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  1. BrewerFan
    The Baseball gods giveth...and they taketh away. Tony Gonsolin goes down with TJ and one of the most underrated pitchers in the game...in my opinion, Walker Buehler is on his way back and his velo is back up into the mid to upper 90s. What a stark contrast in how to run a big market team with massive financial resources. The Mets just handing out blank checks while the Dodgers try pulling back on the payroll to get under the tax(before Bauer was reinstated) in a buildup to go after Ohtani and presumably re-sign their own homegrown ace is Urias...but they can bring up 10 pitchers who have MLB caliber stuff and still coast to 100 wins. 11 years with Andrew Friedman, the one year they didn't win the division, they won 106 games. #2 overall farm system headed into the year, #6 mid-season, ~100M in payroll for a team that could easily go up to 280 or near the Cohen line. ANYWAY, on a day they get Bobby Miller to shut down the Braves, Walker Buhler comes back. Just 24 pitches, so I doubt we see him completely back until '24, but that's a helluva weapon for 3-4 innings. https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-buehler-stone-make-formidable-combo-at-triple-a?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
  2. BrewerFan
    Not sure Nadal is arguably on par with Adams, Bitonti...and certainly not Boeve, Wilken and Black, but he's another guy who seemingly fits the Brewers recent...course correction in targeting Hit/OBP over tools in their young prospects, and I love that the Brewers aren't deterred by a 5'7 tweeener at 3B, 2B and SS. Not exactly the profile you're looking at, but great hitters can come in all shapes and sizes...from Altuve to Judge to Lincecum to the Big Unit. I appreciate the write-ups though. The only thing I'd like to know is if you've got an velocity reports that are updated on these young arms, but it seems like that information is both hard to come by, and with guys going from 16-19, I'd imagine constantly changing.
  3. BrewerFan
    It was 14-10 at halftime vs a mediocre MAC team that needed a late TD vs a 2-10 Akron just to get to .500 and a Bowl Game last year vs an HBCU. It was not an impressive debut schematically, particularly early. A couple of runs, 1st downs. 3 straight passes, punt. And the record setting QB looked...not particularly special compared to Badgers QBs of the past. The criticism was definitely warranted.
  4. BrewerFan
    I'll trust the Brewers, but I've said from the start, surgery on your shoulder for a guy who could legitimately be an ace or a #2 pitcher and you have him cheap for 6 more years? I'm not screwing around. Let him rehab and strengthen it and then see ya when pitchers and catchers report. There's just too much that can go wrong.
  5. BrewerFan
    Exit Velo 92.8 MPH Hard hit rate 51.3% BB% 10 10 HRs in 33 Games(not that this is the end all). But it's really not that desperate. It's a guy who hit into extraordinarily bad luck in 33 games, was a FA. Also, the Braves likely got rid of him due to Austin Riley...a top 20 prospect who hit 18 Hrs in 80 games in 2019 and Josh Donaldson signing a 4/92M dollar deal with the Twins. He's going to be in Milwaukee maybe a month and this is very possibly his last chance. I think the negative impact is being exaggerated here.
  6. BrewerFan
    Just to be clear, I'm not making any...declarations on the program, just this particular game. It felt like they were trying to make a statement. This is a new Era and we're gonna throw the ball. And you have to throw the ball. You don't get enough explosive plays in the run game unless you have a SPECIAL back, and even at UW, we've had...Taylor and Gordon who could take it 90 yards without great blocking despite a litany of VERY good backs(including the all time leading RB in Dayne). Allen is in the group of really good backs(like Ball...who had sensational vision, or White, Clay, Davis, etc...). Mellusi looked like a new man, but I doubt he's taken that huge leap. It just seems like Buffalo knew exactly what was coming and they(the Badgers) still threw it into coverage until it dawned on them, "oh yeah...we're a great running team." But insofar as making decisions on...ANYONE based on this game, Aschcraft looked really nice and I saw better pass pro by the OL and that's as much as I can say. It was one game in a new year before the Badgers really have their guys all in place.
  7. BrewerFan
    I'm not sure we don't match up velo wise as well. Uribe, MeGill, Payamps, Peguero and...well, Williams FB looks like it's 100 with that Bugs Bunny Change! I so badly want to see Vieira called up so we can go from Woody(who feels like he's got a bigger FB this year than Burnes without looking) to Vieira to MeGill, to Uribe for 1. Woodruff looks like a soft tosser there!
  8. BrewerFan
    You certainly had the ability to foresee the future when you proclaimed the lead was down to 2.5 yesterday and we were clearly inferior to the top 3 teams in the NL, ATL, LAD and the Phillies! 5 up in the loss column with series 16 games against teams in last place or 2nd last(the Pirates who face Burnes, Woody and Peralta up next) seems to favor the Brewers...VERY heavily. 4-1 vs the Phills on the year. Those...dominant, superior Phillies who we had no chance against with our #8 starter vs Nola!
  9. BrewerFan
    Of course. They still played for the Championship last year and Colorado who was projected to finish at the bottom of their conference, with ~4/5 wins beat them and had incredibly impressive performances from both Sanders at QB and Hunter at CB/WRer.
