BruisedCrew

Never said the Brewers weren’t doing well. Just addressing your inaccurate statement.

BTW, the Mariners also picked up Josh Naylor at the deadline, and the Mariners are 9-1 since the deadline. That ain’t squat.

If you’re going to lose might as well make it one without a lot of “What Ifs“

UCrazy night at the ballpark and it had little to do with the game. We left after the seventh inning because it was raining so hard and there was no indication on the radar that it would be letting up. So, I thought there might be problems driving home. It was raining so hard it was hard to see where you were going. Fortunately we made it home safely. Some of the pictures of people trying to leave on Brewers way are pretty stunning. Some cars that got stuck in deep water are still there this morning. At our house we had torrential rain from about 7:30 until 3 AM Our powerful sump pumps couldn’t keep up so we have water in the basement. We’ll have some cleanup to do once the water stops coming in

If the team was 30-60 nobody would care about the trade deadline. But when you see other playoff contenders beefing up their rosters it’s frustrating to see the Brewers largely standing pat. Maybe Miller coming off the IL can provide some help, but I think it is totally legitimate to be disappointed that the Brewers couldn’t beef up the left side of the infield, even if it’s with a veteran utility player. I guess we’ll see how the team holds up through the upcoming 19 games in 18 days stretch. A little more depth might have helped.

I hope Henderson can come back after a minimum IL stay. The Brewers are going to need all of these guys during the 19 game in 18 day stretch. I was looking forward to seeing him tomorrow when we put our 8-0 streak on the line. Meyers doesn’t inspire confidence these days.

You mean the guy who got thrown out rounding second base on an infield single?

Sounds like a Cubs crowd cheering their heroes’ HRs.

Several national media articles about the Brewers the last couple of days, including the Washington Post and Athletic. Hope that doesn’t prove to be the modern version of the SI jinx. Feature a team or player when they’re hot and they come crashing to earth. BTW, I consider any game that BA does instead of “Sweeeeng and a miss” Levering to be a blessing.

Those gazillion dollar superstars can be dangerous.

Another thing to put on the list along with what to do when Hoskins is ready to play. That list is titled “Things to not think about until,they happen”. Chourio’s return is at least a few weeks away and Frelick has to be watched with 2 things acting up. A lot can happen in the next few weeks that would prevent this from being an issue. And, if it does, wouldn’t it be nice to have enough depth to give guys a day off in September without a big drop in the lineup while having someone better than Siegler or Monasterio as a pinch hitter. As a switch hitter with speed Perkins is a valuable asset off the bench as he showed in the last home game against the Nats. Come in as a pinch runner, steal a base and score the tying run, and then drive in the winning run an inning later.

Yelich too has looked pretty bad the last few games.

Contreras hot streak appears to have been a passing facny. The last few games it’s back to weak swings, often at pitches out of the zone.

I think combining the stats for the pre injury Strider of 2022-2023 with those of 2025 (and his two bad outings in 2024 before he shut down) produces a picture of a pitcher that never existed. Maybe someday he will return to the form of the 2022 ROY runnerup and 2023 CYA contender, but he hasn't been there this year. Just a look at simple numbers like WHIP and K/9 tells us that.

Soto’s HR is Mets first hit in 14 innings. Mets coming here cold after sweep by Guardians.

This game has been hard to watch.

The A’s knocked out Gore with 7 runs on 12 hits in three plus innings. I’m beginning to think the Nats have a pitching problem.

This has nothing to do with who the SP have been, but I think it's related to the issue of the Brewers offensive turnaround. So, I'm going to raise it here. As I have often said , while scoring 17 runs in a game can be fun, and can fluff up a team's and players' stats, I am less concerned about how many total runs the team scores than how those runs are distributed across games. Scoring 17 runs gets you one win when, in most cases, the game could have been won with 8-10 runs, if not less. The runs scored in the late innings against the dregs of a bullpen or a position player don't really tell you anything about the quality of a team's offense. And if that 17 run game is followed by 3 games scoring 1 run each, the team will probably have a 1-3 record despite scoring an "average" of 5 runs per game. I think a better sign of a good offense is minimizing the number of games in which it is held to very few runs. The Brewers run distribution this season provides a good illustration of how the offense has improved over the last two months. For the season, the Brewers have scored 2 runs or less in 30 games (9 shutouts, 8 with 1 run, and 13 with 2 runs.) The Brewers are 2-28 in those 30 games. It is not surprising that a team loses most of the time when scoring 2 runs or less. On June 11, the Brewers lost to the Braves 6-2,. That completed a stretch of 6 home games against the Padres and Braves in which the Brewers scored 11 runs and lost 4 of 6. After that game the Brewers had a record of 36-33. In those 69 games the Brewers scored 2 runs or fewer 25 times (or 36% of those games) and lost 24 of them. The Brewers were 8th in the NL in runs scored, fewer than any of the current playoff contenders in the NL except the Paders. Since that date, the Brewers have gone an amazing 32-11. In those 43 games they have scored 2 runs or less just 5 times (just 11% of the games), including a 2-0 win over the Dodgers. When the Brewers have scored exactly 3 runs (as they did last night) they have a record of 11-6, which I suspect is significantly above the league average. The Brewers pitching doesn't necessarily require a lot of runs to deliver a win, but they need more than 2.

I think for most of the regular season teams use their SP (including their top SP) more on the pitcher's schedule than based on their possible opponents.

One immediate reaction I have is that the top pitchers are likely to have a higher percentage of starts than others. So, the assumption that any of those 217 starters are randomly assigned is significantly flawed. Just using the Brewers as an example, if they have 10 SP in that group of 227, a team might expect to face Peralta in 10% of their games against the Brewers if the SP are randomly assigned. But Peralta has made 23 starts in the Brewers 112 games. or 20.5% of their games. I would think that making 20% of a team's starts would be pretty typical for a top of the line pitcher who hasn't had to skip starts because of injury or load management. In a 3 game series a team is lucky if it doesn't face a top pitcher, if the opponent has one.

Not often that you see a team win a game with just one hit that left the infield.

I think they left behind the Nats batting practice pitchers.

Has anyone seen anything new on Frelick? The last I saw was that the Brewers are looking at “long term solutions” for his knee problem but for now he is just resting it.

Strider really hasn't been that overpowering this year. Surely he can't slow the Brewers juggernaut.

It's not exactly that. Hazle was a 26 year old minor leaguer who had had a few ABs with the Reds in 1955.When the Braves had a rash of injuries to outfielders, Hazle was called up to the Braves in late July. He had had some success in AAA, but nobody was prepared for the "hurricane" he created when he came up. As a left handed batter he played almost exclusively against RHP. Baseball Reference says that only 6 of his 155 plate appearances were against lefties. But in his first 66 PA he produced a BA of .526 , 5 HR and an OPS of 1.473. After that he cooled some, but still produced a BA of .312 the rest of the way to finish with a BA of.403 and an OPS of 1.126 in 155 PAs. In the World Series (the only playoffs in those days) he saw limited action because the Yankees started LHP in several games and Hazle was often removed for defense in later innings or for a pinch hitter if a LHP came in. He did manage to go 2 for 13 in the series, with those 2 hits coming in the seventh game. He scored one run in the Braves 5-0 win. The next season everyone expected Hazle to be a fixture on the roster, but the career minor leaguer reverted to form. After a slow start for the Braves (6 for 56) and no real place for him with the return of the players who had been injured in 1957 (most notably CF Billy Bruton) he was traded to the Tigers. After failing to catch fire there he was sent to the minors and never returned to MLB.