His wrist was bothering him. Said it was nothing bad. Just was the difference between feeling 90% and 100%. Priester threw 158 innings in 2023 so he shouldn't have any innings limit issues this year.
Don't know if it was mentioned in the thread but Brewers have a legit shot at having both the NL player and pitcher of the month in August with Turang and Peralta. Have they ever done that before?
Think tasing Ashby would be pretty harsh. He gutted through an inning on a day he really had no business being available throwing 26 pitches in the process.
My bigger issue with Ashby is he just shouldn't have been used today at all. Multi-inning reliever who had thrown 64 pitches in the last 4 days and that's what he looked like on the mound today. You'd figure Ashby would be down for the series now but I'm guessing he will be available on Sunday. Just need to hope that his body can hold up to this type of usage as losing Ashby would be a major blow to the pen.
Wande Torres has become one of the more underrated pitching prospects in the system. 20 year old LHP who touches the mid-90's relatively consistently with a really solid frame. If you can look beyond his ugly ERA there are a lot of things to like on the statistical side. A nearly 14 K-BB%, FIP and xFIP both under 4.00. We know the Brewers must like him after pushing him straight to Carolina from the DSL. After a rough start to the season, he's bounced back to have a really nice last few months of the year.
This is probably the best lineup I've ever seen from a Brewers affiliate.
By Pipeline you have your number 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 13 prospects in the lineup and your number 7 prospect on the mound.
https://x.com/TimberRattlers/status/196154875853921911
I don't know. I think the Brewers really like him. They signed him coming off TJ in 2024 when they knew he wouldn't pitch for basically the entire 2024 season and this year they DFA'd both Peguero and Hudson over him. I think unless it's completely necessary due to injuries that they won't expose him to waivers.
I'd guess probably not with McGee as he's been optioned 5 times this year now. If you recall him in September you need to expose him to waivers if you want to send him back down.
So in a span of less than 4 months Made went from having no defensive feel, being a Juan Baez level defender, being 10 times worse than Pratt defensively, and will never be the Brewers SS to being at worst a league average defensive SS in MLB as of right now and even better than plus defensively in the future?
It's just over the top Joseph. The criticism back in April and May was over the top. The disgust over Longenhagen very fair evaluation now is over the top. I get we are fanatics to be on this site and posting about minor league baseball as much as we are but surely there's some self reflection going on here right? Like in a span of 4 months a player doesn't go from no feel and will never be a SS to it's disrespectful to say his upside is only a plus defensive SS.
Because he was an almost 20 year old prep (turned 20 a month after the draft) that was committed to play college baseball at North Florida. Jadyn is a nice story and has turned himself from a nice story to a prospect that isn't an afterthought but it needs to be said that he was one of only two 20 year old position players on the ACL Brewers team and despite being now 21 the Brewers still haven't promoted him to Carolina.
I think you just misinterpret how Longenhagen grades. He's saying if you plucked Made out of A+ and put him at SS for the Brewers today that he's a 40 grade MLB SS. That feels fair to me. Made flashes ridiculous defensive upside but he's also very young and has been error prone and inconsistent with his throwing over to 1B. He said he thinks he can be a plus defensive MLB SS in the future as he improves his consistency.
I thought they were going to go 16-14 this month and revised it to 13-17 after we found out Chourio would be out longer than anticipated. Brewers are sitting at 19-8 and have a 6.5 game lead in the division in August 28th. This is a really great spot to be considering we entered August with a 1 game lead in the division.
Tough next 6 games. Find a way to go 3-3 and then the schedule dies down, you get some off days, and you get 2 September call ups to give some more guys rest.
I mean it does. You said the head to head goes completely out the window in a three-way tie which just isn't true. Magic Number to eliminate the Reds is now 13.
The well actually that needs to be well actually'd. What you said isn't necessarily true. If there's a 3 way tie and one team has a better record than other two teams they are tied with then they win the tiebreaker. Brewers own the tiebreaker against both the Mets and Reds so if somehow those 3 ended up tied to end the year the Brewers would have the tiebreaker and be the top seed among those 3 teams.
Vaughn has certainly cooled off from his torrid July but the underlying numbers in August are still strong.
July - .474 wOBA, .460 xwOBA
August - .329 wOBA, .371 xwOBA
Over the last 15 days he has a .270 wOBA compared to a .398 xwOBA so there's certainly been some unfortunate batted ball luck there.