2019 Spring Training In-Game Thread

[stoutdude04]

Jeffress pulled after 3 pitches in today's game. He seemed to be fighting Counsell to stay in, so hopefully its just precautionary. I didn't see anything alarming looking at the pitches he threw, but Counsell/Hook must have saw something. He's been slowed by a sore shoulder early in camp.

 

Im trying to find it, but I read yesterday that he was clocked at 83/84 on those 3 pitches. Yikes.

[brewerfan82]

Today's lineup:

 

Cain - CF

Yelich - RF

Braun - DH

Shaw - 3B

Grandal - C

Moustakas - 2B

Thames - 1B

Pérez - SS

Gamel - LF

 

Peralta - P

Things are getting close! Pumped!

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Jeffress pulled after 3 pitches in today's game. He seemed to be fighting Counsell to stay in, so hopefully its just precautionary. I didn't see anything alarming looking at the pitches he threw, but Counsell/Hook must have saw something. He's been slowed by a sore shoulder early in camp.

 

Im trying to find it, but I read yesterday that he was clocked at 83/84 on those 3 pitches. Yikes.

 

Tightness/weakness in the shoulder will definitely do that. Hopefully its minor, but you never know. Strange that the issue wasn't caught in pen sessions if its a lingering thing.

[jerichoholicninja]

Jeffress pulled after 3 pitches in today's game. He seemed to be fighting Counsell to stay in, so hopefully its just precautionary. I didn't see anything alarming looking at the pitches he threw, but Counsell/Hook must have saw something. He's been slowed by a sore shoulder early in camp.

 

Im trying to find it, but I read yesterday that he was clocked at 83/84 on those 3 pitches. Yikes.

 

There were no gun readings on TV but he definitely did not look like he was throwing with 100% effort.

[yfinn6]

First pitch breakkaball to Hiura and he deposits it into the hill in LF.

 

Side note: I like watching dudes with their beers running after balls on the hill. They inevitably fall and spill their beer everywhere. Classic.

[markedman5]

Peralta looked really good today

 

[OldHeidelberg]

Peralta looked really good today

 

 

 

 

Good to hear, especially the throwing harder part.

[Lathund]

Good scoreless outing for Josh Tomlin today. 5 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 3 K.

[Eye Black]

A lot of fun performances to follow along with today between the split squad games. Home Runs today included Thames, Yelich, Hiura, Grisham. Lots of good pitching outings including Tomlin, Woodruff, Brown, Knebel, and Hader. Miguel Sanchez struck out 3 of the 4 batters he faced over 1.1 IP as well.

 

[sarcasm]Most importantly the Brewers won 5-1 versus Angels and 11-2 versus A’s to move back to .500 for the Spring, and within striking distance of defending their Cactus League championship.[/sarcasm]

[Brew crew 92]

A lot of fun performances to follow along with today between the split squad games. Home Runs today included Thames, Yelich, Hiura, Grisham. Lots of good pitching outings including Tomlin, Woodruff, Brown, Knebel, and Hader. Miguel Sanchez struck out 3 of the 4 batters he faced over 1.1 IP as well.

 

[sarcasm]Most importantly the Brewers won 5-1 versus Angels and 11-2 versus A’s to move back to .500 for the Spring, and within striking distance of defending their Cactus League championship.[/sarcasm]

 

I’m most excited with their starting pitching, Anderson,Davies,Burnes,Peralta,woody even Tomlin pitching well right now.

[phnxcrew]

This is going to be a fun team. They should be able to do it all. I’m

Hoping woodruff convinces them to pair him alongside Burnes in the rotation and move one of the #4’s to another team. Huge upside

[jerichoholicninja]

I'm a total Brian Anderson hater but boy nothing makes me miss him more than listening to Rock and Augustine trying to talk about baseball. Bill spent a whole half inning referring to Josh Tomlin as Josh Fields. Jerry called Jeremy Jeffress Jeremy Jeffries and threw out the most totally useless statistics like he just opened up Baseball-Reference every time a new pitcher came in so he could find something to say.

