Jake McKibbin

Agreed, the consistency of 3 100+mph balls in one game is more like prime Winker... unsure he'll be in AAA much longer, likely back for the weekend

I would agree, and they'd be much more amenable should they lose another starter, but the temptation of a playoff rotation of McLanaghan, Burnes and Glasnow would be immense, and also they'll likely get prime Burnes too given their history with pitchers Also Manzardo is blocked by Diaz, and Williams by Franco so that may improve their tradability somewhat Could also throw in Rowdy and let Manzardo come to the big leagues this season

If Adames was traded, and you got pitching back, i wonder would the Brewers go for a high ceiling guy like Carson Williams, and Kyle Manzardo from the Rays for Burnes. Both positions they have covered for a while with Franco and Diaz Manzardo is fairly similar profile wise to Vinne Pasquantino, and may be ready for big leagues. Tellez could be added in to even the trade up a little Williams is high power, a minor league gold glover but a high strikeout rate. He's young and if he can improve his swing decisions (no real contact issues) then he could be massive. Also a cannon of an arm I think the Dodgers would still be interested in Adames, and I wonder whether Pepiot and someone with big upside like Nick Frasso could even out the trade

Damn, that's a bomb. 107.2 mph is a big step up from how he was going He also hit a 102 mph single in his next AB, followed by a walk, flyout, and another 103 mph single 3 big exit velocities

I got kinda sad when Keston got injured, I was really enjoying watching him display an improved contact rate and still driving balls around. Hoping it continues on his return

I feel like this has happened to the Brewers a lot so far this season, playing teams with their tails up

Lopez has had some bad luck this year, but I expect this to be a tight affair and may need Cy Burnes to take it. Hopefully the Willy/Rowdy boys can get going a little and drive in some runs. Without it, this lineup becomes a shell of its potential

Also do we think Sal is being given an extended run in ACL like a new sprint training, given his poor start to the season, iron out some things, then head back to AAA and hopefully the majors soon?

If he can keep the strikeouts down, the power is there. Brewers have done a relatively decent job with helping players making decisions at the plate

Could we see another Misiorowski start tonight too?

Yophery Rodriguez has five plate appearances with five walks so far today. I think he has decent command of the strike zone 😂 I've never seen that before

https://brewerfanatic.com/forums/topic/40401-orioles-kremer-vs-brewers-burnes-6723-640pm/

I think you're right, though again the next few starts are important for both. Also Rea has been pitching for longer, and that seems to be a negative when hoping for out of the blue pitcher performances Clearly the Brewers are very good at creating game plans for their pitchers to enable them to play above their ability levels, which is a serious boost the last couple of months

I get the chance to see the odd game, and I'm really grateful. Amazing to hear Gasser doing so well Also fun to see @wiguy94's statcast info in the game threads, very much appreciated!

Also strangely, Corbin Burnes 2022 & 2023 are two of the "similar pitchers" comparisons on baseball savant

Bradish is another very hittable guy, but I'm thinking the O's hitters might break out today. Sneaking a win here gives the potential for this to be a massive week with the A's coming to town, and Colin rea will need to be hitting those edges. Bradish's fastball has been mullered this year. Some info Average 91.3mph exit velocity on all pitches His fastball has 20% less vertical movement than average, and minimal horizontal movement. It's really flat. It's been hit to a slugging percentage of .700 His slider is his best pitch, but it doesn't come out of the hand consistently, leaving semi regular hangers with minimal break If the slider can be laid off of, everything else is very hittable, he uses it roughly 30% of the time with a 37% whiff rate. However he prefers using the curveball to left handers, and that's been a better pitch to hit so far this season The four seam adn sinker are usually kept middle and inside, so I think Owen Miller might enjoy himself today. Also Rowdy has shown some positive AB's without the results recently, I can see him having a breakout too

