Brewcrew82

I'm tired of Rowdy Tellez. I'm tired of Willy Adames. I'm tired of Jesse Winker. I'm tired of Corbin Burnes. I'm tired of Craig Counsell.

Verlander was just asking to be hit around today and we said no thanks.

LOL

I don't have a problem going that far when you have so many of our key players underperforming their career averages and when you have innings like the one we just had against a struggling team. .

Rowdy dp?

Yelich is literally the only thing we have going for us right now.

This has been Counsell's worst year as a manager with all the underperformances and mental mistakes. The buck stops with him..

LOL

We're not in a position to send down .300 BA/.800 OPS hitters right now. More like hello Frelick, bye bye Tapia.

Brewers putting on a clinic on how to give games to a struggling pitcher and a struggling team.

Perkins is lucky he's hitting right now.

We're letting a struggling pitcher off the hook with our awful approaches and utter stupidity.

Are you kidding me, Perkins?!

Devin is pretty much a lock. Yelich may sneak in as a reserve OF or injury replacement. Wild Bill with an outside shot. But that'll be it.

Did you know that something called "development" occurs with prospects? Fact of the matter is, as @sveumrulespoints out, he's walked 5 over his last 6 starts while striking out 40 (8.0 K/BB) over 36.1 IP with a 3.22 ERA. He's not the same pitcher he was earlier in the year, when the Brewers signed Teheran, who is literally the only pitcher you can say they signed off the street and brought directly to the major leagues.

I see you haven't been paying attention lately...

Robert Gasser

That was foul.

You still gotta find a way to stay on the base. Throw wasn't even close.

Thanks a lot Perkins..

Gasser has been really impressive lately. I think it might be time to insert him into the rotation for Rea and give him his well-deserved opportunity.

Why are you swinging at that Tapia?

Wow. That was just a drop.

So, we got the better Contreras brother....

Woah. Let’s take a step back here. Especially since I remember you talking about how big of a threat the Pirates were little more than a month ago. Krall may have said that, but the Reds would be incredibly stupid to start mortgaging their prospect capital at this stage of their rebuild. Bieber? As we saw last night, he just isn’t a difference making arm anymore. Giolito is probably a solid #2, but there will be a ton of competition for him seeing as he’ll be pretty much the only top of the rotation arm available at the deadline. Teams that are far more desperate to make and do something in the playoffs than the Reds. And then Greene and Lodolo are currently on the IL, with neither throwing more than 120 innings in a season. Lodolo isn’t set to return until August at the earliest. Not to mention Ashcraft has taken a huge step back. Then you have their lineup which, while producing at a high level at the moment, is still composed largely of rookies, unproven players, and well past their prime guys. De La Cruz is going to be a stud, but his K rate is also bordering 30% and his xStats are pretty mediocre. McClain’s are a little better, but not the greatest. Friedl and Fraley are unproven and soaring past their career norms. And Joey Votto has suddenly risen from the dead to OPS at 1.500. Bottom line is there’s regression coming on this end… Overall, Reds are in really, really good shape for the future, but it’s way too premature to start talking about them as World Series contenders. They’re not even shoo-ins to finish above .500. Could they win the division? Of course. I just have a hard time seeing it happen with how young they are and how bad their starting pitching has been.