Drohan is in the pen. 3 LHP should be plenty. Zerpa can't get RHH out. Needs to go to AAA until he's back on track because tossing him out there right now if it isn't against a stretch of 3-4 LHH is basically asking to give up runs.
Murphy continuing to trot Zerpa out there as a leverage arm when RHH are hitting him like they are prime Barry Bonds on double the steroids is extremely annoying.
Braylon Payne with yet another HR. Line drive screamer to RF off a LHP. 2-4 day with a hustle double on a hard hit liner and the HR. Just an absurd start to the season for the kid.
This is his third year in the US. He played in the draft league and Appy league in 2024. How do you know the bat speed is there? Do you have his bat speed numbers? Do you have his EV numbers? Maybe you're right. Could very well be. As someone who knows nothing about him though it doesn't feel like a very convincing argument. If he was flashing bat speed or EV of an 80 raw power guy, I think there would be a lot more draft hype on him even with his more solid to good than good to great production.
Sanchez isn't in the lineup. Your options in the lineup are Black, Rengifo, Mitchell (39% K-rate), Frelick, Lockridge, and Hamilton. Is it really insane to have Black hitting cleanup out of those options?
What I've read on him, a 4th to 7th seems way more on point than where someone like Burke who was a significantly better college player went. Why do you think he should be picked where Burke did?
6'1 270lb 1B who has a 115 wRC+ doesn't really feel like a guy who profiles as a late 1st value. For example Blake Burke in his draft year had a 147 wRC+. Sasaki also performed really poorly on the Cape last summer.
Oneil Cruz has owned us in the past while he mostly struggled against the rest of the league, now that he's crushing the rest of the league, can we please start owning him?
Yes not a real insider. They take online speculation and rumors that are realistic and then pretend to actually have inside info. It was pretty widely speculated online last night that Black would be called up today after he was removed from the Nashville lineup before their game started last night.
Don't think there was reason to believe Zerpa would be this bad but also the expectations for him were probably way too high for a guy who has never been anything more than a mediocre middle reliever in his 170+ IP before he got to Milwaukee.
Thank you for being one of the few to acknowledge how good the NL Central has become. It was easily the 2nd best division in baseball last year behind the AL East. I'm tired of the NL Central being looped in with the AL Central as the little brother division when the NL Central has consistently been much better than the AL Central in the recent past and now the NL Central looks more like a powerhouse division filled with young talent all over the division.
@Matthew Trueblood Do you think it's a coincidence that Mitchell is doing the worst he's ever done in his career against pitches in the upper third while also doing the best he has in his career in general? I was talking about this over on BCB but part of me wonders if just accepting he's terrible against pitches up and not trying to reduce whiff or hang against them more could be a net positive if he's doing so much better in the rest of the zone and laying off pitches out of the zone. It makes him a more extreme and polarizing profile but that might be the profile that is best for Mitchell?