…as always, fuck the Cubs.
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Top of 2nd , lead-off double for Clutch McCutch, and then 3 Ks
Burns strikes out side in 3rd after a shaky start.
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Lorenzo Cain leads the league in RBIs 
Butt-face Chubs tally 3 in the bottom 5th, highlighted by a long line drive homer.
3-1 top 7th
We have a tie.
clutch hitting for Willy Adames doubles, Lorenzo Cain scores. 3-2
and Christian Yelich sacrifice fly to left field Kolten Wong scores 3-3
Heading into the 9th, Crew down by 1. Top of the batting order due up
Jesus fucking Christ Yelich.
I would look more competent in the box with a hangover, hard on and hemorrhoids.
So many blown opportunities to plate runs today including whiffing badly with the tying run aboard in the 9th.
The guy has lost it. Off load him at the deadline if this continues
@WolfPack posted:Jesus fucking Christ Yelich.
I would look more competent in the box with a hangover, hard on and hemorrhoids.
So many blown opportunities to plate runs today including whiffing badly with the tying run aboard in the 9th.
The guy has lost it. Off load him at the deadline if this continues
For what? He's guaranteed at least 190 million over the next 8 years.
He's never been the same since he fouled that ball off his knee.
Yup..get used to him….to paraphrase Zimmy…he ain’t goin nowhere
Unless the Brewers send a boat load of cash and several semis of beer along with him.
With the new DH maybe they should bring him in to pitch just so he doesn't have to hit
They could put him at 3B coach though he'd need GPS to find it
I haven't seen that pathetic of effort in the box since my last date
Unfortunately Yelich is becoming a prime example of why it's so dangerous for teams like the Brewers to sign players to massive contracts. The Dodgers, Yankees, etc, don't care if he bombs, they'll just dump more money on a replacement. The Brewers though are stuck with playing him to try and justify the money he's making.
I love the guy and am rooting hard for him, but I agree with MP - ever since he broke the ol' kneecap with the foul ball he hasn't been the same. I would think mentally it would be impossible not to think about it every time you come to bat.
The contract Yelich signed looked like a great deal at the time. But after 7 years of post-suspension Ryan Braun being a decent player, but being paid like a superstar, they are right back to that point with Yelich.
We'll now have about 7 years of Yelich being a player that isn't terrible, but is nowhere near a superstar. He hits with less power than Braun did at the down years of his career, but will never be the liability Braun was on defense. Ironically, if the NL would have had the DH for the last 7 years of Braun's career, he'd have had a lot more value.
Tickets at Wrigley today $ 10.00
The legend of Rowdy Tellez continues
4-3 Crew bottom 6th
Good bounce back after another poor start. Have to believe weather a big factor in the starters struggles.
2/3 from the Orioles. Home opener tomorrow against Dirty Birds.
4-0 over Cards going to 6th. Fucking ump is awful. Let the computer call balls and strikes.
Dare I say Woodruff looked pretty good tonight
No, but whoever was, sucked.
Finally getting some clutch hitting. 4-10 with RISP and 3 2 out RBI.
At least we got a split with the hated Cards. Hader with 100 career saves.
Let’s keep putting Christian Yelich in the three spot. Because, that’s working SO well!!
He slugged .378 there last year. Compared to this year, he looked like Babe Ruth. He’s now hitting .182 and slugging .273.
He’s 2 for his last 19.
Craig Counsell’s obstinate refusal to see Christian Yelich for the player he is now, and not who he was, is maddening. He is a black hole in the position your best batter belongs in.
He walks, but that’s all he does anymore. Dating back to last year, he has 9 home runs in his last 432 at bats. That’s a home run every 48 at bats.
Put him in the lead off spot, tell him to crouch down like Eddie Gaedel, get on, and run like hell. He sure can’t hit anymore,
And yes, Blair, I know you are watching. I know you are watching, and I know that if he blows up, you’ll illuminate my dumb ass post.
