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Vs Pittsburgh a team likely not seeing 65wins. 10 runs per game is a little more than impressive against any MLB opponent.

I still don't get it. Woodruff was still dealing. His pitch count wasn't high. Just ....why?

Another 11 runs for the Reds today. Unreal

Seems like kind of an early hook for Woodruff at 74 pitches if he is indeed done for the day. If the lead remains at one I think I would have sent Woodruff back out for the 8th and then Hader in the 9th, unless they plan on going 2 innings for Hader which they really don't do much anymore.

The most disturbing part to me is that he is 8 years younger than me.

Holy cow Cain murdered that ball!

No fans in professional baseball come close to the ineptitude of Cub fans in the area of judging a routine flyball.

I am so sick of our pitching having to be absolutely perfect to win every single game.

You can move him down and that's fine with me; however the 2nd best bat in the lineup is hitting .214. Not really going to make a difference until some people start hitting.

Urias just flat out sucks. I'd be happy to put up with mediocre production from Arcia at SS if it meant we could have Davies and Grisham back on this team.

Have the Brewers been involved in a game this year where at least one if not both of the starting pitchers weren't carrying a no-no into the 6th?

So much for my Hiura prediction today. Just another day of him looking clueless.

They need to change that George Webb promotion to something a little more realistic. Maybe 5 hits gets you 5 burgers for 5 bucks? In all seriousness, as discouraging as the offense has been, if Peralta turns out to be anything at all as a starter, the future and present of this rotation has never been brighter. Woodruff/Burnes/Peralta could be a 3 headed monster.

For whatever it's worth...I'm feeling pretty comfortable that Hiura isn't going to be a defensive liability at 1st. Obviously doesn't matter if he can't figure out how to hit again.

He's a K machine. That's what he's just gonna be until he decides to change his approach. Or the Brewers decide to change it for him. Haines said it was changed ... I saw it recently on TV, anyway. Haines was confident that no teams could exploit any "vulnerabilities" in the strike zone for Hiura. Haines really has a lot riding on Hiura turning it around. I would say Haines' future here depends on it. It's one thing when a seasoned veteran like Yelich is struggling for awhile, but when an elite bat-first prospect goes completely in the tank and looks lost for a long extended time period, it's not a good look at all for the hitting coach.

Keston needs to join Kirk Nieuwenhuis at High Fastballs Anonymous.

I'm calling 2 for 4 with a HR today for Hiura.

I have no idea what you are trying to prove with all this. Just because Yelich might be performing "better" than guys like Hiura or Urias doesn't mean he's performing at a level acceptable to what a small market can afford for someone they just gave 200M+. Nor do I have any idea what someone like Kolten Wong has to with any if it, someone here for far less and for mostly his defense. The overall expectations for a Christian Yelich relative to Omar Narvaez or Travis Shaw or Kolten Wong aren't even in the same stratosphere. You can insult everyone who thinks otherwise in that last sentence if you'd like but to many the long-term implications for this franchise of the possibility that Yelich could end up being far less than what they'd hope for someone they just committed essentially a lifetime contract to are real and not an overreaction. And again, I do think there's a possibility that he returns to pre-2020 form but his longer track record with the Marlins does suggest there's a possibility that we're not getting the guy from '18 and '19 back, even if we will get a good player.

I don't think any serious fans are really concerned that Yelich 2020 is who we get from now on. I do think that there's definitely legitimate concerns that while he'll get better, maybe his median is closer to the guy he was in Miami and not the guy competing for MVPs. Which is still a good player, but definitely not what you're hoping for when you invest the largest contract in franchise history.

Being a top tier professional athlete you would assume he could get any of that other stuff for free too. Well...to be fair, you'd have said the same about Darren Sharper. Obviously there is a sense of entitlement with many high profile and wealthy people where they engage in some really awful behavior that most people just can't wrap their heads around. A relatively young, good looking, well educated, wealthy former NFL player and TV personality is sitting in jail for a loooong time right now. That's not passing any judgement on Watson, and I'm not throwing him into a group with Sharper or Winslow Jr(or ALL the other people who have done things like this)...I'm just saying these things don't make sense to normal people. But along those same lines, I don't know how strange it is for someone to schedule that many massages. You'd think you'd have some priorities or hell, put someone on retainer so they are available to you whenever you need them, but maybe it's not rare for high profile athletes. It's help to have an idea of how many or how often Rodgers or Brady schedule massages. Brady in particular talks about how important they are after a workout. Maybe he's had dozens of different women work on him. I would guess Sharper could have gotten that other stuff for free too. Sadly, I think it's more about the power and thrill for people like that than anything physical. There's no way I can be convinced that someone like Darren Sharper couldn't have had a different woman on any day that would be more than willing. But I think a guy like Sharper needs that power over someone who isn't willing. Hopefully that's not who Watson is...I guess we'll find out.

Hiura had a really nice spring too. It's just hard to put much stock in spring training stats. I didn't say the sky is falling on Yelich. In fact I did say he could still very well end up being fine. I just said he's not fine right now, which I base a lot more on the 60 games last year than the 4 from this year. I understand he's got a ton of time to turn things around. He could very well end up OPSing 975 this year. We'll see.

Glad Freddy was able to get through 5. He's just always going to be a short starter because of the walks. He could be so good if he could get his walk rate down.

Yelich is most definitely not fine. I hope he will be fine, and he might very well be, but he's still a long ways from it right now.

That would have been the equivalent of flushing 2 million dollars down the toilet for no good reason when they could have just released him in the spring, so I would have been a little annoyed, yes.

Shaw is definitely the bright spot so far this season on offense.