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This is the major difference between us, where you see luck I see match-ups. The way the post season is structured it doesn't matter if our 4/5 starters are better or if our bottom 3 relievers are better than the opposition's. With the off days between games depth doesn't matter, it's essentially irrelevant until you get into extra innings. The post season is all about matching best on best because there is so much rest scheduled into a playoff series that relief pitchers are rarely unavailable. You aren't going to wear out a pen and get to the crap in the post season like you are the regular season, as such what happened in the regular season is meaningless. The Cards were fortunate when Suppan pitched out of his mind but not in 2011, the strength of their pitching was the bullpen and Larussa played to his team's strength masterfully. When teams shorten their rotation and their bullpen the talent at the top matters much more than the talent at the bottom. Our pitching talent has never matched up with the best in the game, even in 2011, luck had nothing to do with it. The pitchers are the top of our rotation aren't efficient enough to give us 7-8 innings against the better line-ups in the league which we will see in the post season allowing us the luxury of exclusively using our best bullpen arms. We're always had to throw someone "iffy" in a big game from either the starting rotation or the bullpen. Playoff baseball is different, it requires a different strategy and a different outlook. There is no waiting for a guy to bust out of his slump, you only 5 or 7 games, players have to perform right now. The hot hand matters in the post season, if a pitcher is slumping you'd better be damn sure he's fixed whatever is wrong by the next time you put him out there or you are setting yourself up to fail. When you get to the point where 1 game and possibly one at bat will determine your season historic performance doesn't matter much.

Bandits score late and hold on to beat Rattlers Wisconsin denied a three-game sweep at Quad Cities by a 4-3 loss By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers DAVENPORT, IA - The Quad Cities River Bandits broke a 3-3 tie with a run in the bottom of the eighth inning and held off the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the top of the ninth for a 4-3 victory at Modern Woodmen Park on Friday night. Tyrone Taylor was at first base with two outs and a full count on Victor Roache. Taylor took off on the 3-2 pitch to Roache, who smacked a single to right that rolled to a stop in thick grass. Quad Cities right fielder Ariel Ovando was playing well off the line against the right-handed Roache and it took him awhile to get to the baseball. Taylor just kept running and easily scored the first run of the game. Quad Cities (24-22) tied the game in the bottom of the first. Carlos Correa was at second and Terrell Joyce was at first with two outs and a full count on Rio Ruiz. Both runners took off on the 3-2 pitch to Ruiz, who smacked a hard grounder to the backhand of Timber Rattlers second baseman Chris McFarland. McFarland knocked the ball down, but had no play as Correa scored from second on the infield single to tie the game. Wisconsin (21-22) took advantage of a pair of Quad Cities errors in the top of the second to take a 3-1 lead. A throwing error allowed Parker Berberet to reach at the start of the inning. Max Walla sent a grounder fair inside the third base line to left field. The throw went into second with first baseman Miles Hamblin covering and he couldn't handle the throw. That allowed Berberet to score. Chris McFarland was next and his double to left drove in Walla for a 3-1 lead. Rattlers starting pitcher Preston Gainey got into trouble in the second and third innings, but escaped each time. He could not get out of trouble in the fourth. Jordan Scott and Austin Elkins had consecutive singles with one out. A wild pitch moved both runners into scoring position. Correa tripled to right to drive in both runs and tie the game 3-3. The game stayed tied until the bottom of the eighth inning. Ariel Ovando drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch from Eric Semmelhack. Roberto Peña dropped a sacrifice bunt with two strikes to get pinch runner Teoscar Hernandez into scoring position. Semmelhack got the second out with a grounder to first that moved Hernandez to third base. Semmelhack got ahead of Elkins 0-2 and looked like he might get out of the inning. But, the 0-2 pitch glanced off the glove of Berberet for a passed ball to let Hernandez in with the go ahead run. Wisconsin tried to rally in the top of the ninth against Daniel Minor. Adam Giacalone singled to start the inning and was replaced by pinch runner Jose Sermo. Minor got a strikeout and a grounder to first for two outs as Sermo reached second base. McFarland got ahead in the count 2-0 and sent a deep fly ball to right center. Hernandez, who took over in center for the top of the ninth inning after his pinch running duty in the bottom of the eighth, raced back and made an over the shoulder catch to deny McFarland a game-tying extra base hit and end the game. The Timber Rattlers had won the first two games of the series, but missed on the chance at a sweep and to go over the .500 mark. The River Bandits snapped a six game losing streak with the win. The Timber Rattlers continue on their road swing through the Western Division with the start of a three-game series in Peoria, Illinois on Saturday night. The Timber Rattlers have Tyler Wagner (4-2, 3.16) as the scheduled starting pitcher. The Peoria Chiefs plan to send Kyle Helisek (3-1, 4.23) to the mound. Game time at Dozer Park is 6:30pm. Tune in for the Miller Lite Pregame Show on AM1280, WNAM or timberrattlers.com starting at 6:10pm. WP: Daniel Minor (3-1) LP: Eric Semmelhack (1-1) TIME: 2:48 ATTN: 3,790 Chris hits on Max Walla's return, the opposing manager's ejection,the Strike Out that wasn't, and the curious play that perhaps should have been a Balk. Wait. What? Postgame post for May 24, 2013 Wisconsin Boxscore Well this T-Rats bunch just doesn't like .500... gah! Mehring was extremely excited when Chris McFarland got a hold of that ball in the 9th that became the final out, then he sounded absolutely dumbfounded when the ball was caught to end the game. You can always tell when Chris is puzzled or stumped because he goes eerily silent. Parker Berberet is a better defensive C than Clint Coulter, well marginally anyway, but my goodness what a horrible spot for a PB. Speaking of Clint, he got the night off as Erickson continues to rotate players around for equal playing time. Wisconsin Recap

