Joseph Zarr
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Well, I think it's going to come down to many man factors beyond our comprehension. The most important thing, via my unimportant perspective, is he hasn't had any real physical setbacks. Velo down? Yeah, that's not ideal BUT we don't really know why it's down. Like I said above: his off-speed was fantastic today. Maybe they were working more on that? We aren't privy to the conversations and the plans of attack. Do we want to see him sitting 94-95 mph? Ab-so-lutely. He also pitched 7 innings of 0 ER ball. Was it the Chiefs? Shoot. Yes. Can we pretend it was Quad Cities? Would that even matter?😂 We'll just use Mears, regardless. There I go again! Double darn! -
This 'W' tastes like a wet fart. I guess I like the taste of wet farts? I need help.
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I hear Murphy pitched a rule revision to Manfred over the last month. It's called 'Manfred's Man 2.0'. In this scenario, manager Pat Murphy has received carte blanche to use RHP Nick Mears in any scenario at any time in any game in any season. This mean if he pitched two innings in regulation? He can come back out for two more innings in extras. Actually, he can also fill the role of 'Manfred's Man' by pinch running for the opposing team (?!?!) while he is pitching for the Brewers. He truly is trying to reshape baseball before our eyes. I'm all for it.
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It's painful, my friend. Murphy is the cause of the rising ulcer epidemic in Wisconsin I hear.
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I sadly agree with you. It truly pains me. I'm mostly neutral when it comes to Brewers stuff. Truly. My bread and butter is obviously the Minor Leagues. It is where I spend the vast majority of my time. But, I watch the Brewers games as well. Watching Murphy repeatedly fumble over the most basic of errors in innings and situation management with his bullpen arms is maddening. It's difficult to stomach as a baseball purist. Maybe his decisions and usages would be defensible in a Minor League arena. At the MLB level? Nope. I mean he literally just said yesterday they were going to lay off the multiple inning scenarios with Mears. He literally said it on camera yesterday. It just makes zero sense. It just isn't defensible logic. Ugh. Hard to rationalize any of it.
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You are a MAD MAN. Nobody should get in the way of our great MOTY award winner. He is in a League of his own. Man, I really want to like Murphy. I sincerely do. He's a likable human. BUT, I'm sorry. He is not a good MLB manager. A significant part of helping your MLB team win ball games is reading the tea leaves and orchestrating the pitching staff. To this end, he is a drunken blind man. It's maddening. Truly maddening. These are not hard decisions. They are stubborn and truly poor 'feel' decisions demonstrating he doesn't actually understand what the numbers are telling all of us. OR, he flat doesn't care and thinks he is smarter than the game. You can't 'hope' for outcomes. You play probabilities and percentages. These types of probability and statistically backed decisions are truly the only bullpen logic we have in baseball. Man. It's just painful.
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Please tell me managerial savant Pat Murphy did not send Mears out for two relief innings. Did this really happen? Please. Please say it isn't so. I was feeling so neutral this week. Gull dern it!
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Very much agreed on the throws to second. He needs reps, reps, reps. His throws have had a propensity to sail on him arm side. And, he then has overcompensated and completely over-corrected as well. BUT, that was in Carolina. Everything continues to trend up and, even moreso, defensively in Wisconsin. I highly recommend watching today's work with Woodruff. Granted, Woody wasn't pulling back and unleashing (or, at least, I certainly hope he wasn't - touched 92 mph. Sat 90 mph). BUT, the framing work from early Carolina and the cleaner glove is night and day improved from early April. It bodes absurdly well for his continued growth. He's really come a long way in a very short period of time in terms of pulling balls quickly into the zone low or on the edges. His high grabs have become smoother as well with an increased ability to both catch and frame. We both lauded him last year for the immense upside in his bat. That has simply continued to trend and validate those sentiments. The defensive work is showing serious growth and staying power. It's hard to be more excited about a single player in the system.
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We do see a 92 mph K here. Seems he was sitting 90 mph. Touching 92ish? I think it's also important to remind ourselves: Ashby, who was also rehabbing recently, showed a very similar drop in velo. AND, then in his first outing with the MLB Brewers he was sitting 97-97.5 mph on his sinker. I think it is very 'possible' Woody isn't fully reaching back at present? I'm hoping that's the case. His off-speed was very effective as the game wore on. He was dropping in perfectly timed and perfectly located pitches. I would also add: today's game gives us a glimpse at the Dinges potential behind the dish. Really clean everything. His framing work has already progressed immensely in a month an a half in 2025. Hard not to continue being super jazzed up about his prospects given what we've seen in the first two months.
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And, that is the Final. Called after 6 1/2 innings due to rain. T-Rats win 5-1. They improve to three games under 0.500 at 22-25 overall.
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We'll likely get the official report in the post-game pod. But, yeah, this is the fear given what we've seen of late.
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AND, just like that, we are in a rain delay.
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0-2 count. Drops a glorious swopping off-speed pitch on the lower inner black. Absolutely got him staring. Strands the runner. 6 K through 7. Wish Mehring was giving us velo reading in that frame. Would love to know where he is sitting in the 7th and pitch count in the 70's.
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Woody K's his second batter on a heater smack dab on the outer black. Beautiful pitch. No velo reading on that one but it looked 'nice'? That's all I got. First pitch to the next batter is a seeing eye double to the LF wall. Found the perfect gap. Didn't look hit all htat hard just the perfect location and a wet skip to the wall.
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Rain is really starting to come down some, however. We'll see if they can keep playing as this progresses.
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Woodruff will indeed start the seventh frame. 61 pitches only after a four-pitch sixth frame.
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Yhoswar flails at a high breaking ball off-speed for a K. Guilarte flies out to the deep left CF warning track. Just under that heater. On to the 7th. 5-1 T-Rats.
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We are talking a Man Tank. This is what we call 'Built'. My Ford truck is blushing. 😂
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Sheeeesh, the Chiefs reliever RHP Banjamin Arias is a specimen. 6'7" 250. 😳
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Hall absolutely scorched that liner double. One hopped to the warning track. Loud contact. Apparently, that was 106 mph off Hall's bat. When he makes contact we know he can rip. It's been a prolonged slump. 2nd double of his day and 7th of his season. Would be realllllly nice if Hall could rediscover that early season form.
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I'm telling you, and I feel I say this every week: vastly underrated athleticism. He's likely overlooked because he looks like he's possibly guarding the moonshine shack in the foothills of the North Georgia Blue Ridge mountains around Talking Creek. BUT, I'm a tellin' yous guys: he continues to defy his appearance and reputation.
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Burke leads off with an 0-2 single - groundball between 2B and 1B. He is finding this hole routinely in this early series. 2-2 count Burke swipes his 5th bag of his season. 3-2 to Dinges and he walks on a heater in the dirt outside. Baez, never one to wait for pitches, swings and bloops a goose snort oppo single. Burke scores when the throw home (which beat him handily) is missed by the catcher on the bounce. Burke slides past the pitcher backing the play up and beats him by a breath.
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61 pitches to complete six frames for the Big Woo. Gotta think he's coming back for the 7th. Big time.
