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  1. long ball
    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.
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    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.
  3. long ball
    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.
  4. long ball
    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.
  5. long ball
    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.
  6. long ball
    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.
  7. long ball
    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.
  8. long ball
    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
  9. long ball
    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.
  10. long ball
    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.
  11. long ball
    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!)
  12. long ball
    Thank god we get the automatic runner
  13. long ball
    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.
  14. long ball
    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.
  15. long ball
    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.
  16. long ball
    Since the day of trading for Yelich and signing Cain, the Brewers have operated in an almost methodical way. Don’t get too high, don’t get too low. As scary as it is to write this, I agree with you that the Brewers have the division winning team and while they need to take care of business, they really need to make sure the roster is is good healthy shape going into the playoffs. It’s not just Misiorowski that they’re playing that balancing act with. It’s basically every starter on the 40 man. we’ve seen the slow transition to this new infield. First it was building the Ortiz/Hamilton platoon and now it’s inserting Pratt into the primary SS role. we’ve seen the transition in the OF to more Bauers and less Frelick. I don’t have the data or research to back up this claim, but it “feels” like Murphy has eased up on riding certain bull pen arms at an unsustainable pace. Slow and steady, this team is building the division winning team and fine tuning it into a team that can really compete in the playoffs.
  17. long ball
    Hopefully we can get 5-6 innings from Drohan (he’s gone at least 5 in his last two starts). Would be nice to use some of the B bullpen today and have the A pen a little more rested for the Atlanta series. bit of a Sunday line up today, but we are already spoiled with how many games Contreras plays. Between Perkins, Mitchell, and Frelick against a lefty I can’t complain too much that Perkins got the call.
  18. long ball
    A real bummer, but I, like many other fans, had already written him off as a contributor to the 2026 season. let’s hope for a successful surgery, recovery, and return to his 2025 form. it does make you wonder how much the Brewers were counting on Priester coming into the season. They made a late off season trade to bring in Harrison and Drohan. If we wouldn’t have done that we’d be in a world of hurt given the injuries to Woody, Crow, and Henderson along with the shaky results from Gasser and Sproat.
  19. long ball
    Other than about a 10 minute span, that game was quite lovely.
  20. long ball
    I feel like we give up more homers into the right field patio than we hit. So it’s nice to finally have one count for us.
  21. long ball
    I liked the move in context of the off-season. They made a late trade of Durbin and needed a veteran stop gap. It didn’t work and they’re moving on at an appropriate time. I don’t think it hurt us in the W/L column to stick with Rengifo for a month longer than most of us message board commenters wanted. the DFA definitely cleared up what the Brewers intention with Pratt is for the rest of the year. If it were just an IL stint for Rengifo that would’ve left things unclear.
  22. long ball
    When they showed he threw 80+ pitches on the broadcast last night I figured he’d start in about a week. I kinda think they’ll roll with a 6 man rotation till the all star break if Woodruff does in fact get activated next week. the one tricky part about being activated against the reds is that he will probably face the reds twice in a row. Maybe that’s not such a big deal because the reds offense is stinky, but since he’s more of a “crafty vet” At this point it would be nice if he didn’t have a second match up against the same team in the span of a week.
  23. long ball
    I agree the bar is quite low since the current guys haven’t hit well. But our glove first infielders have all struggled at the plate during their early years (Hardy, Escobar, Arcia, and Turang). Ironically, Joey Ortiz was by far the best hitter in his first real big league stint compared to that group. As I mentioned in my post, I agree with the move to promote Pratt. I hope he runs with it, but I have low expectations that he will be an upgrade offensively. I hope I’m wrong!
  24. long ball
    I'm not sure there's a "serious push" unless Attanasio gets into meddling with the baseball ops side. At least as far as outside acquisitions go. Might be a more nuanced push like taking Contreras or Turang through to free agency.
  25. long ball
    I’m not all that optimistic that Pratt will be an upgrade offensively. However, I am glad they’re bringing him up to the majors. I mentioned this on Spencer’s Cooper Pratt primer, but we are going to be promoting a bunch of position players over the next 2-3 seasons. Staggering their promotions over the course of a couple seasons theoretically helps that transition to the next core of the position players. I’m thinking at least Pratt, Williams, Made, Lara, and Quero will all be in prominent roles by mid 2027 season.
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