I’d like to see Bauers and Turang both get the day off today against the LHP.
C - Contreras
1B - Vaughn
2B - Hamilton
3B - Ortiz
SS - Pratt
LF - Chourio
CF - Mitchell
RF - Lara
DH - Sanchez
Seems like we are starting to see the downside of having a rotation full of people in their first full big league season. Outside of Henderson who had an IL stint this year, All of our SP are looking like they are hitting a bit of a wall.
Brewers still have not pinch hit for Yelich this year in a game that was competitive. The only time he's been pinch hit for is a blowout where they get him out of the game early. I wouldn't expect Yelich to be pinch hit for any time soon for that reason.
Bauers also is looking banged up. Murphy needs to get Bauers and Turang healthy heading into the playoffs. We need a deep lineup come the postseason. Can't have black holes killing rallies in the lineup not that Bauers has been a blackhole lately. Just not swinging his best bat.
Not sure how it's putting words in your mouth when literally in this thread you were calling ABs garbage when guys were chasing splitters below the zone. Mitchell with another garbage AB chasing a 3-2 splitter below the zone.
If that was a splitter below the zone and Turang chased and whiffed for a strikeout you'd be saying how it was a bad chase and undisciplined. Gausman dominated us tonight and Turang certainly was not alone in that regard.
Sure but look at all of the times hitters chased splitters well below the zone to strike out. That's the game Gausman plays. You never know if a FB or splitter is coming so sometimes you guess wrong and get caught watching a FB for strike three and other times you end up chasing a splitter way below the zone for strike three.
Come on now. That wasn't even close to right down the middle and him sitting there watching that was no different than all of our hitters who chased splitters below the zone to strike out.
In most environments I agree but OF is very tough to play in Wrigley with the wind. Bauers has really struggled on pretty much every ball hit his way in this series and with Henderson and his FB tendencies on the mound you can probably expect more flyballs hit his way today.
Just a really bad comparison. In 2014 with 23 games remaining in the season the Brewers were 3 games behind in the division race and only had a 45% chance of making the playoffs per Fangraphs