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I'd include Brewers pitching as part of the equation (i.e. Defense). The Brewers starters are 28th in the majors in GB% with Peralta and Anderson as having the lowest GB% followed closely by Guerra... Given Chacin and Miley are both high GB% pitchers, Arcia should start when they are on the mound, but we should consider Schoop for starts at SS when Peralta & Anderson are pitching and possibly Guerra as Arcia's defense is minimized when there aren't many GB...

I believe I did spot a crow feather in the bird-nest beard last night so the answer is "Yes", Wade Miley does eat crow...

True, but if he really embraces the fact it could help him, he could accept the assignment. Again, not very likely at all this will happen. He needs to be up with the brewers so that Darnell "Miracle Man" Coles can do his magic with him like he did with Villar, Santana, and Arcia....

nice to be on the right side of those 1-0 shutouts...

Time for a crooked number!

Miley working the Buehler pitch count...

bye bye little leaguer...

Is it just me, but does it look like when the ball first leaves Moustakas hand that it's going to fly into the stands?

?? There is a 3rd base line. Like 1st base, 2 lines indicating a no go lane where the catcher can't go. first basemen can't stand in the way of the base, why can catchers?

How about putting a baseline on the third base side of home plate and the Catcher can not enter the baseline until he has the ball, no matter where it is thrown... No ball, no baseline...

No wonder CC is so bad at challenges... He doesn't know when to do it... That was blocking the plate... Hope that 1 run doesn't come back to bite us...

Ask the Cubs.... We're winning this friggin division!

Watching Arcia and Hader bat, I wonder if Josh could do a decent job of fielding at SS... could be a perfect platoon partner for Arcia and the Brewers next 2 way player...

MVP up showing us why he is the most valuable Pina....

Does Peralta think he gets a bonus for every batter he runs a full count on? He could be throwing a no-hitter and never make it out of the 5th inning...

Why are stadium lights designed by 3rd world countries.... Always takes forever to get going... how about just buying some friggin LEDs and replace the soviet era lights... Geezzz...

Yeah I saw the top of the first...

I'm glad Stearns isn't an idiot...

old man needs to be batting 6th...

I'd have no problem trading for Osuna if I was a GM... I'm paid to win... He's one of the best closers in the game and Houston just got better...

That's what I was thinking. Clancy beat both of you as he suggested that several days ago in the Suter thread...

According to Fangraphs, Freddy Peralta = Chris Archer so far for 2018 (taking into account # of starts)... Why would we even consider trading him or Burnes or Hiura for Archer? We already have Chris Archer but with upside while the real Chris Archer is aging.... Crazy...

https://www.mlb.com/news/roberto-osuna-traded-to-astros/c-288081150

C) Stand pat with what they have and count on Davies' return Right now we have 3 decent starters (Chacin, Anderson, Guerra) and 2 questionable starters (Miley, Peralta). Questionable being 1) will Miley continue to be decent or will his past catch up with him (if DJ has worked out kinks in other pitchers, why not Miley?); and 2) Peralta has been either pinpoint with his control or all over the place so you don't know which one you have (wouldn't be bad to have woodruff up to piggy back with Peralta - if Peralta is off, bring in Woodruff quickly to pitch 3-4 innings). We could very well need only 3 pitchers for most of the playoffs given off days, etc. so going with a playoff rotation of Chacin, Anderson & Guerra with Miley/Davies as the 4th is close or better than the 2014 Royals... Davies might take most of September to fine-tune his command, but if he is healthy we have a 4th decent starter... No reason we need a 5th starter in the playoffs and Peralta will be at his IP limit so the choices are Miley and Davies and that's easy if Zack can back to normal by Sept 30th. I don't see a rental who is better enough over 10-11 starts compared to the current 5... What we lack is depth until Davies comes back and is effective and he may not be effective this year, which means we lack depth, period. I hate to say it, but if we could get Harvey cheap, it might be worth a midling prospect... I am out on A as it doesn't appear either Gausmann or Wheeler (especially Wheeler), will be cheap enough to justify the expense... edit: sorry didn't know this was a rant thread... disregard what I said...

Four days in a row now with outages about 11AM CST. Starts with this message: for a few minutes then this message: for more than a few minutes (I believe I was out for >10 minutes today)...