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When I think of Lucroy, I don’t think of a single thing remotely negative surrounding his name.
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Time for your April Predictions - 2021
RollieTime replied to RobDeer 45's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
17-9, offense is ready to rock and will be much more enjoyable to watch than last season. -
Where are we thinking Mitchell will begin his minor league career? Do you place him in A+ for a month or two and if he rakes, bump him up to AA right away? There’s no rush in getting him to the big leagues, but he has been extremely impressive in Spring Training. He is 22 already and will be 23 by season’s end. I expect him to move through the minors very quickly.
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Sounds like she might need to meet bath water.
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No Cash, No Paper Tickets, No Carry-ins..... No Problems?
RollieTime replied to rickh150's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I almost always print off my tickets instead of only having it on my phone. I’ve always had the concern that for some reason the code won’t work on my phone and there I will be, stuck outside the stadium and worrying about not getting in when I live 6 hours away from the stadium. I am sure I would be able to go to a ticket window and get it figured out, but the ease and comfort having the ticket in hand and not need to worry about missing part of the game is a big deal for me. -
I too feel that Houser should be in the pen with Lindblom in the rotation. Because of Covid and inning restrictions on basically every pitcher, I wonder if this is a way to try to save Lindblom until say June before putting him into the rotation the rest of the way? Certainly not every stater will stay healthy all season, but I imagine most pitchers won’t exceed 150 innings this season. If teams are even comfortable stretching them out that much?
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We were a .500 club with a horrible offense. Keston Hiura led the team in hits while hitting .212. I imagine we will have at least 7 players hitting better than that Hiura will hit his bombs even if he strikes out a ton. Yelich will absolutely rebound. Only one of Narvaez and Garcia needs to rebound and we are sitting pretty if both do. Even Arcia has never hit below .212 Cain and Bradley Jr. playing in 2021 is a big boost. On the pitching side, you have arguably 2 of the top 5 relievers in the game. That doesn’t include the likes of Peralta, Suter, Rasmussen, Topa. Pair that with Woodruff and Burnes leading the rotation and Anderson being brought back with a top 5 defense in baseball behind him. I like our chances. I think this team is extremely under rated. Our floor I think is basically a .500 team with a lot of room on the upside to be a great squad.
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With Opening Day quickly approaching, I thought it would be a good time to make a thread to discuss where we think the NL Central teams will finish in the 2021 season as well as discussions of how we think certain players will perform for the Brewers this season. NL Central Standings: Brewers 94-68 Cardinals 90-72 Reds 82-80 Cubs 80-82 Pirates 75-87 Most Valuable Player: Christian Yelich rebounds and puts up an MVP season once again after his rough 2020. Cy Young: Brandon Woodruff continues to mature as a pitcher and finds himself in the top 5 for the NL Cy Young this season. Most Surpringing Player: Omar Narvaez bounces back and has a .270/.350/.800 season while playing above average defense. He becomes a staple in the middle of the order. Most Disappointing Player: Josh Hader has a “down” season. He will still be productive and pitch well, but won’t live up to the high bar that he has set the last few seasons. Under the Radar Player to Watch: Freddy Peralta is still only 24 years old and with him becoming confident in his slider and adding that to the mix, he could become the next great arm to come up through the minors to put at the top of the rotation with Woodruff and Burnes. I expect great things from him this season. Rookie of the Year: Alec Bettinger finds himself playing a significant role out of the Brewers pen the second half of the season and quickly becomes a high leverage arm used late in games with Hader and Williams.
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Tim Dillard, Vinny Rottino join Brewers broadcast team
RollieTime replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Think he can still throw a brekka ball? Possibly work for Gruber Lawffices? -
3b zach green minor league deal; non-roster invitee
RollieTime replied to djoctagone's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I kinda wish we would just roll with Green at third, but I love Shaw as a person and hope he does well. I just don’t think he will unfortunately. -
Tim Dillard, Vinny Rottino join Brewers broadcast team
RollieTime replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Glad that I no longer need to listen to Augustine. He was horrible to listen to. He never sounded comfortable on TV. He would always try to change his sentence half way through saying it and it would come out a jumbled mess. You could basically count on one hand the amount of times in a season that he would analyze something for 30 seconds and not have a cringey sentence or two in there somewhere. -
To be a perennial contender, it will involve trading players from the roster that are making an impact at the MLB level. The best way to do that will be to trade players that you have replacements for already in the upper minors. The issue for us is that we have little to no position players to do that with since the majority of our roster is free agent signings and/or replacement level players. Pitching is where we would need to deal from and I would say we are more than capable of replacing Hader with Williams coming on last season, Peralta looking like he has finally clicked, and other guys like Rasmussen and Suter making a big impact. The Rays have continuously traded their pitchers over the years and keep churning out more through their acquisitions in trades and it is a model we need to do ourselves to remain competitive year after year. Will fans hate who we trade away? Some will because they don’t fully understand it. Rays fans might not like seeing their stars traded either, but it’s worked for them. If you continue to put a winning product on the field, that’s what matters and fans will continue to fill the park. I created the thread on here I believe 3 years ago to trade Knebel coming off his huge season when the relief pitching market was hot. We didn’t capitalize on it and those are the types of moves we need to make. The value on the relief pitcher market seems to have diminished quite a bit since that time, but someone like Hader should still bring back quite the haul.
