2018-04-05: Cubs (Lester) at Brewers (Suter) 7:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose 8-0; Knebel down w/injury]

[Bigblast]

Torn ACL? Whatever it is, you won't be seeing him for awhile.

Looked like hamstring to me. I agree, though. This'll be a long one.

 

Which begs the question now ... who takes over? Barnes? Jeffress? Hader?

 

Smart money would have to be on Jeffress I imagine.

 

Hadar maybe? Espn fantasy for what its worth lists hadar as the likely replacement. Idk

[adambr2]

Torn ACL? Whatever it is, you won't be seeing him for awhile.

 

Agreed! I just picked up Hader in my fantasy baseball league.

 

Really don't think Hader will be closing. I think Barnes is your best bet with Jeffress having an outside shot. Williams could eventually get the role but not this early.

 

Or maybe it'll be a straight committee. I really don't know. But I'd be pretty surprised if they just straight make Hader the closer.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Can someone fill me in on what happened with Knebel / lie to me and tell me it's nothing major, just a precaution. Can't watch the games in Texas.

 

Threw a strike and collapsed in a heap on the mound holding his lower left hamstring. Trainers basically had to carry him off.

 

Maybe he was just tired.

[82brewcrew82]

Can someone fill me in on what happened with Knebel / lie to me and tell me it's nothing major, just a precaution. Can't watch the games in Texas.

I'm guessing a pretty significant hamstring injury. He just kind of crumbled to the ground, couldn't walk off under his own power.

[crossface21]

Collapsed after throwing a pitch. Immediately grabbed his left hamstring and couldn't put any weight on his leg leaving the game.

[topper09er]

When is the NL going to get with the times and implement the designated pitcher? Pitchers are not athletic enough to pitch, they are too much of an injury risk out there pitching in the major leagues.

[adambr2]

Can someone fill me in on what happened with Knebel / lie to me and tell me it's nothing major, just a precaution. Can't watch the games in Texas.

 

Won't give you false hope. It was definitely not a precaution and looked very major. Could not put any weight on the leg.

[TURBO]

No reason for him to be in there, even if only to get some work. We may have actually needed him tomorrow, so the "work" excuse is ridiculous.

 

Oh man, things just got real serious, real quick.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Torn ACL? Whatever it is, you won't be seeing him for awhile.

 

Agreed! I just picked up Hader in my fantasy baseball league.

 

Really don't think Hader will be closing. I think Barnes is your best bet with Jeffress having an outside shot. Williams could eventually get the role but not this early.

 

Or maybe it'll be a straight committee. I really don't know. But I'd be pretty surprised if they just straight make Hader the closer.

 

I'm about 90% sure it will be Jeffress, just because he has done it successfully before. BA just mentioned Albers, but he's very valuable as a set-up guy, as is Hader.

 

They did sign Jim Henderson. And K-Rod is still out there.

[adambr2]

Sogard and Perez still a combined goose egg for hits on the year.

[TURBO]

They did sign Jim Henderson. And K-Rod is still out there.

 

Pick up K-Rod to flip at the deadline.

[TexasCheesehead]

Sogard and Perez still a combined goose egg for hits on the year.

 

and Sogard.

[superfly]

Why worry about who closes now? It's not like we need a closer anyway...

[adambr2]

7 games in and we've already been shut out in consecutive games. Just totally unacceptable given the guys Coles has available to him.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Why worry about who closes now? It's not like we need a closer anyway...

 

These guys will eventually hit, and we'll have those 10-8 games that were predicted in Spring Training.

[markedman5]

Not scoring ever again is definitely a solution to having no closer........

[bigredrobbo]

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

They did sign Jim Henderson. And K-Rod is still out there.

 

Pick up K-Rod to flip at the deadline.

 

Heck, maybe Jeffress will pitch lights-out, and he can be flipped with Pina for a great CF prospect, top starting pitching prospect and another solid OF prospect.

 

 

(not blue because only half joking)

[superfly]

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

 

The sky didn't just start falling. It's just more of the same trends we saw and screamed at last year. Lol

[MrTPlush]

Someone just step on my head please.

[82brewcrew82]

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

It's nothing but a flesh wound!

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

 

OK, that's enough. They were just shut out in back-to-back games by the Cards and Cubs, and lost their All-Star closer. Be quiet.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Just saw video, and optimistically it's a severely pulled hammy for knebel and it's between 1-2months before we see him again in a mlb game. Pessimistically we won't see him throw another pitch until spring training 2019. Probably somewhere in between, which still is terrible news for this team.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Just saw video, and optimistically it's a severely pulled hammy for knebel and it's between 1-2months before we see him again in a mlb game. Pessimistically we won't see him throw another pitch until spring training 2019. Probably somewhere in between, which still is terrible news for this team.

 

I'm guessing we see both Taylor Williams and JJ Hoover in the pen by the start of tomorrow's game.

[FVBrewerFan]

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

 

Not even close.

 

Two things people overlook, and I'm guilty as well.

 

1) Recency bias

2) MLB season is 6 months, 162 games long. Yet we react like a Packers game where 1 or 2 games are a huge deal.

 

That said, I've been saying it since November, this team is still rebuilding so I really won't be disappointed if they do have a 75 win season.