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You're right. His fastball is down 5-6mph and his cutter is in the low 90's and very hittable. I hope Pancake can see what's happening. Hate to use the pen this early again, but Miz doesn't have it tonite. The mound problems doesn't help.

Or they trade him for a much better package.

He swung at ball 4 and then whiffed on ball 5. Horrible AB with RISP.

IMO it's a way, way too weak package for Contreras. I'd rather keep him and get a good draft pick in 2028,

Sanchez might be the slowest man in MLB history. If not, he would give anybody a "trot" for their money in a "race" to 1B.

So Baez has hit more homers in his first 3 MLB at bats then the total number of HRs of the entire Brewer team in their last 5 games total.

Why Pancake keeps Contreras in the lineup is a mystery. He's 0 for his last 19 ABs and 5 for his last 44 ABs. He needs serious bench time to get his head right. Mitchell goes down looking once again. You would think the coaching staff could tell him to be more aggressive with two strikes. Churio too whiffs again. 5 whiffs out of 9 outs. Two whiffs with RISP. That's getting all too familiar lately.

I'm not as sure about the hitting coaching. Milwaukee just doesn't have the talent at too many positions to be any kind of threat for the W.S... Yelich is washed up and they are stuck with him for the next two years. Mitchell is 7 for his last 56 and whiffing about 1/3 of the time. He's been hurt so much nobody knew if he could hit or not. The talent as a hitter just doesn't seem to be there. Hamilton is a once or twice a week bench guy who is playing far too much because Murphy had nobody else. Ortiz is hitting better than his career stats, but nobody is going to mistake him for a natural good hitter. Lara is a young guy who is over matched quite often. He really belongs in the minors at age 21. No amount of coaching can make up for the lack of talent. Contreras is a different story. However I don't know if at this point in his career he's going to change much.

The long ball has been killing the Crew. Their top 3 pitchers (Miz - Harrison - Henderson) have now allowed 7 bombs in less than 18 innings in their last collective starts. Right now just about everything is going wrong.

That's 6 dingers given up by the top 3 Brewer pitchers in only 16+ IPs. With the pathetic lineup they have, it's very tough to win.

Another bomb given up by Brewer pitching. When are they going to realize that you can't throw a pitch down the middle and expect good results? Harrison just sucks tonite, at a time where the Brewers really needed him. The lineup would struggle to be competitive in AAA. Still time if they can somehow begin to hit.

Turang's 10th whiff in his last 24 ABs. Brewers desperately need his bat. Oh crap, Churio had it stolen and slid off the bag. Looks like the Crew can run on S.D. tonight.

Right now a little concerned about Henderson. That's 3 dingers in his last 7+ IPs. Good news is they are all single shots.

This is all predicated on there actually being a season in 2027. If they can re-sign Bauers for something like 3/$27M-$30M I'd do that deal. I think Vaughn is going to be too expensive for a backup if they get Bauers. In a major deal, trade Contreras and Frelick/Mitchell looking for a power hitting RF or 3B. Ashby - Hall - Koenig - Anderson - Gasser - Sproat - Crow could go in the right deals. Hamilton - Jett to sweeten some major deal. See how May performs and look at re-signing him for 2-3 years if he does well. Miz-Harrison-Henderson-May (maybe) - Priester looks like a mighty good rotation! Milwaukee has the right stuff to make a couple of major deals in the off season and be a powerhouse once again in 2027.

Murphy almost had to run for Sanchez there. Knowing his B pen was going to pitch in the 10th he had to go for the win. With Bae and Bunty coming up it's most likely going to be two easy outs. He had to hope Turang wouldn't choke and whiff. It's going to be interesting who hits when the pitcher's spot is up.