2020 Spring Training Games

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On Saturday the Brewers begin their Spring Training quest to take home the 2020 Cactus League championship.

 

Use this thread to discuss game and performance related commentary throughout the 2020 Spring Training season.

 

 

 

NOTE: With the exception of the Miller Park games, the times listed on the above schedule are local for Arizona (Mountain Time).

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Below is the Brewers Spring Training broadcast schedule:

 

 

 

Brewers Spring Training broadcast information can also be found in the regular Brewers.com Schedule. Below is a screenshot of the first week of Spring Training:

 

[Zad Fnark]

When do they start getting televised?

[Eye Black]

When do they start getting televised?

Monday.

 

TV is listed on the broadcast schedule above, or you can click the following link for the complete FSWI spring training broadcast schedule:

 

FOX Sports Wisconsin Spring Training Broadcast Schedule

[DHonks]

Zero chance the opener happens. This weather system is non-stop and blanketing the valley

[Zad Fnark]

Thanks, EB.

[brooks_quichenick]

Today’s game officially canceled.

[Eye Black]

Watching Thames hit for the Nationals last night was a little strange, and today’s Spring Training pitching matchup is also going to take some getting used to...

 

 

[brewerfan82]

Brewers Twitter has released our first lineup of the Spring. Interesting that Healy's in there already, albeit as a DH, regardless let's go baseball!

 

Arcia - SS

Narváez - C

Gamel - RF

Healy - DH

Morrison - 1B

Broxton - CF

Peterson - LF

Rodríguez - 2B

Erceg - 3B

 

Anderson - P

[clancyphile]

Brett Anderson starts out by punching out the leadoff hitter.

[brewerfan82]

Todays' split squad lineups:

 

vs. Angels

Sogard - 3B

Hiura - 2B

García - RF

Holt - SS

Piña - C

Morrison - DH

Healy - 1B

Ray - CF

Mathias - LF

 

Woodruff - P

 

vs. A's

Gamel - LF

Arcia - SS

Smoak - 1B

Rodríguez - 2B

Peterson - RF

Freitas - C

Broxton - CF

Erceg - 3B

Feliciano - DH

 

Burnes - P

 

Nice to see Healy getting some playing time in the field already. If he has a nice spring he could potentially add some unexpected (positive) complication to the 3rd base picture. Also interesting to see Holt getting reps at SS his first time out.

[adambr2]

Really nice defensive play by Hiura.

[NYChez]

After all the concern expressed about third base, Erceg is going to hit .600 this Spring and suddenly we’ll have too many good players at the position.

[markedman5]

 

Arica having a big day

[adambr2]

After all the concern expressed about third base, Erceg is going to hit .600 this Spring and suddenly we’ll have too many good players at the position.

 

He needs to actually start hitting in the minors a little bit before he is even remotely considered as any kind of option as a starting 3B at this level.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

After all the concern expressed about third base, Erceg is going to hit .600 this Spring and suddenly we’ll have too many good players at the position.

 

He needs to actually start hitting in the minors a little bit before he is even remotely considered as any kind of option as a starting 3B at this level.

 

Yeah, Erceg hitting in Spring Training hasn't ever been the problem. He's torn the cover off the ball. It's carrying it over to the regular season where he's really struggled. Hopefully he finds it this year.

[clancyphile]

 

Arica having a big day

 

Cooper Hummel with a double, 2 RBIs, and a run scored.

 

Just sayin'...

[brewcrewdue80]

All right we have games being played. Who are all these guys? Yelich missed these 3games? What's up with that? Evry possible Starter but Peralta has 1IP now. Seems odd. Who will be your starters games 5&6? Or are you pitching the first games guys on short rest?

[wildcat83]

Was music to my ears hearing the MLB At Bat notifications coming through. Finally some baseball being played, even if it is just early ST.