In dire straits in the latter part of May, the Brewers reached out and grabbed a veteran starting pitcher. The scrap heap gave him up easy; no one expected much. Two weeks later, though, it's time to ask whether their emergency starter can blossom into a viable medium-term back-end starter. Image courtesy of © Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports Julio Teheran came through his start on Monday evening having allowed just three runs in his first three Brewers outings, combined. When Wade Miley was put on the 15-day injured list, and the team expected him to be out for eight weeks, it looked as though the Brewers had finally gotten one injury too many. Where could they go? Robert Gasser wasn’t ready yet, regularly losing command for a big inning, and no other arms were really there to get big-league outs. Teheran was picked up after posting a 5.63 ERA with the Padres’ Triple-A affiliate–not a burgeoning indicator. He had struggled to a 10.05 ERA in 30 innings for the Los Angeles Angels in 2020, given just five innings for the Detroit Tigers in 2021 and had no recent history of anything of substance to suggest this would go well. On the surface so far this season, he has a 90.6-mph average exit velocity, and an average launch angle of 17.8 degrees, which spells trouble. However, hitters are finding the “sweet spot” (launch angles between 8 and 32 degrees) just 32% of the time, compared to 42% in his fallow years. He is also forcing hitters to beat him, giving up just two walks in 17 1/3 innings pitched, leading to a very manageable expected ERA of 3.34. So while he’s barely striking guys out, he’s performing very respectably indeed, making a case that he should be retained (over Colin Rea) when Miley, Lauer and Woodruff all return. Teheran’s swing-and-miss stuff is almost non-existent. He has 153% (yep, you read that right) less horizontal break on his slider than the average major-league version, and below average vertical movement too. His curveball and four-seamer are both poor pitches in terms of movement as well. However, his sinker has 4.4 inches of extra vertical drop compared to the MLB average, and his changeup is slightly on the plus side too. What this has resulted in is a very high ground ball rate with the changeup, one of his better swing-and-miss pitches. Most interesting is the four-seamer, which (despite its poor movement profile) has been a weapon for him so far this season. He keeps it up in the zone well, using it especially against left-handers and to good effect with a .228 expected slugging percentage and 23% whiff rate, inducing a lot of pop-ups and lazy fly balls. Opponents’ average launch angle against the pitch is 31 degrees, too high to be productive. The biggest plus for him is the location; he keeps it in the zone, but most interesting is how it pairs with his sinker, staying just slightly higher, but tunneling very well off each other. He uses the above-average sinker movement to avoid barrels, and the four-seamer’s tunneling to generate whiffs and popups. The slider, however, seems to be getting used as a backdoor breaking pitch, rather than attempting to get chases down and away, and it’s being hit fairly hard with regularity at the moment (xBA .365, xSlg .603). His best offspeed pitch is, as mentioned, the changeup, and look at the accuracy around its location: In terms of pitch mix, during his last full season in MLB (2019) Teheran based almost everything off his four-seam fastball, rather than the sinker we see him use today. He was, however, having his offspeed pitches getting hit hard (all three of his changeup, curveball and slider), which continued into 2020 with his changeup having a .467 batting average and 1.200 slugging percentage against it. In short, when he left his offspeed offerings over the plate, they got absolutely hammered. The curveball has been used almost exclusively out of the zone so far this season, but the most interesting usage thus far is his slider, with which he has mostly tried to slip in the front door to right handers, and the back door to left handers equally. For a pitcher that likes to pitch on the outer edges of the plate, especially with the sinker inside to right handers, it can fool the occasional hitter and allow him to get ahead early in the count. Due to its subpar movement, it potentially blends much better with his fastballs, almost as an opposite-handed changeup in some ways, making it more difficult to pick up for hitters than the slow, early-breaking, sweeping sliders that are all over the league. Is it likely that he can sustain this indefinitely? Probably not, but the plus defense the Brewers have employed behind him and Adrian Houser has definitely helped thus far. Teheran’s unique style will likely get picked apart sooner rather than later. That being said, he’s an experienced pitcher and should have the nous for a few more solid starts before the league catches up. If he can show an ability to adapt after that, then he may even stick around. View full article

Hopefully dear Jacob has a more consistent strike zone tonight to pitch into How big a step is Low A to high A?

Orioles fans are wishing Wiemer's dad wore a condom

I think he got mentioned a fair bit for his output yesterday, two doubles two stolen bases, on base four times, pretty standout in a tight win

He strikes me as a kind of quirky guy whose recently been taught how to do an interview, and inside his head he's just going "don't say anything stupid" over and over again But what a game! My god

Such a professional response, I love this from such a young dude

The flow of that mullet... Hot DAMN It's based more on the quality of the at bats and quality of his contact, which was awful the first two months and has been considerably more consistent and repeated since late May. But absolutely! Here's hoping by the end of the season he's solidified it more

The A's are unloading right now Five runs, seven base runners no outs in the first inning against the pirates