  10. BrewerFan
    It's SO annoying how they talk about the "Greatest tradition in College Football," and then...go to commercial during it. But hey, at least we got to listen to "Sweet Caroline," sang by the Student section and band during garbage time in the 4th quarter. That should be on TV every time. And if it is on TV...tell me what in the hell this is!
  11. BrewerFan
    They tried to get too cute. The defense had 7 in the box, they were playing off and often sending a LBer(which we struggled to pick up) and they were just forcing the passing game. You saw at the end what this offense COULD be. They were playing Cover 1 and pressing. That's obviously when you take your shots. But that was toward the end of the game. The pieces are there. I'm not gonna say Mordecai is not "Him," after the season opener...he didn't look like him, but he was also throwing into a lot of cover 2 or 3 and Bell had a huge drop. This is Wisconsin though. Passing to open up the run game? That's silly. They should have simple audibles(and I assume they do) and just play smarter. I'm sure they will. Impressive 2nd half, but a pretty..."meh," game as a whole. ***Chez looked like a different back. Like a guy who can play at the next level. That burst, the quickness. I think this is gonna be a good fit for him.
  12. BrewerFan
    Sure.
  13. BrewerFan
    Badgers 28 point favorites. I'm feeling like this team is gonna come out firing, throwing the ball around, taking Buffalo out early. That Badgers -28 looks pretty good to me. Nice time to ...buck the trend of close games vs vastly inferior teams and make a statement. 56-10 is my prediction.
  14. BrewerFan
    But not neck and neck in CF. Which...again, is why I don't think they'd send Wiemer down for Taylor to take over as the CFer vs left handed hitters when they're merely neck and neck over a small sample size.
  15. BrewerFan
    Of course it's a moot point and it'd just be tied. It's all a moot point now that the game is over. I'm just asking if anyone else thinks Miller beats it out. And Santana was about 1/3rd of the way to 3rd, but he's already sprinting while Bohm is on his heels.
  16. BrewerFan
    I guess it's possible under the rules, but the only time I've ever heard of something like this happening was the NBA and it was..Ralph Simpson(not Sampson, not the 7'4 guy from Houston). But ok, technically I guess it CAN happen under the rules. We just very rarely see suspended games that are not picked up immediately. When was the last one? A few years ago?
  17. BrewerFan
    I don't think he's even thinking about 3rd there and he's not in a good position to get the out there. Everyone is running on contact, it's gonna be a race to the bag and I don't think he makes that play. Probably gets Miller at 1st if he fields it cleanly, but it's not a gimme. Not saying it's not an error, but I don't think it's a guarantee he's getting Miller at first on a ball that wasn't hit all that hard.
  18. BrewerFan
    No...I can't fathom how that'd be possible. The ONLY plausible scenario would have been when they picked up suspended games a month or two later(which I don't even know if we still do that) and said pitcher was traded over that time period, but then he's not going to be eligible to pitch in that game...I don't believe. Maybe it's happened back in the 1890s when a player was traded or...something, but I don't think you can pitch for two teams in one game, even if it's suspended.
  19. BrewerFan
    I'm still going Burnes, Woody and Peralta. Or...Woody and Burnes. I'll take the big power righties, the Cy Young Winner and the guy who's gotten votes a couple times, but Peralta is a pretty damn nice #3 and I sure hope he can continue to throw like this. Love to see a 7 game series where they're pitching 5 of the 7 games, maybe Miley the other two, but that feels more 2001 with Johnson and Schilling.
  20. BrewerFan
    Anyone think that MIGHT have been a base hit with Miller running? Bohm doesn't have a great arm, he's gotta make a throw from deep(ish) on the dirt and Miller can run. Probably not...and it doesn't really matter anyway.
  21. BrewerFan
    I don't get what you mean by "still doing this?" It's still a thing. Covid didn't disappear. I'm pretty sure now the rules are more lax and it's about being symptomatic or whatever and I don't believe they're testing for it everyday(giving the leeway). Or you could also test negative for it. It's not the center of the universe, but it's also not extinct.
  22. BrewerFan
    Yes...that was ridiculous. You could do that with Yelich from his MVP years. Some of them were even more ridiculous. Slider on the inner 3rd. Maybe it's a 3-1 count or he's just not looking for a slider. I get it, Yankees fans made the meme and so you put it in the article, but as you said, you could do this with everyone. You could probably find 20 from just tonight's game. Balls over the middle of the plate that weren't swung at because it's a hitters count or they were taking or it was a breaking ball or...they just didn't see it.
  23. BrewerFan
    '21 in particular they struggled with guys not being disciplined vs mobile QBs like Fields, Hienicke, I don't think we saw Lamar that year, but their backup Huntley ran on us. '20 was that Kamara game when we couldn't tackle him and Cook kept getting outside. But yes, the main point is that Van Ness about as close to a carbon copy of rookie Gary as you can get.
  24. BrewerFan
    I just think about that UNLV team that rolled Duke and then Duke came back to beat in...I don't remember what years, '91 and then '92? I don't know CBB like that, but that team had Larry Johnson, Stacy Augmon, Anthony and then I thought at least one other College Superstar. Undefeated and blowing everyone out that year.
  25. BrewerFan
    Oh, there's definitely some. You arguing AGAINST the Brewers chances to win while saying "which means it's baseball--random stuff happens," while talking about the playoffs. Definitely is some...though it appears unintentional.
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