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Too many balls outside the strike zone for my liking. Got through it though.

Playing a baseball game that is currently tied.

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I didn't have a problem with Ashby getting the start and I still don't. He just didn't have the strike zone. Was he not dealing with nerves? Who can say but if he doesn't throw strikes it's going to hurt the team whether it's in the 1st inning or 7th/8th.

Predicted that. Ashby losing the strike zone is just begging for a dinger.

Michael Busch: .261/.343/.523/.866 and 147 OPS+ Jackson Chourio: .270/.308/.463/.770 and 112 OPS+ William Contreras: .260/.355/.399/.754 and 111 OPS+ One of these things is not like the other two.

I feel like I've said it a couple times this season that he's Trea Turner lite. Cant remember which threads but I think I said it before he went on his HR binge in,,, was it August? I think I was saying it before the All Star break.

Hmm I wonder how much it matters how many Cubs fans got tickets today with the Brewers leading 9-1 after 2 innings? I'm sure it's still inexplicably important to some people though.

Yes. Pasted below is an AI summary from Google but I've also read the article and can confirm it's correct. The MLB's automated strike zone parameters define a 17-inch wide, player-specific rectangle for the strike zone, set at the midpoint of the plate. The top of the zone is at 53.5% and the bottom is at 27% of the batter's height. The system uses Hawk-Eye technology to track pitches, making the ball/strike determination when the ball is at the midpoint of the plate. Strike Zone Dimensions Width: 17 inches, the width of home plate. Height: Adjusted for each player's height. The bottom of the zone is 27% of the batter's height. The top of the zone is 53.5% of the batter's height. Depth: The system makes its call when the ball is at the midpoint of the plate, 8.5 inches from the front and back. How the System Works Height Measurement: Independent testers measure each player's height during Spring Training to establish the official zone for that player. Players are measured standing straight up without cleats. Pitch Tracking: Hawk-Eye cameras track the ball's trajectory to the plate. Midpoint Call: The system determines if the ball crosses the strike zone when it's at the midpoint of home plate. Comparison to Rule Book: This is a change from the standard rule book zone, which considers a strike a pitch that crosses any part of the three-dimensional home plate.

And these are just the called strikes. I can remember a handful of pitches that were well within the strike zone and called balls as well. Brutal.

It's already been stated in this thread but I think way too many people are still holding the image of 2024 Eric Haase in their minds. He hasn't been that guy in 2025.

The Brewers still have Haase. So they can still use him if they want to. It's possible that Jansen just took a bit of time to settle in to his new situation. Trades can be jarring even for better players than he is. It's one of the reasons I think trade deadline moves are generally overrated. And by that I mean that those moves coming at that specific time have a lot of expectations attached to them. There's no way to predict when those players feel a comfort level to just be who they are. Some do better than others in that situation.

Can he coach football?

I'd rather be going for the win than playing it safe. I feel like that's an attitude that you end up setting inside that locker room whether it's intentional or not: we aren't confident that we can win so we're going to play it safe. I can't speak for the men in that locker room but I feel pretty confident that if they took a vote it would overwhelmingly be in favor of aggression rather than caution. I'm just not going to ever understand how they decided to play scared at the end of that game. What did that one dude say that one time?

I am still so unbelievably pissed off about this game. I don't think I've ever watched a game that has left me this baffled how it went the way it did in my entire life. I've watched terrible Packers teams play with a more focused purpose, of what they were trying to accomplish than what I saw last night. Fire everyone. I've never quite been on the MLF is trash bandwagon but I'm now a convert, it's my new religion. What the hell did I watch happen in that overtime? The Packers were scoring TD after TD leading up to OT. Everything in OT went exactly like you'd hope (mostly) by holding them to a FG. Then as soon as they get the ball for their possession MLF decides to play for the tie? Did that really happen? The play calling was mind boggling. The clock management was infuriating. How are they not trying to score a TD and win? How was the defense this bad? I can accept that Dak is a capable QB and made some things happen but it sure looked like they made it as easy for him as they could. I need it explained to me like I'm a caveman that was frozen in ice and woke up in the modern world would need computers explained to them. (Well, we dug in the ground and found these special rocks and when we figured out how to harnesses the power of lightning to feed a current into those rocks we ended up creating something that will eventually gain it's own consciousness and end human existence. That is, if we don't do it to ourselves first).