[markedman5]

Jimmy gave up 2 runs in his first inning back today vs the white sox. HR to first batter and a couple of singles.

 

Per TH

 

Jimmy Nelson's fastball was sitting mostly at 91-92 mph but he got it up as far as 94 mph. His breaking stuff was how he struck out three hitters. They weren't getting good swings off that.

[Brew crew 92]

Jimmy gave up 2 runs in his first inning back today vs the white sox. HR to first batter and a couple of singles.

 

Per TH

 

Jimmy Nelson's fastball was sitting mostly at 91-92 mph but he got it up as far as 94 mph. His breaking stuff was how he struck out three hitters. They weren't getting good swings off that.

 

Velocity will get better the more he pitches as he builds up his arm strength. Breaking stuff sounds really good now. Happy he’s pitching in games again!

[trwi7]

The good news is Chase Anderson hasn't given up a home run yet (which is amazing considering there's a 20 mph wind blowing out to right field.) The bad news is this is how the first five batters went.

 

Walk

Line drive single

Line drive single

Walk

Line drive single

[trwi7]

I think Trevor Bauer is ready for the regular season.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

The good news is Chase Anderson hasn't given up a home run yet (which is amazing considering there's a 20 mph wind blowing out to right field.) The bad news is this is how the first five batters went.

 

Walk

Line drive single

Line drive single

Walk

Line drive single

 

Not ideal, that's for sure. Apparently channeling Nolan Ryan via YouTube isn't going too well.

 

In all seriousness, I was really hoping Chase would attack this spring training with a chip on his shoulder after being benched last year, but he's been very inconsistent again.

[trwi7]

The good news is Chase Anderson hasn't given up a home run yet

 

There it is.

[Brew crew 92]

27 pitches 26 strikes 8 Ks yeah I’d say he ready.

[markedman5]

Hiura just hit a 3 run bomb off of Bauer.....

[Lathund]

27 pitches 26 strikes 8 Ks yeah I’d say he ready.

 

They don't track pitch counts properly in ST. It'll just automatically show 3 pitches for a K, 1 for other outs and 1 for each hit etc. I don't know the exact workings, but point is to not trust the pitch counts from ST box scores.

[Brew crew 92]

27 pitches 26 strikes 8 Ks yeah I’d say he ready.

 

They don't track pitch counts properly in ST. It'll just automatically show 3 pitches for a K, 1 for other outs and 1 for each hit etc. I don't know the exact workings, but point is to not trust the pitch counts from ST box scores.

 

Obviously I did not know that. Thanks for the Correct information Lathund.

[BuckyBrewer61]

 

In all seriousness, I was really hoping Chase would attack this spring training with a chip on his shoulder after being benched last year, but he's been very inconsistent again.

 

I hoped the same, but expected basically what we’ve seen.

 

Save the 2nd half of 2017, watching Chase it seems there is a simple problem here. He’s just not a very good MLB pitcher. Doesn’t throw hard, doesn’t have great stuff. He’s an ok #5 or decent replacement rotation piece, but not much more.

 

I will be rooting very hard for him to prove me wrong, but I just don’t see it. He was such a glaring sell high candidate after 2017, but the total lack of rotation depth precluded that unfortunately.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

 

In all seriousness, I was really hoping Chase would attack this spring training with a chip on his shoulder after being benched last year, but he's been very inconsistent again.

 

I hoped the same, but expected basically what we’ve seen.

 

Save the 2nd half of 2017, watching Chase it seems there is a simple problem here. He’s just not a very good MLB pitcher. Doesn’t throw hard, doesn’t have great stuff. He’s an ok #5 or decent replacement rotation piece, but not much more.

 

I will be rooting very hard for him to prove me wrong, but I just don’t see it. He was such a glaring sell high candidate after 2017, but the total lack of rotation depth precluded that unfortunately.

 

Another negative result of the Nelson injury. They needed Anderson to be the team's ace, and that backfired.

[brewmann04]

They should continue to look because not seeing Chase being a guy we can count on in 2019