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It helps when your better hitters actually start hitting. For awhile Chourio, Yelich and Hoskins were nearly automatic outs. Contreras for a bit was also in the automatic out category. When you have a third of your lineup just being absolutely horrible you are not going to win many games especially when those are hitters in the top half of the lineup.

This is the type of game where you let Patrick go through the lineup three times as long as the Phillies are not within striking distance you let him go as long as he can.

Luzardo having one of those games. One of the better pitchers in the NL this year. Extremely impressive to put up 11 runs against one of the better lefties in the NL.

11 runs lol offense what?

The bullpen is over worked so yeah he should stay in.

Basically this. Late or early timing can tell you if the batter is looking for a fastball (early timing) or an off speed pitch (late timing). Also how the ball is hit did the batter get on top of the ball or under the ball? If under the ball you could go up a bit higher and get the batter to completely miss the pitch. If they are over the ball go a bit further down and watch the batter swing over it. Did the ball hit the end of the bat or closer to the handle? If closer to the handle go in closer and induce a weak pop up or a ground ball. If at the end of the bat go a bit further out and watch the batter miss the pitch. Foul balls can tell a pitcher a lot about the batter and what they are trying to do.

Not sure why there is so much angst against having Mears out there for a second inning. He cruised through the first two batters and then struggled against the third and then easily got the next batter out. I am not seeing an issue with that decision. This feels more like an illogical and nonsensical issue being brought up in this game.

We get bad Peralta today.

He is basically Turnbow when he can't locate his off speed pitch.

Patrick absolutely sucks third time through the lineup. Not taking him out on the third time through is a risky move unless you are up 10 runs. Wait so now we are not complaining about pitchers being babied?

Not sure what there is to complain about in today's game with the bullpen management.

Sure but you will also need a team to pay that price. I don't believe the teams will give up what the Brewers want for two playoff runs. There are teams that will need pitching but not the teams that the Brewers will want to get into a bidding war. While Peralta may have more value during the deadline there just isn't a team out there that I think will get into a bidding war for Peralta to drive up the price. I think you get about what the Brewers got for Burnes and maybe a bit less at the deadline for Peralta.

Patrick not looking good at all. Everything is all over the plate. Looking to be a very short start for Patrick.

BOOO as a lead off hitter you have to work the count!!!!! You can’t be swinging at the first pitch!!!!!

Another new album from Charley Crockett and it is once again a good album.

Other than Soto there really hasn't been anyone on the market who would be worth spending the prospect capital on. Ohtani was somewhat on the market from the Angels but they decided not to trade him and go for it that year which was dumb of them but the Angels are not the best ran organization either. So playing on the edges was the correct move as there just wasn't anyone worth giving up prospect capital for. I completely disagree with Attanasio doesn't like to 'go for it' as they have gone for it in 2018 and then signed Grandal in 2019. There have been times when they will go for it but as I stated previously there really hasn't been a strong trade market to go for it since 2018.

It was just a day. Definitely need to be there for like 3-5 days just to see everything. The Vatican itself is probably a 2 day thing. It may have been just that day or all of the police and attention was on the Vatican that day but it felt less safe the further you got from the Vatican on that day.

That is literally the return the Orioles should be expecting for someone like Ramon Urias. You can expect maybe another 1.5 WAR for the remaining of the season from Urias. That is literally in the range of someone like Black for a return. You could even argue that Black would be an overpay for 1.5 years of Ramon Urias who will more than likely only be a half year rental as I don't believe he would be worth his final arbitration year. So teams are going to look at Urias as a half year rental. Urias is a sub .700 OPS 3B, I am not sure exactly what you think a sub .700 OPS 3B will get on the market but if you think it is someone better than Black then you are insane.

I think Peralta gets traded in the off season as I just don't see the Brewers giving up Peralta during the season even if they are 20+ games out of a playoff spot. I also don't believe there will be a team out there that will pay the price the Brewers want for 1.5 years of Peralta. I think the Rangers make the most sense with a Josh Smith + prospects in the off season for Peralta. The Rangers could slot Peralta into the #2 or #3 slot in their rotation. Something like Smith, Drake and OF Anthony Gutierrez makes some sense here for both teams. Smith will only have two years remaining and he is someone that is just average and is probably better suited as a utility player. That is about $25mm in value from the Rangers which I think is about what you can expect for 1-year of Peralta at $8mm. Peralta even being only a #2 or #3 type pitcher is vastly underpaid by about $12mm a year. Not the greatest of trades for Peralta as I don't think you will get a top 25 prospect for him. At best if you want to get the best prospect deal you are probably looking at something a bit less and someone around the 40-60 range. If you wanted to go that route then someone like Freeland from the Dodgers would probably be the best you can expect to receive back and then the rest of the players involved in the trade being in the 20-30 range from the Dodgers and you are probably only getting one or two back in that range. I would rather just reset with a trade like the one I put together with the Rangers over getting the best possible prospect for Peralta. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Brewers just kept Peralta and then just took the draft pick instead of trading him.

Mutual options are hardly ever picked up in MLB. It is rare for the team and the player to exercise a mutual option in MLB. I am not saying it doesn't happen just that it doesn't happen all that often. Hoskins doesn't have much in terms of value but he won't just be a salary relief throw away. You are probably only getting one player in a teams 15-25 ranked prospect and then a lottery ticket. Probably someone like Ernesto Martinez is the closest I could find in the Brewers org which is rather deep prospect wise on who I think would be coming back in a Hoskins trade. I think Hoskins has a similar value to what Bell had in 2022. If he wasn't traded with Soto that year.

The negative launch angle means he can’t get any leverage on the ball.

Yelich has the opposite problem that Hiura has. Hiura couldn’t hit anything in the upper strike zone while Yelich can’t hit anything with power in the lower part of the strike zone. When teams make mistakes in the upper part of the zone Yelich is still capable of hitting that with power it is when teams make mistakes in the lower part Yelich just can’t do anything with those pitches even low and down the middle of the plate or low and in where a lot of lefties get their power from. Yelich just has no power in the bottom of the strike zone. I am assuming it is a back and knee issue where he can’t create any leverage on these pitches.

Braun’s lawyers really didn’t have to do anything in his first case. MLB didn’t follow the rules that were setup at the time. The chain of custody for the sample was broken when the tester wasn’t able to transfer the chain of custody of the samples and then placed it in his refrigerator. Regardless if it was normal SOP for doing this it broke the chain of custody that MLB and MLBPA agreed to. The samples should have been discarded based on the CBA that was written up and new samples should have been attained. The second one though Braun wasn’t able to beat. What I have always found weird is that MLB threw out the others that tested positive but only kept Braun’s results. His was elevated more in the testing than the others but that still doesn’t make sense that the others were discarded. I believe it was Pujols and Freese that tested positive and MLB didn’t want to have that hanging over the WS winners and having to explain that.

Difference between last year and this year is the Brewers are getting absolutely nothing from Yelich. Last year he was playing better and this year he is looking like a DFA candidate.

That site is owned by MLB so no the Brewers didn't change it. It was a change on all of the team sites on mlb.com as they all follow the same template. Try Twins.com, Braves.com, Yankees.com or Dodgers.com and you will see they all look exactly the same. MLB made an update to their templates and the standings are now removed from the front page and will probably return closer to the playoff run.