Brewcrew82

Doubt you’d hear anything today with the off day for the big league club and affiliates.

If Braylon Payne is now a power hitter, feel like that changes things A LOT. His prospect status should be taking off with his tools. Swing and miss not exactly where you want, but not really out of control for his age.

Let's not take Gary Sanchez out of the lineup today, please, Murph. We need his power so long as three of our biggest power hitters are out. Mitch Keller has been a bit lucky this season. Need our lefties (looking at you Turang and Bauers) to feast as Keller struggles much more against lefties.

Every team is different, but are we seriously doing this again in April? Have we learned nothing from this franchise over the last decade? Also, it's not a couple weeks from Chourio. It's more like one week, with Vaughn seemingly set to follow shortly thereafter, presuming the all-clear from his surgeon on Tuesday. Who knows how quickly they'll get up to speed, but their presence (and the resultant lackthereof from the likes of Jones, Perkins, etc.) will undoubtedly be of benefit to the rest of the lineup. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that it's some of the same people from last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.....

What do you mean no returns in set? Chourio is swinging a bat, including on the field tomorrow, and is set to be back by the start of May....Probably the first week, which is only a couple weeks away.

Did anything happen with Henderson in the 4th there? Following on Gameday and said there was an injury delay. He stayed in to face the next batter before being taken out. I know he's been on a limited up-downs/pitchout schedule to start the season, but curious if I should brace for potentially another injury.

Gotta feel pretty good about Harrison going against this lineup with the way he’s throwing.

Grant Anderson is low key deserving of leverage innings with his start to the season. I'd probably take Megill out of leverage for now and have Anderson as your RHP to help bridge to Uribe, who has clearly earned the 9th inning at this point. Ashby is really needed in the later innings. Really sucks we burned him for the weekend in a game we lost by 4.

Think there might be something to the WBC hangover. Zerpa was used as heavily there as any pitcher. Guys just aren't used to having to go all out in that type of hyper competitive environment that early in the calendar. Wonder if Turang's knocks and recent slump aren't related. Add in Chourio's injury....

Grant Anderson is low key deserving of leverage innings right now. If I were Murphy, I'd take Megill out of leverage for now (if he doesn't end up on the IL) and go with some combination of Uribe, Anderson, Ashby, and Zerpa in the later innings. Of course, doesn't help that Ashby has basically been burned until Tuesday now.

This is the "win tonight" strategy in action. Nats' best hitters are all lefties, and Patrick is worse against lefties. By having an opener in front of him, you reduce the number times he has to face those guys. Ashby has had a day off and only pitched 2.1 innings in the last 5 days. He'll be fine for an inning or two.

We're looking at a month or more still with Vaughn unfortunately. Chourio thankfully only is a matter of weeks, perhaps less than that. It's pretty brutal when you're having to play multiple of Perkins, Lockridge, Ortiz, and Rengifo against RHP.

I don't know a part of me kind of wants to see Uribe punch someone again.

Also, Chourio didn't get extended until after he had spent an entire season in AA and AAA. Made is 18 and has only about a week's worth of ABs in AA. I'd venture to say this deal has next to nothing to do with Made or his proclivity to sign an extension.

And the Brewers will get an absolute haul and be incredibly well-positioned to replace his production when Turang reaches 30 years of age. The Hoerner deal extinguished any hope of the Brewers extending Turang.