So...Kimbrel anyone? In all seriousness, this feels like worst-case scenario for Brewers pitching. Every pitcher not named Davies is demonstrably worse than last year. Choose whatever explanation you like—DJ is gone/Hook sucks, regression to the mean, juiced balls, launch angle revolution—the staff is absolutely plagued by long ball issues, and pitch location is all over the map. If the team hopes to compete, the pitchers can’t continue this trend. Arguably, they can’t really be this bad, but we all hoped that was true after each Burnes start, and he just kept getting worse. I’m in the irrational “don’t just stand there, do something” phase of fandom, and so I get its irrational and I’d feel differently after a three-game win streak, so I’m going to keep baseball off tomorrow and cleanse the system. But I’d be lying to you if I said I didn’t have this thought on my mind as I try and sleep tonight: what if they sign Kimbrel/Keuchel, and this team only wins 80 games anyway because the staff really is this bad? Nightmare fuel...