The Ty France single before the Merrill go ahead HR last night was a play that Ortiz and Harrison probably make. Vaughn didn't even come close to it. If the ball is hit right at him he's fine but he has no range.
He's had three really bad starts this season out of 19 and one of those was in the most hitter friendly park in MLB by a country mile. This is his 7th start since Vegas. Two have been bad and one he left injured.
If Machado was on the Brewers people would be constantly complaining about his low batting average and how his contract was an albatross that is going to kill the Brewers. I mean the guy is slashing .215/.299/.419 on the year.
I'm sorry but the idea things went poorly because the best hitter has a 140 wRC+ just doesn't make much sense. Who do you think should have a wRC+ better than 140? In the last 15 years the Brewers have only had 3 players have a qualified season with a wRC+ over 140.
4.5 fWAR for the Brewers to 2.7 fWAR for the Red Sox. Average out bWAR and fWAR and you get 4.7 for the Brewers and 3.9 for the Red Sox. Still a great trade for the Brewers.
He has a 3.28 ERA and great peripherals. Who cares that his ERA jas doubled from 1.6 to 3.2 when you include a game played in Vegas where the ball flew like crazy and he gave up 8 ER.
Yes it was a dumb decision from Hamilton but Bae needs to make that play. He better not be playing because they are doing some dumb platoon situation with Ortiz
Buehler threw 3-1 pitches right down the middle to both Contreras and Lara and threw multiple pitches right down the middle to Yelich. Pop up, strikeout, roll over groundout. Story of this offense lately.
Am I the only one that is really confused at what the Brewers are doing with Sal? He's on a rehab assignment in AAA but it sounds like he can't play defense yet and is only DH'ing.
If they are playing Bae over Ortiz for matchup reasons I would be pretty annoyed. Bae is not an MLB caliber player and you're really hurting your defense by playing him at 2B and moving Turang to SS.