Nobody said Ashby should be used in a 1 inning role and how he's been used has not been giving high leverage guys off because he basically never pitches in leverage hence the second lowest leverage index in the bullpen. They should use Ashby like 2018 Hader as a multi-inning leverage guy.
Outside of Misiorowski, I don't think there's a single in the player in the system I could completely rule off the table in a trade. Guys like Made and Pena are the next closest but if we could move one of them as a headliner for a really good MLB player with team control, I would consider it with them in A ball multiple years away from impacting the big league club.
Is Reynolds better than Collins? Even assuming Reynolds bounces back at the plate, the bat is basically all he offers at this point. He's a huge downgrade from Collins both defensively and on the bases which are two things the Brewers put a bunch of emphasis on.
No longer listed for the week either. Hopefully it's not an injury. I was kind of hoping he could replace McGee in the bullpen which would allow Ashby to be shifted to more of a leverage multi-inning role.
The bigger issue is finding the Yelich type player to trade for. Maybe the Nats are willing to trade CJ Abrams in the offseason and the Brewers think they can improve his SS defense.
Yeah I just don't really get it. Ortiz was playing his best baseball of the season then had two really bad games in Miami and Murphy benched him and just tore him to shreds publicly. Weird situation.
Double strike on Murphy's bullpen management this series. Had Ashby throw 2 innings up 7 and 9 runs in game 1 and then tried to use him again on 1 day rest after 39 pitches in game 1.
Absolutely not lol. I don't really care that Stewart has 2 more years of team control when he is 33 and has never been able to stay healthy. The guy hasn't thrown 40 innings in a season since 2019.
I was sitting next to a group of four (two husbands and two wives) and one of the wives said oh Woodruff hit a HR this year, maybe he hits a HR here. I turned to her and said no chance he hits a HR off Kershaw. I was so confident that I said if he does, I'll buy beers for all four of you. Probably the best 4 beers I've bought in my life.
Ashby came in with the Brewers up 7-0 and also came back out with the Brewers up 9-0 in the 8th. Ashby has the second lowest leverage index (game leverage when entering the game) in the Brewers current bullpen only ahead of Easton McGee so you're very wrong on how he's been used. Also Alexander had a 1.04 leverage index as a Brewer this year compared to Ashby's 0.66 so Alexander was used in more leverage spots.
Probably depends on how Vaughn plays, but I'd definitely be interested in getting one of O'Hearn or Naylor. Thumb injuries are tricky. Feel like even when players get back from them their hitting can be impacted.
Freddy was feeling himself tonight. His 96.0 average FB velo was the hardest of his career as a SP and the 98.7 and 98.9 mph pitches to Pages in the 6th are tied for his 4th and 8th hardest pitches of his career.
I think this is a blessing in disguise for the Brewers giving them the ability to go after one of Naylor or O'Hearn to upgrade the 1B spot which they probably wouldn't have done if Hoskins was healthy. Hoskins hasn't been hitting for like 6 weeks so even though I don't think Bauers/Vaughn are going to match Hoskins 115 wRC+ on the season while he's on the IL, I think they could be an upgrade over how he's hit the last 6 weeks (72 wRC+)