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Cool Hand Lucroy
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See what happens when you throw strikes? Your defense gets to defense. -
Alright, bullpen. Maybe it would be good to throw strikes with a five-run lead.
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Baseball is about the long-haul. Maybe it's self-defense, but I've come to view playoffs as bonus. Plus, I don't think this team can really hurt me anymore, after all the difficult October losses of this wonderful stretch of franchise success. The one caveat to this is that finishing with a division title and a bye would be sullied quite a bit if we lose to the Cubs in the divisional round. THAT would probably be the last thing that could actually make me hurt emotionally as much as I have in previous Octobers. And, of course, I say all this, but once those playoff games start, I'm going to desperately want to win them. I'll be able touch grass and my rational self, but the emotional heart wants what the emotional heart wants.
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It was awful. We were up 3 after sweeping the Dodgers in LA mid-August. But we finished 12-25 and ended up 8 games back. Probably the most depressing stretch of Brewers baseball I can remember (it's not as depressing when you know you're going to be bad, like it was throughout much of the 90s and 00s), especially when we started 2015 going like 4-17 or something. Come a long way since then!
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Given the choice between 2008 and 2014, I would absolutely take 2008. ;)
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Honestly? I'm more and more skeptical of the value of football to a university athletic program. Seems like the bubble is close to popping (there is just going to be vast inequality between the top-15 programs and everyone else). If you can't be a regular playoff team, that is so much staff, facility, and salary outlay for diminishing returns. The growth curve is just a lot better on volleyball, for example.
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This is good stuff. Thanks!! And if Ortiz is valuable, Turang might get very very seriously paid. That might be a really interesting contract situation. I think Brice is underrated by national media and the MLB writer/analyst set, but I am sure lots of big-payroll teams would gladly offer to take his age 28 to age 33 seasons for 150 mil. AI told me to look for 8-10 AAV on a Turang extension, but that has to be hallucination.
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Yeah, I was looking at DRS, but the context helps. Maybe Ortiz was bad for a time at SS? It just seems very clear to me that he is the superior defender by far, so I was surprised that DRS was so low on Ortiz.
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Mona's hit great. And he's been fine defensively, too. I will say, though, that you really see Ortiz's comfort at short when you watch Mona there for a few days. I am very confused about the advanced metrics that grade out the two of them as fairly similar. It seems obvious to me which guy moves better and which guy has a deep understanding of the position. None of this is to say Mona can't hack it as an MLB shortstop. Just that he's a utility player for a reason.
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Cubs also used Keller and Palencia in the loss. Their pen had to cover a lot yesterday too. And now they head to Coors. Hopefully the Rockies can grab one, at least.
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Good news: Adames is doing his best to help us out in SF. Bad news: We couldn't score against a guy trying for a 3-inning save in his big-league debut. This was definitely a disappointing series. If the Giants can pull off the sweep, that will make it feel less so. I give a lot of credit to the back-end of the bullpen, both yesterday and today. They kept us in the game AND bought a little rest for the high-leverage arms. This stretch is really just crazy hard on a pitching staff, so that does matter quite a bit. 6 real tough ones coming up. Hopefully we can turn it around a little because the 15 after that are theoretically more friendly.
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No matter what happens today, we'll have gained on the Cubs through this series. That's good. The disappointing part is you really would have liked 3 of 4 in this one, with the Jays and Phils coming. Still time to do it, and the DBacks pen has been worked hard this series, but going to take some stepping up. Good effort from Myers today, especially after throwing two days ago. We still need a long start from somebody stat, but it could be plenty worse.
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Honestly, this felt like the game we were going to have the toughest time winning, even with Priester starting. We threw a guy in from off the couch and just didn't get the big hit. A split would be a disappointing outcome, but we're not there yet. Take 3 of 4, and that's a winning home stand.
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Well stole some rest for a couple bullpen guys. Need a big start from Q tomorrow. Good news is no Saalfrank, and I think the DBacks are starting an opener?
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Danny Jansen. Not good. Must be tough getting such little use, and it's hard to complain about a backup catcher. But that was a guy acquired to be a right bench bat, and it hasn't really paid off.
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Gotta come up with a hit. In other news, the Cubs left the bases loaded in the first. Giants up 1-0.
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14 games into this stretch. If we lose tonight, we're 7-7. Getting out of here 10-9 would be fine.
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Yeah, low threshold for Mcgee time tonight
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Well, other than Turang, Mona is the best guy to have up, I guess?
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I get it, but Mears has become the inherited runner guy out of the pen. If anyone's coming in like that, it should be him.
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Fedde leaves a tough situation for Mears, but he did what you needed, kept you in the game, and ate innings. We were always going to need more than a couple to win this one. Try to keep it to 3, and let's hit.
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Man, Lockridge is a pitch-seeing machine. It's insane. Every time up. It's his one weird trick, and I am here for it.
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I heard that before I saw it, and I assumed it was just an awful send on a shallow liner. Then I watched it. That was legit.
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59 games left (our 29 + their 30). Magic number is 24. If we assume every game is a coin flip, we need to come out on the right side in about 41 percent of them. Obviously, every game is not a coin flip. But that's a good place to be. I think these next 8-10 days tell us a lot. We stick around 6 or 7 up, even the most anxious among us (myself included) would have to feel confident.
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I thought he pitched really well. My bigger question is: What the heck is the plan with this kid? I am here thinking he is a glorified opener, and there he is throwing a career high in pitches. I get that we need the innings, but I feel like we're at a point where everyone knows we need to protect the arm and keep this guy available for the playoffs. But we're also running him out there every fifth of sixth day for 80 pitches. I would advocate a move to the pen at this point. We've got Tobias. We have Gasser coming back soon. Just make Miz the piggy-back guy for a 2-3 inning stretch. I think running him out there as a starter just tempts you to use him like a starter. Right now, there's more value in having him available for October while getting some regular work.
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