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Looking forward to the rule in a couple years where the batter can’t step out of the box after a swinging strike on a 1-0 pitch, but can after a 0-1 pitch only if the pitch speed was in excess of 90 MPH AND if the catcher caught the ball over the plate, but only if the pitcher takes two steps towards the plate because one step isn’t far enough from the mound where the gain of game length is unbearable and unnecessary.
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What was Mitchell’s EV on his 3-0 double to center field in I believe the 5th inning? It was an absolute rope!
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Is 2020 Braun’s last year in Milwaukee?
RollieTime replied to TexasCheesehead's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
He might still be able to reach it if he decides to come back in July. -
Might be what we see 1-4 on Opening Day. Great lineup to watch today and looking forward to seeing more of Mitchell!
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Which combined with his $6.5 base salary for this year makes for a total guarantee of $13 million, which I believe was reported previously. It's just a way for the Brewers to kick the can down the road to a season when revenue has theoretically been returned to closer to normal levels. Looks like $3 million is deferred too. So he’s only making $3.5 million this season I think? Not a fan of deferred money, but it makes sense. It’ll just suck next season when they have $10 million (guesstimate) in buyout money for the 2022 season on the books.
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How is making adjustments in Spring Training a bad look? I would think this would be the time to be doing that. With the impending decision on him only 6 days away and coming off of a rough couple years, it’s just not a reassuring thing in my eyes for him to be working on something because he’s not right. But I can certainly see why it would be a positive too in that they are working on it now before the games really matter. I would hope he worked on himself in the offseason to figure himself out and come into camp ready to roll. Which I’m sure he thought he did, but something just wasn’t right. It’s more of a small red flag at this stage and something to watch with the roster decision coming up.
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Yuck, $6.5 million buyout for next season?
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I hate the rolling inning thing. Wins and losses don’t mean much, but it matters that young guys get an opportunity to come up with a clutch hit. Or to get the lead in an inning like this and be able to evaluate a pitcher late in the game pitching with a one run lead. Letting a starter come back in is fine with me if you don’t want him to go above 25 pitches in an inning and you’re trying to stretch him out. Rolling an inning can go away. Shaw talking with Sophia right now about how he’s making adjustments with his set up because of something they found on Saturday to change. Not a good look for a guy coming off of two poor years and fighting for his career basically.
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My head hurts
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Looking at his splits, Cain’s OBP was north of .320 against RHP in 2019 which is the figure used for this exercise. I’m not sure exactly what you’re saying though. Any player on the team could hit into a double play I guess? I provided the facts and figures over a 162 game sample. I mean sure he could hit into a double play just like Hiura, Narvaez, anybody could. Yelich could also have it where he comes up 110 times with nobody on base anyway like stated previously hitting in the two hole. The numbers account for things like double plays and fielder’s choices built into the numbers. Are you suggesting a guy like Hiura hitting second then because he strikes out at a high clip so there will be less double play opportunities? I’m not exactly following.
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I disagree in that the Brewers don’t worry about alternating lefties and righties in the lineup. They seem to do it very frequently. Once in a great while they will stack a bunch of lefties in a lineup and have 3 of the top 4 be left handed. But I have to disagree. I don’t think Wong was brought in to be a 6 or 7 hole hitter. And I don’t foresee them hitting two lefties at the top of the order for an everyday lineup. Wong, Cain, Yelich, Hiura makes way too much sense. If Garcia steps up this year, I could see Hiura moving in front of Yelich with Garcia hitting 4th. If the Brewers aren’t much for alternating LH and RH batters, if Shaw or Narvaez hit very well this season, are you suggesting that they will see significant time hitting either 3rd or 4th directly behind Yelich depending on where Yelich is batting?
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Thought it might be time to bump this thread with the recent discussions of where Yelich should bat. Over the course of the season, using an average OBP for a hitter, in the first inning the two hole hitter will have 52 times during the regular season in the first inning with a runner on base and 110 times with the bases empty. Batting in the three hole, he will have 86 appearances in the first inning with AT LEAST one runner on base, 76 times without. 16 of those plate appearances will have multiple runners on base. Over the course of the season, your 3 hole hitter will have roughly 17 less at bats compared to hitting 2nd. I personally love having the best hitter in the 3 hole, hopefully getting a runner on base in front of Yelich early in the game when a pitcher isn’t locked in yet. Especially for a team constructed like we are, getting that early lead and putting the pressure on the opposing team knowing that innings 6-9 will be tough to score. I will gladly take the one less at bat every 10 games for Yelich to get him an additional 34 at bats during the regular season with at least one runner on base in the first inning alone. And remember, this is based on players with a .320 OBP. Get a couple guys with a .350 OBP and those opportunities in the first inning start approaching the mid to upper 90’s for opportunities with at least one runner on base.
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I’m curious about Feliciano and how he sets up behind the dish. He has that Martin Maldonado set up sometimes where he is half doing the splits with one leg out to the side, which is fine if nobody is on base. It was a 1-2 count with a runner on second and a right handed batter up. Seems like a strange set up on a 1-2 pitch specifically. Then the next hitter was up and it was a 0-0 count. Jo Adell is on second base and Feliciano this time is kneeling on his left knee and has his right leg not all the way down in the splits, but has his right foot planted on the ground out behind the left handed hitter while mostly down into the splits. I haven’t watched any of Feliciano so I guess my question is does Feliciano make the majority of his throws from his knees? If so, then no big deal. But setting up half in the splits with Adell at second seems like a really odd time to not be in a position to throw. If he were to steal at this point, I imagine the only thing Feliciano could do would be to use all arm on his throw from that position. Anybody have any insight on him? Thanks!