BrewerFan

You felt the need to post a link to show BA for 2 for 12? That's... cool. Not sure what the point here is, but alright.

I agree, his AB vs Thielbar was a bad and non-competitive AB. But someone said he hadn't had a 3 hit game all year... which wasn't true...and also that he hadn't walked. I'm CERTAINLY not arguing we don't need more from him. I said that last night. If we're going to win this series and have a chance next round, we need more out of him. We need him and we need Frelick to be better. Tonight, I think the 1st inning is going to be huge. You put runs on the board early, you're going to see the Cubs tighten up... if you don't and the Cubs with Busch and Hoerner get going... THAT is going to make the Brewers tighten up. Need Freddy to give us a strong 5. Empty it out. Then we've got 4 day until Gm1.

Yeah, I hear ya... but that'd require playing Frelick in CF and people seem very against that(IMO, I wouldn't put that stress on Chourio). Even in that rough Sept, he had a .345 OBP so... he's certainly not Lockridge. I would kinda like to see a lineup of Frelick Chourio Yelich Contreras Vaughn Turang Durbin Collins Ortiz But... that's just me and I don't think we'll see it. I'd feel BETTER about it, but I think Collins needs to see regular ABs to see the ball better... but I still like the lineup swapping Perkins for Collins. Defense is clearly better, especially with the wind potentially blowing at Wrigley.

No, he had several 3 or 4 hit games this year. I don't know what led you to that belief, but... it's not accurate. He's also got a walk. So we're basically looking at a 2/5, 0/4, 0/3 1BB Things aren't nearly as dire as people have been saying.

I don't really get this to be honest. The "he's been terrible since the ASB," comments... which isn't true, he had his best stretch the ~45 games otu of the break. I DO get wishing Hoskins was on the roster, but Collins is still a very nice player and I'd prefer him on the roster over Lockridge... and especially with Chourio's iffy hammy, I'm fine with him being on the roster. I did want Hoskins on there and if the team was healthy, again, I'd have given up Lockridge, but knowing what I know now... I'd still take Hoskins, but Lockridge could be useful later in a game. We're waay too down on Collins.

It wasn't really so much a short leash as the Brewers grabbed the leash and walked him around by it. 6 Runs, 4 hits, 1BB, WP... we took that leash right out of CC's hand! We hit Soroka pretty hard and Civale... we were up 9-1, we kinda shut it down. We'll have go to through the likes of Snell, Yamamoto, Ohtani...Glasnow and Kershaw(which I thought he was done, but... he's not). They also have a pen that's... limping by, but has some starters that are guys who'd be in most rotations. So... if we can't get by Boyd, Civale, Soroka, it's because we're just not putting together good at bats. I don't think that'll be a problem. I'm even confident that Turang will have better ABs. He hasn't been as bad as people on here have inferred... saying he'd been bad for a while. Forgot he was 2-5 in game1, he had two walks in Gm2. He was bad today and had a non-competitive AB, but I still have faith in him. He had a MONSTER month in... August, but he'd been good all year outside of a very poor July, but he had a big Sept, he was good last year in the post-season... He will get on base. He and Frelick. I think I'd go with (RF)Frelick, (CF)Chourio, (C)Contreras, (DH)Yelich, (1B)Vaughn, (2B)Turang, (3B)Durbin, (CF)Perkins, (SS)Ortiz I'd honestly consider going with Collins over Perkins and playing Frelick in CF, but... we're not going to do that. I just don't get why they kinda moved away from Collins. Perhaps Chourio's defense being limited plays a factor, but they kinda gave up on Collins in Sept.

Yeah, the innings would be a bigger deal, but he's a lefty soft tosser and... they really don't have many other options. Hell, they don't really have any. That was their choice for Gm1. They went with Rea for 60 pitches 2 days ago, so... not sure he'd get too many. I'm sure he'll be available, all hands on deck and all that. Civale on the other hand... I GUESS he could be an option to start... and if the Cubs were up 2-1 instead of down, maybe they go to him as the starter, but... I just don't see any scenario it's not Boyd. I hope the Brewers take a patient approach as I would assume Boyd will adjust his pitcher and give less first pitch Fastballs given how the Brewers jumped on them. Chicago doesn't have a pitcher that scares me though. Their lineup can be a bit troubling, but we've really shut that down save for Busch. I'd be hitting Bush 3rd and maybe even Tucker 1st, but that's for the Cubs to worry about.

Yeah... you are. The kid is a gamer though.

It's pretty obvious it's going to be their All-Star starter on full rest in an elimination game. If they decide to go with... Civale or Soroka(neither of whom have started for them)... we should send them a GREAT big gift basket.

