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2018-10-20 (NLCS Game #7): Dodgers (Buehler) at Brewers (Chacín) 7:09 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 5-1 -- 2018 Season Comes to a Close]


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Is using Schoop instead of Granderson there the first IGT criticism of Counsell since the playoffs started that basically everyone hated? Seems like it.

 

Hader can and should go 3-4 innings. All the more reason to use Granderson though, because you might let Hader hit and then that's one less PH you need. So you didn't have to force Schoop in there.

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Do you throw Hader until his arm falls off or he gets in trouble? I mean, being dramatic, but 60 pitches? 75 pitches?

 

That’d be my mindset. No tomorrow. All that special schedule stuff (which worked well up to this point) is out the window when it’s do or die.

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I don't get why we didn't use Grandy. It's not like they were going to pull Buehler, and now they'll just use a lefty later when we want to use Grandy and waste him.

 

Wouldn't Grandy be the CF if Cain were to get hurt? No Broxton in this series.

Yelich would move to CF in that scenario.

 

Yep. They could always put Santana or Perez in the OF. They are a catcher injury away from Perez behind the plate in half the games they play. That's not a reason not to PH Grandy, who has played no CF for us.

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Do you throw Hader until his arm falls off or he gets in trouble? I mean, being dramatic, but 60 pitches? 75 pitches?

 

That’d be my mindset. No tomorrow. All that special schedule stuff (which worked well up to this point) is out the window when it’s do or die.

 

As long as he's effective and not in imminent risk of injury there's really no limit. If he starts to lose it you have to move on to the next guy just like with anyone else.

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Is using Schoop instead of Granderson there the first IGT criticism of Counsell since the playoffs started that basically everyone hated? Seems like it.

 

Hader can and should go 3-4 innings. All the more reason to use Granderson though, because you might let Hader hit and then that's one less PH you need. So you didn't have to force Schoop in there.

 

Disliked ... but we all get the fact that may have been the best shot he had to get a hit vs a fastball cause he sure can’t hit anything else lol. And you don’t want to burn your good PH’s early that’s for sure ! It’s a move you can maybe not love but understand

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Feel like the ump has been pretty fair with the zone so far.
"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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Well I guess hader pitching this early is already a win with Pederson out and Hernandez in. And then now bleh.
Remember what Yoda said:

 

"Cubs lead to Cardinals. Cardinals lead to dislike. Dislike leads to hate. Hate leads to constipation."

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That is an absolutely frustrating AB by Yelich. You hit a homer off the guy in the first, see if you can get into a long count and maybe draw a walk. Really think Buehler is going to pump a bunch of pitches down the middle. Man would have like to see patience there.
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Yelich was attacking the whole 2nd half the season early in the count.
"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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Is using Schoop instead of Granderson there the first IGT criticism of Counsell since the playoffs started that basically everyone hated? Seems like it.

 

Hader can and should go 3-4 innings. All the more reason to use Granderson though, because you might let Hader hit and then that's one less PH you need. So you didn't have to force Schoop in there.

 

Disliked ... but we all get the fact that may have been the best shot he had to get a hit vs a fastball cause he sure can’t hit anything else lol. And you don’t want to burn your good PH’s early that’s for sure ! It’s a move you can maybe not love but understand

 

There's no concern about burning your PH early. You're only going to use him once, and you had a chance to use him against an RHP with 2 runners on. What more do you want?

 

The real danger is that you don't find the right occasion to use him later (ahem, Kershaw in the pen!) and then you wake up tomorrow and realized you somehow found a way to use Jonathon Schoop in a game 7 but didn't find a plate appearance for Granderson.

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