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Guaranteed Rate Field? Really? Thank god the drug makers haven't caught on to naming rights... Cialis Field? Lipitor Park...

Thise team 2017 offense is just pathetic when they play the Cubs and Cardinals... Corrected x 2

This team offense is just pathetic when they play the Cubs and Cardinals... Corrected.

This team is just pathetic when they play the Cubs and Cardinals...

Junior pitched well enough to deserve a W, but now he won't...

I don't think the BP guys should approach anything differently if we lead by 1, by 5, or we are down. Stop the other team, period.

Kratz is going to make us forget what's his name pretty fast...

Santana must love playing for the Brewers because the way he's going he'll have no trade value soon...

I like how Kratz goes with the pitch...

Gee a backup backup Cardinal catcher can get a bunt down... amazing... I thought every team was challenged on the fundamentals just like the Brewers... guess not...

Both pitches he swung at were strikes and he hit a liner so I don't know what else you could ask for. 1) HR 2) Triple 3) Double 4) Single 5) no out (foul). Set the bar high so that they excel. Set the bar low and you get low...

[sarcasm]A bunt by Villar would have been bad there... so much better to get the DP....[/sarcasm] Counsell pull your head out of your ass...

Last season was an outlier for Saladino, and was the result of the White Sox taking away the leg kick in his swing. When the Brewers picked him up, they put the leg kick back in. I think this is a good point. While I don't believe the Brewers told him to revert to his leg kick, I am sure Saladino wasn't happy with his teams insistence on removing the leg kick and the subsequent performance drop. When he changed teams he felt he could return to what he felt comfortable with. Teams want players who will take suggestions and adjust their approach, but teams should also want players to communicate back whether they feel comfortable with the new approach (especially when performance tanks).

Honestly, after the last handful of games I'm a bit excited to have Arcia's glove back at SS. And I remember weeks where Arcia's range makes 1 or 2 plays difference over 6 games... A totally small impact. It's also a huge bias in my perception versus what happens across an entire season. So our visual inspection means little as in most cases there are sampling errors and biases. Sure Arcia is by all metrics a better defender than Sogard, but there is value to a hitter who can work an 8-10 pitch count and sometimes get a BB versus a week hitting SS who grounds out on pitch 2 or 3 and needs a full eclipse of the moon for him to work a BB. And I have been a huge critic of Sogard, but I have also been a huge critic of Arcia and as I indicated earlier, the difference between them is still a bad choice... Exactly. Which is why Arcia can bat .150 and still be an asset to the team. There's enough offense at other positions. That's true today, but wasn't true 2 weeks ago. For most of the season the Mendoza triplets (Arcia, Villar/Sogard, and Catcher) were putting up abysmal numbers and killing innings and games. There's a reason the Brewers already have so many shutouts. It's only recently that the offense from the bottom of the order has been enough to tolerate Arcia's anemic bat. As long as Pina and Villar hit average for their positions, the offense can and should tolerate Arcia's week bat. However, Arcia needs to work on his hitting and if he continues to provide nothing then this is a better time to straighten him out than September...

I stopped watching basketball years ago when it just all started to look the same. Every game would be 45-46 minutes of irrelevant play then the final 2-3 minutes would take forever and in many ways benefited a team that played like **** for the first 45-46 minutes to change the outcome in 2-3 minutes. Just make games 5 minutes long. The regular season is the same, 82 games and crappy teams get into the playoffs, then you have round after round of 7 game series and the same old same old... Maybe it's late onset ADD, but I can watch a football game and know that, in most cases and when Mike McCarthy isn't running the show, a football game where a team is down 3-4 possessions that they are toast - because all of the game is relevant. In the NBA it's day in day out a different game at the very end. Baseball doesn't change the game in the final inning, football mostly adheres to the same rules, although I would like to see "rushing" of the markers and setup stopped as it cheapens the game. I just have way more demands on my time than to be put through 90+ minutes of my time in irrelevant time then stretch out the final 2-3 minutes over 20-30 minutes of real time. There's no attraction to me from taking a game of flow and movement then play it frame by frame at the end... I'll tune into the NCAA tournament, but you can't pay me to watch the NBA...

Death by Sogard or Death by Arcia.... What's the difference?

I'd love to see the stats on players who get into collisions and what position they play. It would be interesting if 1B and OF are the most likely to be in collisions as they are never at risk themselves.

Dang! We were a WP and a balk away from scoring....

Counsell is a genius. He couldn't come up with a valid reason to start Sogard, but if Saladino gets hurt on a poor fielder's choice decision by Perez.... Now that's ingenius!

Intentionally walking Wong is like surrendering to the Grand Duchy of Fenwick.....

Braun's got the hitting balls hard at defenders down pat.... hope he works on hitting balls hard where defenders aren't....

I guess Zach is a cardinals fan so he wanted to give them so many gifts...

(4) slides within reach of the base without changing his path- way for the purpose of initiating contact with a fielder. He was running down the line, but slid inside of the line. It's clear that he CHANGED his pathway to initiate contact. Sliding within reach of the base is fine, sliding within reach of the base by changing your pathway is NOT.

What has Suter done of late that warrants this post? I’m not a huge Suter SP fan but he’s done his job. Suter is like the fat handyman you call when you need something done around the house. Sure he's cheap and does a decent job, but the low rider pants and the ubiquitous ass crack showing make you want to avert your eyes while he's doing his job...

Ex-Marlins outfielders fWAR to date (Plate appearances): Ozuna 0.1 (202) Stanton 1.3 (220) Yelich 1.2 (186) Taking cost into account, the clear winner is Yelich.... Last year may have been Stanton's career year, this year is looking like a repeat of 2015 for Ozuna (or worse), and Yelich is close to being on pace for the same fWAR rate as last year. side note: Yelich is a perfect example of why you shouldn't over-interpret BABIP... his career mark is 0.357!