jerichoholicninja
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Everything posted by jerichoholicninja
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Dump Barnes already. He's cost us enough this season. -
Just give up a grand slam and end are misery.
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Just pull him! You've got a full bullpen and Barnes clearly sucks tonight.
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[sarcasm]BUT STRIKEOUTS DON'T MATTER!!!1!!1![/sarcasm]
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I hope these guys are all embarrassed about how they'er playing. It's a joke.
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Well Craig's thinking our offense is absolute crap and is probably going to strike out the rest of the inning. And he's right.
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On second thought, please continue arguing with each other. It's more interesting than watching the Brewer offense.
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Can we change the name of these threads from "In Game Threads" to "Poster Pissing Match Threads"? We used to complain about the Brewers now we just argue with each other about stupid things.
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I'd like to know where the Thames/Aguilar platoon ranks as that is really what matters. Aguilar has 1.2 WAR according to Baseball Reference. I'm guessing the Brewers first base production is top 10 but I could be wrong.
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Well...to hear it from an Ump, you'd have to hear an Ump admit that he's wrong several times a game and he was tricked by how the ball was caught. So I don't think you'll hear it from an Ump. I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Coached, I did little league when I was a kid, but no real ump experience. So I think you're gonna be disappointed in your goal to find a real qualified high level ump to talk about it. Incidentally, I saw the rankings about a month ago of the catchers who got the most balls called strikes this year. Out of all qualified catchers and there were 93 of them at the time, #93....Jonathan Lucroy. I wonder if that has to do with him getting so much talk about what a great pitch framer he is(I did go back to look at the previous 5-6 years and he was inside the top 6-10 the last few years, had a multi year run at #1 and this matched his reputation) that it started to work against him. Or if like everything else, his game had just fallen off in that area too(this was before or right around his trade to the Rockies. Ya, I really doubt any ump is going to admit they get fooled by catchers trying to frame but I have heard them talk about catchers who try to frame but they don't give the call so some are at least aware that they can be influenced by it. Lucroy is an interesting case as he was the poster boy for framing when it first became a "thing" but now he's one of the worst in baseball. Meaning framing is just noise and is not a skill or like you said, umps have caught on and are changing how they call when he catches.
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Now you are. The Brewers must have thought they got the day off today too.
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Somehow we're 9-4 against Ciny this year but every game it feels like we play like crap against them.
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Read that article now and remembered I read it when it was first published too. Still doesn't address the issue from an umpire's perspective. What a catcher does with his glove should be totally irrelevant as the umpire shouldn't be looking anywhere close to the glove because the strike zone is a good 2 or 3 feet in front of where the ball is caught.
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Bailey pretty much shut us down a couple weeks ago. No one should be surprised at what he's doing today.
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Hit to the pitcher followed by an error. #BrewerWay
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#BrewerWay
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Um, SCooter was claimed on waivers not released and then chose to play in Cincinnati, Brian. Crap like this is why people can't believe you're good at your job.
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If by pretty crappy 5 hopper you mean a perfectly placed 2 hopper with some velocity than yeah I agree. I won't argue the placement but I'll have to watch is again about the hops. There's no way that was only a 2 hopper.
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Not sure a 28 year old Thames has "declining skills." And, yes, $5M gets you basically a replacement level player these days so $5M is a good deal for Thames and probably Garza too.
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It was a line drive that he had to wait to get through. Maybe Villar or Broxton scores on that but probably not.
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That was a pretty crappy throw. A 5 hopper to the plate should be a run. Walker is just really slow.
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I understand how the whole idea of pitch framing being a real thing has been "proven". It make sense that if some catchers are getting more strike calls than other, maybe those catchers are doing something to effect those calls. However, I've never actually heard an umpire talk about it. No MLB ump is going to admit that catchers are fooling them into calling strikes though, so I'm not surprised. Now I am not a trained umpire nor have I ever umped a game but I've been behind the plate for scrimmages of the high school team I coach and I really don't understand how the placement of the catcher's mitt can influence a call as I'm focusing on the area that is front of the plate and know the call before the ball is even caught. The only way framing making a difference makes sense to me is at the top of the zone where the glove could potentially get in your line of sight of the ball crossing the plate and the only thing you really have to go off of is where the ball is caught. There has to be some umpires here that have an opinion on framing and how it does or doesn't effect their calls. I'd love to hear it.
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As the stats I posted before show, Garza can be effective if used correctly. And with a full bullpen now I doubt he'll be used as a "traditional" starter. I'd put money on him only going 3 innings and not because he's getting rocked but because that's how he's most effective.
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Never understood the love Hosmer got. Probably mostly the product of being a part of the Royals runs a couple years ago. Outside of this year, his offense is pretty average for a 1B.
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I'm pretty sure Wily is done as a Brewer. No way they pay him $4M next year. They will let him go. And he won't want to be back. He'll want a fresh opportunity - which is what is needed. No point in bringing him back in September -- instead take a look at some of the other guys who could actually be part of the future. I think all that was pretty clear earlier this year but he continued to get starts and was trash, was moved to the bullpen and was trash, and after coming off the DL in a perfect spot to DFA him he was put back in the bullpen and was still trash.