How can you even make claims like that? The same people have been trying to make the same points regardless of winning, losing, in season, out of season, spring training, whatever... We need young players to recycle the roster, we need young impact pitching because we aren't able to afford it in FA, and so on. I probably post on that subject 3 times regardless of what happens with the MLB team and for the record I didn't have any fun as a fan in 2011 because 1 key injury would have brought the whole thing crashing down. We've been living on a razor thin margin for error with an aging and expensive roster, no team that operates in that manner in any sport will thrive for very long. It happened to my Red Wings in hockey when Stevie Y got old, it happened to the Cubs and Boston when they got old in MLB, it happend to the Packers when Mike Sherman was the GM constantly trying to plug holes with aging and declining players. It doesn't the matter, history has proven that successful teams which don't cycle talent end up needed a massive rebuild. That's the not the way it has to go, that's the way GMs tend to operate because it's extremely difficult to continually draft and develop talent. The teams that embrace the concept of turning over the roster a little bit at a time will compete long-term, those that don't are in for tough years down the road. I really have a hard time believing people are doing any research on these counter arguments, someone posted earlier that the TB strategy wasn't working because they had fallen on hard times recently.... are you kidding me? from 2008-2012 they finished over .500 every year and won more than 90 games in every season but 2009. They've been to the WS, they've competed against the largest markets in the toughest division in baseball over that stretch. That's being competitive year in and year out. Ohh and by the way, they have best AAA rotation I've ever seen with no place to put anyone unless there are injuries... Alex Colome, Chris Archer, Jake Odorizzi, Mike Montgomery, and Alex Torres... ya, they are clearly on the wrong track as an organization. The Brewers on the other hand have won 90 games twice, have won 1 playoff series, and we have a bad farm system. How are we remotely comparable to TB, Texas, or St. Louis? Yet every time the deficiencies in the Brewers organization building strategy are brought up other posters take it to the extreme of a "complete rebuild" when that's not even what the majority are suggesting, barely anyone wants a rebuild, however it's getting awfully hard to ignore that dark cloud coming our way. There's no such thing as playing "win now" every season and staying remotely competitive when we don't have a level playing field from the start. All the points that are made for a wider or long-term view of the organization seem to be continually dismissed by the same posters as fantasy, unrealistic, we aren't true fans, or whatever other cliche that one wants to throw around. If the concept of cycling talent was truly understood and appreciated, regardless if you agree or not, there wouldn't be garbage dismissive posts regarding the idea with the adjectives I already pointed out or throw away statements like "prospects fail". As I said very few people want to rebuild but the reality is that if we don't make more moves like the Greinke trade last year that's exactly what is going to happen and that's why posters like me are bitter, because that eventuality doesn't have to come about. We have no more prospects to trade for pitching, we can't afford it, we aren't developing it... this should be so easy to see and understand. We won't win without pitching and if we don't trade for it, how do we acquire it? In the post season it doesn't matter how good our offense is if our pitching doesn't match up. If you don't believe me go do the research yourself, ESPN's MLB stat page is good for that sort of thing, it's nearly impossible to win a World Series if you get out pitched. The only way it can happen is if the opposing team plays horrible defense and continually gives away unnecessary/unearned runs throughout the series. Those posters that want to realistically contend every year know that we have to possess young and cost controlled impact pitching to do so, but we don't have it now and there are very few ways for us to acquire it. If some combination of Peralta, Hellweg, Thornburg, and Nelson (I'm not sure Pena is a legit starter at this time) don't get there we're screwed because we have no impact pitching down the chain until Jorge Lopez at WI who's very slowly improving but is likely 3 years away from MLB best case. With those pitchers I would put the odds on us getting enough impact pitching in house to make a serious run at anything somewhere under 25%. I read about and follow those guys every day, we don't have a Gallardo in the minors, we don't even have a Parra right now. People that post anything about Jungmann and Bradley being top of the rotation starters clearly aren't doing their homework because they don't stack up statistically or stuff wise with the top prospects in the game. It's impossible to have rationale discussions about this stuff because the conversation always degenerates to meaningless cliches and posters throwing barbs at one another. People should be able to post opinions on both sides of the fence without basically being called idiots, which is what ends up happening way too often. At least make a legitimate effort to understand the other side of the argument even if you don't agree so we can discuss the issues like adults. I've grown very weary of, "this is the way it happened so nothing else could have been done", it's simply not true, not in baseball and certainly not in life, there's always another path if you look hard enough. We aren't competitive year in and year out because developing impact pitching hasn't ever been an organizational priority, it's that simple. There's no excusing it away, that's where we've been, that's where we are, and that's likely going to be our future with the current regime in place. That's why so many posters in this thread aren't upbeat about the future, the storm has been brewing for a long time and we've reached the point where the organization no longer has the resources to plug all the holes. We have depth at 1B and the OF, we could move MLB players at those positions for help and get by with the depth behind them for help, but what are the odds a trade like that actually happens? We don't have the prospects to buy another short-term solution, in 2014 the payroll is going to be over 100 million so there's no help coming (unless it's a deferred money contract to has been pitcher) in FA until at least 2015. We're standing in quicksand, slowly drowning, but we won't throw ourselves a life line even though we have them available. Realistically our only hope is that Gallardo and Peralta get on track and then 1 of Thornburg, Hellweg, or Nelson become a top of the rotation guy. Most scouts think Nelson is a #3 best case and they are split on Thornburg/Hellweg as starters in the future. If our internal pitching at the top of the minors doesn't develop it's going to be rough for a while.

