adambr2
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Yeah, I mean you knew a lefty was on the mound, and you knew Shaw was coming up. Really no excuse for that. It's not a good look, especially when he comes in cold and strikes out on 3 pitches.
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That would have been great 0 or 1 out. Blown chance.
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Runner on 3rd nobody out, Thames pops up and Perez strikes out on 3 pitches. Awesome. Also, Craig, maybe let your pinch hitter know he's coming into the game before his AB actually arrives?
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Junior got a break there. That was Ball 4.
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I really don't know what to think of David Freitas. How does a pedestrian minor league journeyman just all of the sudden start destroying minor league pitching for 2 seasons?
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Boy did Jesus need that.
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I'm with you but how do you make it four more innings with this motley crew?? Exibit Z on why they need at least two more guys. It's the 3rd worst offense in baseball, you'd think they piece it together, but they've sure been making them look like the '27 Yankees, no doubt.
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For the record I would have brought in Hader, and I don't understand why they don't. This will likely be the most pivotal moment of the game, just like the 5th was yesterday when we let it get away, and yet here we go.
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Every day it's something with this pitching staff.
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He tweeted me last year. Does that count for anything?
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I don't think it would have been overturned but I thought he barely got the hand in.
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I would argue regardless of the xFIP- comparison that there should have been an expectation of improvement from the staff with the rotation overhaul, not a slight regression. Peripherals are great and sabermetrical measures have come a long way toward giving us better ways to analyze what we see, but they're too often interpreted to be the whole story, rather than just part of the story. There are reasons beyond random chance that some pitchers consistently outperform their peripherals and some pitchers consistently underperform their peripherals.
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This pitching staff just loves to give up 2 out RBIs. Hitters, pitchers, we don't discriminate. A 1 hit pitcher. Lovely.
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That extra run in the 2nd would have been nice. Great glove by Thames.
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The other thing that I don't understand about 82's argument is that, besides Knebel and Miley, but with full years of further developed Burnes, Peralta and Woodruff, and the return of Nelson, it's the exact same staff that DJ was very successful with last year. The one that missed the World Series by one game. Knebel is a huge loss no doubt, but with appreciate for what Wade Miley did for us last year, I really don't think anyone is going to consider Wade Miley the difference between a talented and less talented pitching staff. So they were successful last year, but this year, same guys, lack of success, they just have no talent? I just don't buy it. That seems like revisionist history. To be fair, I'm sure there were people coming into this season with concerns, but the general consensus was excitement. The hype surrounding our young pitchers was real this year. People said they were more excited about our staff than any time in recent memory. Playoff performances from 2018 helped reinforce the hype. Now to be sure, perhaps the hype was overhype and expectations were way out of proportion. But when you look at DJ's departure and the results so far...for whatever reason, DJ has been much more successful with his staff in Cincy than Hook has been in Milwaukee. I don't see how that can even be debated.
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Were we any more talented last year when the pitching was far better? Talent was not really supposed to be an issue. That's why we went young in the rotation. We were rolling with Brandon Woodruff, Freddy Peralta and Corbin Burnes BECAUSE of how talented they are. People have gushed about the talented arms of Taylor Williams and Jacob Barnes for years . Then when the pitching staff flops, its just that we didn't have arm talent? I think this is sort of a chicken or the egg argument that gets applied often in sports. It becomes really easy to argue that a unit isn't talented when they struggle, because they have performed, well, not good, like one would expect a talentless unit to look. But I don't think there were very many people coming into this season that looked at Nelson's upcoming return and the rotation rolling with Burnes, Woodruff, and Peralta, and said "Yeah, I just don't think our pitching is very talented."
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I guess I just really don't understand this. Team game? Yes. Pitching coach make or break a team? Well, your PITCHING can most certainly make or break your team, the degree that that is attributable to your pitching coach can be debated. The best pitching coach in last place dig at DJ seems odd. The Reds have given up 91 less runs than us this year. Are you saying it wouldn't be beneficial to us to have given up that many less runs? I don't really know if Hook has done a good or bad job. But I do know I can't think of a single pitcher on this staff that has improved from last year outside of Zach Davies. That's troubling.
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Edwin Encarnacion traded to Yankees for Juan Then
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
He's played almost 400 innings at 1st this season. More than either 1B on our roster. -
Nelson was considered a healthy optioned player as of May 24th. He could have spent the rest of the season down in San Antonio at the time if we has desired, the rehab timelines had no bearing on his assignment to San Antonio.
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Jansen blows the save as the Cubs come back to beat L.A, just in case today hasn't sucked enough.
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That's kind of the problem though, isn't it? We could have done this evaluating more in the minors when it wouldn't hurt the MLB team, now that's not an option.
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Yes, that is true. I don't know how common that is or if it is something that is highly discouraged by the MLBPA. I wouldn't count on it, anyway. Maybe you can come in and say accept the option or you're going to be DFAed. He still gets his full salary either way. I don't know exactly how all that would go.
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You'd think he would be a pretty easy case to find an excuse to IL him. DFA would be a real tough pill to swallow this early after investing all this waiting and tendering him twice to keep his rights. I'd at least try him in the pen first.
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Seattle is picking up at least half the salary for EE. I wasn't huge into EE but I would have definitely done this. Just a partial salary dump and a nothing burger lottery ticket. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/06/yankees-acquire-edwin-encarnacion.html
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Between Hiura and Nelson, roster management has been a little puzzling lately. I don't know what they can really do. Nelson to the pen probably makes the most sense to me. You can't trot him out there every 5 days to hit a wall at 50 pitches.