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4 more walks and were tied... there's hope still...

Doesn't this Pena guy know that if you're a young "rookie" pitcher your supposed to throw the ball right down the middle of the plate at least once per PA... Funny, the Brewers pitchers picked that up right away and are perfect at it...

I can’t figure out why he even was given a shot in the first place. There is absolutely nothing in those numbers that justifies his position on the 25 man. I don’t care how many arms have fallen off in the BP...

Bour or Pujols are my guesses for Crappy Angels Hitter Chacin gives up a HR to this inning...

I think you could make an argument that 3 of our pitchers should start at 1B instead of Aguilar...

If Cain comes up this inning I hope he looks like it isn't way past his bedtime... No worries, Arcia with the GIDP...

I don't think there's a single stat that says he isn't awful. I defended him last year during his horrible stretch, but he has been abysmal this season. He should be batting no higher than 7th, yet every game he's in at #4 (or #5)...

This team loves to play to the competition... Three games against the Reds all decided by 1 run... Come into LAA and look like the bad news bears...

Let's start a drinking game... Every time Chacin throws a strike, take a drink... or should it be every time he walks an Angel...

So I looked at xStats totally not knowing what to expect the results to be. Going into tonight's game his xAVG is .275, xwOBA is .356. He has only barrelled one ball all year which is pretty bad as his the 7.1 degree average launch angle. I think the fact he has walked more than he has struck out is padding his expected stats but his quality of contact has been pretty low. What do Shaw's numbers look like?

Sometimes I hate this team...

Maybe that BB to Trout wasn't intentional...

I'm so glad Aguilar's outs are hit so hard. He's good for 4 each game... Outs that is...

Great AB by the #4 hitter once again...

Yes! Pay for a computer system that's fast enough to transfer the information! What annoys the crap out of me is getting a call from bank/Credit card company asking you to call about some suspicious activity. They give you a number. You call the number. Go through all the directory tree and finally get a human (because they don't have a menu option that pertains to fraud alerts) and the human says "how may I help you?". YOU CALLED ME!!!!! ISNT IT IN MY RECORDS? They take the info and inform you they need to transfer you to the fraud prevention group.... Why doesn't the Bleeping fraud prevention group have a direct number! WHY? WHY? WHY? TOO SIMPLE?

I believe the guys who know more than we do, expected there to be growing pains for the 3 "rookies". The Brewers spent significant dollars to upgrade the offense. I think there's some short term denial as to how bad the offense was in the first half of last year. Braun was replacement level, Arcia/2B/C was a blackhole of offense and Yelich hadn't been long into his tear at the end of the year. The Brewers needed their SP and bullpen to be excellent just to stay over 500 during that time. I am convinced the Brewers braintrust decided they could afford the growing pains of having 3 young starting pitchers because, while they may have worse SP, the offense should score more. While there's a good amount of concern expressed here, the team is 4-2 in those 6 games where the "rookies" started. Only 1 of those losses the team was out of it only because the bullpen couldn't stop the run parade - if we get a decent bullpen game we could easily be looking at 9-1 record. While it's concerning that there will be an extended learning period from the current SP, we have the offense to mitigate some of those concerns and we have options to address any long-term performance issues. It's great to be 8-2 because we won't be making short-sighted decisions like the Cardinals sending Reyes to AAA (the Reyes whose stuff is so electric based on every Cardinal report). And we won't be making any short-sighted decisions based on 10 IP form Corbin Burnes...

Keuchel has been pretty much the same pitcher the last 3 years (not the 2015 version). He's a 2.5 WAR pitcher who can hit 3.0 if he gets the innings, which he wouldn't at this point. So let's say he would put up a 2.5 WAR for the time he actually pitchers this year. That's what they're paying Chacin ~$7M to do. For a FA, the $/WAR has been running closer to $6-7M per WAR the last 2 years than the historical $10M per WAR. So he would be worth $15M-17.5M if he can be the recent Dallas Keuchel in performance. In a few weeks, that's what his prorated salary would be on a "more than the qualifying offer" salary. If his performance is impacted by his delayed start to the season (did any of last years SP that signed late match their expected performance/value based on their contract - I don't recall a single one doing that well). If we are having issues with the starting rotation that need to be addressed, they still have Anderson and Guerra in the Pen whom could be moved back to the rotation and they could bring either/both of Hauser and Brown up to bolster the bullpen like Woodruff and Burnes did last year (or they could bring up Brown for the rotation and move Burnes to the BP). I'm just not sold on the need to spend that money on Keuchel...

The type that the rest of baseball regularly takes to the wood-shed and likely will look like a group of Cy Young candidates to the Brewers...

Most likely the software is like 99.999999999% of the software on the market where they "upgraded" recently and the latest version is worse, buggier, and a massive "downgrade" in performance... This will be followed by 15-20 "fixes" some of which get worse and some of which help and ultimately they will likely just go back and install the version from 5 years ago (I'm looking at you Microsoft and your crapstorm known as Windows 10)...

Why he was sent out for the top of the 6th is beyond me...

That's what happens when you don't pour it on...

might be worth moving the black hole out of the #4 position...

Did Burnes forget how many outs there were?

Including the end of 2018 (not the playoffs), the Brewers are on a 33-10 run (77% winning PCT)... Incredible...

This year's pitching staff is even more equipped to supplement SHORTER outings from initial out getters. Not sure why people think the average outing is going to be longer in '19 than it was last year. Well with only 1 starting pitcher in 2019 whom also started 2018 as a SP with more than 1 start, it's easy to wave your hands because there isn't much data. The data we have is: Chacin Pitch Count 2019: 94, 96 (Zach Davies: 90 vs 88 in his 1st 2018 start) In Chacin's first 15 starts in 2018 he exceeded 94 pitches only 3 times (a very symmetric 5th, 10th and 15th start). So the only data we have (excluding butterflies flying out of our butts), indicates that so far Chacin's been on a slightly more aggressive pitch count. We'll see what happens with Davies as the season progresses. The three "rookies" will likely be on innings limitation and the Brewers can manage that in multiple ways. I suggested in another thread that one option is to go to a six man rotation at some point, but skip 1 rookie starter each round through so you have only a 5 game rotation with 6 pitchers - which could help having them available for the playoffs. We will see how the Brewers handle that issue, because I doubt they are fine going into the playoffs without 3/5th of their starters - they will be looking at ways to limit innings, but still have them available for the post-season. IDK maybe, Chacin, Davies and Peralta will be pushed a little harder in 2019 because Woodruff and Burnes will see less action per start then corresponding starters in 2018 and they will require more BP innings. I don't think it's a slam dunk in either direction whether we see longer starts in 2019. And, as we have seen from last year, the Brewers will go in whichever direction they think will work the best, damn the conventions. Edit: Spelling/grammer.... wow, damn passes the cuss filter...