AdvantageSchneider

What is your evidence for this assertion? As far as I'm aware they are following the same plan they did last year which is don't skip starts if there is an off day available. None of the starters has thrown an exorbitant amount of pitches in a game despite the bullpen being not so great this year. It's baseball. Starting pitchers get hurt. That's why you need a lot of them.

Props to him for honest I guess. He certainly could have given some meaningless cliche answer. What's he saying has been said by some Brewers fans, so he's not alone in his opinion with the fans or it appears in the clubhouse. I'm not certain where he gets the point about selling players off before paying them. Prince - kept until the end of the contract. CC- Tried to sign, outbid by the Yankees. Braun, extended twice Weeks signed Yelich signed Where is the history of trading guys before paying them? Carlos Lee and Grenke? JJ Hardy? That's 3 players going back 13 years. Not really sure that's a pattern there.

Plead guilty to attempted assault which is a misdemeanor in NY. No jail time. That would seem to be quite different than multiple DUIs and running over a guy and getting 39 months in jail.

Krod was never convicted of a felony. He had pitched well for the team prior to the domestic assault. Splitting hair perhaps.

I'm never going to cheer for him, even if he gets the final outs in game 7 of a World Series win for the Brewers. That being said I'd rather win with some not so nice guys than lose with a bunch of choir boys. Normally have multiple years of control is a good thing. Here not so much. I hope he pitches well while he is here. I won't miss him when he is gone. Do you think the team will sell Bush t-shersies in the clubhouse store?? Maybe give him #31 so people can pretend they are wearing Dave Bush instead.

And the only reason he isn't listed as the best is because they haven't won the WS yet. If he can pull that off than I'd have zero complaints at all. That's a big mountain to climb for a small market franchise like ours.

There are 28 owners of MLB teams that aren't corporations. Of the other 27 owners I'd really only want to trade Attanasio for 6. He's clearly a better owner than half the other teams. He seems to be a smart guy and appears to be committed to owning the team for a long time. I would think you could do worse. I don't know anything about football in England. I doubt he's going to spend a crazy ton of money to improve the team but he probably won't be a penny pinched either. He's generally a smart guy. I assume he will hire smart people.

He saw a lot of really bad baseball. Kudos to him for sticking it out as long as he did. Long enough to see the best run in franchise history. That said I would not mind someone with a little more youthful energy and a little more analytic mindset to cover the team. Tom H seemed to get scooped quite regularly by outside sources for one of what 3 guys on the brewers beat.

What else is he going to say? "We just acquired a player that had a historically bad season at the plate and we expect him to continue to produce at that level or possibly be even a little worse if that is possible." JBJ does have value with his elite defense but that isn't going to sell to the press in Boston.

They could sign Martin Maldonado for another go around. Roberto Perez won a couple of Gold Gloves and caught the excellent Cleveland staff is also a free agent. As far as trades, both the catchers in Texas (Heim and Trevino) were good at pitch framing and below average hitters. Both are pre-arbitration eligible making a good fit for Milwaukee, and a rebuilding club like Texas should be willing to part with one to get someone who will be able to help down the road. Maldonado is signed until 2023 with the Astros.

The chemistry in the clubhouse may be hard to replace, but there is a plethora of defensive minded catchers the Brewers can sign to replace Pina. The fact that he went to Atlanta so quickly leads me to believe he was told the Brewers were going to look elsewhere. Or he learned from Martin Maldonado that when a team offers a back up catcher more money for 2 years than you earned in your career you say yes and don't look back, otherwise you end up playing for the veteran's minimum. Martin should have sued his agent for malpractice.

Isn't therapy supposed to make you feel better?

Adam McCalvy tweeted that in the wild card era 1995 to present starters on short rest in the postseason are 30-45 with a 4.58 era averaging 5.1 innings. That doesn't include Morton's number today which would make those numbers even worse. Given those numbers I have a hard time taking anyone seriously that thinks CC screwed up by not pitching Burnes on short rest. I'm sure CC would have rather had Suter and Williams pitch some of the innings in this series that he gave to other arms, but those guys weren't available despite the organization doing everything possible to have the team healthy for the post season. Other than his first game disaster start and his last game hiccup against the Dodgers Ashby looked pretty darned impressive. Unless we were going to sweep the Braves in 3 games those guys were going to have to get some outs at some point. At the end of the day we lost because the bats went cold for two games and our best pitcher and arguably the best reliever in the game got beat by their best hitter. It happens. The bucks won a championship because Durant's toe was on the line. Sometimes you need a little luck to win a title. They obviously didn't have it this year. Each situation is different. Some WS are won because an ace pitched well in games 1, 4, and 7. No Williams and no presumably multi inning Hader is one of the reasons Burnes pitches game 4. Throw in no Suter too. Too many guys throwing meaningful innings in the NLDS. Has Strickland thrown with a two run lead ever this year? Yet he and Ashby are expected to hold down the fort, not to mention presumably Boxberger in the 9th, of an elimination playoff game? 34 innings…… Woodruff 7.1 Burnes 6 Peralta 4 Lauer 3.2 Houser 3 Ashby 2.2 Strickland 2.1 Boxberger 2 Hader 2 Cousins 1 No pitcher has won 3 games as a starter in the WS since 1968. Randy Johnson won two as a starter and one as a reliever in 2001. So I'm glad you aren't in charge of strategy for the brewers because pinning our WS hopes on some miracle once in a generation pitching performance is pretty silly. Strickland pitched in 57 games for the Brewers this season. He pitched in 4 games in a save situation. He pitched in 4 games that were tied. He didn't have a ton of high leverage innings for the Brewers but then you probably wouldn't expect him too since we have Williams and Hader. Boxberger locked down the 7th inning role pretty well. You seem to have a very short term memory. Burnes in game 1 only went 6 innings and that was with extra rest. And it was only scoreless because of a tremendous play by Tellez and Narvaez. There have been 18 playoff games this post season. 36 starts. I see two starters made it 7+ innings and two made it 6+ innings. Plenty of other big name starters haven't been able to make it through 4 innings. This idea that Burnes was going to come in and pitch 6 solid innings on short rest is ridiculous.

