homer

nice to see Anderson and Winker hit the ball hard tonight

roboumps, please

nice job, Blake! now don't get picked off...

Phamit

Since May 1, Yelich has an 878 OPS (not counting tonights two ABs)

No, The double today was 103.4mph

That had to have felt good for Winker

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-reliable-indicator-says-the-next-recession-might-be-3-years-away-morning-brief-100045316.html What if that reset pushes a recession… all the way to 2026?

Nice! Where did you get that? I couldn't find it on Fangraphs.

Yep TB just hits the ball harder. Some of their wRC+ is probably BABIP driven but if you hit a grounder hard it's less likely to be fielded. I'd be curious to see avg EV on ground balls. I'm sure it's a lot harder than Milwaukee.

Pitches per Plate Appearance: TB - 3.89 (18th) MIL - 4.04 (2nd)

Interesting stuff to think about, @sveumrules. My question is: How do these numbers compare to a "good" offense? Which then begs the question....what approach leads to a "good" offense? Tampa Bay leads everyone in offensive WAR. Here are their numbers for the same stats: GB% 17th LD% 29th FB% 4th Oppo% 25th Pull % 19th Center % 5th ---------------------------------------------- A few others I found where the difference between the two teams was large (league rank in parentheses): BABIP: TB - .310 (7th) MIL - .281 (24th) OBP: TB - .339 (3rd) MIL - .303 (25th) (and the Brewers walk quite a bit) K% TB - 22.5% (18th) MIL - 25.7% (3rd) ------------------------ And looking at Plate Discipline: O-Swing% (swings outside the strike zone) TB - 33.2% (10th) MIL - 29.8% (23rd) Z-Swing% (swings inside the strike zone) TB - 69.7% (9th) MIL - 65.9% (28th) CStr% (called strike percent) TB - 15.8% (24th) MIL - 18.2% (2nd) CSW% (called+swinging strike %) TB - 27.7% (15th) MIL - 29.6% (1st = worst) So does this all mean that the Brewers are watching good pitches get called for strikes? Maybe they need to be more aggressive? I have no idea. It's just one comparison to one team that has a good offense. There are different ways to be good on offense so a team like Atlanta might have a totally different profile.

Yeah if anything he's probably pressing too much.

I don't remember. They are very large though

The pretzels from Milwaukee Pretzel Co. on the Loge level are fantastic.

I like the draft pick from the little film I saw. He can't shoot but if he could he wouldnt have been there at 36.

That's always been my one complaint about it.

Welcome to the board!

Sign Wll Myers

Myers is 32 and has had one decent year since he was a rookie and that was the year cut short by Covid. Winker is 29 and has had one bad year since his rookie year. Yeah he has been absolutely horrible this year but not exactly apples to apples. (And 8.25 million is not high priced.)

I'm not a biomechanics expert by any means but the one thing that worries me is that it looks like he's gonna have elbow trouble at some point.

I don't know this for a fact but I believe offense is down league wide since Braun's later years.

Turf has come a long way. My guess is that if they switched over without telling anyone, hardly anybody would be able to tell.

Latest numbers. Barrel % and Walk % are way up since my last post (may 14):