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  1. 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?
  2. DonBarclay
    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.
  3. DonBarclay
    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.
  4. DonBarclay
    To be fair, his outing today wasn’t exactly leverage. Down 1 in the 6th is the definition of middle relief.
  5. DonBarclay
    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.
  6. DonBarclay
    This turned out to be quite the understatement.
  7. DonBarclay
    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.
  8. DonBarclay
    I was very surprised when he came back out. Have plenty of bullets in the pen, didn’t need to press him for 3.
  9. DonBarclay
    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.
  10. DonBarclay
    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.
  11. DonBarclay
    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.
  12. DonBarclay
    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.
  13. DonBarclay
    Bauers available to pinch hit and no IL stint. Big sigh of relief.
  14. DonBarclay
    No IL stint. April Fools in July?
  15. DonBarclay
    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.
  16. DonBarclay
    Would imagine that Lara will be starting every day now if Buaers hits the IL with his fractured big toe.
  17. DonBarclay
    Talk about sunk cost fallacy… he doesn’t need to contribute as a an every day DH with a 4 man bench. If he’s not contributing when he’s in the lineup, you don’t keep putting him at DH because he “HAS to contribute” there. You DH him a few times a week, and the rest of the time he’s a pinch hitter. You still have 5 guys that play OF, that doesn’t change. He's played 70 games, that’s exactly when he heated up last year. You give him a few more weeks to figure it out, then you need to seriously consider changing the lineup strategy. I have no issue with Murph talking him up and sticking with him to this point. If we’re in the same spot production wise in late August and there’s not been any meaningful changes to his playing time and spot in the order, then I think we should all have a huge issue with it.
  18. DonBarclay
    The scary thing is, Yeli still has 2 years left after this. If Murphy remains unwilling to bench him in a pennant race this year, I wonder if that’s an indication that he’ll simply be penciled in for the next 2 as well. If he doesn’t turn things around, and there’s no real reason to believe that he will, that will certainly hamstring this competitive window.
  19. DonBarclay
    I think Bauers should not see any OF time in the playoffs. For him to be there a couple days a week in the regular season isn’t ideal, but oh well. And if that means Yeli hasn’t shown life by then, he sits. The best lineup currently has Turang, Chourio, Mitchell, Vaughn, Lara, Bauers, Pratt, Contreras, and Ortiz in it. Come playoff time, Hamilton is a pinch runner, Yeli/Sanchez are late game platoon matchup pinch hitters, and Perkins/Sal/Lockridge are pinch runner/defensive replacements after PH situations.
  20. DonBarclay
    They don’t need to acquire a starter to option Sproat to AAA. The can do it today, and line up everyone to start on normal rest with Harrison going next Tuesday after his Thursday rehab start.
  21. DonBarclay
    That’s one where you have to just run through the pitcher if he’s in your way.
  22. DonBarclay
    For the last 7 years we’ve been holding our breath to avoid a Yeli IL stint. Now, it seems like that’s the best case scenario as he’s not leaving the lead off spot without one.
  23. DonBarclay
    Neither am I, but it should have absolutely zero to do with Sproat.
  24. DonBarclay
    I don’t get this sentiment. Sproat could go down as soon as tonight, with the day off Thursday and Harrison almost back. For a SP to make the playoff rotation, they’d need to outperform Drohan, who has a 3.5 and has been putting up 6 innings consistently. It needs to an Ace (Skubal, Ryan, etc) or nobody - why waste the capital on a guy that won’t crack the playoff rotation? Sproat is just biding his time at this point until there are 5 healthy above him within the next week.
  25. DonBarclay
    Sproat doesn’t need to help them reach a world series this year. He needs to eat some innings and be left off the playoff roster.
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