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Mass noted the Hot Sheet earlier in the thread but I'm recreating my original post here. Stetson Allie continues his break out as a position prospect for the Pirates, Hunter Morris earns the #2 spot, and plenty of divisional mentions this week. Prospect Hot Sheet (May 24): Stetson Allie Makes Pitcher-Hitter Switch Look Easy In the Team Photo Alen Hanson, ss, Pirates: Hanson had a quiet April at high Class A Bradenton, batting .255, but he’s started to catch on to Florida State League pitching now. The 20-year-old put his speed and gap power to good use this week, racking up three doubles and two triples while hitting .385 (10-for-26) and upping his season average to .286 through 175 at-bats. Dilson Herrera, 2b, Pirates: Everywhere he goes, he hits. Another big week for the 19-year-old Herrera brought his slash line up to .314/.374/.487 through 39 games with low Class A West Virginia.

No worries, I'll repost it in today's LR, it will the first post from the new laptop. Won't be more than an hour or so.

I agree with your premise except for the Gomez part, he only has 3 years of team control remaining, he's not really a "core" player. To get the pitching the Brewers need they will have to trade someone of value to get it and we have tons of OF depth/flexibility. Having a hitting core is all well and good, but if we don't have the pitching, what does it matter? I've never wanted to rebuild, I despise the idea of a rebuild, but if we won't move a couple of MLB pieces to get pitching, what does it matter? If the Reds would do like a Stephenson for Roache swap I'd be all over it, but he's probably 2 years away from MLB ready. There aren't many moves available in a given year for young MLB ready pitching, 1 maybe 2 at most, so if that's what we want then Melvin has to move when the opportunity presents itself. This pitching issue is something that should have been addressed starting in 2006... looking to acquire a young impact pitcher here and there that would develop and be ready to help the original core do some damage. That's just not Melvin's trading MO which is why Tampa continually beats people to punch acquiring young impact pitching in trade after trade, leaving the scraps for everyone else.