Did you see him running on that 8th inning double? Playing him in CF would be a huge mistake. He is not moving well. That ball got past PCA and he still barely made it into 2nd. But again... there's a lefty on the mound, so you don't need to make room for Bauers. I'd honestly consider swapping Yelich and Chourio. I don't think there's much question if this was the regular season, he'd be on the IL and then... probably be out for a month until it was 100% healed up... but it's not, so you play through it until you tear it too bad you can't play, but throwing him in CF is just ensuring it happens.

So how are you rounding out the OF? Chourio can't play CF. He can play RF... but you really can't sit him. Would you be sitting Frelick? I wouldn't do that, even vs a lefty. Also, the Cubs are going back to Boyd tomorrow, so... it wouldn't make sense to start Bauers. I think you just go with the same lineup from Gm1.

.... right, but we were talking about how they'd configure the OF for the bottom of the 9th HAD they scored and you're the one who was adamantly against Frelick playing CF. So... It's pretty valid question. If we're doing the 'I'm not the manager, so it doesn't matter,' thing, then your objection to him playing CF doesn't make much sense in the first place.

Yeah... these kids, for the most part, had nothing to do with the past losses. I'm choosing to continue to be optimistic.

He was on fire after the break. His best baseball was post-ASB. He struggled when he started getting more sporadic playing time the last few weeks of September, but he was still much better the 2nd half vs the 1st half.

Well... dream about being in the middle of thousand of depressed, sad Chicago fans(so their natural state).

Yeah, for sarcasm. You're not seriously complaining that Collins and his Wife had a kid during the season... right?

I didn't like that at all. Collins is a good fielder. On top of Frelick being able to play CF in a pinch late, he's also more than capable of doing so for a whole game. Lockridge isn't a great fielder from what I've seen(he's good, but mostly just fast). But I'd have certainly taken my chances with Collins over Lockridge. That being said, Lockridge at least had a good AB vs Tallion and Collins swung at a really bad 3-2 pitch. It's easy to go back and nitpick the managerial decisions and we can debate them. But some guys(Chourio, Vaughn... every pitcher not named Priester/Ashby) has been good and other guys like Turang have not. That's a 5-6 WAR player and he's up there on a 1st pitch swinging like he's protecting... but also NOT protecting. He's gotta get it going like he did last year in the post-season. The Brewers need someone else to step up.

So... what would you have done then? Play Chourio in CF with his hamstring? That's a pretty obvious reason to change things. It's the playoffs. That's why you have to do some different things sometimes. You don't manage the same way in October as you do over 162 games for obvious reasons. Over 162 games, you don't have your starters throw out of the pen... because you're worried about the next 5-10-20 games. You're worried about winning ONE game at a time and just getting through that game. He's an excellent RFer. He's ALSO a good enough CFer to get through the last part of the game with him out there given... again, the only other option would have been Chourio. Chourio also has a pretty strong arm and can play RF well and Bauers is... not a scub in LF.

I do not trust Miz and you might only get 3 batters out of him. Patrick is the guy I trust and I don't think you can ask him to go 3-4 innings tomorrow after the last two games. I say go with Freddy. And I wouldn't be scared to come back with Priester in Milwaukee in Gm5... but we're not going to get that 3rd home game revenue this year. Although... according to ChatGTP, that's worth about 5M in revenue... could mean we could add a FA, so... maybe that's Rick Schlsinger's plan? I know that's not how it's spelled... I don't care enough to spell it right.

... is this supposed to be in blue? LOL... I don't always put things in blue because it's sometimes SO obvious, but... please tell me this is one of those cases...

Ok... that doesn't mean we should lose 3 games in a row in the playoffs to the Cubs. We won 97 games and we've shut the Cubs down for the most part. They scored 4 in the first and our BP DOMINATED them again. Hell, have Bauers start the game on the mound and bring Peralta in after one batter... given our BP's performance this series... Peralta is guaranteed to throw 7 shutout!

I would say it's.. pretty hard to imagine they'll have a better opportunity anytime past the Chourio era... but I thought Priester was the obvious move here. We're the Brewers. We rely on and expect young players to be able to adapt to the post-season quickly. But even with Priester's struggles, we had chances. The Cubs tried to choke the game away and we just couldn't get that bit hit in 3 different innings. Durbin just goes for it and forces that throw home and I think he has a 50/50 chance of getting in under the tag. He was...7-8 feet away. I suppose he was thinking about getting men on 2nd and 3rd, but...

He's played plenty of CF and he's a good enough fielder that... it really doesn't make sense to me that we're SO resistant to play him out there. Though.. Collins had a TERRIBLE at bat as well. That gets forgotten, but got up 3-0, two strikes, then swing at a ball in the dirt... I believe that was the inning that we had 1st and 3rd and 1 out.

We also really didn't "waste" the BP. We threw Quintana, Koenig threw a bit, Patrick and Anderson. Didn't use Ashby, Uribe, Megill. We're good to go.

You've said that every game. After the first inning yesterday, you said the series was over...