Well damn, to the ninth we go, down 3-2
Taylor, Truang and Monesterio layed eggs in this series. Taylor 0-7, Truang 1 -11 and Monesterio 2-11. Need better out of the bottom of the order. Maybe a Huria call up?
Same problem recurs. Except for the Rangers, when they face good pitching their slightly above average and below average offensive talent struggles. Everyone is less effective against good pitching, but they don't have any elite offensive players that make a difference in those situations.
Taylor has cooled so playing Canha in RF works. But Turang has to play because of his defense and Monosterio is much better than Anderson who turned into a black hole. Adames is killing them. He'll have a little flurry and you think he's coming around but until he's stops trying to pull everything out of the park he's just another .200 hitter.
@PackerRick posted:Adames is killing them. He'll have a little flurry and you think he's coming around but until he's stops trying to pull everything out of the park he's just another .200 hitter.
I don't understand how he can see the success he has when taking those outside pitches to right and center, then go back to trying to pull everything. Any pitch on the outer edge of the zone is going to be a swing and miss when he's in his pull everything mode.
He's hit a lot of HRs to right center so I agree with what you are saying. There's a reason guys hit .200. Weimer hasn't figured out how to hit a breaking ball and Adames is trying to hook outside pitches, many that are strikes, into the LF seats. That act is getting old and the Brewers might need to find a 3B, Tyler Black comes to mind, move Monosterio to SS, and not resign Adames to the monster contract he's going to want. Monosterio does not supply the power a corner infielder traditionally does, so he's not the long term answer at 3B anyway.
The last 2 games showed why Brewer fans have both hope and a feeling of doom in any playoff series. We have the stud pitchers to shut down the other teams offense, but unless said studs throw a shutout there's a good chance our offense won't generate enough runs to win.
And Burnes came close to that yesterday, still fell short.
It will be interesting if we eventually find out what the Mets wanted from the Brewers for Alonzo.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/...o-at-trade-deadline/
He's a guy that would have immediately given the Brewers a much better chance against elite pitching.
If they could have gotten him for anyone but Chourio and didn't it was probably a mistake. They gave up several high end prospects for Sabathia in 2009 and the only one that amounted to anything was Brantley (and not until 6 years into his major league career).
Remember Brett Lawrie for Marcum and how people thought Lawrie was going to be a star?
If the Brewers make the playoffs and are lucky enough to get by the Cubs, Giants, etc. in round 1, they would have to win 4 games against the Braves/Dodgers with about 8 runs scored.
I love Turang on defense, but his OPS is worse than Travis Shaw's was two years ago when they released him. He's an easy out on a team loaded with easy outs.
I know what you mean about prospects not turning out but this a lot different Brewer farm system than what we had 10-15 years ago.
Turang and Shaw is not really a fair comparison. Turang is a rookie, should win a Gold Glove, and plays a position where plenty of weak sticks have survived because of their glove. If they had decent bats around him he'd be more than adequate.
You can just about bet that the Mets wanted Churio included in any package for Alonzo. But I agree, the Brewers need a couple guys in the middle of the batting order.
@PackerRick posted:Turang and Shaw is not really a fair comparison. Turang is a rookie, should win a Gold Glove, and plays a position where plenty of weak sticks have survived because of their glove. If they had decent bats around him he'd be more than adequate.
You can just about bet that the Mets wanted Churio included in any package for Alonzo. But I agree, the Brewers need a couple guys in the middle of the batting order.
Agree about being more than adequate if he wasn't in a lineup with a handful of guys almost as weak on offense as he is.
@ammo posted:I know what you mean about prospects not turning out but this a lot different Brewer farm system than what we had 10-15 years ago.
The odds of having four pitchers as good as Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, and Devin Williams on the same Brewers teams again are close to zero.
Of course, they had those 4 with Hader last year and punted. At least they tried this year.
The moment that captured the state of the Brewers offense was in yesterday's 1-0 loss. In the top of the 8th in a 1-0 game, the Brewers best hitter and a guy they are paying almost a quarter of their payroll to started off the inning by bunting for a base hit.
When Yelich was at his peak, the Cubs would have been thrilled to see him bunt. He was the guy that seemed to be made for moments like that. The guy that would make the opposing pitcher so nervous that he would hang a breaking pitch that would be hit about 450 feet. Instead, he felt it was better to bunt for a base hit so that if 2-3 more things happened in the inning (move him over on the first out or steal a base, and then get a single), they could tie the game.