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Milwaukee hasn’t seemed to blow up the roster due to Individual performance issues in recent years. I doubt 25% of the roster is dismissed or demoted with how well the season has gone.

I feel like we have been very patient with Rob Z. Will he still be healthy next month?

Sanchez has 18.4% walk rate this season and that has mostly held in May. Sanchez walks twice as often as Contreras. 🤷‍♂️

One off speed pitch, so far

.931 OPS through April .464 OPS in May .210 BABIP this year 0.3 bWAR this season

Forgot about Josh Hader. I guess he returns this week.

I think Lara could be a switch hitting version of what we wish 5’9” Frelick would be.

8th by OPS 13th by bWAR

We need a needle mover at third base 🙂

If the season ended today, St Louis at Milwaukee for wild card round. Cubs out of the playoffs. source

Fair point. Who on the 40 man should take those two spots? Or should we just use Rodriguez and Woodford?

6 IP and 1 ER from Rodriguez this year, very low leverage. I agree that we should give him a shot today.

Anderson could probably throw an inning. Not a lot of optimism for the leverage arm availability today, though.

Peter Lambert makes his third career appearance against Milwaukee today, and his second start against the Brewers. The 29-year-old righthander, a second-round Rockies draft pick in 2015, is finally enjoying some success after a long and winding road, now pitching for Houston. Baseball Savant credits him with six pitches in his arsenal. Brandon Sproat makes his ninth start for Milwaukee. Sproat has allowed three earned runs in each of his three previous starts.

Interesting data on Houston and Milwaukee pitchers:

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Frelick's 2025 exit velocity was 85.5. This year it is 85.6. To the extent he has always been below average with EV, he is driving the ball similarly to last year. His launch angle is way down from last year, though. source

Frelick was a scrappy 2-3 bWAR player the past two seasons. His OPS+ ranged from 90 to 111. if he starts going to the opposite field again and his BABIP returns to normal, his numbers will improve. That said, Luis Lara would probably outperform Sal next month.

That’s fair. At the same time, he has spent most of his time in Nashville. To your point, probably unnecessarily.

In the playoffs, I don’t anticipate Henderson, Gasser and Sproat getting the ball very often. In a real way, each are mostly AAA pitchers this season.. Milwaukee had an opportunity to win game two last series against the Dodgers until Hall and Woodford collapsed in the late innings. Game three was competitive until the one blowup inning, too. The Brewers played well enough given that we threw mostly B team pitchers the entire series.