Is anyone else a bit perplexed by the Middendorf release? With his release Biloxi only has 12 pitchers on their active roster and frankly I'm not sure I see anyone from Wisconsin getting promoted. Are there some guys coming off the IL that will be there to help them?
That feels hard to believe especially if Turang's improvement with the bat is real. Trading him 2 years from now would be trading him with 2 years of control remaining though with Turang it would be Arb 3 and Arb 4. When is the last time the Brewers traded a good starting caliber position player with 2 years of team control remaining while not rebuilding or selling?
Not even sure Rodriguez will still be up by then considering Woodruff isn't the listed starter for Sunday. Brewers have that listed as TBA. They might recall Chad Patrick for a spot start on Sunday which would push everyone else back a day to make their next start on 5 days rest.
I agree though. What the plan for Misiorowski is seems uncertain. Certainly in the moment it feels like it was a mistake not to give him a rehab start to kind of build himself back up a bit. Not only did they do that they also started him on game 1 of the 19 in 18 stretch which guarantees him to start 4 times during the stretch.
I feel like the Henderson injury might have forced their hand a bit. Considering it was either Myers or Misiorowski for game 1 of the 19 in 18 stretch and Myers wasn't full stretched out either.
Now that the Brewers secured the 2-3 series against the Cubs which was all they really needed, can we please get some longer starts out of our rotation. Our relievers might die by the end of this 19 in 18 stretch if your starters keep this up. Our rotation averaged 4.6 IP per start during games 1 to 8 of the 19 in 18 stretch. Our SP have only gotten an out in the 6th inning in 3 of the 8 starts.
Yeah seems like they are really easing him in in terms of both role and usage which is fine by me especially with the big lead in both the division and the race for the bye. Having him right by the playoffs is the priority.
They haven't topped my original prediction but they had already topped my Chourio's injury is more series than expected panic prediction with the win on Saturday
Yeah you get Chourio in that lineup and it's 7 deep with above average MLB hitters and Durbin/Seigler aren't slouches hitting 8th. Ortiz is kind of the classic old school SS. Amazing glove but can't hit this year.
Cristian Montilla is another who started really slow and has come on strong here to end the season.
.442 OPS in June, .621 OPS in July, 1.022 OPS In August not counting a 3-4 day today.
I mean those stats just lack context so yeah using them to justify that he was about to blow up due to what I assume is fatigue is just cherry picking.
1. Those pitches are almost entirely from when he was starting which isn’t relevant to him as a RP
2. 25-60 is a massive range of pitches for a guy who was never going to touch 40-60 pitches yesterday
Also this completely ignores that Murphy said Myers would have faced Marte if the error didn’t happen. Clearly this superficial pitch limit was not something that was on the Brewers mind.
I think it’s correlated. They are both hitting the ball really hard. Typically speaking the harder you hit the ball in the air the more likely it is to be a hit. In small samples when you’re really hitting the ball hard, you’re probably going to run really high BABIP and ISO numbers
Yeah all those numbers say is that Tobias struggled as a SP this year which is hugely irrelevant to him pitching out of the bullpen today. If we want to agenda post with small sample sizes. Tobias as a RP had a .286 OPS against coming into today.
I mean that logic really just makes no sense and actually makes me more annoyed by the decision. The tying run was on 1st base with 1 out. Who cares about a ground ball or fly ball.
Jansen trade was a few days before the deadline so he was active as a Brewer on 7/29 which means he was on the team when they lost to the Cubs on 7/30.
It's as much if not more on the pitchers. Of the steals against Dinges on Thursday night, he only had a chance of throwing a guy out on one of them. Most were stolen regardless of the throw.
Not really. Gasser is rehabbing from TJ so he's a bit of a wild card. Rodriguez has been bad since he returned from his forearm injury. Zastryzny's stuff hasn't bounced back to where he was before injury. McGee is a mop up man. Yoho is a nice ranked prospect but has been super unimpressive in his brief MLB sample.
That's tough to lose DL. Brewers pitching depth right now is pretty thin. Gasser, McGee, Patrick, Rodriguez, Yoho, Zastryzny is all we have for pitching depth right now.
Not super baseball related but Sam Dekker had one of the worst bratzooka runs I have ever seen. Over half his brats didn't even get over the netting lol