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The A’s got Leo Devries for Mason Miller last year. He’s still under team control through 2030. are we giving up Luis Peña + for Mason Miller who is going to get super expensive in arb? id love mason miller in our pen, but it’s not really the way this team should be operating.

What’s funny is at the time the original game was rained out and scheduled for yesterday I thought to myself “the cards are hit right now and playing much better than we are… by the time this game gets made up we are going to be playing better and they’re going to be playing closer to their pre season expectations.” played out just like that.

Coming into this final week before the break I was hoping for 4-4. well now that we’ve started 3-0, im feeling greedy. I hope we get a bounce back performance from Harrison tonight and he goes 6-7 strong. Would be nice to get another day of rest for most of the leverage bullpen arms.

Do what you need to do to win game 1. If you do that, I don’t care if it’s a gasser/stallings tandem and you live with the results.

If there’s ever a time to steal a couple starts by Frelick at third base it’s probably during a Misiorowski start when he’s going to strike out half the batters he faces anyway.

This is kinda my initial reaction to the move. We are butting up against the break. We don’t have another infielder on the 40 man. Add a bat for the rest of the week and take the break to assess how Hamilton is recovering and see if you need to make a 40 man move coming out of the break.

Looks like May is coming off back to back clunkers. Hopefully we can make it a third. At the very least, hit him better than we did a few weeks ago. would be nice to get 5 or 6 IP from Drohan tonight since we didn’t get much from our starters vs Arizona. im really just hoping to go at least 4-4 this week and stay healthy going into the break.

This feels about right to me too. Not trying to be pessimistic, but going slightly below .500 in this stretch to the allstar break makes sense to me. Then coming back after the break and playing better against a softer schedule makes sense to me I’ll also pick 14-12

How the Brewers navigate the season and the innings pitched for the whole rotation is something I’ve been thinking about basically since spring training. Obviously, Misiorowski is the crown jewel and needs to be treated as such. The rest of the rotation is pretty inexperienced too. heres the break down of innings pitched by the current crop of starters. First number is 2025 combined innings (minors, mlb, post season), second number being their career high in innings. woodruff 106.2/186.2 (2021) Patrick 166 Gasser 46.1/ 137 (2022) sproat 141.2 Henderson 103 Crow 50/128 (2022) Harrison 112/124.1 (2024) Drohan 54/123 (2023) would be nice to somehow come out of this season with all of these guys getting over 100 IP and healthy.

I don’t think Yoho is high up on the Murphy trust tree. koenig was about at the 30 day mark on his rehab stint. Hopefully he can be reliable in middle relief.

Murphy said they won’t go to a 6 man rotation. We saw the challenges of a six man rotation almost immediately in Wednesdays night game where we were trying to protect a lead while 3 relievers were unavailable. how do you predict this stretch till the allstar break plays out? 4 days rest for all of the starters with Drohan or Gasser shifting to the pen? We have limited options currently on the 40 man to turn to when we inevitably need a fresh arm over this stretch. McGee is healthy and presumably an option. Koenig is rehabbing and Henderson is set to begin his rehab on 6/28. Do the brewers end up adding a pitcher to the 40 man? If so, who would you predict? (don’t feel the need to read this all out as a question, but if you could just discuss in general what you think the pitching plan looks like during this 18 game in 17 days stretch that would be great!)

Thank god we get the automatic runner

I agree. I’m predicting it’s either Rom or Yoho. Whoever pitches the 9th inning might give us a clue. im also not totally sure they wouldn’t stick with a 6 man rotation till the all star break (assuming health). Give Woody the extra rest plus everyone else in our rotation needs their innings managed to an extent.

I’m not trading Made. Peña maybe in a Skubal trade or for someone signed to below market deal for several more years. (But still probably not for Skubal). I wouldn’t trade Pratt or lara since we’ve already signed them. if a pitcher has already made their mlb debut, I’m probably not trading them. (Henderson, sproat, crow, Drohan). Adamczewski is the only other guy I’ve sorta got a prospect crush on, but the point of him being a LF is a fair point. And if Peña ends up as an OF then there isn’t room for both of them.

I agree with you guys. Adams and Jett feel like locks to be added to the 40 man. And who knows, some of these pitchers may get forced into major league duty yet this season.