adambr2

Cry me a river. I’m as critical as anyone of the umps every night, if you’ve read any gamethread, and I’m constantly calling for robots. So no, you’re wrong. I’ve been calling for robots for longer than yourself. But I’m not so much of a homer that I’m going to get all bent out of shape about an extremely close pitch that probably gets called close to 50/50 in reality.

He definitely should at least be dropped in the order for now. 99% of Brewer fans would have felt much better with Vaughn or Durbin coming up after the two walks, and rightfully so.

It was a super borderline 0-2 pitch. Wasn’t egregiously bad. He actually got 2 calls his way later, but the 0-2 pitch to Suzuki could have gone either way. Blaming the score on that isn’t it.

You really didn’t get the point of anything I said, did you l? There’s nothing they could have to guarantee better results in 2021. There’s nothing they could have done to guarantee better results in 2023. They could have sacrificed the 2025 team for a better shot in those years, if that’s what you’re advocating. What are the massive trades that small market clubs made at the deadline in previous years that was the needle mover in them winning it all?

Dude gifts us two baserunners to start the game, and we do nothing with them.

Not if rally killin’ Billy Contreras has anything to say about it.

It’s about his arm health too, though. A 40 pitch inning in 1 inning isn’t like being at 40 pitches through 3.

Gotta get through the 1st before we can worry about that.

Miz is going to be great. But he isn’t ready for the grind of a full season.

3 might be enough with Boyd on the mound.

Dandy start to this series.

Lot of truth in this post. I think a healthy way to look at it that can ease some frustration when it gets to be irritating that the Brewers aren’t more aggressive is to ask yourself, “why are the Brewers where they are now?” They’re 61-43, tied for the best record in the National League, and have a loaded farm. All this in spite of their financial limitations. Why, and how? Well, coaching and scouting and development and all that, of course. But the Brewers are also where they are because they didn’t go all-in in 2021. They didn’t go all-in in 2023. The Brewers are as good as they are not just from the moves they’ve made, but the moves they haven’t made. Patience is so crucial when you are a small market. And yes, none of that is to say you shouldn’t make moves, when they are smart and cost-effective, especially when dealing from an area of organizational surplus. But just know no matter what these moves are, the increase to your overall chances is marginal. So the healthiest thing you can do, is try to ensure that year after year, you’re one of the last 12 teams with a chance. They’ve done that. Now they have to be the team that gets the breaks, gets healthy at the right time, gets hot at the right time. I’m as frustrated as anybody that that hasn’t happened yet. But it isn’t a result of bad process. I hope they do make a move or two, by the way. I think it’s part of the excitement of this time of year. But the fact that they’re always keeping the big picture in mind is a good thing, not a bad thing.

The Cubs will definitely do something. I think a rotation upgrade for them is almost a certainty.

Well, I hope it’s not a big deal to you that you did. In my original post I asked if people would feel better or worse about trading Gasser for Suarez, so the misunderstanding was that I thought you intended to say you’d keep Gasser (thus saying no I wouldn’t trade Gasser for Suarez)

Ok, I understand what you were saying now, you’d rather keep Henderson over Gasser. So I guess my question would be, would you part with Gasser to get Suarez, or still keep Gasser.

Assuming you meant Gasser in the context of this reply.

I don’t recall a single comment in this thread insinuating that being good in the regular season is good enough. I myself said it’s time to raise that bar, to strive for playoff success, we’ve been playing October baseball for long enough now to have expectations. Just having those expectations with the grounded reality that there isn’t a move that we can make that can guarantee anything.

For arguments’ sake, would you guys feel any better or worse about shipping Gasser for Suarez rather than Henderson?

One of the proposals I’ve seen in the media is Henderson for Suarez straight up. Wonder how people would feel about that.

Matthew Boyd’s career sure has had an odd trajectory. One thing is clear though, he’s better right now than he has ever been.

Again I’m totally fine with moving Contreras down. Take some pressure off him, too. Move Durbin up, move Collins up, I’m fine with it. Yes, I’ve been frustrated with Contreras at the plate, particularly this series. But the narrative around Contreras is out of control. He has a 97 OPS+ and 98 wRc+ this season, making him literally average offensively, even in a down season. He’s put up 2 WAR on the strength of really good defense. And again, his offense has been average. And we know he has the upside for more when he’s right. He’s proven that. I know people tend to be emotion first and logic second here, myself included, but this narrative that Contreras has just been this unplayable black hole in the lineup this year just isn’t supported by any metrics at all.

I’m glad he got a big hit. I want this team to win games. Nonetheless, I hope we aren’t making lineup or roster decisions based on the result of a single AB.

Really good win in the sense that it would have been a really bad loss. Blue currently shaking his fist at the sports book at the fact that he never got the chance to ring up a Perkins on a 3-2 pitch at the ankles.

Just going to have to agree to disagree, then. I think the Brewers tend to err on the conservative side when it comes to injuries and I certainly don’t consider them among the most reckless. I don’t obviously know the medical specifics of his injury but my assumption is that if they felt he would significantly benefit from a few games off, they would have given it to him.

As I’ve said, I’m fine with dropping Contreras in the lineup, but it’s not like you have 6 far superior options. This board talks about Contreras like he’s Chad Moeller. He’s been meh, not atrocious. Could we use more offense out of him, yes. Is the injury likely costing him some production, yes. Eric Haase is a 32 year old journeyman with over 1100 career ABs. He’s what a backup catcher looks like. It’s not like there’s all this upside there to unlock.