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On this board? Let me count the ways🤣.
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If you're including both ends of the floor, to borrow a hoops term............yes.
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A number of heroes in this one, but I'm giving it up for Perkins. Two hits, one from each side (which may prove significant moving forward) & what I thought was another pretty impressive AB, even though it didn't get the job done. With the bags full & one out you need contact, and he fell behind in the count quickly but hung in & sheared off the grounder to the 3rd base bag. Hitting from the left side there, the 3B playing that close to the line is far from SOP. Could've easily driven in a run. Nice to see good stuff from Turang the last couple of days too. And obviously both the bulk guys in the pen. Junis can easily make his FB look 96-98 when the breaking stuff is that good. Nice weapon. Mitchell seemed to me to be building over the last week or so. Ugly day at the plate today though. Could've swore I heard Dillard say everyone in the BP should be available today except Koenig. Analysts need days off, too.
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Tough task today, but it would be nice to pin a loss on the Human Alarm Clock. 😩WAKE UP!!!!!😫
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Based on what we've seen this year I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Milner come in to finish an inning or some such. The rest, I agree.
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I think the lions' share is expected to be Wilson & Junis. I can see a scenario where the BP availability is sufficient but you'd like at least 6 out of those two.
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According to postgame, Ortiz was bunting, then when the corners came crashing they wanted him to swing away & he didn't. The guys who bunt on their own--usually w/no one on--are mostly if not totally people who are capable of doing it, & I have no problem with it. But the situation has to be right. Yelich with the push bunts w/a runner on 3rd are beautiful. A couple of them tonight were called "ill-advised" by Murphy, including Turang bunting on 3-0.
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It's nice to go 1-1 so far in the series playing this poorly, and I'm not even referring to the lack of base hits/runs. We gifted them two runs yesterday. Today, some really odd decisions offensively. I can at least get the poor decision by Chourio--he obviously thought the throw was going to 3rd. What I didn't get was Mitchell, instead of sliding home, apparently decided to slide to a pebble 3 feet to the right of home. Still, some impressive stones late. I've seen Koenig much better, but I don't know if I've ever seen him show that level of guts. And a 2023-type inning from Peguero. Murphy didn't come right out & say it, but it sounded to me like Yelich to the IL to make room for Sanchez.
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That might be a little light as to what it would take for Skubal. Plus it's hard to value Quero with him having to sit out this season, especially with it being his right shoulder. You probably would have to include Miso, which I really don't want to do. I lean towards your attitude re Miso coming up this year. I know when asked they didn't close the door to it,but I get the feeling they'd rather not.
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Sorry, I bleed cardinal & white.😁 Congrats on being chosen to speak at commencement though. That's pretty sweet.
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Not to be anal Jake, but Yoho is from Indiana.
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They're in a strange position right now with Hall. Even if he starts to pitch better in rehab, he pretty much appears relegated to the pen. He's left-handed, and right now they have four LH's in the BP. He'd kinda be a LH version of Junis & Wilson, but both of those guys are better options right now. If Hall doesn't develop starting pitcher chops in '25 & beyond I think the organization is going to be pretty disappointed. AFA adding to the right side of the BP is concerned, there would be an element of risk due to it being his first taste of the bigs but my gut tells me anyone they trade for that would be better than Yoho would cost too much for my taste. I'm not to the point of giving up on someone like Peguero. He's been maddeningly inconsistent but is truly exceptional if/when he works from ahead. If they trade for more pitching I agree I'd lean toward a starter. I have no idea what it would take but I'm convinced they would definitely include Black if motivated.
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Mon. 7/22 - Three Rookie Level Games on Tap
Jim French Stepstool replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Channeling his inner Luke Adams. I like it. There's been talk of Bitonti going to Carolina, and rightfully so. But I think Josh Adamczewski might be every bit as deserving. Tough to get a lot of attention as a middle INF with the work Pena & Made have turned in, but he's been very, very good. Plus he's a grizzled old vet at 19. -
I think they have more than enough time to crawl into the race, I just don't know if they'll score enough runs to support a really nice rotation & good 9th-inning guy. They play in an unforgiving ballpark if you aren't hitting, too. We lived through the "rely on production in the middle-of-the-order from Rowdy Tellez" thing. If they make a run, it'll most likely be from winning a lot of games in the fashion that they won tonight.
