Spring Training Games Thread - 2022

[Joseph Zarr]

8 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

No. According to CC, no concern. Taken out as a precaution

Yup. Adames was actually arguing fairly vocally to stay in the game - gotta love it. It was probably a cramp? Either way, entirely precautionary. 

[yourout]

Finally getting to watch.

Early observations.

Huira's leg lift is significantly better(Lower).

Adame's leg lift is significantly worse. He always had some lift but holy hell it's damn near to his belt.

Taylor could end up being the big surprise of the year.

[sveumrules]

On 4/1/2022 at 4:11 PM, brewers888 said:

I don’t know how any fan of this team can be anything other than concerned about the lineup especially if Yelich is going to be bad. After last season it was obvious they needed a big time hitter and the Renfroe plus McCutchen acquisitions were not even close to good enough.

BPro has the Brewers projected 12th for  runs scored, FG has them projected 16th.

Offense once again looks like it will be a lot closer to average than it is to bad.

Sure, I wish the offense projected to be 1st in runs scored, but that isn’t the reality we’re currently occupying.

With the offense they do have, the Brewers are currently between 73-86% favorites to win the division & have the 3rd best WS odds in the NL.

[markedman5]

Another game another rocket off the center field wall for Hiura……

[BruisedCrew]

17 hours ago, sveumrules said:

BPro has the Brewers projected 12th for  runs scored, FG has them projected 16th.

Offense once again looks like it will be a lot closer to average than it is to bad.

Sure, I wish the offense projected to be 1st in runs scored, but that isn’t the reality we’re currently occupying.

With the offense they do have, the Brewers are currently between 73-86% favorites to win the division & have the 3rd best WS odds in the NL.

I think the standards change when you start looking at a team as a potential World Series contender. 

An average offense might be good enough in the regular season, but when you get into the postseason against teams with some of the top offenses in the league who are throwing their top end pitchers, an average offense isn’t going to cut it. 

The Brewers are understandably favored to win their division given the status of the rest of the teams in the NL Central. But an average offense is probably going to lead to another short postseason if they get there. 
 

 

[yourout]

Hopefully it doesnt mean anything but 1/2 the projected lineup has relatively poor Cactus League numbers.

Adames and Narvaez are the two that concern me the most.

 

[brewers888]

27 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I think the standards change when you start looking at a team as a potential World Series contender. 

An average offense might be good enough in the regular season, but when you get into the postseason against teams with some of the top offenses in the league who are throwing their top end pitchers, an average offense isn’t going to cut it. 

The Brewers are understandably favored to win their division given the status of the rest of the teams in the NL Central. But an average offense is probably going to lead to another short postseason if they get there. 
 

 

The pitching should be good enough to lead the team to the playoffs but this lineup is not nearly good enough to win a championship.

[markedman5]

Ashby struggling big time with his command.

hope these guys can flip the switch on Thursday……

[sveumrules]

21 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

I think the standards change when you start looking at a team as a potential World Series contender. 

An average offense might be good enough in the regular season, but when you get into the postseason against teams with some of the top offenses in the league who are throwing their top end pitchers, an average offense isn’t going to cut it. 

The Brewers are understandably favored to win their division given the status of the rest of the teams in the NL Central. But an average offense is probably going to lead to another short postseason if they get there. 
 

 

The team that won the World Series last year only scored 52 more runs than the Brewers during the regular season.

They were also missing Ronald Acuna who accounted for 100 of those runs, 72 R + 52 RBI - 24 HR.

A better offense gives you better odds, no doubt, but the Dodgers have won 61 more games than the next best team over the last 9 seasons, their position players have been 5% better (113 wRC+ vs 108 wRC+) than the next best team, HOU. The Dodgers have had better World Series odds than anybody over almost a decade & they only managed one WS in the pandemic weirdened season...because the postseason is overwhelmingly random. 

[SomewhereInTime]

Anybody gonna start a predictions thread before the season starts?

[TURBO]

Our "average" offense will not take us deep into the playoffs.

Spin it any way you want with any fancypants stats, but this offense without a significant boost from Yelich and Hiura is NOT going to lead us to a World series victory, much less, an appearance.

If we have 2019 Yelich and Hiura, I'm buying what you are saying, but if they remain average and below average, we are in trouble offensively.

That isn't even taking into account the fact that our pitching could drop a little too.  Without our elite pitching, our average offense will be a disaster.

[yourout]

1 hour ago, turborickey said:

Our "average" offense will not take us deep into the playoffs.

Spin it any way you want with any fancypants stats, but this offense without a significant boost from Yelich and Hiura is NOT going to lead us to a World series victory, much less, an appearance.

If we have 2019 Yelich and Hiura, I'm buying what you are saying, but if they remain average and below average, we are in trouble offensively.

That isn't even taking into account the fact that our pitching could drop a little too.  Without our elite pitching, our average offense will be a disaster.

Average would have been a massive upgrade last year. At least batting average wise.

[MVP2110]

21 minutes ago, yourout said:

Average would have been a massive upgrade last year. At least batting average wise.

The Brewers finished 12th in Runs scored in MLB last year 

[BruisedCrew]

On 4/3/2022 at 5:39 PM, markedman5 said:

Ashby struggling big time with his command.

hope these guys can flip the switch on Thursday……

Peralta struggling tonight too. 
 

And Gott has now given up home runs to the last two hitters he’s faced. 
 

The Brewers have had to make liberal use of the spring training rule that allows pitchers to be removed in one inning and then return the next just so the pitchers can get their pitches in. 
 

Neither the pitchers nor the hitters, with a few exceptions, are looking like they’re primed to start the season. Hopefully that will change when the games start to count. 

[stalton]

12 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

 

 

Neither the pitchers nor the hitters, with a few exceptions, are looking like they’re primed to start the season. Hopefully that will change when the games start to count. 

This is the key to everything, IMO.  Sure some players practiced, trained, etc but because of the shortened ST, most everybody is going to look a bit rough out of the gate.