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It is literally a billion times crazier. Jonathan Schoop 2400 Career ABs .740 OPS In season after traded to Brewers....41 abs .346 OPS Kevin Mench 2362 Career ABs .780 OPS In season after traded to Brewers....133 abs .566 OPS A billion times......literally?????? Yes, because Mench is 40 and hasn't played baseball in a decade. I'm guessing that career .780 OPS is probably attainable for him for his local bar league softball team, but not for the Milwaukee Brewers.

It is literally a billion times crazier.

Because he's 24 with a really good arm and they got him for basically nothing. He's not expected to do anything here this year for Milwaukee. Maybe they can bring out the reasons he was a consensus top 100 prospect, or maybe he flops and nothing is lost.

Not to call tomorrow a must win but this is one of those where you really need to have both of these. Lose tomorrow just undoes what you earned today and puts us right back at 3. Win it and things get really interesting.

I try to be as unbiased as I possibly can about bad calls and I'm gonna say it. Phil Cuzzi called a great game.

For perspective on why we didn't acquire DeGrom, we probably simply didnt have enough. You would have had to start with Hiura to get Archer and then have decent enough complementary pieces just to have the best offer for Archer on the table.

I assure you that outside of a few teams at the bottom of the league, any team that only loses 4 games the rest of the way is going to win.

You can't subtract from the W column either. So, doesn't it matter as well? Yes it does. That's why the standings are calculated using both the wins and losses of respective teams. Yes, the Cubs have 5 less losses, but they also have to play 4 more games than the brewers from here on out. On average you can expect the Cubs to lose at least 1 of those, if not two. Of course, they could win them all, but that still doesn't matter. Anyway, if your logic was correct (it isn't) I assure you that MLB would show the Brewers 5 games back on their standings page. Back to reality though, right now the biggest thing that matters is these two games coming up against the Cubs. Brewers will be either 1,3, or 5 out after this series. In my opinion this could either make the race tight to the end or make it very hard for the Brewers to realistically keep up with the Cubs. You can add wins but you can’t subtract losses. It’s just math. This is a red herring. Both wins and losses can't mathematically be subtracted from a total, and both can be added on to the total of either team. The Cubs only lead us by 1 in the win column, but they have the chance to add wins. Likewise, no, we can't subtract losses from our total, but Cubs' opponents can add to their loss total. If you had said that a team with a big loss column advantage has a greater control over their own destiny than a team with a straight 3 game lead, sure, I'd agree with that. But to say it's actually a 5 game lead; no, that's just mathematically inaccurate. The Cubs play 4 additional games compared to us the rest of the way. If they won all 4, they'd be 5 games up. If they lost them all, they'd be 1 game up. If they split, 3 games up. Ergo, why the standings list them as 3 games up.

What if I told you the win column has exactly the same amount of meaning in the standings as the loss column. This is why they use games back or winning percentage. The Cubs are more likely to have less losses than us when they've played less games, so that's why the current standings base the rankings off of best record, not losses. Until you can figure out a way for the Brewers to be able to subtract losses from their W/L record, the loss column is and always will be the only thing that matters. So hypothetically, if one team were to finish a season 90-72, and in some crazy circumstance their rival sits at 81-71 and has 10 games to make up, the 81-71 team should be considered to be...ahead? If the loss column is the ONLY thing that matters.

The Cubs are absolutely better than us. That doesn't mean we can't beat them in a playoff series; however, I really see no point in hanging on every game they play the rest of the way. They are probably 85% or better to win the division. We're closer to being passed by the Cardinals than we are to catching the Cubs.

Managers should be required to attend a PowerPoint presentation every year entitled: "Recognizing when your Relief Pitcher doesn't have it"

You're right, it is not, because the actual standings read 3 back, not 5. This argument makes less sense to me everytime I hear it. Part of the reason the Cubs have lost 5 less games is because they've played 4 less games than us. So they have to make those 4 games up by the end of the season and by your logic you are projecting them for wins in all 4 of those extra games.

We are not winning the Central I agree, but we are 3 back, not 5.

Makes me sick.. Hamels with another great outing for the Scrubs as well.. Remember a couple weeks ago when everyone was saying SPs available like Hamels, Happ, Lynn, Archer, Gausmann, etc. didn't provide any real upgrade to what we already have?? Archer has not been. As for the others, when your entire pitching staff besides Wade Miley goes into a collective funk at the same time, pretty easy for anyone else to look better.

Almost totally meaningless over a sample of less than a dozen start with even a smaller sample of actual struggle in the 1st, especially when starters have to approach the 1st inning much differently than a reliever who is only going to go 1 or 2. Opponents have a .581 OPS against Peralta only seeing him once a game.

Well, my personal feeling was always that Burnes was miscast in the bullpen. I never felt that way about Hader. In July my personal preference was that Burnes and Peralta switch roles. It seemed to make sense in every way, especially trying to control Peralta's innings while still having a high K pitcher for the pen. Obviously, I can't prove how it would have worked out, but after a number of bad Peralta starts, struggles in the rotation in general, and some struggles for Burnes out of the pen, I'd be willing to bet that the answer is: better than it has.

It's not being a sports fan, it's being a fan of this team. They have been in prime contention for the postseason and collapsed in the 2nd half in '98, '99, '01, '06, '07, '08(luckily the Mets collapsed harder), '09, '14, '17, likely '18. A couple more years of bottoming out could've gone a long way, instead they won't have any more top picks anytime soon and they've already started to gut the farm on rentals. They dont have the money so they never take the risk, exception when we got CC. But we shouldda got DeGrom. Instead, we lose. Wait till next year. Hard to get a guy that isn't really available. If Hiura+ a few other prospects would have been enough, some other more prospect heavy team would have acquired him.

If we don't make the playoffs, we'll have traded Ryan Cordell, Brett Phillips, Jorge Lopez, Kodi Medeiros, Luis Ortiz, and Jean Carmona for three different 2 month rentals plus one year of Jonathan Schoop. Not a very good use of crucial prospect capital.

Here we go again. 4-15 on Sundays. 19 hits and still lost. New ways to lose each weekend.

19 hits and found a way to piss it all away. Only the Brewers.

Hader started all 25 games he pitched in the minors in 2016. He then started all 12 games he pitched in the minors in 2017 prior to his call up. We should probably pull him out of the pen before it starts to not go all that well. So because it worked well for Hader, who many experts thought was going to wind up in the pen anyway, means it's the right path for every other starter including Burnes, whom no expert ever projected for the pen. Got it.

Not a strike to Cain, but why am I not surprised, gotten screwed on every other call per usual today.

Burnes has been a really great starting pitcher his entire professional career, now you put him in the pen which he has never done, have him going on back to back days, an entirely different routine than starting, not really surprising that it is starting to not go all that well.

Absolute worst case scenario there from Braun.

He didn’t pitch yesterday. Sure did.