Offense still absent as Brewers lose to Rockies 6-2

Kevin Millwood? Really?

Not like they played great, but is a 7 H 2 BB game really the end of the world?

In the past 7 games, the Brewers have been more selective than their season average (46% vs. 46.7%). It’s their contact that’s sucked. The in-strikezone contact rate for the past 7 days has been a paltry 83.2% vs. 88.2% regular season. To put that number in context, the worst season-long in-zone contact rate is the Padres at 85.3% followed by the Mariners at 85.7%. Their out-of-strikezone contact for the past 7 days is 65.1%, lower than the 67.9% season-long rate (o-zone contact leads to weakly hit balls which means you want it lower).

The problem is that the Brewers haven’t had plate discipline, it’s been that they’ve been missing the pitches to hit. Just last night, Weeks drove a hanging breaking ball into the ground to the 2nd baseman. That’s what’s been happening.

The Brewers have also been incredibly unlucky. In the past 7 games their LD rate has been 26.5%! This compares to a September rate of 24.1% and a season 19.5%. Their overall BABIP in those same spans? 0.230, 0.278, 0.293. This is also what’s driving their HR numbers down, because the LD are coming at the expense of FB. Fewer FB means fewer HR.

Fielder leads the team regulars with a 30.6% LD rate in September tied with … Yuniesky Betancourt, of all people. Yuni’s BABIP is undeservedly .286 over that stretch, though his LD% is somewhat offset by his 40% IFFB (40% of his flyballs haven’t made it out of the infeild). Fielder, meanwhile hasn’t had a pop-up in September at all.

As much as I like to complain, this cold streak has been at least in part due to simple bad luck.

it’s hard to have any confidence in this team right now, hopefully they can turn it around, otherwise they’ll either be 1 and done in the postseason or even worse not make it.

His chance of being back was approximately 0%. He wants to get paid, NOT by the Brewers. Nothing he hasn’t indicated before.

Aside from traveling to Cincinnati, they could use a team meeting to air shit out. Sounds like they’re all getting wound up.

The players need to learn to shut up to not help it along.

Well it’s not like he called a press conference just to announce it. I think it’s a non-issue. Prince could have had more tact but athletes aren’t politicians (insert job that actually requires being good at speaking)

start? I was really happy Rock said he didn’t think that Casey making contact for one or two games and collecting some hits and etc… provided enough evidence that he was making progress.

I’m sort of getting tired, and really can’t re-create what he said at this point.

Since you are watching the replay, though, I’m guessing you probably know what part I’m talking about. It’s just refreshing to know that, behind all of the “Casey’s starting to swing the bat again” crud we here anytime he hits the ball and it’s in fair territory and he’s reached base safely… that it doesn’t mean **it.

I don’t know that this would happen, but maybe some of the disgust evident in the play-by-play/commentary for this game will get someone’s attention.

Too much work with google earth and tired.

Who knows what kind of payroll restrictions Melvin had this season. That’s still my working theory on why Yuni even made it to Spring Training.

They only have to average over 31,023 in each of the last six home games to break that mark.

It was 10 games on August 28. This core of players has an established history of fading, at least in early September.

We should enjoy the off day, regardless, but in context things aren’t as rosy as they are on the surface.