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I wish we had Cingrani, that is all. Cingrani not satisfied with results alone

It was an excellent write-up, nice work Stache! His 2 seamer sat 88-91 when I saw him pitch in college. I would guess he's almost entirely scrapped the 4 seam which topped out in the mid 90s and just goes with the sinker these days.

Eye Black at Night has graciously stepped up to cover BC which will free you up for the DSL squad. I forwarded you the PM so you guys can work out the details of the switch. We will have 2 more teams post draft, both rookie squads, so a couple more volunteers would be greatly appreciated.

So I got sidetracked by the MLB forum and Chris has the post game blog up now, I should have posted in reverse order! More on Victor Roache and Jorge Lopez, and yea I doubled up thoughts with Chris again. Confidence Builder – Postgame post for May 23, 2013

I think you're still missing the point many are making about those past trades, the objections to those trades have nothing to do with the players being traded and everything to do with the nature of the solutions offered to our pitching problems. You can only buy so many MLB pitchers with prospects and then the well runs dry. For those of us with WS aspirations, how many teams have won a World Series but got out-pitched by the opposition? That was the realization that started me on the "young starting pitching" track I've been on since the off-season before 2008. I don't mean during the regular season, but in the post season when teams shorten their rotations and bullpen to cut out the fat? What are your feelings on the franchise? Braun and Segura don't make the franchise anymore than Braun and Fielder made the franchise, 2 position players no matter how good they are won't carry a team by themselves. Are you optimistic for the future? If so why? If not why not? I don't think Logan's intent was to rehash the same arguments on both sides of the organization building fence for the 1000th time. Rather how do you feel about the state of the entire franchise and where do you see it heading? Many of us whom take a macro view of the organization and NL central have become very apathetic over the last handful of years, those that focus on just the MLB team seem to be more optimistic. Where do you fall?

Nope the the SD windowed feed is pretty much all there is. You can see the T-Rats in HD when Time Warner Sports 32 does the game broadcast through the cable network but the feed tied to MiLB.com is likely still the SD stadium feed. I haven't watched a game on MiLB.com this year yet so I'm unable to say for sure but in the past there was no HD or full screen option that I recall. I suppose it's possible I missed as I'm usually multi-tasking, but I don't recall anything. I plan on going back and watching some archived Jungmann starts but haven't gotten around to it yet. In the past the video quality has varied by stadium as well.

Hunter Morris is heating up, maybe someday he'll get over this slow start thing. He'll have a hard time getting serious consideration for the 1B job next year if he won't hit in ST.

The Reds' next stud pitching prospect Robert Stephenson profiled here. MWL notes: Stephenson gains steam I found this quote interesting as it seems to be the pitching coach norm around baseball:

Lopez and early runs lead Rattlers to win Rattlers build 7-0 lead as Lopez tosses six no-hit innings By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers DAVENPORT, IA - The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers gave Jorge Lopez a big early lead and the right-hander ran with it. Lopez struck out seven and walked five over six no-hit innings to lead the Timber Rattlers to a 7-4 victory over the Quad Cities River Bandits Thursday at Modern Woodmen Park. Related Content Wisconsin (21-21) jumped to an early lead with two runs in the first inning. Alfredo Rodriguez drew a walk to start the game and Michael Reed reached on an error. Tyrone Taylor lined a double to left that scored Rodriguez and sent Reed to third. Later in the inning, Adam Giacalone drove in Reed with a sacrifice fly to left The Timber Rattlers padded their lead with four runs in the top of the third inning. Rodriguez started the inning with a single. Reed, who tripled three times in Wednesday's game, tripled to right-center to drive in Rodriguez. Victor Roache made it 4-0 with an RBI double. Giacalone was next and his RBI single scored Roache. Later in the frame, Chris McFarland doubled to drive in Giacalone for a 6-0 advantage. Roache made it 7-0 with a tape-measure home run down the left field line to lead off the Rattlers fifth inning. The home run was the fifth of the year for the slugging left fielder. Lopez was wild at times as the five walks and two wild pitches that he was charged with happened in the first four innings, but he settled in to retire the final eleven of the final twelve batters he faced. The bid for Wisconsin's third combined no-hitter since 2010 ended with the first batter in the bottom of the seventh inning. Terrell Joyce greeted Ryan Gibbard to the mound with a home run to right-center field. A walk to Rio Ruiz was followed by an RBI double hit by Ariel Ovando made the score 7-2. The Bandits had runners at the corners with one out, but Gibbard escaped the inning with back-to-back strikeouts. Quad Cities (23-22) put the first two batters on in the bottom of the eighth on a walk and a single. Gibbard struck out the next two batters, but walked Ovando on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. Roberto Peña was next and he doubled to left to drive in two runs. That made the score 7-4 and brought the tying run to the plate in the form of Austin Elkins, who had homered in Wednesday's game against Wisconsin. But, Gibbard got Elkins to fly out to center to end the inning. Rodolfo Fernandez took over in the bottom of the ninth inning and worked a 1-2-3 frame to close out the game and earn his second save of the season. The Timber Rattlers conclude their three game series with the River Bandits on Friday at Modern Woodmen Park. Preston Gainey (1-4, 6.66) is the scheduled starting pitcher for Wisconsin. Quad Cities sends Lance McCullers (0-4, 1.72) to the hill. Game time is 7:00pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or timberrattlers.com starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:40pm. HOME RUNS: WIS: Victor Roache (5th, 0 on in 5th inning off Gera Sanchez, 0 out) QC: Terrell Joyce (2nd, 0 on in 7th inning off Ryan Gibbard, 0 out) WP: Jorge Lopez (1-3) LP: Jamaine Cotton (0-1) SAVE: Rodolfo Fernandez (2) TIME: 2:48 ATTN: 2,036 Wisconsin Boxscore I've gotten in the habit of waiting for Chris' post game blog as we tend to cover many of the same issues but he spins a vastly superior yarn and I'd rather let him tell the story. Unfortunately it's not up yet and as it is midnight I'm going to knock this post off and get to bed. Jorge Lopez' night doesn't need any more analysis given the game story, feature, and posts already in this thread. I'll only say don't excuse the walks away Jorge... but I'll definitely take it. Victor Roache's HR left the stadium completely. Chris referred to it as a "moon shot" immediately after it was hit. After today's 2B and HR Roache is only hitting .223 but has a .750 OPS on the season... if he could develop any of kind of legitimate MLB hit tool he could be very exciting. What's with Tyrone Taylor? All of his hits seem to come in his first couple of ABs per game, maybe he should just pretend every AB is in the first couple of innings. I wish there was a minor league game log on baseball-ref so I could easily look it up but I'd guess the vast majority of his hits have come in his first 2 ABs in a game. Gotta love the fact that a 19 year old CF is batting 3rd now though, and Tyrone also scored an OF assist tonight. Orlando Arcia just got the night off and spent it coaching 1B, no reason for concern for those boxscore watchers out there. Clint Coulter would have had his 3rd multi-game in a row if he wasn't robbed by a fantastic diving grab by the LF in his first AB. Clint committed his 8th error when he tried to basket catch a pop-up, pretty unorthodox for a C... he almost threw a ball away later but luckily the pitcher knocked it down. On a positive note he was 1 for 2 gunning would be base stealers. Wisconsin Recap Lopez didn't sit em down 1-2-3 until the 5th, here's his night in detail. Quad Cities Bottom of the 1st Teoscar Hernandez strikes out swinging. Carlos Correa walks. With Miles Hamblin batting, wild pitch by Jorge Lopez, Carlos Correa to 2nd. Miles Hamblin walks. Terrell Joyce flies out to center fielder Tyrone Taylor. Rio Ruiz strikes out swinging. Quad Cities Bottom of the 2nd Ariel Ovando flies out to left fielder Victor Roache. Roberto Pena pops out to shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez. Austin Elkins walks. With Jordan Scott batting, Austin Elkins caught stealing 2nd base, catcher Clint Coulter to shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez. Quad Cities Bottom of the 3rd Jordan Scott walks. Teoscar Hernandez strikes out swinging. With Carlos Correa batting, Jordan Scott steals (11) 2nd base. Jordan Scott out at 3rd, center fielder Tyrone Taylor to third baseman Jose Sermo. Carlos Correa grounds out, shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez to first baseman Adam Giacalone. Quad Cities Bottom of the 4th Miles Hamblin grounds out to first baseman Adam Giacalone. Terrell Joyce flies out to left fielder Victor Roache. Rio Ruiz walks. Ariel Ovando called out on strikes. Quad Cities Bottom of the 5th Roberto Pena grounds out, pitcher Jorge Lopez to first baseman Adam Giacalone. Austin Elkins strikes out swinging. Jordan Scott grounds out, second baseman Christopher McFarland to first baseman Adam Giacalone. Quad Cities Bottom of the 6th Teoscar Hernandez strikes out swinging. Carlos Correa strikes out swinging. Miles Hamblin flies out to center fielder Tyrone Taylor.