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He's in a slump, definitely. I'm reminded of last year, when he hit a HR or two early on & stopped looking like the player he needs to be. I don't think that's the issue now, as he still seems to be trying to spray the ball, but his swing might be getting a little long. One thing I reject is people constantly wanting to move people around in the batting order. He's a leadoff hitter, and IMO the best one on the team. He needs to figure it out. Bouncing people up & down in the order like it's a Chinese fire drill, I don't think that's the answer. Maybe we should try the batting order that scored 25 runs the last three games?
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Yeah. That's a sharply hit 2-run single if it's more in the hole, or the 3B is hugging the line. Turang's was worse b/c it came w/one out, and you don't necessarily need a hit to drive in a run. Even then, he hits a grounder more-or-less right at the INF, which has happened approximately 917 times in that situation this year. And then they get four INF hits against us today. it happens.
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I thought that was really poor play-by-play from----it was Levering, right? He said something to the effect that any other runner scores from second on that hit. Yeah, if you just take off w/o showing any concern as to whether the 1B catches the ball, anyone else probably scores. It was close enough to Busch that you HAVE to freeze. The fact it was Hoskins made it academic, but I'm not sure someone else scores either, unless he just takes off on contact. Then, if it's caught we can add that players' name to the list of guys who should be fired/DFA'd.😄 Levering seemed to discount the factor of the ball being relatively close to Busch, which I thought was lousy announcing.
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Most frustrating thing to me was that if we make our pitches to Miguel Amaya---Miguel Amaya, for crying out loud---You could make a very sound argument they only score one run & we're still playing. Other than that, Myers pitched well, but he didn't play well. The balk, the extra out on the throwing error cost him big time. Yeah, we didn't get the big hit, didn't make them pay for the walks. That sucks, but it happens, to all teams. They had the timely hit to go up 1-0 and other than that the quality of ABs was pretty much a wash. But we compounded it tonight with mistakes we don't usually make. Gave them two. I'm really intrigued by what moves this team makes in the days to come. Not even talking about trades, although that could happen. Couple logjams on the horizon. I have to say I'm impressed--and really surprised--with the plate discipline Mitchell has shown since coming back. And now the ball is starting to jump off his bat w/some authority. He's showing signs that he might--MIGHT--be an X factor.
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Impending Roster Crunch?
Jim French Stepstool replied to Playing Catch's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
While I recognize his value to the team, I'm not a huge Bauers fan. That being said, I'd be shocked if they decided to go the rest of the season with Hoskins at 1B backed up by someone like Sanchez (Haase has played a little OF, no 1B that I know of). If Bauers is gone there's no one better than Rhys there, and he's average-ish defensively. They might be a bit more comfortable letting Bauers go if Black was good around the bag but we all know the story there. -
Off day Thursday so they may decide to go BP day on Wednesday. How much the pen is used the next two days would factor into that. Otherwise Ross is lined up, but as you said he didn't look great.
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The way he's been performing, combined with the attitude, is impressive to me. He's showing sheer enjoyment, and even when he fails he seems to let it roll off his back. Almost as if he knows he's going to do special things, and if it wasn't happening in April & May it's no big deal, it's just a matter of time. We're lucky to have him.
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Wish he threw one to Abrams last week. I actually thought it was ridiculous that Buxton was looking for it on the 2nd pitch, after getting one to start the AB. I don't know if Megill is running out of gas, he's still throwing hard. It might simply be a case of a 30-yr-old who never had a save in his career, then had 18 out of 19, reverting a little bit.
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He'd have to clear waivers, which won't happen. Time for some roster voodoo. Strap in for the next couple weeks.
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Actually, they're in run-of-the-mill, every day form.😐
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If we could get something for Alex Jackson last year, then yes. Interesting roster decisions coming up in the next 10 days or so.
