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I don't see what difference it makes if you plan him as 2-3 innings person whether it comes to start the game or in the middle of the game. Since he's been starting its probably easier to keep the routine and yank after one time through or as soon as he struggles anytime in inning 3 or later. That said, with how he's struggled a bit combined with his innings limits and Miller/Megill hurt. I could certainly see a logic in starting to prep him now or soon to be a one inning guy for the playoffs to take one of those spots.
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With how easy that was you'd hope for 3, but they said the next guy was getting ready last inning so I don't think it's happening
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Hindsight it would've been nice to find a way to keep Cortes. I think we all were a bit surprised when that went down. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a behind the scenes discussion with his agent that led to it, impending FA for him and everything. Bad luck on timing that everyone was healthy at the time causing the logjam. Without going back and digging too deep the possible route to a spot for him was probably Miz down for a few weeks (which happened a week later anyway) or until someone else got hurt or schedule demanded it. But at the time how could you send Miz down
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Remember AZ did this to us in the second game in AZ too. I think it was a blown 5-0 lead in the 8th, something like that
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AZ had the #1 offense in the league last year. And I think are 3rd or 4th in OPS this year too. Even with losing the two guys at the deadline its more than an adequate O. Still, this is a crazy meltdown by the pitching/D
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Games played in Vegas next year, interesting. In addition to what you said on the last two months, those are generally against what should be good teams too. Other than Pit Also, I will never get why they schedule the off day after opening day for teams with a dome. So MKE is denied a Friday home opener again.
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I'm far from a knee jerk person. I get what they're trying to do with him and want to give him a good fair chance, and generally he'd been getting some better results until recently. To me, the first time I started thinking enough is enough was the defensive F ups in saturday's games. I know one wasn't technically an error but a good defender at least keeps it in the infield. The other was a huge botch to cost them runs. I'm at the point that they should tone down the platoon a bit. Sure, some starts to keep giving him a try and to rest others. But PH at clutch situation purely because of platoons I think can go away, maybe management has agreed too since they didn't do it last night and it ended up with Durbin hitting a big HR
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If things fall the right way and Tobias isn't needed on say Wed/Thurs he could just take the start on Friday. I'd rather him out there for 4-5 innings than Gasser in first game back
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In addition, since his two are Curve/FB its easy to identify which is which. That's why the FB/slider combos are usually better or more difficult to hit.
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Yup, that hot streak scoring 8 runs plus over and over can't be expected to continue so coming back to reality was bound to happen. Also seemed the Cubs series and at least yesterday had lots of hard hits that got caught, which is baseball. For example, Vaughn had at least 3 well hit balls that were barely caught. I think at least two were runners on too, if one or two of those fall they likely cruise to win. I think his 4th could be considered hard hit too but it was at the SS so either way just a single (not sure if runners were on) On paper he had an 0/4, but in reality he hit very well yesterday
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Ouch, and here comes the fear at the deadline. Hopefully it's just 2-3 weeks and he can get a couple weeks of ABs in before the playoffs.
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Yea he's not totally wrong. Not a fan of that style of ranting but that's the world these days. If I was them, if Tucker is hurt then DL him today and backdate it. But if you need to play him due to who he is, today probably should have been an off day for Happ. He's been ok this series but in general he's been rough this year. Tough to bench the rookie today after how he's played, so get him out in left. So then it comes down to Castro/Shaw, just go with Shaw since he's been good these games. Castro has been fine too though so not much to get worked up about on that decision. ETA: With how this is going. doubt Tucker is back though which is good for us. They gave a good package for him including a good cheap starting OF for the next 7 years in that deal. Could have had their whole OF set with him, PCA, the new rookie all for league min the next 5-6 years. Tucker is costing himself a fortune unless he can prove he's been hurt. Still, not like he's not gonna get 200 mil from someone.
