NBBrewFan

5, 6 maybe 7 years.

Hicks must have some weird delivery that he can strike out LH hitters and give up singles and walks to RH hitters.

To bad we couldn't induce a wild pitch or passed ball or fielding error.

Sure, at the end of the year the totality of the offense won't be "horrid". but when it is struggling it is "horrid".

Watching them face another MLB team makes it seem like the Brewers are a little league team. Maybe the Brewers should have an exhibition inning to begin every home game where they play a local little league team so the fans can see the difference.

No matter how ugly the last 2 games have been, win today and we get a series split. Here's hoping the Sunday Lineup is a winner!

There was a reason I wasn't high on Dotson so I went back and looked at his writeups and found why I had concerns about Olave. Both Dotson and Olave have huge drops in their Grades on PFF when in "Man Coverage". They both go from high 80s overall Grade to high 60s when vs "Man Coverage" and they are two of the top receivers with a huge drop (most don't have a big drop in "Man Coverage"). Maybe it's not that big of a deal, but it makes me wonder if they will struggle at times in the NFL.

Brewers new rally caps:

Now if they could only work on 4,5,6,7, and 8.

Is it against the rules to have 2 catchers? Move one of the infielders to the unoccupied batters box to assist with catching the wild pitches.

Pictured: Brewers dugout when seeing a left handed starting pitcher on the mound.

I'd say Houser looks dialed in, but I don't want to jinx him.

Matz might make it to 10 pitches on the first inning.

Last year during the playoffs one of the interesting "stats" that was mentioned was that the Brewers lead the league (or were pretty high) in the % of runs scored after the 6th inning (or something like that, can't remember the exact details). There's a lot of possible reasons for that, but last night was another perfect example. Thru 6 innings the Brewers had 1 hit and 1 BB (no runs). In the final 3 innings they had 5 hits, 1 BB and 1 Run. Why? Well being up 8-1 the Cardinals are likely bringing in their mop up guy(s) so he's likely the worst pitcher (or 2 depending on the number of innings to cover). So of course, average to poor hitters are going to be able to do some damage against the Cardinals 12th and 13th/14th pitchers. Because the Brewers pitching is so good, over the course of a year they will end up winning enough to look like a World Series contender, but as we saw last year, a playoff team with very good starting pitching and an adequate and shortened bullpen (the 10th, 11th and 12th pitchers aren't seeing much action) they can't do diddly. As I mentioned in one of the in-game threads, the roster construction where all of the players are about league average is a failure. Reason #1: Milwaukee is the smallest market and can't have a huge payroll so there are limits to what can be spent. It also means that changing a significant part of the roster will take time because you can't just buy everything in Free Agency, plus the failure to develop any bats over the last 5 years results in poor return for the few you got plus a desire not to give them up in trades. Reason#2: The Brewers chose to build around an MVP level Christian Yelich and supplement with affordable players across the roster (especially with several elite pitchers that will start to eat bigger chunks of the payroll). Yelich imploded to a point where they have a lot of affordable players, but none of them are elite and they don't have many who can carry the team. As has been discussed here quite a bit, the failure of Yelich to be that elite bat (which they are paying for) really has impacted the results from way they have built this roster. Sure, the pitching will right itself and be top 5-10 in baseball, but the offense as it is constructed just doesn't have the talent to score enough against the elite teams they will face in the playoffs to win many games, let alone a series. So do we bemoan this for the next 154 games or realize that's what we are dealt and enjoy the ride. Speaking from years of experience, enjoying the ride is way more fun.

I've been rooting for Rowdy since we acquired him and right now he's the best hitter we got and is making the rest of the team look bad. Hope he can keep it up. Hope the rest of the team figures it out.

Good to see the Brewers have some fight in them.

If they don't plan for 4+ innings from the bullpen on a typical Peralta start then they haven't watched him pitch.

Do the Red Sox implant a device into their players so when they go to another team they become the worst hitters in baseball?

The pitch clock wouldn't be necessary if the umps didn't give batters timeout after every pitch. They have the discretion to say no, play ball, but they ALWAYS give them time. I actually can't go to games anymore as I can't sit for that length of time with so much inaction. I watch the game at home and am doing other things at the same time so that I am not bored.

OMG, I almost choked on my coffee when I saw this, some came out my nose. That is too funny!!! I found Kinder Bueno Milk Chocolate and Hazelnut Cream Candy Bar's on Amazon a few months ago. My wife wants to cancel my Amazon account to stop me from ordering them. I keep encouraging her to go visit the grand-baby so I can secure a stash while she is gone because she intercepts all the Amazon orders at the door. I'm going to try an Amazon pickup location next. Where you going dear? "Oh, uh, I'm going to get gas for the car, yeah, that's where I'm going". Why don't we just get it from Costco when we go tomorrow? "uh, Costco closed. Went out of business. we need a new place". What? Costco isn't out of business, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?. "Nowhere dear".

Well 2020 was the pandemic shortened year where all pitchers IP were down. There's a lot of data now that large increases year-to-year in IP correlates with an increase in risk of injury. Similarly throwing a huge number of pitches during a start has an increase in risk of injury. The Brewers were absolutely correct in limiting innings pitched and pitches thrown by their extremely valuable asset of high-end young pitchers. Personally I would put hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting and hitting as the top 10 reasons the Brewers lost to the Braves and Burnes not pitching on short rest somewhere further down the list.

I think after the WR contracts given out this offseason every agent on the planet is advising their clients to go to free agency or to not sign contract extensions. Also the fans know where the cap is going and the agents do too so i think we may not see the extensions to several of our own players because they want to see how the market gets priced next year and the following year. I think Metcalf has made it clear to the seahawks he's going to free agency. That also makes it hard to trade as the price for a 1 year rental is going to be a lot lower than one where the player is willing to sign an extension. just my guess.

That got me thinking are we ignoring a confounding/contributing factor where most of those hitters are gone because of the changes MLB required Rawlings to make to the baseball. 2019 was the year of the insane ISO from a lot of poor hitters including a recent Brewers whipping boy (Eric Sogard) who saw a 60% increase in his ISO compared to his best season (with >100PA). There are many examples of that power spike that disappeared once the baseball changed. Maybe Yelich, like a lot of hitters, will never see the same level of "power"/"HR-hitting" simply because the ball has been changed. So an 80% of MVP may be the best we can hope for in the current "environment". We should at least recognize that there are multiple factors influencing his "fall" from those MVP season. It also indicates that we should also temper our expectations that Keston returns to 2019 form, since the conditions around the 2019 "form" don't exist.

Well at least he didn't walk the bases loaded before giving up the home run. I think he's a tad off on his location so far this year. That fastball was right down the middle.

To celebrate 414 day Hunter Renfroe swings at any pitch in the 414 area code, even if it's a foot off the plate.