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Figueroa went one two three in the eighth with another strikeout before Tyler Bryant worked around a trio of walks to put up a zero (1 K) in the ninth to seal the 7 to 4 TRats victory. Pratt finished 3 for 5 with a double and steal, Jadher 2 for 4 with a double and sac fly.

Brock Wilken singled home Dylan O’Rae for the 11th Biloxi run top of eight. Nick Merkel covered the last two innings scoreless (3 H | 0 BB | 4 K) to put the finishing touches on the 11 to 1 win.

A Jheremy Vargas sac fly scored Jadher Areinamo to give Wisco a 7 to 4 lead through seven. Jeferson Figueroa has gone seven up six down with just an HBP and errant pickoff throw against 2 K.

Biloxi must be watching the Big League club and taking notes. Just poured on five more top of six with a Connor Scott three run homer accounting for 60% of those runs.

Skipped the hit and went straight for the run top of nine. Miguel Briceno walked, went to second on an error, then to third on a Yophery fielder’s choice, then home on a wild pitch. Juan Baez has subsequently walked bringing Bitont to the dish with two outs to go.

The Plank Walker? Because it falls off suddenly? And his name is Yoho kind of like what a pirate says about his bottle of rum?

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Biloxi went blue dot city top of five with a Mike Boeve single, Darrien Miller HBP and Connor Scott walk loading em up for the Lamar Sparks grand slam. 5 to 0 Shuckers through five with Kuehner up to 10 K now.

Rob Z with a 27 pitch rehab inning. Worked around a single and two walks to put up a zero (1 K).

Filippo Di Turi leadoff walk, perfect game averted. Now for that hit…

If I mention the Mudcats have gone twenty one up twenty one down on the internet they’ll stop doing that, right? Anthony Flores has thrown two more scoreless hitless frames with 1 BB | 2 K while Brailin Rodriguez also went 1.1 scoreless hitless with 1 BB | 3 K.

Wisco leading 6 to 4 bottom of four with Will Rudy trying to work out of a two on one out jam. Cooper Pratt with a single, double and run scored so far while Felix Valerio has walked twice, stolen a bag, and both scored & “driven” in a run. Jesus Chirinos also has one each in the hit, walk, run scored and RBI columns.

Shuckers picked up the lone run of the game so far top of two on a Lamar Sparks double, Ethan Murray HBP, Casey Martin single sequence. Tate Kuehner has gone four scoreless with 1 H | 3 BB | 8 K so far.

Lotsa similarities (dominant defense, bullpen and RISP), but also a couple decent sized differences between the Brewers and Guardians this year. For as bad as many think the Brewers rotation might be with a 101 ERA- (14th) and 7.6 rWAR (16th), the Guardians rotation actually has been that bad and then some with a 114 ERA- (27th) and 4.4 rWAR (27th). Brewers offense has also been a scooch better with a 109 wRC+ (9th) and 4.89 R/G (7th) versus a 102 wRC+ (13th) and 4.65 R/G (12th) for the Guardians. Royals & Twins both went 12 W - 1 L against the White Sox, but Guardians are only 5 W - 5 L so far. Not cashing in on all those free wins could be a huge swing if Cleveland ends up losing the division. Twins kind of control their own destiny with eight games left against the Guardians, but are O W - 5 L against CLE in their first five meetings so are gonna need to close it out strong. The Royals have fared better against CLE at 4 W - 2 L, but have come up short head to head against MIN at 2 W - 5 L.