 

Good to see Arcia having early success. I've always been a believer that he would figure it out. I just thought it would be the first year after he was in a different uniform. The guy has a full season worth of .270, you know the ability is in there. Maybe the new hitting coach and a serious threat to playing time in Urias will finally lead to him being willing to change the awful mechanics.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

All right we have games being played. Who are all these guys? Yelich missed these 3games? What's up with that? Evry possible Starter but Peralta has 1IP now. Seems odd. Who will be your starters games 5&6? Or are you pitching the first games guys on short rest?

 

1) Several of the Brewers' stars haven't played yet. That's how Spring Training works. I don't believe Braun, Cain or even Narvaez have been in there yet, either.

 

2) Correct ... starters typically throw an inning every two to three days at the outset of Spring Training. They aren't doing anything out of the ordinary.

[wildcat83]

All right we have games being played. Who are all these guys? Yelich missed these 3games? What's up with that? Evry possible Starter but Peralta has 1IP now. Seems odd. Who will be your starters games 5&6? Or are you pitching the first games guys on short rest?

 

1) Several of the Brewers' stars haven't played yet. That's how Spring Training works. I don't believe Braun, Cain or even Narvaez have been in there yet, either.

 

2) Correct ... starters typically throw an inning every two to three days at the outset of Spring Training. They aren't doing anything out of the ordinary.

 

 

Yea, these guys are all pitching on a schedule right now. It has nothing to do with who starts the games really, it's just getting their scheduled innings in. They have a bunch of minor league arms that can eat up innings if needed when the scheduled guys hit their pitch counts.

 

It's sometimes not until the last couple starts of camp that they really start lining guys up on a schedule to start every 5th day and you can kind of see the rotation forming.

 

Navarez started the opener against the Padres and got a couple AB's

[KeithStone53151]

All right we have games being played. Who are all these guys? Yelich missed these 3games? What's up with that? Evry possible Starter but Peralta has 1IP now. Seems odd. Who will be your starters games 5&6? Or are you pitching the first games guys on short rest?

 

That's pretty typical of spring, starters build up a pitch count on a strict schedule. Often stars don't play the first week or even longer. Don't be surprised if Braun doesn't get a single AB this week. He's said that he'd manage just fine with 5-10 AB total in ST, and being a 10+ year vet he's kinda earned the right to determine how many atbats he needs. Yelich is coming off injury, so it wouldn't be too surprising if he didn't get any AB for a bit yet as well.

 

Also as for ST stats, obviously take with a huge grain of salt. Often early on, pitchers will be working on one particular pitch on a given day and literally don't care about results. Sometimes it takes 3-4 outings before guys will use their full arsenal of stuff in games. It matters far more how these guys look on March 15th than it does February 24th.

[brewerfan82]

Gotta love Spring Training Gameday...

 

[clancyphile]

All right we have games being played. Who are all these guys? Yelich missed these 3games? What's up with that? Evry possible Starter but Peralta has 1IP now. Seems odd. Who will be your starters games 5&6? Or are you pitching the first games guys on short rest?

 

1) Several of the Brewers' stars haven't played yet. That's how Spring Training works. I don't believe Braun, Cain or even Narvaez have been in there yet, either.

 

2) Correct ... starters typically throw an inning every two to three days at the outset of Spring Training. They aren't doing anything out of the ordinary.

 

1. Narvaez has been out there catching.

 

2. On MLB.com, Counsell said the plan was each pitches one inning, then gets two days off; then two innings and three days off; then three innings where they go on an every five day schedule.

https://www.mlb.com/news/brewers-notes-corbin-burnes-slider-brandon-woodruff

 

"The schedule this year has each pitcher throwing one inning the first time out, followed by two days off, then two innings, then three days off, then three innings. Only after that do they adopt an every-five-day schedule and surpass the four-inning threshold that Anderson mentioned."

[brewcrewdue80]

Awesome good stuff.

Peralta threw 2IP today. Would guess he was to throw 1IP game 1?

 

I've often thought the pitchers never seem ready to go the first couple weeks in the regular season. So I feel a light workload could explain. Wonder how the pitchers would do if the began that schedule from 2ip and worked to every 5days 4ip+ though its only a 2day bump.