Wande has been on a particularly dominant stretch here. In his last 4 starts he's gone 25.2 IP, 17 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 32 SO. Feel like he's always been more interesting than his results being a big LHP with promising velo.
Clay Holmes actually does seem like a Brewers move though him having a player option could complicate things in terms of value. I think he probably declines it but tough to value those things.
I was definitely thinking more longterm than just this year but yeah them selling this year is definitely a good thing for the Brewers this year. I just think they have some really good young players and don't want them to insulate that young core even more by selling at the deadline.
Not sure that's a good thing haha. I was kind of hoping they didn't make the sensible decision to sell considering they were supposed to be rebuilding this year.
Yeah I feel you there. Some of the best raw power on the team but for some reason he's decided he wants to be a low strikeout contact hitter. Feels like his effort level is very inconsistent. Some nights he just looks like he's going through the motions (has happened a lot lately)
Oh I would absolutely love if the Brewers won the first two games of the Pirates series and decided to just do a bullpen game in game 3 to give Misiorowski extra rest.
I get it but Horton was also a guy with a pretty extensive injury history. Misiorowski to this point has had a clean bill of health. I think his only injury was a meniscus tear as a freshman in Juco. I don't think the Brewers are going to jeopardize Misiorowski's long term for the short term so if he gets up to like 180 IP this year, I'm going to trust the Brewers know what they are doing.
Lara scoring from first on that Turang double that didn't even get close to the warning track and wasn't some crazy gap splitter was so impressive. Obviously he doesn't have the beautiful gazelle type stride that Yelich does but that was probably the best baserunning I've seen since Yelich was in his prime.
I asked Brendan on Fangraphs about Josiah Ragsdale last week because he wasn't ranked by Fangraphs to start the year. He said ask again next week so he can look into Ragsdale. This is what he said when I asked today.