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Brewers fans are very grateful Marte was in the line up tonight. Grounds into DP with the bases loaded in the 7th and K's to end the game with the equalizer on 3rd.
Very happy to be leaving town with 3 out of 4, especially with the Crew's pathetic offense.
And jacked his average up to .132! I can see why he felt entitled to storm into the manager's office and set Boonie straight about playing time. Take him out of the lineup and there goes your "championship caliber" team. Donaldson's gotta be feeling good about single-handedly carrying the team's offense last night against an easy-to-under-estimate Oakland club.
Like yesterday's 2-1 win, today is looking like a classic Brewer's loss. They win by slim margins and lose in blowouts.
Petersen looked good, but I'd caution against reading too much into shutting down this Brewer's line up. There's better batting orders in AAA ball.
I don't think any manager has gotten more out of less than Craig Counsel.
Trout was ready. He pounced as soon as the ball squibbed away.
Can't cry too much for the Mets, Dodgers and Yankees of the MLB world. They can afford the tissues.
We'll, we're trotting out our ace tomorrow, so get ready for the dominant force known as Julio Tehran!!
Don't know where the rediscovered this guy, but he has been fantastic this season since joining the Brewers.
Hope to see Vogy again. And Narvaez. Maybe that's just me getting sentimental!
Haha! Classic Brewer win. 2-1. Mets see 6 pitches in the 9th. Must be something tasty at the post game buffet table.
Well, Escobar is hitting .254 for the season and Baty is hitting.243, so it's a wash. When Escobar was signed after the 2021 season, it was a sound deal. I think even you liked it at the time. That said, I'm very happy the Brewers didn't burn $$ on the Vogelhacks, Narvaezs and other meatballs, whose agents deserve a lot of credit for finding the fool with the leaky checkbook.
I'm a believer that the Mets seriously over performed last season, which became apparent when they were swept by the Braves in the final weekend and rolled over in the playoffs. I also think that losing Diaz cuts much deeper than is apparent. You lose not only your closer, but every other bullpen arm has to step up and perform in a way that was never intended for them, whether that's working extra innings, back to back games or pitching in high leverage situations.
With Buck, I'm not sure how you'd proceed. Do you bench Nimmo for making blunders? Does Lindor sit for a few games and bat 8th when he returns? No less a superstar producer than Donaldson muscled his way into Boone's office and made the man bow down to his medicore play by promising he'd see regular action.
Today's managers have to treat these spoiled veterans with kid gloves.
Pile it on Buck all you want, but I can guarantee you that had it been Escobar (2-4 for the Angels BTW) with the crushing error in the 8th, his name would have been all over your post.
How accountable can Buck be for the inept, Bad News Bears play the Mets have consistently shown this season? Who's he going to bench? Everyone but Alonso?
The good news is that Eppler gets to spend some more of Cohen's money.
Angels get a fill-in for Gio for free.
The throw to the plate was a strike! No, you don't miss Gary, do you? He's one of those guys who you draw the line under, a this guy can't cost me another game, guy. Perfect match for the Padres!
Yup. Clearly with Donaldson you're paying for the outstanding clubhouse leadership and presence!
There won't be any resurgence for Donaldson, unlike Hicks. Donaldson doesn't even want his name pencilled in anymore. Next time he gets 2 hits in a game, or even a hit and a HBP - that's when cashy has to move quick like a cat and sell high.
Narvaez ain't the man, that's for sure. Escobar and Vogy.....look, when you're feeling like you need to add another piece or 2, there are PLENTY of Brewers available, many for less than 100 million. Probably could deal for Ruf if you need that right handed bat to compliment Vogy late....just 'cause it didn't work last time doesn't mean.....
I don't think Buck's clearing out the office until September. No need to hire a new guy. I'm sure Stearns already has a short list ready to go.
Best fix for Mets fans on 2023 is to suck it up and keep lowering your expectations.
Boonie's trying to wring out every bit of Donaldson's MVP potential before he retires.
Sometimes a little love is the only difference between a DFA and a 30/30 man.
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The Reds are a hot team now, for sure. With Burnes looking like guy who wants out of town and Woodruff on the IL, it's up to the Brewer's offense to carry them. TBH, there are better line ups in triple A ball!
Much as I hate to say it, I'm ready for the tear-down. This team had a decent run from 2017-2021. With a move or 2 and a few breaks, they could have gone to the next step, but that's true for every team in baseball every year, except the one that wins it all. With the roster he has, Craig Counsel has done an amazing job, but none of the Brewers players are trending upward. Time to deal em.
I'd much rather watch the Reds or O's play than my own team!
LoL! Hard to complain about an 11-1 scoreline! It all worked out fine. Tonight.
No need for Max to be out there this late.
That's a lot of payroll money to build your minor league fan base!
You want cheap? Brewers always looking for new fans.
Yup. Playing bad baseball is a crime, and this season, fans in NY are guaranteed to see bad baseball every day, what with the Mets or Yanks always in town. There's definitely not enough benching of players who can't do the basics, like remember how many outs there are or leg out a ball to the outfield.
