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Bradley as a great CF that can't hit is ok. Bradley as a corner OFer that can't hit is not ok.

Our "awesome" bullpen looking the part again.

Im feeling a HR by Wong I was going to double down to say I'm feeling homer #1 for Keston.

The run we scored still ended up being earned so not completely a gift in the end. We still should have more than that however.

I actually never liked it when Vina used to throw his body into a pitch but not sure even he was ever as egregious as that one. I know if I was an umpire, guys that do that would never get away with it.

I'm sure I'll be off by a mile, but I'm feeling hit #1 for Keston.

Burnes now with nearly as many base hits as Urias and Hiura combined.

Yet Brewers announcers will continue to refer to him as a gold glove OFer until the day he no longer dons the Brewers uniform.

Seems like he did well against the Padres. A second one doesn't jump out, even if the Pads was right in the first place..

This isn't an innings thing, or shouldn't be. There will probably be some starts where he labors and throws 100 pitches in 5 innings. When you are at 74, that is the equivalent of 5 innings in a normal start. He wouldn't have been pulled after 5 innings and 74 pitches so why do it just because he went 7 innings? Doubt the extra couple of innings of warmup pitches were a killer. You do it after 7 and not 5 because you have (in theory, not necessarily practice—ie, Joc’s HR) fresher and more effective bullpen arms to take it the rest of the way. Your A team can cover two or three innings of a tied or close-led game, but probably not 4 such innings. Woody is likely to be counted on for many more high-leverage pitches and innings later in the year than will Freddy, as much as I hope Freddy continues his breakout. Bank some more pitches now for Woodruff, I say. I get what your saying but I don't necessarily agree with it. I'm not convinced an ace like Woody with 74 pitches thrown still isn't better than a bullpen option. And I still think for guys like Woodruff, he should be allowed to make that call to go back out for the next inning. And I will assume that was not the case. And I am also partially swayed in this instance by the way Williams looked on Monday. What I DO have a problem with, on the subject of in-game management, and as others have noted, is pigeonholing Hader to the “closer” role. The only thing I can say about it is that Hader seems to like it, and so it may have psychological performance benefits for Hader. But I do not like it analytically at all. I’d prefer a matchup based approach with relievers.

This isn't an innings thing, or shouldn't be. There will probably be some starts where he labors and throws 100 pitches in 5 innings. When you are at 74, that is the equivalent of 5 innings in a normal start. He wouldn't have been pulled after 5 innings and 74 pitches so why do it just because he went 7 innings? Doubt the extra couple of innings of warmup pitches were a killer.

And the Mets took out deGrom after 77 pitches and 6 dominant innings with a 2-0 lead. Of course they lost. I think when you have the aces of staffs and some of the best in the game, they really should be the ones to tap themselves out of the game. I get it when guys are on base but after an inning in that situation, is just stupid in my mind.

Could you imagine if Counsell tried to take out Verlander, Scherzer, Bumgarner, etc. after 74 pitches?

Over-managing nonsense that has been rampant in baseball for a good 20 years. All I can think of is getting Williams work in a tight situation. No way I'd have taken Woody out with how he looked and his counts. But managers have their guys for their cute situations and circumstances be damned. Agreed. Coaches/managers have their little cue cards and they are going to stick with it no matter what. They can't actually use their eyes and figure out that the card might not give you the best answer in all situations.

Until I see Williams looking normal, I'm not taking Woody out with a very limited pitch count.

We almost lost the game on a swing and a miss.

Wouldn't shock me if they change that earlier error to a hit now.

It always amazes me in football and baseball when you have a replay and there isn't a camera angle at a critical view (i.e. right down the boundary). How hard is it to put cameras at key spots like that? They do put cameras in the bases in the playoffs. Not sure why they can't figure out how to put one in the corner of the bag that could catch if the ball went over it.

I hated the Urias trade from the get go. I really want to be proven wrong but he sure isn't helping to amend my thoughts.

I could be wrong, but I saw a stat that said he has swung at 70% first pitches this year. Making contact might be the issue. Definitely been a contact issue. Making contact on only 72% of pitches in the zone (88% for his career, 82% last year) and just 38% of pitches out of the zone (59% for his career, 45% last year). I'm still reasonably confident he'll be ok. At least pre-Milwaukee levels ok.

Does that qualify as a good at bat for Hiura? Barely made contact on four foul balls before striking out on another pitch out of the zone.

I mean, isn’t that what every pitcher tries to do? I’m sure it is like being known as a HR hitter. Being a K pitcher Peralta is going to be gunning to rack up Ks. Maybe with two strikes sure, but it seems like Freddy is trying to get a swinging strike on every pitch and not everyone is trying to do that.

Does Peralta try to strike out every hitter or is his control just that bad? Maybe a combination of both.

Robo umps, Robo umps, Robo Umps.

Peralta's going to walk a ton of guys if he can't get any of these calls.