within a few runs so you think there's still a chance, lose by 2-3 runs.

I honestly wasn't excited about it...I had a feeling trying them as starters was not going to be successful. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So many people try to though, and it almost always fails. Yep... one game away from the World Series last year. Shouldn't have made drastic changes other than signing improvements (like Grandal). Add on injuries to the bullpen, drastic underperformers at offensive positions, and management that doesn't make adjustments (like bringing Hiura back), and we sit here losing almost every series. So frustrating.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=mileywa01&t=p&year=2019. No prospects, only $4.5 mil at the beginning of the season. Yep, this is the move that I hated. We could really use him now. Horrible decision that wasted one of our Yelich years.

That mindset is common. Everyone else is underperforming too so we are only a game out. Nevermind the fact that the team is playing terribly every series and they are constantly down big early on. Don’t worry about it... everything is right where it needs to be.

Especially when we could have likely signed Miley for that $4 million.

I think I'd like to see specifics on all these perceived roster holes to know that DS didn't actually make this years roster more talented. IMO heading into spring training this season, their roster was much better than what they had on the NLCS roster simply by adding Grandal and replacing schoop with moose for a full season. Unless you are a prophet and stated back in March that shaw and jesus would hit like pitchers, knebel would blow out an arm and wahl would blow out a knee, chacin and Byrnes would be terrible, etc, your point is reinforced only by hindsight. I'll clarify that my grief is with the decisions on the pitching side. Although I was fully expecting Aguilar to continue to struggle (or at least revert back to his career norms) based on his second half of the season last year, I was happy about the offensive lineup. I'll still argue that signing Moustakas and Grandal contradicted the approach with the pitching, I'm glad they were signed and without them we'd be in real trouble. My grief goes back to the pitching decisions. I was completely shocked when we let Miley go and he signed for a very small contract (relatively speaking). Then we broke up our major strength of the bullpen to try out three young guys as starters. Normally this wouldn't be a concern, but the odds of those three being successful and take us to the next level this year were very slim. Now we had to have adjustments to move two of them out of the rotation, and due to other struggles, we are and arm or two short in our starting pitching. I understand letting the young guys get their shot, but not if you are going all in (which the Moustakas and Grandal one-year signings would indicate). It's a contradictory approach, which I would have rather gone all young and target next year or the year after, or made the big splash for 2019. Personally I'd have rather them go for it in 2019 as you never know how long our window is.