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  1. BruisedCrew
    Houser might not survive this inning.
  2. BruisedCrew
    Brewers are looking like a Little League team.
  3. BruisedCrew
    Excellent summary. This highlights why just blaming injuries for the recent slide is misplaced. The injuries haven’t helped but poor performances from the remaining players (hitters and pitchers) have been a bigger culprit.
  4. BruisedCrew
    Excellent summary. This highlights why just blaming injuries for the recent slide is misplaced. The injuries haven’t helped but poor performances from the remaining players (hitters and pitchers) have been a bigger culprit.
  5. BruisedCrew
    Before I can get too excited about advanced metrics and projections I need to see if the Brewers can actually escape the funk that produced losing 10 of 12 games. One win over the Nationals, as welcome as it was, doesn’t do that. In the short term the Brewers next two weeks include 6 games against the Mets and Blue Jays, two very good teams, 4 against the Cardinals, and 3 against the Reds, who aren’t the pushovers that they seemed to be when they started 3-22. Without some improvements in all areas things could get ugly really fast. On the other hand, winning 6 or 7 of these games (including at least 2 against the Cardinals) would be a vast improvement over the previous two weeks. Tim Muma’s latest article about Burnes, Lauer, and Houser pinpoints something that has to change, and quickly, if the Brewers are going to avoid sinking further. The daily snapshot of the Brewers position relative to last season may look similar. But the forward looking picture without Peralta and Woodruff is a lot more cloudy. And I wouldn’t count on the Cardinals folding up and going away like the Cubs did last year.
  6. BruisedCrew
    Neither were the people who were declaring that Attanasio should do something along the lines of firing Counsell.
  7. BruisedCrew
    Two things about this. One, the Brewers have played more games than several other teams, so if you look at runs scored per game, the Brewers are 18th in MLB with 4.31 RPG, just a fraction below the MLB average of 4.33 RPG. Maybe more importantly, the Brewers goal is supposed to be to make the playoffs, not just league average. Look at the teams above and below the Brewers in RPG and you’ll see an almost perfect line between playoff contenders and teams that are either rebuilding or tanking. The preseason prognosis for the Brewers was that they would have great pitching (among the very best in MLB) but the big question was whether they would have “enough” offense to win even with that great pitching. The problem for the team right now is that it definitely does not have one of the top pitching teams in MLB in terms of performance (not potential). In terms of runs allowed per game, the Brewers are 15th in MLB with 4.23 runs allowed per game, slightly better than the league average of 4.33. Whether that worse than expected position in runs allowed per game is because of leaky defense, injuries, or unexpectedly poor performance is largely irrelevant. A team that is around average in both runs scored and runs allowed (and sinking in both categories over the last month) is likely to be more of a .500 team than a solid playoff contender.
  8. BruisedCrew
    The caution is that to be an effective major league pitcher Woodruff has to get back to 100%. Throwing 30 pitches with a few breaking balls thrown in is a long way from pitching effectively in a game. If the breaking ball doesn’t have its usual sharp movement it is going to get pounded by major league hitters. If Woodruff can be back and effective by the All Star break that would be good. But, the nature of the finger problem, and the fact that he was not close to All Star form before the ankle injury, puts a damper on my expectations for what he’s going to contribute in the foreseeable future.
  9. BruisedCrew
    It is significant that the Braves, Padres, and Phillies have been playing well so the league wide race for wild card spots has gotten much tighter than it was 10 days ago. The weakness of the NL Central might be the biggest point in the Brewers favor if they can get turned around. The playoff contenders in the other divisions are going to be facing tougher competition. I was just looking at the aggregate records of the teams in each of the divisions relative to .500. They are: NL East +4 NL West +23 NL Central -28 AL East- +42 AL Central -24 AL West -17 The two Central divisions really stand out, and not in a good way.
  10. BruisedCrew
    The Cardinals play 4 at home against the Pirates this week then go to Boston for the weekend.
  11. BruisedCrew
    Time to take a day off and reset.
  12. BruisedCrew
    In other words, the Cardinals haven’t lost yet.
  13. BruisedCrew
    Boxberger did the dirty work, now it’s up to Williams and Hader to see that Soto and Cruz don’t come up again. A few more runs would help, but 3 in one game with a lead is about all you can hope for.
  14. BruisedCrew
    Urias out again. Hamstring tightness.
  15. BruisedCrew
    Yelich getting on base pays off again. He extends the inning and makes the pitcher think about him stealing. Finally a little cushion. Now need Alexander to shut them down again.
  16. BruisedCrew
    The Brewers haven’t had many leads these last 10 games, but it’s been really rare that they’ve had a lead that survived the next half inning. So, that was a victory on its own. Now for the next Everest: Getting a lead of more than one run, something I don’t think they’ve had since they left Chicago.
  17. BruisedCrew
    It’s pretty sad to realize that the Nats are one of the worst hitting and overall teams in the NL, yet their 1-5 hitters today have been more productive this year than the guys the Brewers are putting in those spots.
  18. BruisedCrew
    I don’t know how concerned the Brewers are because their reactions are the same as for most injuries. He’s getting treatment and it’s getting better but no real idea how long it will take for him to be able to grip a baseball properly. If he were a placekicker or an accountant he’d be fine. But for a major league pitcher it could be awhile.
  19. BruisedCrew
    The Brewers have shown that they can still score meaningless runs against the mop up relievers on the league’s worst teams. Early in the year they were scoring to pile on in games that were already won. Now they pick them up in lost causes.
  20. BruisedCrew
    There’s a big difference. Yost had the type of personality that tended to make players tight, and he wasn’t what the team needed at that point. Even then, though, I thought that was a questionable move that was more for appearance than substance. I don’t think firing Counsell is what this team needs.
  21. BruisedCrew
    Do you realize how immature you sound when you start your posts with things like “Uhhh” and “Dude”? You can make your point by just stating it or using simple words like “I disagree”. Hader is one guy. By himself he isn’t going to bring as much as the Cubs 4 did
  22. BruisedCrew
    The 2022 Brewers could be like the 2021 Cubs. First place in June, then a big losing streak and sink like a stone the rest of the year. Unfortunately the Brewers don’t have guys like Rizzo, Baez, Bryant, and Pederson to at least get some players out of it.
  23. BruisedCrew
    Another couple days of this and the Brewers will be looking up at every one of the NL teams that started the season as a playoff contender even after being 8-10 games ahead of some of them less than 2 weeks ago.
  24. BruisedCrew
    I brought this up several days ago in the Offense thread.
  25. BruisedCrew
    Might want to check the scoreboard.
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