Honestly the only surprising thing here is Montas looking really good since he got to Milwaukee.
Wiemer's hot month was filled with ridiculous batted ball luck and an unsustainable BB:K rate. Although 14 wRC+ is crazy low.
Junis seemed like a ticking timebomb with how many breaking balls he hung every outing.
Just an FYI on how Ashby has looked out of the bullpen lately.
Aaron Ashby since 8/10
6.2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 14 SO
.085 xBA
.089 xSLG
.105 xwOBA
74 Average EV
0% hard hit rate
0% barrel rate
61% K-rate
4% BB-rate
48% whiff rate
Not just that but he will also be catching his own AB...kind of. The game ended with Jansen at the plate for Toronto. Obviously he will be pinch hit for, but still kind of funny to be catching the AB that you started as a hitter.
I mean sure if the roster requires Chourio to move to CF then absolutely do it, but that's not the roster the Brewers have. I don't think moving Chourio to CF so he can accrue more WAR is very important to the Brewers.
I'd still keep him in the corners for the time being. I think eventually you can move him to CF, but why put that extra burden on him when you have multiple plus CF also on the roster.
I mean it was certainly excessive. 29 pitches and 25 were fastballs with 1 of the 4 breaking balls being one that Civale called on his pitchcom device lol
Watching the game tonight and man I really can't help but feel how this Brewers team would have a huge advantage playing all their home games at a park with dimensions like Oakland. Huge alleys for our speed guys to get XBH and big foul territories for our corner OF who are all really CF to range deep into foul territory to make catches more corner OF wouldn't dream of.
Edit: Like in all honesty, I feel like AmFam might be one of the worst parks in the league for the roster the Brewers have.
Honestly tonight felt even a level above those 4 recent outings. He hadn't even touched 98 this entire season until tonight. Like this was so impressive.
Rea is under team control for another season, so obviously no he shouldn’t be extended.
Go take a look at what Adrian Houser has done this year. If you had your way he would have like 4 more years of guaranteed money from the Brewers.
Hiura's had plenty of chances and has continually showed that he crushes AAA pitching and gets exposed by MLB pitching. Since 2020 he has a 28% K-rate and 137 wRC+ in AAA compared to a 39% K-rate and 84 wRC+ in the MLB and that's a 740 PA MLB sample so it's not like he only has a couple hundred PA. He offers nothing to a team outside of his bat and his bat has extreme holes that are too easy for MLB pitchers to pick apart. He should definitely just go over to Korea and Japan where there isn't as much velo and where he'd get paid more than he does in AAA.