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Seems like a plan…team teaching approach maybe.

Yeah, stats wise he is a bit underwhelming. However, the championships have to pull a bunch of weight too. I’m not sure how much that plays into HoF consideration.

He is retiring from baseball or is he just retiring period. It's kind of odd to hear about baseball coaches retiring.

Yet, adambr2, you are not most.

Well, I kind of hope he stays and continues with Stearns, yet I understand if he goes. It would be tough to pass up a big market GM job. Then again, I’ll be glad it’s him if it means keeping and extending Stearns.

I agree with this take. I think about everyone was happy with the Yelich extension at the time. Most didn’t see it as a major risk since Yelich could have regressed somewhat like Braun and still be an All Star/above avg. player for most of the contract. It’s tough being hard on Stearns and Attanasio at all for this one since no one saw this type of drop in production happening. The ones complaining now are largely the same ones who applauded it then.

BA just said that Orlando Arica “bunts well” and “it’s part of his game.” Huh?

I had no problem pulling Peralta. Even after the fact, it was worth the try for runs. We had six runs in four games, getting shut out twice. He hasn’t been going deep in games lately, either. I had more issues with Burnes and Hader in Game 4.

Playing nine innings of 3 out kickball takes about 35 minutes with a small group. Action all the time. Fast paced. Granted, we play a foul is an out, but it is so much different and largely better than playing/watching baseball. A pitch clock, limited throws to pick off, and stepping out of the box rules would help speed the game up and get more action on the field.

What happened to Yelich and Hiura was tipping the pop machine. Each case seems almost unheard of this side of Bellinger. The team’s late offensive collapse this year, along with the memory of 2020’s offense, knocked it over. I hope Haines can retain some sort of position in the organization, if wanted, and can still learn/change in a different role.

You think players in general are worse at the game than they were 10-15 years ago? I'd love your reasoning on this one. Yeah, it's probably actually opposite of what he said to be honest. Yount said in the booth something like this a few years back… if he had to see 95 nightly, he might just be a .230 hitter.

Thelma Lou…. Betty Lynn.

Very optimistic about Ashby, Small, and our pitching in general.

Kinda hope Dodgers win and dominate it just to show the crazy need for a salary cap or harsher luxury tax penalty in the next CBA.

Urias caught that ball. Good grief Rick. You're like the only one in the entire country dying on this hill. We all have eyes. I believed what you did on first glance and even first replay but on the close up you'd have to be obscenely biased to stand your ground on something like this. Time to move on. Good grief? Why so upset here? A couple of things to keep in mind. One, your picture does not have the ball on ground. Also, please realize that ball WAS NOT coming straight down! It was slung from what 15 feet from the side, traveling more like a throw from a buddy LEFT to RIGHT with the glove coming hard RIGHT to LEFT. If it was coming down..straight down.. sure, your picture is a good one. It hits the lip of the glove is my belief yet until I see something different. I have seen it from several angles several times, also in super slow motion. No evidence of hitting dirt. Urias also seems genuinely pumped that he caught the ball.

The ball is literally on the ground. I don't know what else to say about it. [attachment=0]Screenshot_20211014-161832_Chrome.jpg[/attachment] The ball is not on the ground on your shot. I have no idea how you know it is or isn’t. I have watched the play literally a couple hundred times at different angles. When the ball actually bounces UP… and you have to watch the ball…the glove is beneath. It is so terribly close. I have never seen a play like it.

Urias caught that ball.

And finding good pitching is the hard part. Finding bats is (relatively) easier. We saw this coming from before the season. They built the team on run prevention, not run scoring. Plus nobody could foresee both Huira and Yelich imploding like they did. The best pitchers didn't pitch enough. That's the theme. Burnes, Peralta, and Hader each should or could have been pitched more. Winning yesterday would have allowed Woodruff/Peralta to pitch game 5.

Trading Hader now brings even less back, one could reason. He has only two years of control left with hefty arby contracts. The Brewers might be stuck with him in a good way, simply not getting back enough to warrant a trade.

Expecting Burnes to start one game all season on three days rest is reasonable. Expecting that, again, is reasonable from a healthy, young pitcher.. Others have done that throughout this postseason alone. How long he could go and how well he would do are not based on other stats from pitchers who did the same 20 years ago. He is still not hurt either in any way. I was still fine pitching Lauer because of his strong second half, and he did fairly well short term. This decision, however, limited Woodruff’s (and ultimately Burnes) innings this series in a potential Game 5 at home with Burnes set to start, I presume. In general, I was willing to press Burnes, Woodruff, and Hader for innings in this five game series. Throwing those guys (and Peralta) only 19.1 innings (ERA a little under 2 so far) out of 34 wasn’t quite enough, especially with Williams out, Suter hurt, and others simply not as good.

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. 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

Did Hayden Fox from Minnesota State write this?

Burnes not being able to go on three days rest puzzles me greatly. He is not hurt in any way. He told CC he was able to go Game 4 on the outset. The only reason was that he felt about 85% ready and that he didn’t recover properly. He has been rested better than any pitcher on any staff. More than anything, he said that if he went on 4 days rest all year instead of 5 or 6, he would have been more easily ready to go Game 4! He’s young on top of everything! https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/corbin-burnes-nlds-game-4-status

I expected them to win this series because of Burnes and Woodruff and Hader. I expected each to pitch every game and really only Peralta to start another game this series. Pitching these 10th and 11th best pitchers on our team in key innings was just not even in my thought process.

Hader has been really, really good for us, tonight notwithstanding. We are in the playoffs the last four years because of him, really. His price tag will be huge the next two years though, and that is really limiting his value in a trade. I really don’t want to trade him just to trade him though. We would have to get a pretty good bat somehow.