Lopez unhittable for Timber Rattlers Wisconsin right-hander strikes out seven over six innings By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com http://www.milb.com/assets/images/5/6/6/48426566/cuts/lopez480_mfftt4ni_po1mm6kh.jpg Jorge Lopez has 25 strikeouts in 25 1/3 innings this year. (Ann Molica/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers) When Milwaukee made Jorge Lopez a second-round pick in the 2011 Draft, they were taking a gamble on a converted shortstop who'd only been pitching for three years, a player with the athleticism to double as one of Puerto Rico's best volleyball prospects. Lopez's bio, stats It's been a work in progress turning Lopez into a professional pitcher for the Brewers, but on Thursday night, he gave a glimpse of what he can offer. The lanky 6-foot-4 right-hander tossed six hitless innings for Class A Wisconsin, striking out seven and walking five to pick up his first victory as the Timber Rattlers topped the Quad Cities River Bandits, 7-4. For Lopez (1-3), it was the second-longest start of his career and his deepest outing yet this season. And after surrendering 18 earned runs over 9 1/3 innings in his first three starts, the 20-year-old has yielded just seven in the last 16 innings spanning four outings. "I'm really, really excited, because the last couple starts, my delivery is getting better. I'm confident with all my pitches," he said. "I feel like the last two starts, I am getting better. I had a couple walks, but that happens in this game." The seven strikeouts were also a season high for Lopez, who has 25 punchouts in 25 1/3 innings this season. He sports an 8.88 ERA and 18 walks as well, but the 3.94 ERA he's managed to cobble together over his last four outings -- dropping his overall mark from the 17.36 tally it stood at on April 29 -- suggests he's starting to make the progress the Brewers are looking for. "He's making big strides, from his first outing where he got roughed up a little bit, leaving pitches up in the zone, to now where his mound presence is better. He's trusting his stuff more," Rattlers pitching coach David Chavarria said. "It's just a confidence factor that he knows he belongs, and credit to him, he's putting the work in every day on it. That's the big part. Some guys have a little bit of success and they're feeling comfortable 'cause they had a good outing and they tend to sit back and coast, but this kid keeps working and working and working. We're real happy with his progress." Lopez tossed just 12 innings in 2011 for the Rookie-level Arizona League Brewers after signing following the Draft. Last season, he pitched between the Dominican Summer League Brewers and back in the AZL, collecting a 5.06 ERA while striking out 46 and walking 22 in 48 innings. His early results this year weren't ideal, but weren't surprising for a young arm trying to redevelop his delivery and mechanics while getting the most out of his raw stuff. "Overall, we're trying to make his delivery more compact, more streamlined, where everything is going toward home plate, and of course, just trying to get him into a proper routine," said Chavarria. "It's a big jump for some of these kids when they come up from Arizona or wherever. We're working with them on trusting the process. It's gonna be bumpy at times, but that's basically just the normal stuff. "Tonight it took a little bit for him to realize why we were taking him out. then he realized, but that's the look you want from a guy, to want to go out there and have the mentality to finish what he started. Tonight he had that look a little bit in his eye. It was a big stepping stone for him to build on." Victor Roache, Milwaukee's No. 7 prospect, smacked his fifth homer, doubled, plated two and scored twice to lead the Wisconsin offense.

Out of the game now, but 6 innings, 7 K's, 5 BB's, ZERO hits. Nice outing to build some confidence. Hopefully they can hold on and get the kid a win. Even Chris said he was all over the place, but it worked tonight. The K/9 is certainly right where we would hope, the rest not so much. He's making incremental improvements though and hasn't given up a long ball since the end of the April, unfortunately by saying that I probably jinxed him next time out *knocks on wood*.

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