By the stats you shared starting Vaughn against RHP has a significantly worse record but I’m sure people are going to ignore that one because it doesn’t fit agendas.
One guy I'd be kind of interested in is Steven Cruz on the Royals. He's been pretty terrible this year and I'm not sure the Royals would trade him but he has options and some really intriguing tools to work with. Maybe the Brewers could get him to that next level.
Looks like they aren't DFA'ing Kuhnel which feels like a mistake. You need Gasser to go at least 6 innings tonight and hopefully more than that.
Red - Kuhnel, Patrick
Yellow - Anderson, Ashby, Uribe, Megill
Green - Koenig
Kuhnel as a Brewer has a FIP over 10 with a 19% K-rate and 14% BB-rate. He’s been objectively terrible. xERA and ERA are both over 6. SIERA is pushing 5. He’s thrown 44 pitches over the last two days and likely needs to be down a day or two when our pen is already stretched extremely thin. It would be incredibly shocking if he was still on the team tomorrow.
Henderson dominating through two innings in his rehab start tonight. I don't think the Brewers will do it but I'd be tempted to just bring him back after this outing and having him pitch out of the bullpen during this stretch then stretch him back out post ASB
It’s probably overreacting but if Arnold doesn’t do something to fix the bullpen and fast, I think the division lead will basically be gone by the ASB. We have 2 relievers you can trust right now.
I think it’s pretty clear that something with the light and batter’s eye is a huge reason nobody on either team could hit in the first two games of that series. It was overcast in game 3 and both offenses looked much better
I think with Schmitt it would all come down to if the Brewers think they can improve his swing decisions and how highly San Francisco values him. If the Brewers think they can get him to average swing decisions I think it could curb a lot of that regresssion. There’s a sweet spot in there where the Brewers think they can improve the swing decisions and the Giants view him as a regression candidate they are selling high on but it’s pretty slim. If the Giants value him by his surface numbers with 3 years of control you can probably rule out trading for him regardless of how the Brewers feel about him.
Murphy is certainly asking way too much of Patrick and I'm going to go there but maybe he would have looked better on Wednesday/today if he hadn't been burned for 3 innings and 40 pitches up 7 runs in Atlanta.
40 pitches on Sunday, 40 pitches on Wednesday, then coming in today likely being asked to go multiple innings and. Like that's not a reasonable ask for a reliever in my opinion.
Well today was a bit of a nightmare. Mitchell potentially hurt. Our bullpen is in shambles with very few potential replacements in AAA and we have 16 games in the next 15 days.
The offense is going to need to wake up. Way too many low run outputs from them lately.