SeaBass

The Kid is on fire. 🔥

Bauers has a sweet swing when he connects for power. Wish it happened more often.

My favorite stat with Chourio is the kid is having a blast playing baseball. Constantly smiling. So I guess the stat is Smile factor: 1.000.

Marlins very nearly swept the Orioles (lost game 3 in extra innings) just before coming to Milwaukee, they're playing well right now. That said I wholeheartedly agree. 😆

And Brandon Bostick. May he forever live in infamy. You know, instead of the cheap QB method the Packers are pretty much going with the cheap offense other than QB and that works too. Hopefully. There really aren't many, if any, expensive contracts on the offense. Even Jacobs' deal isn't that bad.

I get it but at the same time if he wasn't playing baseball he'd very likely be doing something else. That's 5 days off in the middle of the season, very precious time for a baseball player. He'd be traveling or visiting friends and family and still working his body even if it's off the field. It'd be really hard to ask him to just stay in bed for 5 days and not strain himself.

5 days, not 6. He played the Sunday before the break and the Saturday after, then was given Sunday off. So he played 5 innings of fairly uneventful baseball (hitting into two groundouts and making one defensive play on a base hit to right field) sandwiched between 4 off days. I think he played because he felt well enough to play, just like he played after the break up until he didn't feel well enough to play. It feels to me like it got worse in that 2nd Cubs game when he was removed from the game in the 8th inning. I get Yelich's back issue is a big deal but pro athletes play through their aches and pains until it gets to a point where they just can't anymore. I think that has to apply to Yelich just like anyone else. He can have a sore back that he can play through, there's no known timeframe to take time off for rest so that it doesn't get worse, it could easily go as long as a typical trip to the IL anyway or longer. At least playing through it until he can't lets everyone know for sure that he has to shut it down so you're not playing the "what if" game. That's how I feel about it anyway. I'm sure there's room for disagreement there.

People are fooling themselves if they really think Yelich playing in 5 innings of the ASG is the problem here. It sucks he's hurt. Scapegoating doesn't change anything.

Really hoping it gets done this weekend if not today. Taking this into next week just dials up the pressure (and fan angst). In the meantime, for those that may not follow Tom Grossi on YouTube.

Whew, sounds like a lot of excuses. They're supposed to be better and they're not (right now at this point in time). Of course my post was somewhat tongue in cheek but there is nothing they are going through that the Brewers aren't also going through and they still have more talent than the Brewers. Yet the narrative around this Brewers team is how are they doing all this winning without good starting pitching? If you were offered a straight swap of Corbin Burnes and Grayson Rodriguez for Freddy Peralta and Colin Rea would you do it? I'd hope so. Wouldn't even have to think 30 seconds about it. So now we're going to compare Meyers and Civale and say we're obviously better there too? At a glance I'd take their 8th and 9th inning RPs (Cano and Kimbrell) over ours too. For one, the Brewers don't seem to have a designated 8th inning pitcher. Maybe that's by design and maybe not, the idea of using Hudson in high leverage earlier in games isn't a bad thing but nobody else has really established themselves as a rock solid 8th inning set-up man. All this on top of that Orioles offense and they are only 1.5 games better than the Brewers in the standings and have a similar run differential +85 to the Brewers' +84. This is all pretty circumstantial as the Orioles have been on a 3-8 stretch in their last 11 games (they just broke a 3 game losing streak by defeating the Marlins in extra innings). The Brewers had been on a bit of a skid themselves but won 4 of their last 5 after the AS break. a couple of those Cubs games go differently and maybe this little bit of a swing in the Brewers' favor isn't as meaningful.

The Brewers (403 RA) have allowed the 5th fewest runs in MLB (tied with KC) and have allowed fewer runs than... checks notes... the Baltimore Orioles (414 RA). Who I've been told have better starting pitchers than the Brewers.

Yelich contemplating season ending back surgery.

Personally don't feel like they'd start Haase in the OF unless they were really in a bind. The other outfielders are just that much better defensively. DH makes more sense if they wanted to get his bat in the lineup.

Training camp has officially started with AJ Dillon winning the first mention of being in the "best shape of his career." I'm all for him having a great season but I'll believe it when I see it.

Right. I think I would only start to get concerned if this stretches into next week and it's still not done. And elevate to really concerned if it goes even longer. In the end he's going to be a Packer for a long time. Unless things really, really go off the rails. I'm not getting that kind of feeling at all.

It's also very unlikely that Love went out and had a top 10 season as a QB with the supporting cast he did and not be proven. Could he regress? Sure. But it's not like he was out there bumbling around and getting lucky with his throws. And as you said, this is the price you pay for waiting on the guy. When you see guys like Trevor Lawrence getting paid people need to understand that this is just crazy QB money and tuck it away in a corner of your mind where it doesn't bother you. ETA: Not ripping the supporting cast either, love the youth and depth of the receivers. But to do that with nearly exclusively 1st and 2nd year skill position players is impressive.

Well, maybe not a done deal for Jordan Love. Reports that he will not practice until deal is done per Gute.

Brewers improve to 26-14 vs. the AL. Best interleague record in baseball and it's not really close.

Beautiful breaking ball there!

Megill trolling Brewerfan posters today.

Behind the plate he's eerily like Tony Pena.

A dinger for each A in Haase!

I too have a mild preference for that.

Dang Turang hit that hard.

I like this Chourio kid.