Brewers Game Thread: June

[Turk Nowitzki]

It's fine for this year but Chase Anderson sucks.

[trwi7]

Hilarious that Bill is talking about all the tough pitching we're facing and fails to mention that not once in 7 games against the Dodgers will we face Kershaw.

[Kerb Hohl]

It's fine for this year but Chase Anderson sucks.

You weren't inferring this, but on that topic, I am still a fan of the Brewers side of the trade. I wonder if Segura's BABIP is going to drop and put him back down to the same replacement-level hitter that he normally is. That's the only thing that is keeping that trade from still being a robbery given that Diaz is starting to hit well with a .970 OPS in June.

Segura was coming back to earth but then jumped up again a bit. His production has basically been a little bit better at home in a slightly better hitting park of AZ and he has torn up Coors this year.

Chase will be a the garbage #4 starter during the rebuild and may be the #5 swing guy in 2018 or 2019 if he gets back to being that mid 4s FIP guy...but probably just AAAA fodder.

[BigDee]

Kirk bomb.

[Flap Jackson]

BOOOOOO!

Why take Guerra out? The guy is 31, the Brewers aren't contending for anything, and he was working on a 2 hitter through eight.

Let the guy go for a complete game shutout up 7-0. He's earned the career highlight.

[DH34Phan]

What a way to end June! Who would have thought at the start of the season that on July 1st our two best pitchers would be Junior Guerra and Zach Davies?

[DH34Phan]

BOOOOOO!

Why take Guerra out? The guy is 31, the Brewers aren't contending for anything, and he was working on a 2 hitter through eight.

Let the guy go for a complete game shutout up 7-0. He's earned the career highlight.

109 pitches is still a lot. No need to risk his arm for a career highlight. I bet he agrees with the decision.

I wonder if Guerra has any trade value. It would be crazy-awesome to turn a guy that we got for nothing into a prospect or two.

[Kerb Hohl]

Guerra will be the Brewers' version of Samkon Gado. Maybe he's got some value over the next few years, but likely he's a fun fan favorite story during a rebuilding year that your Joe Public fan will freak out about being traded or just not effective/not used next season.

[Flap Jackson]

BOOOOOO!

Why take Guerra out? The guy is 31, the Brewers aren't contending for anything, and he was working on a 2 hitter through eight.

Let the guy go for a complete game shutout up 7-0. He's earned the career highlight.

109 pitches is still a lot. No need to risk his arm for a career highlight. I bet he agrees with the decision.

I wonder if Guerra has any trade value. It would be crazy-awesome to turn a guy that we got for nothing into a prospect or two.

If he were 23, you pull him. If they were realistically chasing the playoffs, you pull him.

I just think sometimes you go for the fun of game. Who knows if Guerra will be in position again for a complete game shutout. When he got through the 8th I was pumped. With the road that guy has traveled, a two hit shutout would be mighty sweet (one of the highlights of the season).

I don't know, I'm just an older guy who grew up watching pitchers like Nolan Ryan, Jack Morris, David Cone, Tom Glavine ... etc. Those guys would regularly throw over 120 pitches in a game and had long careers. Nowadays we have them on pitch counts in middle school yet they still end up with arm problems. Before anyone attacks me, I realize there is a necessity, but sometimes you can go a little outside of standards for team and fan enjoyment.

[trwi7]

Does it really make that much **** difference if he pitches one more inning? Christ. If he has a no hitter or something sure but an extra inning means jack ****.

[Flap Jackson]

I'm just rooting for the guy. I think throwing a complete game two-hit shutout is an achievement. A lot of things can happen to prevent that from happening, like, you know, pitch counts or something. I certainly dreamed of pitching complete game shutouts as a kid.

[bizarro]

With our loss today, we are now 1.5 games back of a top 5 pick. Very nice. Keep on keeping em' close boys.

[BigDee]

A couple nice losses to the Cards.