Ron Robinsons Beard

Just wait until Fangraphs has the Cubs winning 92 games to take the division next year. Of course, the Brewers will be a close 2nd with 82 wins. (not blue ... because this is very likely IMO)

And the answer is 18-6, for an incredible 75% winning percentage in September. Congrats to @ErnieRilesBrianGiles who at 16-8 was the closest (although @torts with 24-0 was surprisingly close!) Several of us went with 15-9, which goes to show that even the most optimistic of us sometimes underestimate the wherewithal of this team.

Logically, I agree. Wouldn't make any sense financially for him to hang them up. But he's also a guy who has a lot of pride, and its pretty easy to see how frustrated he's been this season. My head tells me he isn't going anywhere, but my gut is telling me that maybe this is it ... That said, I think he'd be a natural for a future front office role.

I am probably completely off base, but I can't help but have this feeling in the back of my mind that perhaps Yelich has let a select few in the organization know that he intends to retire after this season, and this is the organization's way of honoring him without letting the cat out of the bag. He doesn't seem like the type that would want the fanfare of a retirement tour.

Cubs. That pitching staff is atrocious. They are not playing great ball going into the playoffs. We have had good success shutting down their better hitters.

If it were possible to go below 0%, that would be my response. Patrick has been one of the team's main bullpen cogs all season. There is absolutely no chance he isn't on the playoff roster. A rough outing in a throwaway game with no stakes isn't going to change their mind.

Yes, Miz will be making one more start this season against the Cardinals this weekend. That will be a planned full start, after he made a planned short start on 3 days rest a few days ago.

The answer to that is above my pay grade. But it isn't above theirs. All I know is when your models concerning one team in particular are pretty drastically wrong year-after-year, and you are a website that prides yourself on accuracy with your predictions, something is pretty demonstrably broken. They'd probably hate the suggestion, but it likely starts with adding some sort of automatic positive regression to prospective Brewers rotation members. The teams' pitching development mechanism, at this point, has proven that it can regularly out kick its coverage.

As I've noted before, models can be adjusted. This isn't a one-off. Fangraphs has seriously underestimated the Brewers for years.

Because Fangraphs is crap. Almost to the point where its getting difficult to not accuse them of some sort of weird negative bias.

I thought Murphy said that Miz's last start was a planned short one, but that his last start this weekend would be a normal lengthened one to get him ready for the postseason?

LOL what are you talking about? You were literally responding to my comment.

LOL ... it was pretty well-covered at the time, and I was fully aware. And I agree it was a fun story for an organizational solider type like Pannone to defy the odds and throw a perfect game. That said, I don't think he needs you to defend him.

And? One good AAA game doesn't make him any less of a complete non-prospect organizational soldier.

The long and short of it is that they are really good, and if they so choose, can essentially coast to the finish line.