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2018-09-05: Cubs (Quintana) at Brewers (Chacín) 7:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 6-4]

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This game feels like it is taking forever considering how fast the first couple of innings went.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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My point is that yes, maybe there are 12 guys in the bullpen (or whatever), but Brewer fans only to want to use 2 or 3 of them.

 

Baloney! I want Dan Jennings to pitch when the crew are up or down by a handful. Every pitcher has a situation they should be in. Nobody is advocating the same 2-3 guys every day. That's hyperbole.

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My point is that yes, maybe there are 12 guys in the bullpen (or whatever), but Brewer fans only to want to use 2 or 3 of them.

 

Well, in those fans' defense, the August pen was basically Jeffress, Hader, Burnes and a can of gasoline.

 

 

Ok, but not sure how you can get ticked off every time one of those pitchers is not put in. You have to use those other "gasoline" pitchers sometimes. Even with his recent struggles, Jennings had a 3.21 ERA entering this game. It wasn't a hard hit ball. It was barely fair. Seems like the complaints get louder after the fact.

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My point is that yes, maybe there are 12 guys in the bullpen (or whatever), but Brewer fans only to want to use 2 or 3 of them.

 

Well, in those fans' defense, the August pen was basically Jeffress, Hader, Burnes and a can of gasoline.

 

 

Ok, but not sure how you can get ticked off every time one of those pitchers is not put in. You have to use those other "gasoline" pitchers sometimes. Even with his recent struggles, Jennings had a 3.21 ERA entering this game. It wasn't a hard hit ball. It was barely fair. Seems like the complaints get louder after the fact.

 

I think it is more how he is used. He's proven time and time again that he is not effective in clutch situations against good lefty hitters, yet he keeps being shoehorned into those situations, to the point where Stearns felt the need to go out and acquire a true LOOGY in Cedeno. If they treat Jennings as a lower-rung middle reliever, which is probably what he is, he'd be fine.

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My point is that yes, maybe there are 12 guys in the bullpen (or whatever), but Brewer fans only to want to use 2 or 3 of them.

 

Well, in those fans' defense, the August pen was basically Jeffress, Hader, Burnes and a can of gasoline.

 

 

Ok, but not sure how you can get ticked off every time one of those pitchers is not put in. You have to use those other "gasoline" pitchers sometimes. Even with his recent struggles, Jennings had a 3.21 ERA entering this game. It wasn't a hard hit ball. It was barely fair. Seems like the complaints get louder after the fact.

 

No one is ticked that one of those pitchers weren't put in, people are ticked that Jennings was put in, period. The guy has been a dumpster fire in high leverage situations, and once again, he proved he can't get the job done. Yes, at some point we have to use all our pitchers, but Jennings was our worst option, based on his struggles in that exact situation, yet CC trotted him out anyway. Hard hit or not, he failed, AGAIN!

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My point is that yes, maybe there are 12 guys in the bullpen (or whatever), but Brewer fans only to want to use 2 or 3 of them.

 

Well, in those fans' defense, the August pen was basically Jeffress, Hader, Burnes and a can of gasoline.

 

 

Ok, but not sure how you can get ticked off every time one of those pitchers is not put in. You have to use those other "gasoline" pitchers sometimes. Even with his recent struggles, Jennings had a 3.21 ERA entering this game. It wasn't a hard hit ball. It was barely fair. Seems like the complaints get louder after the fact.

 

Jennings has a million inherited runners who've scored, thus not affecting his ERA.

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I thought Kratz was the backup catcher? Seems like this dude is in the lineup day after day. Anyone know the splits between him and Manny since all star break?

 

Unless he's still banged up, I don't get it. Manny is certainly better than Kratz and has had a very nice 2nd half.

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That 3rd run left out that is huge when trying to make a comeback. Damn.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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I thought Kratz was the backup catcher? Seems like this dude is in the lineup day after day. Anyone know the splits between him and Manny since all star break?

 

Unless he's still banged up, I don't get it. Manny is certainly better than Kratz and has had a very nice 2nd half.

 

I know he had the HBP he took off his mouth, and had stitches. Has he played since then?

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Even with his recent struggles, Jennings had a 3.21 ERA entering this game. It

 

This reminds me of a great tweet from a few days ago.

 

 

That inning is why a guy like Boone Logan has a respectable ERA while sucking ass most of his career. Bad LOOGY’s give up other people’s runs and rarely pitch long enough in a game to give up their own. It’s also why bad LOOGY’s are eternal.
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