Half of winning a championship is making the playoffs. Baring some extreme changes the Brewers should be overwhelming favorites to win the NL central again next season.

The only way I thought they'd bring Burnes back on short rest is if they were down 2-1. They were and this was clearly a game where 6+ innings were needed from the starter. Counsell made the wrong call. It was not a good series for him as he was outmanaged considerably. Adam McCalvy tweeted that in the wild card era 1995 to present starters on short rest in the postseason are 30-45 with a 4.58 era averaging 5.1 innings. That doesn't include Morton's number today which would make those numbers even worse. Given those numbers I have a hard time taking anyone seriously that thinks CC screwed up by not pitching Burnes on short rest. I'm sure CC would have rather had Suter and Williams pitch some of the innings in this series that he gave to other arms, but those guys weren't available despite the organization doing everything possible to have the team healthy for the post season. Other than his first game disaster start and his last game hiccup against the Dodgers Ashby looked pretty darned impressive. Unless we were going to sweep the Braves in 3 games those guys were going to have to get some outs at some point. At the end of the day we lost because the bats went cold for two games and our best pitcher and arguably the best reliever in the game got beat by their best hitter. It happens. The bucks won a championship because Durant's toe was on the line. Sometimes you need a little luck to win a title. They obviously didn't have it this year.

They have the pitch chart for the 20 called strikes. 8 were on the black or even off the plate, but the other 12 look pretty much middle of the plate. A couple were middle middle even.

https://www.brewcrewball.com/2021/10/11/22719677/the-milwaukee-brewers-were-surprisingly-unprepared-against-max-fried-game-2-nlds "Had the Brewers done their homework on Fried, they should have known that he rarely walks hitters and loves to fill up the strike zone. His 6.2% walk rate was in the 84th percentile among all pitchers this season, and his 45.5% zone rate was 11th-highest among starters who worked at least 150 innings this season." Because Fried is a noted strike-thrower, the Brewers’ lineup needed to come out swinging. If they got a pitch over the plate—especially early in the count—they had to jump on it. Instead, Milwaukee hitters did the exact opposite. They were alarmingly passive against the Braves’ lefty, taking 20 called strikes. That was tied for the second-highest total in any start for Fried this season. This is somewhat shocking to me as the Brewers seem to be highly analytical. And it's not like we didn't know ahead of time who we were likely to be facing. We were pretty much locked in to either the Braves or the Phillies with two weeks left in the season. The Braves clinched on Sept 30th. Plenty of time to put a scouting report together. Is a failure like that on the hitting coach or the analytics department?

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That's what I'd like to know and seems like a layup follow up question but I guess that's asking too much of the local media. For the most part I think the Milwaukee media is a bonus to the brewers in that they don't cause unnecessary controversies, but on the other hand when there is a legitimate story to dig into they drop the ball a lot.

Do the other NL west teams hate the Dodgers? Will they lay down so the Giants can win? I think the D-back hate the Dodgers. Don't know about the Padres.

On August 10th they were 67 - 49. Season high 18 games over .500. SInce then they have pooped their pants to the tune of an 11 - 27 record, and now have to win 3 games still in the last week just to finish .500 for the season. 2 against ATL, 3 against LA, and 3 against SF, and there's a real chance they don't make it to .500. What a fall. I was wondering how this compared to our collapse in 2014. At the end of June we were 51-33, 18 games above .500. We were actually 19 games above .500 on June 28. The collapse began in July when we lost 10 out of 11 (or 11 out of 12 if you want to go back to Jue 29th). We semi righted the ship in August going 13-14 but Sept the collapse was complete with a 9-17 record. Finished 82-80 in 3rd place. I never thought we were as good as our record that year. We won a lot of games because the other team screwed up. I would not have predicted SD's collapse. I thought they were a better than .500 club.

Are we shutting down Burnes after tonight? I assume he's going to get at two more starts. Still time to pad the resume.

Cards are tied with the reds in the loss column so I think technically the Cards would need to lose 3 before Friday as well.

The Brewers no hit the Indians! Brewerfanet posters: "Yeah with two pitchers, pffff"

We have witnessed a complete game shutout, a walk off grand slam, and a no hitter in the past week. This team is so freaking special I don't know about you but Vogelbach's walk off grand slam was ruined for me because he didn't call his shot before he hit it.