jerichoholicninja

I'm thinking Hiura won't go just to give his arm a rest. We know he can hit, I doubt a couple weeks of AFL ball is going to make him that much better.

I wonder how aggressive they'll be with shuffling the rotation in September. Having every Thursday off would allow them to skip guys and insert in guys for potentially what they feel would be a more favorable match up. At this point I'm not all that confident in anyone outside of Chacin and Miley. I believe Craig has said they won't have a set rotation for September and will chose starters based on matchups.

The last 5 games he's played Schoop has went 5-12 with 2 HR to bring his OPS with the Brewers to .576, which is higher than Arcia has this year. It was .385 after his first 51 AB's with the club. So with 12 AB he's added almost 200 points to his OPS. I will agree he's looked like crap at the plate but 50 or so AB's is not enough to make any sort of a judgement about a players hitting. For the other side of the trade, Villar has had some hot streaks in Baltimore, but overall his slash line is nearly identical to what he was doing in Milwaukee the last two years, albeit with a little more power.

Cervelli is very much reaching Yadier Molina levels of trash baseball players.

By virtue of the way our offense typically hits ace pitchers, does this mean Archer is indeed an ace?

Proverbial "Aren't you glad we didn't trade for Archer?" post.

Archer, they rarely if ever will call blocking the plate. They leave it up to review. He called it right after Archer crossed his path and as the catcher was also crossing his path. Double interference? We get two runs for that, right?

Ump called him safe well before he got to the plate. Safe because Archer was in his way or because the catcher was blocking the plate?

Well Cain has had enough of this not scoring runs crap and took things into his own hands.

I doubt he had all that much to begin with. The last couple years have shown that slugging 1B-only guys aren't worth much anymore.

Choi spent all of about 4 months in the Brewers organization and only a few weeks on the MLB roster. I don't know how you can use him as an example to prove any point.

Outward displays of negative emotion are overrated. I see no value in someone throwing a fit. In fact, not being able to control your negative emotions is typically a detriment. Sample size of one and obviously not on the professional level, but I had a bit of a temper when I played high school sports. Going into junior year, I made the conscious decision to be much more zen on the field. I don't know if being calm made me a better player, but it definitely didn't make me worse. I still had the fire inside, I just didn't lose my cool. Just because someone doesn't scream and yell doesn't mean they don't care. It just means they choose not to let their emotions get the best of them. On the flip side, I am all for showing happiness. Baseball is the absolute worst with unwritten rules and it pisses me off to no end that showing positive emotion or having fun is looked at as inappropriate. I agree getting upset at every little thing is stupid. Although it seems to work, or at least not lead to ejections, for so many players we play against. The last two years the numbers have shown that the Brewers are near the top in unfavorable ball/strike calls. It makes you wonder if voicing frustration with bad ball/strike calls leads to getting more calls in your favor. Last night it looked like Aguilar wanted to get tossed after he struck out in his last at bat and then just walked away. The camera's flashed to Counsell who was calmly standing at the railing not really interested in what was going on. Overall there is a real lax attitude on the team. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's nice to see guys having fun but so much of what this team does is just goofing around. I liked the intensity Prince had when played and there hasn't been anyone with that mentality since he left. When Pat Murphy was hired I assumed he was going to be the guy getting tossed all the time due to his hot head reputation but not so much.

i think the players do their best its just that we have zero bullpen other than Hader, Jeffries and Burne. Williams is about 2 years away from being solid, Albers has always had tough times, and jennings is a glorified Barnes. Soria is tolerable. That 15 inning game just shelved our best relievers, but we got the win. We have all our best relievers available today so we should be in good shape. Especially with a quality pitcher like Archer. We hit the hell out of great pitchers but cant hit the #2,, or 3s too well. The team has been ahead i think in most of their games in august, we just lack a bullpen. I was referring mostly to 3-8 in the lineup. I understand the BP getting blasted last night but the offense has been so bad. We've scored runs in only 3 of 24 innings in this series.

I won't be mad if they lose, just please look like a major league team for at least 9 innings today.

I'm not going to say they looked like they don't care but they totally look gassed. But guess what, the Pirates played 15 innings last night too.

Hey, I agree totally. None of what is going with Albers right now really matters. We have one run. An inconsistent offense continues to plague us and has in the entire Darnell Coles era. It's not inconsistent though, it's consistently bad.

Blame Albers, blame Jennings, blame Chacin all you want but we're going to score 1 freaking run. We were shut out 13 of 15 innings last night. The offense has been the problem going on two years now.

Back to back RHP and Arcia hasn't been a black hole of suck lately.

Not really anyone to send down for reinforcements, either. You could maybe send Peralta down. Burnes obviously. He's done for 2 or 3 days.

So Cain walks on 4 straight and then Yelich swings at the first pitch into a double play. Our coaches are ruining good hitters. Someone needs to be fired.

When I tried to go to bed they were up 4-3. I couldn't sleep so I'm watching again. Please let me try to go to sleep happy.

Probably the .290 OBP is the main culprit there. Really though? Billy Hamilton has stolen 50+ with just as bad or worse OBP skills. He flat out hasn’t attempted that many steals. I guess he flat out just didn’t play that much this year. I remembered he stole some bases when I was in Iowa last week so I went and checked the box score. He stole 3 bases that game. He's played very sporadically throughout the year. Not sure if he's had nagging injuries or just part of the Brewers minor league roster juggling. Only 93 PA's all year.

Probably the .290 OBP is the main culprit there.

Let's say that September 3 game for whatever team gets rained out and needs to be played because of playoff implications. Is September 3 still the date or is it whenever the last team game is played?

Obviously so that a playoff team could sign him to run for them. berry was released well ahead of his reported opt-out date. classy move by the brewers. We've got our own Quintin Berry right now in Keon Broxton. Except Keon is sometimes a good hitter.