If you go through his game log from the start of the season there have been four pretty distinct periods for Jackson so far this year... Solid Start (0329 to 0410) 43 PA | 7.0 BB% | 30.2 K% 282/326/462 (117 wRC+) The Learning Curve (0411 to 0601) 133 PA | 5.3 BB% | 26.3 K% 184/227/280 (41 wRC+) Figuring It Out (0602 to 0714) 124 PA | 8.9 BB% | 17.7 K% 295/355/473 (129 wRC+) HE'S ON FIRE !! (0720 to 0808) 74 PA | 2.7 BB% | 13.5 K% 408/432/662 (206 wRC+)

William Contreras (3.2 WAR), Jackson Chourio (2.5 WAR), Joey Ortiz (2.3 WAR), Brice Turang (1.9 WAR), Blake Perkins (1.8 WAR), Sal Frelick (1.6 WAR), Garrett Mitcell (0.7 WAR). That's seven Brewers position players age twenty seven or younger under long term team control who have produced 14.0 WAR combined this year. That 14.0 WAR is more than half the teams in baseball (including all four in the NLC) have gotten from their entire position player group. Only the Orioles with their redonkulous young core and the Yankees (buoyed by Juan Soto and his 6.8 WAR) have gotten more WAR from position players 27 or younger this year.

Pretty impressive rookie crop in the NL this year... Skenes (3.7 rWAR), Imanaga (3.0 rWAR), some dude named Tobias Myers (2.5 rWAR), some other dude named Bryan Hudson (+2.39 WPA) Merrill (3.0 WAR), Fitzgerald (2.9 WAR), Winn (2.8 WAR), some dude named Chourio (2.5 WAR), Busch (2.4 WAR), some other dude named Joey Ortiz (2.3 WAR). That's essentially ten wins (& counting) the Brewers have gotten from rookies so far with an eleventh win tacked on from Bob Gas (0.9 rWAR) in his five starts.

With a three gamer against the Reds coming up and the season 70% done, now seems like as good a time as any to take stock of where everybody stands coming down the stretch... OVERVIEW BREWERS 65 W - 49 L | +101 Run Differential PECOTA: 88.7% Win Division FanGraphs: 88.1% Win Division Division Record: 23 W - 13 L Division Games Remaining (16) vsCIN (3), atSTL (3), atCIN (4), vsSTL (3), atPIT (3) CARDINALS 59 W - 57 L | -46 Run Differential PECOTA: 7.0% Win Division FanGraphs: 5.9% Win Division Division Record: 17 W - 19 L Division Games Remaining (16) atCIN (3), vsMIL (3), atMIL (3), vsCIN (3), vsPIT (4) PIRATES 56 W - 58 L | -13 Run Differential PECOTA: 0.4% Win Division FanGraphs: 1.9% Win Division Division Record: 17 W - 15 L Division Games Remaining (20) vsCIN (4), vsCHI (3), atCHI (3), atSTL (4), atCHI (3), vsMIL (3) REDS 56 W - 59 L | +45 Run Differential PECOTA: 1.2% Win Division FanGraphs: 1.8% Win Division Division Record: 14 W - 15 L Division Games Remaining (23) atMIL (3), vsSTL (3), atPIT (4), vsMIL (4), atSTL (3), vsPIT (3), vsCHI (3) CUBS 57 W - 60 L | +7 Run Differential PECOTA: 2.7% Win Division FanGraphs: 2.3% Win Division Division Record: 17 W - 26 L Division Games Remaining (9) atPIT (3), vsPIT (3), vsCIN (3) FULL SEASON LEAGUE RANKS BREWERS 109 wRC+ (9th) | 4.89 R/G (7th) +13.2 BsR (2nd) | +42 DRS (4th) | 21.9 WAR (4th) SP: 101 ERA- (14th) | 7.6 rWAR (16th) RP: 80 ERA- (3rd) | +9.18 WPA (2nd) CARDINALS 97 wRC+ (18th) | 4.15 R/G (24th) +1.4 BsR (14th) | +29 DRS (9th) | 11.9 WAR (18th) SP: 110 ERA- (23rd) | 5.0 rWAR (26th) RP: 91 ERA- (9th) | +4.10 WPA (7th) PIRATES 87 wRC+ (27th) | 4.23 R/G (17th) +2.9 BsR (10th) | -7 DRS (24th) | 5.0 WAR (27th) SP: 85 ERA- (4th) | 12.8 rWAR (4th) RP: 106 ERA- (26th) | +0.38 WPA (22nd) REDS 91 wRC+ (24th) | 4.50 R/G (13th) +15.7 BsR (1st) | -29 DRS (28th) | 9.0 WAR (24th) SP: 94 ERA- (8th) | 10.9 rWAR (6th) RP: 83 ERA- (4th) | +3.25 WPA (9th) CUBS 95 wRC+ (20th) | 4.21 R/G (19th) +8.1 BsR (4th) | +12 DRS (15th) | 11.9 WAR (17th) SP: 93 ERA- (7th) | 9.9 rWAR (9th) RP: 90 ERA- (6th) | -0.93 WPA (26th) POST ALL STAR BREAK LEAGUE RANKS BREWERS (10 W - 7 L) 123 wRC+ (6th) | 5.41 R/G (7th) | 4.4 WAR (7th) SP: 98 ERA- (13th) | 1.3 rWAR (18th) RP: 74 ERA- (6th) | +1.41 WPA (6th) CARDINALS (9 W - 11 L) 98 wRC+ (20th) | 4.15 R/G (23rd) | 2.1 WAR (18th) SP: 108 ERA- (17th) | 1.8 rWAR (10th) RP: 114 ERA- (21st) | -0.89 WPA (23rd) PIRATES (8 W - 10 L) 94 wRC+ (23rd) | 4.44 R/G (17th) | 1.6 WAR (22nd) SP: 89 ERA- (7th) | 1.8 rWAR (11th) RP: 110 ERA- (18th) | -1.49 WPA (29th) REDS (9 W - 9 L) 92 wRC+ (24th) | 4.72 R/G (11th) | 1.5 WAR (23rd) SP: 97 ERA- (12th) | 2.1 rWAR (7th) RP: 101 ERA- (16th) | +0.28 WPA (15th) CUBS (10 W - 9 L) 89 wRC+ (26th) | 4.11 R/G (24th) | 2.1 WAR (19th) SP: 110 ERA- (18th) | 1.4 rWAR (17th) RP: 44 ERA- (1st) | +0.57 WPA (11th)

