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2021-04-10: Brewers (Houser) at Cardinals (Martinez) [Brewers win, 9-5 -- Hauser keeps Cards scoreless over 5 IP; Crew tallies 13 hits]

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Burnes, Woodruff, and Degrom are all jealous of Houser right now

 

Houser is probably wondering if there is a scoreboard error. When is the last time he's had 3 runs of run support let alone a 3 run lead?!

 

This is a really fun game so far. Decent pitching, great defense and a ton of hits. Gotta love it.

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Guys who switched to AT&T TV, are you happy with it so far?

Had it for years. No problems. I spend too much on tv services, but whatever. Pay $115 for ATT, which includes sports channels, most movie channels. Also pay for Hulu, Prime, Netflix, I have Plex, Appletv, got a Chromecast stick somewhere. It’s my wife’s job to call whenever ATT raises the bill and talk them back down.

 

Have you considered just using MLB.TV? I'm happy with that option without having the whole TV subscription. Pay for the whole season for what you'd pay for a month of AT&T

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Who wanted Houser in the bullpen instead of Lindblom?

 

I did and still do. The wheels will fall off his Cinderella start eventually here.

"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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Who wanted Houser in the bullpen instead of Lindblom?

 

I did and still do. The wheels will fall off his Cinderella start eventually here.

 

completely agree since he had so much success in the bullpen and our pen looks like a lot of question marks.

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Who wanted Houser in the bullpen instead of Lindblom?

The biggest issue for Houser is his career .853 OPS against left handed hitters. He is well suited for a role where he can face predominantly RHHs, and you can control that better out of the bullpen especially coming into a game started by a LHP.

Not just “at Night” anymore.
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Who wanted Houser in the bullpen instead of Lindblom?

 

Yeah we were doing this through 2 starts last year. Then the wheels fell off.

 

In addition there has been absolutely nothing special about Houser's start today whether he escapes this inning or not. Sometimes the breaks go your way, sometimes they don't. He's gotten the breaks today.

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Who wanted Houser in the bullpen instead of Lindblom?

The biggest issue with Houser is his career .853 OPS against left handed hitters. He is well suited for a role where he can face predominantly RHHs, and you can control that better out of the bullpen especially coming into a game started by a LHP.

 

Worth noting that st louis is heavily rh. Their clear best 2 hitters are rh and I think they only have 3 total lh

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It isn't just that I don't think Houser is a great starter that I want him in the pen. It's also that I think he's a pretty darn good reliever when he can come in for just 1 or 2 innings and throw his best pitches and add a few ticks. The lack of depth in the pen this year has hurt and Houser could help. There isn't much after Hader and Devin.
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Hiura with some bad luck today but promising that he's hitting the ball hard.
"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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It isn't just that I don't think Houser is a great starter that I want him in the pen. It's also that I think he's a pretty darn good reliever when he can come in for just 1 or 2 innings and throw his best pitches and add a few ticks. The lack of depth in the pen this year has hurt and Houser could help. There isn't much after Hader and Devin.

 

I really don't think the pen has been that bad this year. Outside of a rough game by Rasmussen and Williams early struggles everyone has been OK. They haven't been perfect but I think they've been pretty good. If we had managed to score a few more runs we'd probably be talking about them as a strength but when they are put in a position where they have to be perfect for 3 or 4 innings a night or they blow a save they really can't win.

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Hiura with some bad luck today but promising that he's hitting the ball hard.

Just seeing him square up balls in the strike zone is a huge improvement over the first week of the season. I sort of hope they keep him 6th or lower in the order for awhile, it seems like he might be better suited to not have the added pressure of being one of the middle of the order bats right now.

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It isn't just that I don't think Houser is a great starter that I want him in the pen. It's also that I think he's a pretty darn good reliever when he can come in for just 1 or 2 innings and throw his best pitches and add a few ticks. The lack of depth in the pen this year has hurt and Houser could help. There isn't much after Hader and Devin.

 

I really don't think the pen has been that bad this year. Outside of a rough game by Rasmussen and Williams early struggles everyone has been OK. They haven't been perfect but I think they've been pretty good. If we had managed to score a few more runs we'd probably be talking about them as a strength but when they are put in a position where they have to be perfect for 3 or 4 innings a night or they blow a save they really can't win.

 

Yardley has been bad. Rasmussen has been brutal. Williams will be fine but he has struggled.

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Certainly Houser's Achilles is LHB, but he has slowly been improving there too - mostly dealing with control, consistency, and pitch sequences. He isn't going to be Woody or Burnes, but I think he can be a serviceable #3 or #4. He has a higher ceiling than many of our other SP options this year (after Woody, Burnes and Peralta), but that comes with a lower floor too.
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It isn't just that I don't think Houser is a great starter that I want him in the pen. It's also that I think he's a pretty darn good reliever when he can come in for just 1 or 2 innings and throw his best pitches and add a few ticks. The lack of depth in the pen this year has hurt and Houser could help. There isn't much after Hader and Devin.

 

I really don't think the pen has been that bad this year. Outside of a rough game by Rasmussen and Williams early struggles everyone has been OK. They haven't been perfect but I think they've been pretty good. If we had managed to score a few more runs we'd probably be talking about them as a strength but when they are put in a position where they have to be perfect for 3 or 4 innings a night or they blow a save they really can't win.

 

Yardley has been bad. Rasmussen has been brutal. Williams will be fine but he has struggled.

 

Yeah I pushed Yardley from my brain I guess. To be fair Lindblom has kinda sucked as well...

 

I still think the pen as a whole hasn't been that bad but I guess it's not as good as I was initially thinking either.

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