2012-05-15 Brewers (Greinke) at Mets (Gee), 6:10 PM CDT [Brewers win, 8-0, Ishikawa 2 HR, 5 RBI]

[FVBrewerFan]

The 100 pitch thing is pure science fiction anyhow. If he's not laboring keep him in there

[jjgott]

Nice smarts there Ish.

 

Meh, he was going in hard to break up a double play. If Cedeno holds onto the ball he's out anyway

[Oxy]

I hope Roenicke gives Greinke a shot at a complete game shutout. 104 pitches isn't that extreme.

 

except that he'd need to go another 2 innings. pull him now.

[ninja33]

corey at first? that's fun, worth checking it out here.

[dlk9s]

Nice smarts there Ish.

 

Nah, he didn't do anything dumb. He slid in hard to break up the DP and assumed Cedeno caught the ball (and why wouldn't he?) for the out. There was really no reason for him to think that the guy would drop the ball, therefore making his overslide a mistake.

[umphrey]

The 100 pitch thing is pure science fiction anyhow. If he's not laboring keep him in there

 

[sarcasm]Screw pitch counts, lets eyeball it[/sarcasm]

[Raw Biz]

Yeah he went in hard but he still needs to be aware of his surroundings. A guy can drop the ball at any time. He had time to realize he dropped the ball and get back.

[The stache]

Does being hit by a pitch aid your OBP?

 

Yes, it does.

 

OBP = (Hits + walks + hit by pitch) / (At bats + walks + hit by pitch + sac flies)

[Bigblast]

Whats with the thousands and thousands of empty seats?

[TheCrew07]

The 100 pitch count is completely arbitrary, there is no way every single MLB pitcher should be on the exact same pitch count. Once a pitcher is physically mature, I'm much more concerned about his stressful inning count than I am his total pitch count.

 

If every inning is 12-18 pitches and the pitcher has it going on, let him pitch. The idea should be to minimize the BP's use, not maximize it, your best pitchers are in your starting rotation. If he has 2-3 20+ pitch innings I'm okay pulling him around the magical 100 pitch limit but with pitchers in their prime that count should be extended to around 110-115.

 

The 100 pitch limit was never scientifically proven, it's just a nice round number, for all we know it might be 85 pitches or as high as 125 pitches. The point of the pitch count should be to keep pitchers from pitching past the point of fatigue when the potential for injury is greatest. In that regard stressful innings are much more important than the total pitch count.

[yfinn6]

Nice work guys.

[RightFieldCoder]

Whats with the thousands and thousands of empty seats?

It's $50 to sit in the bleachers, $440 to sit behind the plate. It's a lot of money to see a bad home team play a game.

[dlk9s]

Whats with the thousands and thousands of empty seats?

 

It's a Tuesday night and tickets cost a billion dollars?

[phnxcrew]

Very nice win. Hopefully the offense shows up this next series to get a winning road trip.

[AZBrewCrew]

Whats with the thousands and thousands of empty seats?

 

Im guessing partly due to the questionable weather earlier.

[The stache]

Hello, win column!

 

Nice performance by Zack "the ace" Greinke! 4-1, 2.88 ERA, 53 K in 50 IP, WHIP down to 1.12.

 

Sign him now!

[rluzinski]

As long as guys like Aoki, Morgan and Gomez get starts in the top 5 of the batting order, the notion that Weeks shouldn't is laughable. The suggestion that Conrad might be a better start right now is also laughable.

 

I get that it's understandable to think 150 AB is a lot. Any baseball fan did at some point in their fandom. Anyone who has been watching baseball for years should know better, though.

[brewmann04]

time to make an all out effort to sign our true #1

[Baldkin]

Do you have NextDef (or whatever they call it) installed? It took me a while to figure this out too, with help from another BF poster. It doesn't work on my iPad, only on my laptop.

 

 

That did it thanks!

 

it's so awesome. it's so hard for me to decide whether to watch games on the laptop with Ueck, or through the Xbox on the big TV with no Ueck. The Xbox is usually about 2 batters behind, so I've found myself moving more and more to the laptop. Depends on if there's anything on TV I want to watch I guess.

 

You need to get an hdmi to connect to your tv from your lappy.