My concern is mainly that they've been playing .500 ball for a month, which is fine, I'm just anxious about them being able to kick it up a notch once the playoffs start. Sometimes I think it's something to be legitimately anxious about and other times I think that it's not. The playoffs are their own thing and if they go out and win game one of their first series that can ignite the team just as easily as anything else.

I'm pretty much the same. My team is my team, then there's all the rest. There are teams that I can enjoy watching in a neutral setting but I'm not a "fan" of those teams. I don't read articles or keep up with the entire roster of players and their stats and personalities the way I do for my team. And when my team plays those teams? Not even close. I can go from liking a team to hating them real quick and it doesn't take much at all. A hit by pitch can sway my feelings about a neutral team in an instant.

I'm not so sure it will. Up until recently I have also been on the fully automated band wagon but I've now come around to thinking the challenge system might be the best option. It will still take watching it in action to fully convince me but I'm definitely leaning towards the challenge system being the best option. Also, I don't actually think that Manfred or the suits in the MLB office have strong feelings about going fully automated. If they did then that would change my view on what will happen in the future. I think they're prepared to be just as satisfied with the challenge system as the players. I get it (because I was thinking it too) the challenge system feels sentimental, like it's clinging to tradition. But the more I've read about it I feel I better understand what the baseball folks are talking about. I'm just not as convinced now as I was before that going 100% with technology is the superior choice. Ultimately we shall see. Opinions will form more solidly as we see it in action.

Cal Raleigh hit his 60th HR of the season last night. He's played in 155 games (35 as a DH), it's incredibly impressive the season he has put up as a catcher with 7.2 bWAR. We get pretty good production out of our own catcher, William Contreras, who also plays in a lot of games at catcher with minimal rest but Raleigh's season is clearly on another level. Does he win MVP? If you're just comparing numbers, Judge is still the man. But I just think with the physical toll of playing that position and now hitting the 60 HR milestone Raleigh could see a nice bump in 1st place votes. It's the one thing that, perhaps, can't be measured by WAR. It's not rare for a catcher to suffer on offense due to the demands of squatting for 120+ games and wearing all that gear through the heat of a summer.

All in all, regardless of the tickets that end up in the hands of opposing team's fans, I'd expect that Brewers fans will still vastly outnumber those other fans. Brewers fans will always be the ones most motivated to buy playoff tickets for Brewers games, and almost all of those people want to actually go to those games. A Brewers vs. Cubs playoff series would be the only one where I'd think the opposing fans would be significantly loud but that's already kind of the norm when the Brewers host the Cubs.

Correct. This topic has 820 views in going on 3 days now, I'd assume by many whom have clicked on it multiple times to read new replies. What actual result do you think comes of this from the couple dozen people you've reached with your plea? I don't begrudge you for your opinion I just don't think that, as a call to action, it's going to be effective. If you bought advertising on billboards all over Milwaukee I would wonder how effective that would even be.

In the article I read I believe they said that challenges on average were about 13 seconds. But they also said that challenges per game averaged out to about 4 per game. So that's one minute total added to games. Seems like a fair enough a trade off to me. Replay challenges take longer. I barely notice the time on those unless it goes really long. I don't think the time for balls/strikes challenges are going to be that noticeable.

On the surface I can see how that sounds like a good idea but both teams getting a bunch of inconsequential challenges would absolutely slow the game down. If a team is using challenges correctly they will have infinite challenges to use throughout the game.

Read the article that @markedman5 linked, explains the thought process behind the choice for 2 and I think it sounds very reasonable. Basically teams are going to have to be strategic in their choice to use their challenges. If a challenge succeeds the team retains their challenge(s). So 2 should be plenty if used correctly. The point is to have a way to fix egregious incorrect calls, not to nitpick about borderline pitches that could get called either way.