DonBarclay

I’ve seen a lot of stuff about prospect outcomes, specifically call backs to prior brewers top 10 guys that have been moved. All of those were in significantly weaker brewers farm systems. Do you have any data on prior years top systems that might compare better to this years brewers version, and the hit rates on those?

Sabathia also was coming off of 6 consecutive 180+ inning seasons. I tend to think that front offices don’t baby pitchers innings early in their careers for fun - they would rather their best guys go more. Of all of their medical teams and analytics say that pressing too far beyond innings counts leads to more injuries, I have to default to believing that. They have infinite more information than we do, and way more information than they did in 2008.

And that goes directly against the folks upset that Miz was scratched the day before the all star break and that Drohan was scratched yesterday. CC was running on absolute fumes. That’s fine - the goal in 2008 was to get to the playoffs for the first time in 26 years. If extra rest is what is needed to get the starting pitchers at their best in the playoffs, so be it. These guys are young and haven’t had these workloads. Is it cautious and frustrating when the division is still in play? Of course. Would it be far more frustrating to have an IL stint and/or poor performance in October due to fatigue? Of course.

To be fair, his outing today wasn’t exactly leverage. Down 1 in the 6th is the definition of middle relief.

Call me an old man yelling get off my lawn, but I’m so sick of Contreras and Chourio not running out ground balls. Especially double plays, where one bobble would mean they’re safe if they actually showed any effort.

This turned out to be quite the understatement.

No shot at the out, but if it wasn’t his bag, he’d have been going behind. I’m wondering if they were anticipating Susac to go opposite field and thus it was his bag against the righty? It looked very strange.

I was very surprised when he came back out. Have plenty of bullets in the pen, didn’t need to press him for 3.

Hard to say the dropped fly ball didn’t create the walk, trying to be careful and pitch inside. Thanks, Mitchell. Guess you just let Pantone wear one now.

He’ll go back down today regardless of outcome. They’ll get another fresh bullpen arm up for Friday since Pannone would be down for 4 days. Maybe not DFA right away, but first guy out if/when they need more roster spots. I am interested to see if they give Wagonner a shot, he’s been lights out in AAA, and needs to hit the 40 man this offseason anyways.

This may be naive on my part, but there’s simply too much to lose for games to get cancelled next year. Baseball has not been this big in decades, a true lockout into April and beyond jeopardizes so much growth. Both parties would be insane to let that happen.

Yeli would sure bring more value if he could pick up a first base mitt. Was a primary 1B in high school, but that’s a long time ago.

Bauers available to pinch hit and no IL stint. Big sigh of relief.

No IL stint. April Fools in July?

Safe to say this caught them off guard based on Black, Adam’s, and Quero all in the AAA lineup as of 45 minutes ago.