2021-04-20: Brewers (Burnes) at Padres (Paddack) [Brewers win, 6-0 -- Burnes reaches 40 strikeouts without issuing a walk to start the season, the new major league record for a starter]

[Eye Black]

Eye Black - where do those umpire charts come from?

 

Yep, click the website link in the Twitter bio for a greater explanation of the charts.

[brooks_quichenick]

What does Tyrone Taylor need to do to get a start.

 

 

1. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

2. Daniel Vogelbach (L) 1B

3. Avisail Garcia ® RF

4. Travis Shaw (L) 3B

5. Omar Narvaez (L) C

6. Keston Hiura ® 2B

7. Billy McKinney (L) LF

8. Daniel Robertson ® SS

9. Corbin Burnes ® P

 

Convince the other team to start a left handed pitcher.

 

Ok, or he could just get a start against a right handed pitcher. His major league stats are such a small sample that I don't know how you could decide he should solely be on the short end of a platoon, especially when his numbers against RHP are actually slightly better:

 

 

vs RHP 35 AB 5 2B 2 HR 7 RBI 2 BB/8 K .286/.359/.600

vs LHP 18 AB 2 2B 1 HR 2 RBI 2 BB/3 K .278/.350/.556

[markedman5]

[rickh150]

JBJ isn't here for his offense. He is here to save runs. If there is one thing we should've learned from 2018 is that they will stack positions and find at-bats for them all.

 

JBJ is here for his offense. If not, we just paid $12 this year for a backup OF with a glove. He hits or he’ll be just that, a late game OF defensive replacement.

[pacopete4]

JBJ isn't here for his offense. He is here to save runs. If there is one thing we should've learned from 2018 is that they will stack positions and find at-bats for them all.

 

JBJ is here for his offense. If not, we just paid $12 this year for a backup OF with a glove. He hits or he’ll be just that, a late game OF defensive replacement.

 

I think you took that a bit too literal. The theme is defense up and down our roster. They wanted to help save runs this season. JBJ will have his streaks and will be just fine for the Brewers.

[rickh150]

JBJ isn't here for his offense. He is here to save runs. If there is one thing we should've learned from 2018 is that they will stack positions and find at-bats for them all.

 

JBJ is here for his offense. If not, we just paid $12 this year for a backup OF with a glove. He hits or he’ll be just that, a late game OF defensive replacement.

 

I think you took that a bit too literal. The theme is defense up and down our roster. They wanted to help save runs this season. JBJ will have his streaks and will be just fine for the Brewers.

 

A 5’7” Hiura with a Vogelbach up at 1B blows up that defense first theory. Getting rid of Arica for potential fringe arms does too.

 

The bats of Bradley and Wong are more thought of by Stearn than their gloves, IMO. The defense is the gravy, not the meat and mashed potatoes of why they are here.

[pacopete4]

Arcia has shown over time to be an average defender and other than 1B, all signs point to defensive players.

[JET15]

Ugh, 40 more minutes. How I hate these west coast games

[TURBO]

You can justify Taylor not getting a start all you want, but the guy has earned more playing time.

 

He'll probably be the next Trent Grisham.

[82brewcrew82]

Ugh, 40 more minutes. How I hate these west coast games

Try being on the East Coast.

[pacopete4]

You can justify Taylor not getting a start all you want, but the guy has earned more playing time.

 

He'll probably be the next Trent Grisham.

 

How will he be the next Grisham? Grisham forced his way into the roster as 22. Taylor is now 27. I don’t think other than playing OF for the Brewers that they could be any different in their paths or experience with the organization.

[Eye Black]

It’s sort of wild that JBJ has had 59 plate appearances and has yet to take a walk.

[Outlander]

I'm all for giving Taylor playing time but there is pretty much nothing Taylor does better than Grisham. Close to zero chance he has the career of Grisham.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Next Grisham as in, gets sent off and plays really well some place else. I think it's fair to say now that the Brewers probably didn't value Grisham where they should have. There was a bit of a logjam in the OF but don't you think they'd want that one back?

 

For the record I don't think Taylor is near as good. But they stink right now and he should play.

[stoutdude04]

Dang. Nice play by Profar to start.

[Jopal78]

Next Grisham as in, gets sent off and plays really well some place else. I think it's fair to say now that the Brewers probably didn't value Grisham where they should have. There was a bit of a logjam in the OF but don't you think they'd want that one back?

 

For the record I don't think Taylor is near as good. But they stink right now and he should play.

 

The fact the team hung with Grisham for a long time when he was “just a guy” in the minor leagues speaks to how they valued him. Really they believed 5 years of Lauer and six years of Urias > than 2 years of Davies and 6 years of Grisham. Time will tell if it was wise or not.

[JackNicholson1974]

How the hell did the Brewers not properly value Grisham? He was a top, first round draft pick that exploded in AAA and then played really well in his first call up to the Bigs? I was really surprised and disappointed when they traded him.

[adambr2]

I'm bummed not to have Grisham anymore too, but I do think they really liked Grisham. I just think they also really liked Urias. Hopefully he can end up being the guy they're expecting.

[Eye Black]

Grisham definitely played that one up for the home crowd.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

How the hell did the Brewers not properly value Grisham?

 

I was really surprised and disappointed when they traded him.

 

??

 

If Urias has a nice career, maybe it's fine. I couldn't care less about the Davies/Lauer swap; I know Davies had his fans here and there's no arguing he was a fairly productive, reliable pitcher, I just wasn't a big fan. Lauer has just been a worse version of Davies. Way worse in terms of productivity in MKE, but both do nothing to excite me.

 

I guess you can say Urias was a risk worth taking with the Arcia experiment failing. But my gut feeling is that 4 years from now this trade looks stupid. It happens.

[SeaBass]

Nice play Grish.

[JackNicholson1974]

The how did they not properly value him was a rhetorical question...as in how the hell could they have misjudged the trade this badly.

[rickh150]

Grisham definitely played that one up for the home crowd.

 

How? Looks like he ran, jumped, and caught it.

[yourout]

Both teams should be on no-hitter alert tonight.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I kind of agree that something about that catch looked more dramatic than it had to be.