I mean if the Brewers get a Top 2 seed and a bye to the NLDS, the game 1 starter is pretty important if the series goes 5 games as that would be your game 5 starter.
Finishing Top 2 in ROTY just guarantees you a full year of service time for the season. Collins was on the opening day roster so he is already going to get a full season of service time for this season. Which means him finishing Top 2 will have no impact on his team control/service time.
It's crazy how efficient the bullpen usage has been the last 2 weeks. Uribe and Megill are the only guys to go back to back days in the last 15 days and they have only done it twice. Grant Anderson is the most recent pitcher to go back to back outside of Uribe and Megill and he did it July 25th and 26th.
12.5 game swings in a span of 43 games typically takes one team being good and one being bad. The fact the Brewers have done this while the Cubs are .500 is just insanity. What a special run.
Joseph you know this is how all of minor league baseball is managed. This isn't a Nick Stanley thing. These managers are not managing as if winning/losing is the goal. Most reliever work is pre-planned and you only stray from that pre-planning if it totally falls apart.
Yeah he hadn't exceeded 75 pitches on the season and looks like Anfernny Reyes is warming for the 6th.
Honestly Wande has been pitching much better for a while now even if it hasn't exactly translated to him having a good ERA. In his last 11 starts coming into today he has a 2.78 FIP with a 26% K-rate and 8% BB-rate.
Today is the Wande Torres we were hoping we would see more of this year. FB is moving today. Just very dominant through 4 innings. Got a full count strikeout to end the 4th on a 96mph FB.
Feel like Brewers would rather stick him on the 15-Day IL than option him because he didn't burn his option yet this season and I imagine the Brewers don't want him to burn his final option.
9th - Megill
8th - Uribe
7th - Miller
LH MRP- Koenig
RH MRP - Mears, Anderson
Multi-inning RP - Ashby, Hall
Who loses their spot when Zastryzny comes off the IL or are the Brewers going to milk his rehab assignment until rosters expand in September?
Moustakas was also not eligible for the QO as a Brewer because he got one in Kansas City. Moustakas declined the QO in the 2017 offseason which ended up being a mistake because he re-signed a 1-year deal in Kansas City for significantly less than the QO amount.
Lorenzo Cain also got a QO that offseason which is why the Brewers didn't have a 3rd round pick in the 2019 draft after signing him that offseason.
https://www.mlb.com/news/track-qualifying-offers-for-mlb-free-agents-c260724482
Just a google search and found an MLB.com article talking about who got QO in 2018.
https://www.mlb.com/news/list-of-players-who-got-qualifying-offers-c300130990
If Andrew Vaughn somehow keeps up his pace for the rest of the season, I definitely think he gets a few down ballot MVP votes even with just 300 PA. Especially so if the Brewers finish as the 1 seed in the NL