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Is Peralta still an untouchable prospect? 

JFC 

5 walks in 4 innings 

maybe he’s taking pitching lessons from Knebel 

Brewers have their work cut out for them. The good news is the next Eric Sogard is right around the corner.  Or not.  

The lack of starting pitching is obviously their undoing. Even the good starts only last 5-6 innings. 

I hope CC leaves Hader in to pitch the 9th.   He threw only 12 pitches in the 8th, 10 were strikes. He's on tonight. 

That was a hell of a catch by Braun

Just seen. ™

Well done Josh and CC. 

Nice bounce back. Cubs lost too.

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— megan brown (@thatgirlondeck) August 12, 2018

Another Sunday another loss?  The bullpen is keeping up their end of the bargain 

All these games they are giving away now are really going to hurt them.   

This is why Brewers fans can get awfully negative...

They're down to basically 2 1/2 reliable guys in the bullpen.  Sometimes Burnes is good (not today though) and of course Hader and Jeffries are excellent.  The rest of the guys are kind of a disaster.  Knebel, Albers, Williams, Barnes have all collapsed and Soria getting hurt just added to the crumminess.

The bullpen was the backbone of the team for 4 months but they are no longer reliable on days that Jeffries and Hader can't get in there.

Having Anderson have a couple of crummy starts lately hasn't helped them any that's for sure.

Peralta too. Last 6 starts alternating between 6 decent inning and 4 really poor ones. 

It’s probably revisionist history but it’s always about the starting pitching 

I realize the new trend of shortening the game by expanding the use of the bullpen but at some point you need your starters to give the relievers a break 

Guys like Peralta and Anderson going 4 innings won’t help that issue 

Not sure a DeGrom could be had but do people feel the same today about Peralta and Burnes?   

The Brewers missed out in 2017 by not getting a Quintana and it cost them and if this trend continues it might happen all over again in 2018.  Their margin for error right now is zilch. 

They’ve allowed 80+ runs so far in August over an 11 game span.  Yikes 

That's a pretty good tweet from al considering the first 6 drafts were just "boobs"

Just what a ****ty day, Cubs with a GD walk off grand slam. 

Just to add to the misery, the Cardinals are now just 2.5 games back of the Brewers and 8-2 in their last 10.  I had a feeling Matheny was holding them back, with him gone, that team is playing better and will be a Wild Card threat.

Getting the wild card is no guarantee given how some of the other teams around them are playing. 

This team needs to learn that winning games in April is great but winning in August and September is what good teams do.   They are off to a bad start this month and simply just not playing good baseball.  

They didn’t get a top shelf SP, and it was calculated it seems. Again, Stearns seems to be saying “We’re staying the course and this year is not the year we are going to go for it by trading assets.” T

Perhaps this is the equivalent of the Cubs tanking. The Brewers were just more competitive than they thought they’d be in the start, more competitive than the Cubs were anyway. 

The difficulty is the Brewers aren’t going to spend like the Cubs or Cardinals for that matter. When they are close (like last year and this year) they need to go for it.  Winning 85-90 games is great but you need to have something to show for it once in a while.   I don’t want us to look back 5 years from now and wonder why they didn’t do more when they had the chance. 

Tschmack posted:

 

I realize the new trend of shortening the game by expanding the use of the bullpen but at some point you need your starters to give the relievers a break 

Agree with this 100%.  When your bullpen is constantly covering 4 innings per game they are going to break down eventually.

According to baseball-reference.com, the Brewers average 5.3 innings per starting pitcher.  Only 6 teams in all of baseball are worse.

That site is fun to look around.  There have only been 31 complete games this year.