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Tigers are 8-2 over the last 10 games and 8-1 at home this season. Brewers took two of three from the Tigers in Milwaukee last season. Brewers lost the Skubal/Tyler Alexander matchup.

25-year-old right-hander Keider Montero has been effective through three starts this season. Montero is 1-1 with a 1.66 FIP and 3.31 ERA allowing 12 H, 2 BB with 15 K over 16.1 IP. Milwaukee defeated Montero on 4/16/25, winning 5-1. Montero surrendered 8 H, 1 BB, 3 HR, 5 ER while striking out 8 batters over 5 IP. source Kyle Harrison makes his first start since "the incident" on April 11. Harrison last faced Detroit on 9/26/25. Harrison allowed 7 H, 3 BB and 3 ER while striking out 6 over 3 IP. source Looking ahead to Thursday, Sproat faces Skubal.

The Reds outfield has been jarringly below replacement level.

Batting average.

I think the organization knows who Perkins is at this point. Not much chance to catch lightning in a bottle anymore than we already did with Perkins. Might as well give Jones and Matos another look. Lara is close, I would think.

With Rengifo's rapid ascension (reaching base five times over two games), the Brewers are now at 0 WAR from 3B position this season. Rengifo has 14 G at 3B and Hamilton has 8 games at 3B. It is worth noting that Rengifo has .188 BABIP this season, nearly 100 points lower than his career average. Better days area ahead. The Brewers are at 0.3 WAR from SS position this season. Oritz with 15 G at SS and Hamilton with 6 G at SS. Milwaukee has 17th best bWAR from SS this year. The Brewers have -0.4 bWAR from RF. Frelick has 18 G, Perkins with 2 G and Matos with 2 G from RF. source

23 year old right-hander Eury Pérez makes his second career start against Milwaukee. Last time on 7/27/25, Perez went five innings allowing 2 H, 2 BB, 1 ER while striking out 6. The Brewers won 3-2. Pérez averages 98.2 mph with his fastball but hasn't been particularly effective this season: 1-1 with 5.40 ERA, 5.67 FiP, 1.55 WHIP and 5 BB/9. source Jacob Misiorowski makes his fifh start of the season and first ever against Miami. For Miz, strikeouts are up and so are home runs allowed but walks are down this season. Miz's fastball averages 98.5 mph this season. Off day on Monday.

The Brewers are comfortably in last place in terms of OPS from SS position this season but 17th for bWAR from SS. Unrelated note, Rengifo raised his OPS by 80 points with two hits, yesterday.

Right-hander Sandy Alcantara makes his sixth career start against Milwaukee. Alcantara hasn't been quite the same since Tommy John surgery in October 2023 but had made three excellent starts to start the season before being roughed up by the Tigers on April 12. The Brewers tagged Alcantara for 5 ER during his last start against Milwaukee on 7/4/25. source Brandon Woodruff makes his seventh career start against the Marlins. Woodruff made two starts against Miami last season allowing 6 H, 3 BB and 3 ER over 12 IP while striking out 14 (2.25 ERA). Brewers won both games. source Sure would be nice to more than Woodford as a fresh arm in the bullpen tonight. i'm not sure if I'm ready to pause the Coleman Crow experience, though, either. I think Woodford has been fairly good in low leverage situations and could deserve a chance in a closer game.

All NL Central teams over .500. Best division in baseball?

It’s worth noting that baseball reference has Ortiz above replacement level.

Has there ever been a more replacement level pitcher than Janson Junk? I say that mostly positively.

Fair points. When you add the $5 million New York paid for Houser and the $9 million for Taylor, Milwaukee adds through subtraction. Houser will make $18 million from San Francisco over next two seasons. 😳

Brewers win the Houser/Taylor trade!

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I’m glad we don’t have to face that in arbitration!

Angel Zerpa, ground ball machine

114 mph exit velocity on that leadoff single 🔥

Milwaukee must have really worn out the Nationals over the weekend because the Pirates are looking to sweep Washington today. 🙂

Luis Lara could be a fun boost. A reminder to the roster that younger players are soon ready to acquire roster spots.