In fact, I’m praying that you get the chance to do it! At this point, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get him back on track. I’m tempting fate, karma, the possibility of incurring your wrath…anything that helps him to return to even pre-Brewers level. I’d be bleeping thrilled with that, right now.
Yeli hitting .290 with 20 home runs and 90 RBI, the average of his last two years in Florida, would make our lineup and team exponentially better.
Come on, God. Do us long-suffering Brewers fans a solid. He’s a good guy. I want to see him succeed and shut up all the naysayers.
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@lambeausouth posted:Let’s keep putting Christian Yelich in the three spot. Because, that’s working SO well!!
He slugged .378 there last year. Compared to this year, he looked like Babe Ruth. He’s now hitting .182 and slugging .273.
He’s 2 for his last 19.
Craig Counsell’s obstinate refusal to see Christian Yelich for the player he is now, and not who he was, is maddening. He is a black hole in the position your best batter belongs in.
He walks, but that’s all he does anymore. Dating back to last year, he has 9 home runs in his last 432 at bats. That’s a home run every 48 at bats.
Put him in the lead off spot, tell him to crouch down like Eddie Gaedel, get on, and run like hell. He sure can’t hit anymore,
And yes, Blair, I know you are watching. I know you are watching, and I know that if he blows up, you’ll illuminate my dumb ass post.
In fact, I’m praying that you get the chance to do it! At this point, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get him back on track. I’m tempting fate, karma, the possibility of incurring your wrath…anything that helps him to return to even pre-Brewers level. I’d be bleeping thrilled with that, right now.
Yeli hitting .290 with 20 home runs and 90 RBI, the average of his last two years in Florida, would make our lineup and team exponentially better.
Come on, God. Do us long-suffering Brewers fans a solid. He’s a good guy. I want to see him succeed and shut up all the naysayers.
I'd like to see you proven wrong, but I agree with you on this. The foul ball off the kneecap might have been part of it, but it's also possible the Brewers were stealing signs or he was juicing. His two year MVP-level stretch has "Brady Anderson 50 home runs in 1996" written all over it.
His lack of power since 2019 is the most alarming thing. The HR stats are bad enough, but he's even lost his extra-base power. If his HRs fell to 15 a year, but he was still cranking out 35-40 doubles a year, it would be one thing. But he's just a singles hitter now.
Since his injury, he's had 33 extra base hits in 632 at bats. That's 1 every 19 at-bats.
In his two MVP-level years, he had 153 extra-base hits in 1063 at-bats. That's one every 7 at-bats.
Even in his last two years in Florida, he had 118 extra-base hits in 1180 at-bats. That's one every 10 at-bats.
He still gets almost exactly as many singles as he did when he was an MVP. Last year he had 69 singles in 399 at-bats (one every 5.8 at-bats). In 2019, he had 85 singles in 489 at-bats (one every 5.8 at-bats).
This is reflected in his slugging percentages. His slugging percentages during his 10 years in the league (2022 listed is a small sample size) starting his rookie year:
396, 402, 416, 483, 439, 598, 671, 430, 373, 300.
His OPS is only saved by the fact he walks a lot more now, but it's the same trend:
766, 764, 782, 859, 807, 1000, 1100, 786, 736, 659
Yelich had two years that he looked like Barry Bonds and got paid based on that. He's basically a clone of late-career Lorenzo Cain now, but we owe him over 180 million over the next 7 years. He'll be 31 before the start of next year. If we get late-stage Robin Yount out of him the next 7 years (Yount's OPS never went below 700 after he was 24 years old), we'll be fortunate.
Like LS said, I'd love to eat crow on this.
Good article on Yelich. It's get into a lot of factors like launch angle, but the home/road splits suggest something like sign stealing was going on.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/02...nger-what-went-wrong
A good hitter with Miami (.290/.369/.432), Yelich broke out with two huge seasons after his trade to Milwaukee (.327/.415/.651), where he especially thrived at home. Yelich slugged .699 at home and .569 on the road over those seasons.
