I remember the 2002 Brewers having some offense with Sexson, Jenkins, Houston and Hernandez. It was likely a different offensive era 20+ years ago, though.
Pitching was bad for quite awhile back then for Brewers.
I completely agree that Milwaukee does not sign Hoskins without trading Burnes.
Hoskins is 1 WAR this year and -0.2 last year. 0.8 in total.
Conclusion: Brewers already won the trades.
Rea, Brown, Taillon, Boyd and Horton doesn’t seem like a rotation that will run away with the division. I suppose the same could be said about our rotation, too.
Brewers bullpen should outperform Chicago.
I assume the splits on being in a hitters count or falling behind in the count as a batter are meaningfully different.
Being ahead 2-1 in the count instead of 1-2 is probably a huge difference and that doesn’t even take getting called out on strikes on a ball outside of the zone.
If you can string together 8-10 pitchers who each go 4-5 innings, that seems possible. The problem I see is if you get a short outing from someone you expected four innings from then you don’t have many traditional relievers left in your bullpen.
Unless you string together an entire staff of 13 pitchers with length 🙂
I bet max effort one inning relievers you see once per game are more effective than seeing same pitcher twice in a game.