Haven't heard Eppler talking himself up too much yet, but hey, you got a championship team there in the Bronx. Just ask Cashman.
Well, as a GM, to fire your manager is to admit you made a mistake, as you're the dude who did the hiring. Eppler isn't ready to admit that yet, clearly.
You loved the Buck hiring. So let's say they fire Bucky. Who do you want for the manager?
Look, Buck is just not on point with the relievers. O's fans remember watching Zach the Brit on the bench while the O's dropped a playoff decider in extras. Surprised it didn't come up in his interview!
Mets aren't right this year....or is it possible that last year was the abberation and they're not as good as people thought ? Sort of like the Giants a couple of years ago Pete and Nimmo and McNeil's chippy bats. What else is there?
If you're as good as your record, the Mets are looking up at most of the NL Central!
Trade for Vogelbach?
Watching a pitcher bat was fantastic! Especially if the pitcher was a dick and had beaned an opponent- now there's no real payback possible. Batting the pitcher added the element of the loss art of bunting, which I doubt any hitters train for these days.
I for one am sick of seeing 2 leagues filled with Dave Kingmans (minus about 20 HR's a year). It's boring, all-or-nothing batting with little nuance and variation (unless you're Cleveland). How many palookas have the Yanks featured over the years? The Balbonis, Cliff Johnsons, Jack Clarks.....One of these guys whiffing in the 9th added some excitement, but now you trot out 7 palookas every night, guys who can only pull the ball, who only go the other way when they're late on a heater, who make contact and stand at the plate gazing because they're too lazy and unprofessional to haul ass down the line until the ball clears the fence. That's the Brewers line up: Willy Adames, 25-30 HRs to compliment his .206 average and he's the team's MVP 2 years running.
And then there's the lost strategy of pitcher management in the late innings...whether to pinch hit for a guy when the score was close and he was throwing well. The double switch.
Existing shareholders are stuck. Nobody is positive on their investment in OWPC. IMO, this PR is just one of the IR hires justifying their paycheck. Looking at the trading today, the market agrees
Thanks for posting. Interesting that there's no stated interest in the US market.
Sanchez and Hicks cueing up some player of the week votes!
Could be worse. You could have had Correra on board for a decade.
Get the checkbook out! Wouldn't want anyone stealing IKF out from under your nose. 4 years/48 million ought to do it.
Hard to see even a cashed up shady bastard laying out 250 million for Burnes on top of the huge outlay for the geriatric 1,2 punch you got going now, but hey, who knows?
You're definitely right in your appraisal of the Mets! And sorry to add the obvious, but this pain ain't going anywhere - 2024 features a lot of these guys locked into expensive contracts, sucking up payroll and blocking minor leaguers or other FA acquisitions.
The good news is you're only 4-5 years away from a sustainable Dodgers/Rays/Astros program that knows the formula for competing every year. And of course the $$ is there to fund it. Eppler has to go. Buck too, if only because Stearns will want his own guy in the dugout.
The new Seve. Streamlined location and ability to mix speeds. BP Seve. Luckily the Yanks are also facing a guy whose nowhere near his prime.
Time to exhume Billy Martin! Too much of a swing to the "entertainment business" in baseball these days. It's all about showtime and marketing. A manager sits a clown for watching a HR ball clang off the wall..... that's news today.
Reds are an exciting team to watch, a bit like the Orioles a couple of years ago. Milwaukee is not. While the pitching has been okay in the past few years, injuries have knocked back the rotation this season, and the offense as usual has been AA level at times. AAA is a bonus.
I'm hoping whoever trades for Burnes will have to eat Yelich's contract too. If it's a rebuild, let's get on with it- after watching the Crew get swept by Oakland at home this weekend, I'm finding since the HAder trade, the air has gone out of the balloon, even if they can scrape together the 82-80 record required to win their division. The quicker they extract some value for thier trade pieces, the better.
Mets are as boring a team to watch as any in MLB this season: they get down early in games and struggle to find a spark. While the monster payroll is clearly not a guarantor of elite status, for that $$, fielding a team this mediocre and downright boring is unacceptable. There's clearly no chemistry on this squad; they don't play well for Buck, for which they aren't in any way made to answer. As for the forecast of winning 95 games, that was based on the premise of old men pitching like 28 year olds.
How in the world is this Yankees team 10 over .500?? They look terrible. Willie Calhoun is shouldering the burden?
Cry me a river! Crew drops a home series to the A's. Chance for a sweep tomorrow.
If only we had Vodlebach and Escobar back, LOL!
Gary Sanchez having a nice run with the Padres. If only the Yanks had been a bit more patient.
Buck finishes out the season. Or at least until the season outcome has been decided. Eppler and Buck hit the unemployment circuit together, clearing the way for Stearns to come in and clean up the little piles left by the past 10 years of Mets' GMs.
Crew runs into the 14-50 Oakland A's buzzsaw. At home. 4 hits through 7.