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Bradley's ABs look horrific. This guy was 12 million dollars?

Garcia only has a .742 OPS this season? Feels like he's been tagging the ball every game.

If the offense can not go right back in the tank after having just a couple good games that would be great.

To me Brett Anderson and Houser are our 4/5 in any order. I don't really characterize the other three in any way other than to say obviously Woodruff and Burnes are the furthest along right now.

Brutal AB by Baez.

How many of those actually exist these days anyway? Not many, but Woodruff and Burnes are probably closer to being ones.I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If he can give us 5 great innings every outing that's valuable.

This is a classic Peralta start. He can be really good, but he's never going to be a consistent 7 inning or even 6 inning pitcher.

That was a terrible 0-2 pitch and JBJ couldn't touch it.

Definitely looked like Avi was hustling out of the box. Just was perfectly played.

Alzolay better be getting the same microscopic zone today. Umpires like this piss me off. These pitches are right on the corners and bottom edge of the zone which is exactly where you want them. They're not just off the edge. They're strikes. (AB to Joc) Pitchers should be rewarded for these pitches, not punished. These umpires are their own worst enemy. Everyone is talking about automating the zone and the guys making the best case for it are the umpires themselves.

Swinging 3-0 with the bases empty is pretty silly.

Good point. The value of infield defense is different when you have a Freddy Peralta starting versus when you have a Brett Anderson starting.

I'm really surprised to see Hiura starting at 2nd. I figured it was going to be like when Braun left 3rd, only a dire emergency would send him back there.

I think Trent Grisham is the one Stearns is really going to lament getting away. I'm sure it does bother these guys,. They want to be the best too. When I make a mistake at my job it bothers me too. But yes, short-term nothing you can do but move forward. All part of being a professional.

That makes so much more sense, thank you for clarifying. I guess I'm just used to seeing the lamenting of guys we let go. No problem! Unfortunate about Jimmy either way. What could have been, we'll never know. I used to be a pitcher batting NL guy, but Jimmy was the last straw for me.

[attachment=0]Screenshot_20210412-125602_Twitter-min.jpg[/attachment] I have to agree with Andy on this take. I would have loved Bouye for 2/7.

The "getting it wrong" part on Nelson was continuing to pay him to keep him for 2 years and getting nothing out of it. Not the part where they let him walk.

THANK you. Crawford is a warm body. That's it. If he wasn't the guy we got for Knebel no one would even know of him. Pick out some random name from AA and that individual probably has the same chance of competing in Milwaukee someday as Crawford does.

I assume you mean Knebel’s “poor performance” was 2018 where he had a FIP of 3.05, WHIP of 1.08 and had a K/9 rate of 14.3. Unless you’re knocking his 2020 numbers for literally rehabbing from TJ surgery at the major league level. Also worth mentioning, Jimmy Nelson blew out his shoulder in two places during his breakout year. His numbers before 2017 were pedestrian: FIP of 4.44 and WHIP of 1.39. Despite his suffering an unprecedented shoulder injury, they threw 7.5 million dollars away retaining his rights and got bupkis. That’s the head scratcher as referenced above No, I was talking about his 2020 numbers - yes there is additional context to it with regards to his injury but there is no denying he had a poor year. I’ll still disagree that it was head-scratching for the Brewers to invest the money in Jimmy Nelson over two years pre-COVID vs investing the money in Knebel - especially factoring losing a years worth of revenue. They saw TOR potential with Nelson vs high end reliever - one is easier to potentially replace than the other. There is no denying that I’d rather have Knebel on the roster than not but he isn’t without his risks. Jumping on Stearns that this was a huge mistake after 3.1 innings seems premature and using the money paid to Jimmy Nelson over two years, in a completely different financial environment, as part of that is a stretch to me. But it was a mistake. You can rationalize it every which way but the fact of the matter is they got it wrong with Jimmy and it looks like they're going to get it wrong again with Corey. The TOR potential was out the window when the shoulder injury occurred. I guess if you were talking about Jacob DeGrom I'd be willing to see if a huge comeback occurred, but we're overrating pre-injury Jimmy a bit. His TOR track record wasn't all that established and he was still a bit of an unknown. Also the injuries are apples to oranges, this was a serious shoulder injury and always a much longer shot to come back from than TJ. I don't expect the consultations between our medical staff and our FO to result in crystal ball like results but getting it wrong repeatedly on post-injury projections hurts us for sure. The Jimmy Nelson situation was really handled poorly. I guess the silver lining is I'm glad Jimmy still made some money but it was basically charity on our part. There was a time in 2019 when Jimmy could still be optioned to the minors. Rather than see what we had with him in the minors first we called him up long enough for his service time to hit 5 years, then not only were we stuck with a really unproductive player that we already had dead money sunk into, he could no longer be optioned.

Personally I'm not going to get hung up on the 7th inning thing. Just a number. Doesn't really matter what inning he would have thrown. Just seems like a red herring and a technicality which only applies because we also have Hader and Devin.

Not a single person here is arguing that from what I can tell. However there were zero guarantees of that and the early returns had not been good. Relievers are often hard to predict anyway so add in injury, struggles after return's and cost the Brewers made a decision almost every small market team would make. I love Knebel. Wish he was still a Brewer but I completely understand why we traded him. I understand it, but it still looks like it's going to be a bad move. I think the head-scratching part about it is that they went the other direction with Nelson and waited 2 years for a much more serious injury. I understand they can't predict the future, but it looks like they blew the evaluation in both cases right now.

If Knebel returns to the form he was with us pre-TJ, he's well worth the 5+ million. Whatever inning he would have pitched for us is immaterial.

Most important thing, Yelich and Shaw are fine. Both day to day and could be back in the lineup tomorrow.

Very fortunate.

Our bullpen is a strength though.