I was just looking at Fangraphs probables grid and it looks like we will be facing Shane Smith when we play the White Sox at the end of the road trip that starts tomorrow.
So happy for Caden Vire to finally make his full season debut after so many injury issues the last few years. He looked nasty. Command might be a work in progress but he's mid 90's with an extremely lanky frame. There's still a lot of room to fill out there. This is a kid who it's not super difficult to imagine making it to an MLB bullpen in the next couple of years.
10 seconds is definitely better than 15. I wish they would have 10 second fast forward for more than just mobile devices. With the 10 second skip you can basically use it between every single pitch. 15 seconds is just a bit too long unless there’s a runner on base, a foul ball, a pitch in the dirt, or a really slow pitcher who uses the entire pitch clock.
I worry that Anderson isn't in their long term season plans based on the ridiculous usage he's had this season. He's been in the Brewers bullpen for 20 days and has thrown 12.1 innings. This usage is not sustainable. Brewers really need to get Payamps out of the pen and option Hudson to AAA so we don't have two guys that Murphy is going to actively avoid using going forward.
Chourio needs to figure things out with the chasing. It's been horrible this year. Coming into today his chase rate was 50% against breaking balls and he had two horrific chases against Miller in the 9th. I don't know if it's a vision problem or trying too hard to pull the ball leading to him getting his swing started too early, but it's become a problem.
Wisconsin is a bit of a bummer to watch since the Yophery trade. They only have one of my Top 20 prospects on their roster in Letson and he only pitches once a week. Just not a lot to get excited about watching them from the position player side.
Mears has been good as well. Megill has been good outside of the bad outing in Arizona. They could really use late season Ashby in the pen to replace Hudson who looks like a shell of the dominant guy at the start of last season.
I’m not sure why you changed the subject matter from BB-rate to WHIP when the discussion was about Misiorowski’s walk issues. Unless you think Misiorowski can suppress hits in the MLB against the best hitters in the world at the level he has done in the minors then his minor league WHIP doesn’t really matter.
It’s actually 6 more games that AAA have played. Remember they started a week earlier so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday all before A to AA started.
BB% is far better for comparing a pitchers BB-rate than BB/9. Why would you want to go by inning rather than by batters faced to determine who walks more hitters? You face 4 hitters in an inning and walk 1 and someone else faced 6 hitters in an inning and walked 1. They both have 1 BB/9 one has a 25% BB-rate and the other a 17% BB-rate. Those are not the same thing. 15.6% and 13.6% are not pitchers who walk hitters similar amounts.
Just for reference there were 351 pitchers last season to throw 50 innings in MLB. The highest BB% was 14.7% almost a full percent lower than Misiorowski. Post-COVID there have been 1393 pitcher seasons with 50 IP. Only 11 had a BB% higher than 15.
Unless I've totally lost my mind, Meccage just got 4 outs in the 1st and nobody realized it?? There was a runner on 2nd with 2 outs and for whatever reason Made threw ahead of the runner to start a rundown at 3rd instead of getting the final out at 1st. I think that happening made everyone forget that there were 2 outs at the time. Then Meccage pitched and got a 4th out.
Hopefully Letson isn't hurt and they are just letting Flores start with Letson coming in from the bullpen because today was supposed to be his day to start and he's not a projected starter for any of the other games this week. Nevermind he's listed as starting Saturday! False alarm!
Just went back and rewatched. His top velo according the scorebug was 89 and he hit that 1 time. It was a lot of 88 and some 87. The scorebug stopped showing velo for 3 pitches in the 3rd inning two of which were fastballs but seeing how he only touched 89 one time it's hard to believe he touched 92 on either of those fastballs. Unless the scorebug is super off, hard to know where Chris got that 92 from.
I know Wilken has a good wRC+ this year but I absolutely hate how he's looked at the plate this year. He's taken his passiveness to the extreme. 60.4% of his PA end in BB or K this year and he had a 28.9% swing rate coming into today. This is just not a serious approach for a player who has MLB aspirations.