Yeah, this is MVP Yeli swing and he crushes it
CHRISTIAN YELICH GRAND SLAM🔥 pic.twitter.com/8xUv8tx7ki
— IKE Brewers Podcast (@IKE_Brewers) April 19, 2022
I love it!
Yeli, lucky swing. Let’s see you do it about 25 more times. 😉
@MichiganPacker posted:Good article on Yelich. It's get into a lot of factors like launch angle, but the home/road splits suggest something like sign stealing was going on.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/02...nger-what-went-wrong
A good hitter with Miami (.290/.369/.432), Yelich broke out with two huge seasons after his trade to Milwaukee (.327/.415/.651), where he especially thrived at home. Yelich slugged .699 at home and .569 on the road over those seasons.
That’s a pretty astonishing split. A 130 point swing isn’t “Chuck Klein at Baker Bowl” obscene, but that’s about a 23% hike. That’s similar to what Larry Walker and Todd Helton realized playing at Coors.
While it’s curious, and at least suggests the possibility of sign stealing, my take away from that is he still slugged .569 on the road.
I’d be curious how his contact rate compares to those two years.
Check this out, MP et all:
I think it’s pretty clear that if Yelich doesn’t break his knee, he’s the NL MVP for the second straight season.
A couple numbers to consider:
BAbip, ISO
Miami
2017, .336, .156
Milwaukee
2018, .373, .272
2019, .355, .342
2020, .259, .225
2021, .321, .125
Before coming to Milwaukee, he had a lifetime .356 BAbip, and a .142 ISO. His peak ISO was .185 in 2016.
In 2020, his ISO was still pretty good. He played in 58 of 60 games, which projects to about 157 had the season played outside of the pandemic,
Usng a 2.7068 multiplier, assuming his performance level remained constant, he’d have hit 19 doubles, 3 triples and 32 home runs. That’s 54-55 extra base hits, and approximately 232 total bases.
Though his .205 AVG was awful, driven by his BAbip dropping almost 100 points, he was still a productive player. He projects to have scored 106 runs, hit 32 bombs, while walking 124 times. He’d have also struck out 205 times.
2021 flipped the script. He played in 117 games, a 1.384 multiplier if he plays a full season. He ends up with 26 doubles, 3 triples and 12 home runs, with 97 walks.
In that season, his BAbip jumped up substantially, back somewhat closer to his career norm, but his ISO just absolutely tanks. And I just don’t get it.
I still think that knee injury is bothering him. I’m clearly not the athlete Christian Yelich is, but about five years ago, I had a fall out walking, and split my kneecap into two pieces much like he did. I’m 50, so I’m a good 20 years older than he is. But that knee hasn’t been right since, it hurts like a motherf’er at random times. If it’s damp, it aches. And I’m not having to bear weight running on it, or subjecting it to the kind of torque he does at the plate.
It’s as if something in him is off balance. And I can’t place my finger on what it is. Maybe a combination of factors, the back, the knee, maybe he’s pressing. Maybe the hitting coach screwed with his approach.
I want to believe that he can get it back on track. While it’s always possible he’s duped us, everything I’ve seen and read about Yeli is that he’s the kind of man you want to root for. I like him, and I really want to see his career experience the kind of resurgence you’d see in a movie. Not even because it would help the team, though that would be one hell of a boon. But I want to see soar on a personal level. I know this has to be killing him.
Matbe that bomb tonight gives him some confidence, and he starts to put it back together,
Maybe we should try trashing Hiura next?
6 strikeouts in 14 at-bats this year. 162 strikeouts in 390 ABs the previous 2 years.
He tore the cover off the ball on spring training, too. 4 HR, 12 RBI in 28 AB, an OPS over 1.400.
I know the level of competition is lesser, but these are still guys throwing at a quasi-MLB level.
It’s weird how badly Hiura just face planted after a fabulous rookie season.
Seeing him and Yelich both struggle so much…possible that the hitting coach screwed them both up?