CentralChamps21

Brewers

We're paying all this money to a guy who can't be effective on consecutive days?

If they're not swinging at the slider you have to throw something else before the count is 3-0. How fucking hard is that to understand?

Yes, he still gets credited with the walk.

You can't nontender Gio. There's no path to a winning team without him. You have to count on him getting back to his better self.

Yes, but if somebody would bother getting an extra base hit, it takes the DP out of the picture.

They just had the All-Star break. They could have set the rotation up any way they wanted.

Give him a chance to get better by having his next start against Oakland instead of at Colorado

They had a chance to set up the rotation to avoid having Gio pitch in Colorado and didn't do it. Another failure by our drunk ass manager.

Least effective SP on the mound Top 3 relievers likely unavailable because they pitched last night Next best reliever unavailable due to back spasms Grandal and Eloy can't both be in the lineup because both are only able to DH How is this team supposed to win this game?

My Brewers protest pick is Victor Caritini

WTF? Engel can't play 2 days in a row?

Gallo sucks less vs RHP than Pollock. My big concern is that TLR would run Gallo out there vs LHP even though that would be incredibly stupid.

Today's game is why I wanted Cueto starting off the Cleveland series instead of Gio, because then we could get Cueto pitching in Colorado instead of Gio.

If Lynn hadn't been injured they likely would have pulled the trigger on Keuchel faster. There was literally nobody to eat those innings.

Pollock has a .560 OPS vs RHP and Gallo is at .710, so it 100% makes sense for the Sox. Sox may have to kick in some money to cover the buyout but there's really no reason for either team to not do this.

You're right in that Leury is well past the 5 years of service time limit for being able to be optioned. If Mendick weren't injured he could easily be DFA though.

Yeah, getting Q makes sense to be able to reduce Kopech's innings down the stretch. Doesn't make sense if there isn't a bigger move to go with it though.

Cubs should trade Madrigal for him.

It never hurts to ask . . .

Did everybody not see this coming back in 2002 when the renovation was done? A 21st century stadium was never going to fit inside the early 20th century facade. They should have found a way to build what they needed back then. Now was always going to be too late. Now, should they move forward with putting a roof on the place so they can compete for more concerts/bowl games/NCAA tourney games? Perhaps.

I get most of his jokes, but then my parents have relentlessly pounded 80s-90s music and pop culture into me for my entire life. Also, most "kids" my age don't watch many baseball games. I'm an outlier.

A lot less than he had in November 2021, which is when they should have traded him.