I'd guess Black or Hicklen is the call when rosters expand. Capra is on the 40 Man too, but I'd have him a notch behind the other two since he is pretty redundant with Monasterio. Would guess Collins is a more of longshot by virtue of not being on the 40 Man and going ice cold over the last few weeks... thru 0719 (348 PA) 286/397/510 (134 wRC+) 13.5 BB% | 19.3 K% since 0719 (64 PA) 161/250/161 (7 wRC+) 10.9 BB% | 21.9 K%

Extra impressive with offense down in the DSL this summer at a .699 league average OPS so far versus a .720 last year.

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Obviously more goes into it than strictly WAR, but Skenes is at 3.7 rWAR currently versus Jackson at 2.2 WAR before today. Over the last 15 games / 68 PA coming into today Jackson put up a 177 wRC+ and 1.0 WAR. Continuing that pace over the rest of the year (highly unlikely but how cool would that be?) would get him over 5.0 WAR, maybe even approaching 5.5 WAR. Skenes probably has six or seven starts left if he isn't shut down early, at his current pace that would put him somewhere around 5.5 rWAR too.

Now up to 12 RBI combined for the trio here bottom of eight in a 17 to 10 ballgame. In addition to the offensive explosion, Wande Torres walked the first two batters he faced in the first inning but then retired eight in a row, five via strikeout.

Mejia has an 85 wRC+ as a bat first catcher in AAA. He’s thrown out 6 of 46 attempted base stealers. Haase was at a 123 wRC+ and threw out 5 of 21 attempted base stealers in Nashville.

Yup. His -58 DRS ranks 133rd out of 139 outfielders with at least 3,000 innings since his debut in 2014. He’s ten twenty runs worse than comically bad guys like Schwarber (-48 DRS) and Winker (-38 DRS).