Baldkin

The Brewers, 0.5 games out of the Wild Card, just drew sub 18k last Thursday. So, yeah. We don't really care either.

I mean, he's thrown 2 innings in the past 10 days, and given up 2 game-losing HRs. Maybe it's an attempt to get him some confidence.

[sarcasm]BUT STRIKEOUTS DON'T MATTER!!!1!!1![/sarcasm] I always find it funny. In the sabermetric era, velocity and strikeouts are king for pitchers, yet not so important for hitters. You've got to be able to make up for not putting the ball in play by being good in a lot of other areas. Past Brewer lineups could, but not this one. In statistics, you cannot compare one result to a non-final result. Comparing a strikeout to a ball in play is no different than, from the pitchers side, comparing a strikeout to throwing ball 2. In this game alone, 4 of those balls in play have resulted in double plays for the Brewers. Way worse than a strikeout.

If you're going to saftey squeeze, why don't you have your best bunter PH there instead of Aguilar?

Now, I'm not sure if this has changed or not, but the rule in 2011 was that you were eligible for post season play if you were on the 25 man roster or on the 60/15 day DL as of midnight Aug 31st. The Brewers actually kept 2 or 3 guys on the DL an extra few days to gain extra roster flexibility for the post season (not that it helped RRR at all).

Villar: .679 vs RH starters

You're not wearing a cheesehead and a cape, are you?

Broxton just put up a .794 OPS in August while playing gold-glove defense. What more do you want him to do?

Definitely time for a sacrifice bunt. Don't want a big inning here.

ALRIGHT BOYS, 9TH INNING. LETS GET ONE (OR SIX)

Can't believe they threw Arcia a first pitch strike.

ORLANDO!!!!

THAT A BABY BRAUNIE. A ROPE FOR SHAW!

WE GOT 9 OUTS TO PLAY WITH. LETS GO BOYS.

There was a great article on Grantland awhile ago about this: http://grantland.com/features/studying-art-pitch-framing-catchers-such-francisco-cervelli-chris-stewart-jose-molina-others/

At the game. Turned ugly quick. Hader once again completely missing his spots. Instead of balls, they were middle, middle.

This was asked recently and i think the last time was the reds series before the road trip and then 1 in each of the phillies series after the break. So few and far between. In the last three weeks his OPS HAS gone from .918 to .832 heading into today.

In general, seeing more pitches lead to more strikeouts, it also leads to more walks, more relief appearances for the opponents and better offense. The crew has 3 guys in the top 20 in pitches per PA this season. Such a stark contrast from even three years ago.

Or Keon robbing Rizzo in the exact same spot last year.

Dodgers play by play guy with a real doozie, "Sit down Nerd" after the Sogard K. Orel Hershiser proceeds to fake laugh for 45 seconds.

Unbelievable. Why are you not wearing sunglasses? Why are you STILL not wearing sunglasses after that happened?

Thirty? Try fifteen. Go look up the 2004 NL CY Young.

Are you confident Davies could hit for a .770 OPS?

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/it-s-official-animal-group-says-cardinals-won-t-be/article_b006b5a4-a8fe-5a80-9847-b152728f6b1a.html

I'm going to disagree, Josh Hader has been shaky as heck this season. Even protecting him against righties he has an xFIP over 4.5. He just walks too many guys and doesn't get any groundballs. I don't want him in big situations unless it is against a lefty. Don't let the low ERA fool you, that is meaningless in a small sample when someone else is usually coming in to clean up your mess, Hader has not pitched well at all this year. He obviously has dominant stuff and that can save a lot of mistakes but I think Counsell is using him exactly like he should until Hader shows some sort of command of his pitches. According to baseball reference, in 68 PA since the all star break, Hader has struck out 24 guys, walked 9, allowed 11 hits(5 2b 0 hr) and a slash line of 196/338/286 with a 344 BABIP. A 13% walk rate is still high, but it's a sign of progress for sure. For comparison, Knebel is at a 13.7% BB rate on the season, Barnes is at 10%, Andrew Miller at 8%. This damages the BABIP argument considerably as 344 is pretty high and he still managed a 624 OPS against and 1.69 ERA over the 2nd half(it was 0.73 1st half, he was lucky 1st half without question). Saying Hader has not pitched well at all this year is absolutely foolish commentary. I'm not going to argue he's been dominant, but he's been solid at worst and very effective overall. I dunno what it is about people on this board pointing out one advanced metric that fits their line of thinking while ignoring 100 others that prove their point to be silly. I could say "hey look at his k rate, he's the best pitcher in baseball"...but that too would be foolish for the exact same reasons your comment is foolish. Is it that hard to believe that guys don't make good contact against him because his stuff is so filthy? Or that he's very clearly improved since his first 6 appearances at the major league level that are driving down his season ratios? He threw 4 different 53 foot pitches last night. He clearly still is lacking control.