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Didn't Mears throw like 4 pitches? with how the BP has been I'd probably try for another out of him instead of Anderson here but we'll see
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remember he had one last night to that was a rocket to the wall. Don't recall if it was caught or was the one that was almost caught. But that was a homer almost any other day. Quite the power run he's been on
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But it is true. If that ball gets pulled a bit its a double and they're ahead. If its a few feet to the right its a single. By hitting it very hard it increases the chances of all that happening since the D doesn't have time to get to it. In reality, it is 'luck' in the sense that of where it goes in a say 20-30 ft radius. The harder you hit it though the higher the chances. By hitting it so hard it is essentially has to go right at someone, which is bad luck when it does
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A factor in that is being a switch hitter. Turang is the obvious guy to move up but he and Frelick back to back L is the issue
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I've thought he's generally looked good in his recent callups and then you see reports like this about how he's been in AAA. Makes me think a descent route from here could be to have him take Miz's spot and start moving Miz into a 1-2 inning reliever role in the Burns/Hader mold of 2018. His innings are going to have to be limited anyway, and Tobias seems in a good spot to start. Wonder if the discussion will start if Miz struggles again next time out Side note: I still don't get why they didn't let him try to finish Sunday's game
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Yes, if MKE wins today they will have lost a whopping .5 games in the standings over the last week. Sure, it wasn't a good week as you could've essentially ended it and have instead let them linger. But its far from panic time. As of now, there's no reason to think the team is going to have a meltdown type finish to blow it. And really, with the abundance of pitching on the team it would be shocking if that happens.
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It ended up not mattering, but it was a split second from ending the game. The SB attempt on a 3-1 count when the pitcher is being very wild was kind of dumb and not worth the risk
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This was the big concern when not adding anyone at the deadline. What if an IF gets hurt and you all of a sudden have to rely on Mono to start for a long time or playoffs. Didn't help to have Castro hit a ding dong and gun a guy at the plate in the same game that this happened. But hopefully its just a couple days off and he'll be fine.
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Yes its almost at barring historic collapse or historic run by the Cubs level of being over. Really, if not for the 5 gamer as a big variable you could be saying it now. As someone just said, this time next week will say alot. Assuming normal-ish occurrences for the next week it will essentially be at the "barring historic..." point. But, if Cubs go 4-1 or 5-0 in that it changes everything. This next week is big. Just simply go 4-4 in these 8 games and you're good to go. Also, if it goes even better than that to kind of close the door its big for planning roster/injury returns and all that.
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Yea no reason to have seen this dip coming for him this year. He'd probably be a great bounceback guy next year for someone, assuming a reduction in pay next year. Really he wouldn't be a bad platoon/insurance for MKE to pair with Vaughn since he's LH. Unfortunately I don't see any OF ability in his background to kind of take the Bauers role, I'd guess MKE wouldn't two strictly 1Bs on the roster with how they do things. Probably makes sense for him just to go back to TX right now. I think they're still playing Tellez/Pederson/Burger combos at DH/1B right now. Cut Tellez for him and see what happens
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And in the playoffs these days everyone is basically a 4-6 inning guy other than maybe a handful of guys like a Skubal/Wheeler. For some reason the rest of the league has seemed to copy what the moron Brewers started in regards to 3rd time through lineup cautiousness combined with loading a bullpen of 3-4 fireballers to lock down those last innings rather than a worn out guy throwing his 95th pitch. . Quick google summary, and saw another note that LAD hasn't had a SP complete the 7th since 2021 In last year's playoffs, 7 starting pitchers completed at least 7 innings in a game. There were 41 total playoff games, and starting pitchers averaged just under 4 2/3 innings per start. Only 16 times did a starting pitcher pitch into the seventh inning, and just seven times did a starter complete seven innings,
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I just noticed this last night which led me to double check if MLB reseeds after the WC. They do not. So, in theory if the playoffs ended today MKE would be playing the winner of LAD/Cubs. On one hand, you'd want the Dodgers to go through any difficulty possible, on the other you'd rather not risk playing them in the NLDS. And really I'd rather not play the Cubs either due to losing the stadium to their fans, plus it would sting so much worse if we had this crazy season and then lose to them right away. We'll see, hopefully it doesn't shake out facing a Cubs/Dodgers winner.
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They said it was first time goin going on normal rest, so probably just trying to be cautious. In addition, to keep him feeling good as his next start will line up in the Cubs series which are important games and more important to go deep in those games. This one, 6-0 lead vs worst offense in league and day off tomorrow would fall in the opposite category. But such is baseball
