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Game 1. Peralta has a no-hitter through 6 innings. Peralta at 82 pitches. He had 95 and 92 pitches his last two starts.

Counsell takes him out. Brings Bush in. First batter reaches on an error followed by a two-run HR. Brewers down 2-1.

Of course, if the Brewers offense weren't so pathetic, they'd have more than 1 run.

I guess Counsell is saving Peralta for next year just like the front office was preparing for next year at the trade deadline? He had at least another inning in him based on recent game pitch counts.

Just idiotic.

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Interesting listening to the Brewers home TV announcers tonight. After the Brewers fall behind, they spend a few minutes in the bottom of the inning doing a shout out to Bud Selig and how much fans should be forever grateful for him and that you should never take having a team in your city for granted.

Looks like they got some marching orders from Attanasio.

Interesting listening to the Brewers home TV announcers tonight. After the Brewers fall behind, they spend a few minutes in the bottom of the inning doing a shout out to Bud Selig and how much fans should be forever grateful for him and that you should never take having a team in your city for granted.

Looks like they got some marching orders from Attanasio.

Yep, whatever the field is named now is over 20 years old, time to start the typical businessman posturing to get a 2 billion dollar stadium from the public. Or else. He would be just as chintzy in Montreal, Nashville, or wherever he would want to move. Vegas, maybe? He’d have to have a high payroll there. How long will 1982 be the glory year for this franchise?

He was more upset than any other player when Hader got dealt. That interview him with that day was just brutally honest.

Don't know why he should be upset. He has the chance to be the man.  Also he is the one who broke his hand last season punching a wall and couldn't finish the season.   He may have cost the Brewers advancing in the playoffs.

@ammo posted:

Don't know why he should be upset. He has the chance to be the man.  Also he is the one who broke his hand last season punching a wall and couldn't finish the season.   He may have cost the Brewers advancing in the playoffs.

From listening to him and more recently, Lauer, the team seemed to think the front office gave up on the season. It was Counsell's job to get them over that. CC"s been great overall for years, but he didn't succeed in doing that.

Perhaps they traded the wrong guy (Williams), although, there was no chance Milwaukee would have paid Hader 15M this next season.

Brewers are in a weird place right now.  Good enough to be competitive, but arguably not good enough to be considered a real threat.   It’s not helping matters that ownership has built in financial constraints that don’t allow Stearns to really upgrade the roster.

Ironically, Dodgers get Freeman and STL retools with Goldschmidt and Arenado and Milwaukee is looking up at both of them.

As for Bud Selig, he’s the poster child for what’s ailing MLB today.  With no hard cap or luxury tax there’s an incentive for smaller market teams to tank or not compete as dealing their best players for prospects is really the only way they can compete against the Dodgers.  

You’re right @Tschmack. We obviously need more bats. It seemed based on 2019 we could add some power here or there and put together a contender, especially the way home grown and cheap trade pitchers had panned out. For years we were screaming for starting pitching and now that we have it, we don’t have the bats. I imagine if there were money to get a Goldschmidt caliber bat, Stearns would’ve done it. Hopefully the Crew can turn things around next month, because there aren’t any more trades coming this season.

@Brewcrew posted:

You’re right @Tschmack. We obviously need more bats. It seemed based on 2019 we could add some power here or there and put together a contender, especially the way home grown and cheap trade pitchers had panned out. For years we were screaming for starting pitching and now that we have it, we don’t have the bats. I imagine if there were money to get a Goldschmidt caliber bat, Stearns would’ve done it. Hopefully the Crew can turn things around next month, because there aren’t any more trades coming this season.

I think the whole Brewers team strategy from 2020-2022 was built around the idea that they'd have 3 good to elite starters, 2 elite relievers, and a power hitter on team-friendly contracts. Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Williams, and Hader all lived up to that. Hiura did not.

Those cheap contracts were supposed to line up with a large investment in Yelich as a future HOFer and give them an extended window to compete for titles.

They could have survived if one of the starters or relievers had cratered, but the combination of Yelich becoming a shell of himself and Hiura completely imploding was what short-circuited the strategy. Hiura had a 938 OPS as a 22 year old. Generally those kind of guys don't fall off cliffs at the age of 23 without a serious injury (at least Bellinger did have some obvious injuries). Yelich's OPS in 2019 was 1100.

If those two guys are even 80% of what they were in 2019, you may have the best duo of 3 and 4 hitters in MLB. The whole lineup looks better. Renfroe, Adames, McCutcheon, Wong, etc. weren't terrible signings, but they are paid to the be the supplemental guys, not the superstars. That was supposed to be Yelich and Hiura.

I guess the Brewers front office basically admitted that their window was up with the Hader trade and they needed to reload. I'm not sure why they made the trade in August 2022 instead of the offseason, but otherwise it makes sense if you know you can't really win a title (and they can't without some elite hitting). The players sensed this too and that's why team morale just cratered.

Hiura is finally showing some signs of life at the plate again. Yelich is what he is at this point (unless last night is the sign of a hot stretch, but I'm not holding out hope). Hiura looked like a 40 HR/90 RBI (and 200 K) guy under a cheap contract and Yelich looked like a Hall of Famer in 2019. Hiura went from a 938 to a 700 OPS guy at a young age and Yelich went from prime Barry Bonds to Jim Gantner after fouling that pitch off his knee.

Every Brewer starter had a hit today with Yelich, Adames, Refroe, Wong and Peterson getting multiple hits.   This is what we have been waiting for all season.

On Sat night they had hits in the first 5 innings but couldn't score. Then the dam broke, getting 7 runs in their final 2 at bats.

And the next 3 series they are playing teams ( Pirates, D-backs and Rockies).  Those are teams that once you get rolling you can pile it on.

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