Postgame Thread: 8/4 Brewers @ Nationals

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1. I miss Yeli

2. I’m tired.

3. Baseball is a sport I watch. That is all

4. this team never gives up! they just also lose closely at the end a lot which is not great

5. https://preview.redd.it/csy7rqwddpgd1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0316b3896e156360deb683b4cf1e31730e828e06

6. You know we down bad when I can’t even post the Brewers are miserable pasta because it’s spot the fuck on

7. Unless myers tweaked something this loss is 100% on management today, and it’s perfectly okay to blast them if that’s the case.

   Regardless of how bad someone does the third time around, or innings restrictions, it’s incomprehensible to pull someone at 64 pitches.

   This bullpen isn’t good or healthy enough to keep throwing out there and our starters who ARENT on a restriction can’t make it through 5 anyways. Unbearable loss.

8. 3 straight series losses 2 to non playoff teams and now we have ATL, CIN, LAD, CLE, and STL. This stretch will make and break our season because their is nothing encouraging about our play right now and we won’t get bailed out forever

9. pulling Myers while he’s absolutely dealing and putting in Milner (who has sucked this year) in a one run game is just unacceptable. End of story

   The hitting has been bad, and that is also a problem but that pitching change was just forfetting the game.

   Hitting comes and goes but an absolutely fucking dumbass management decisions is something you can prevent

10. Clown loss. Should have left Myers in

11. The young guys sans Chourio are somewhere between below average and terrible hitters. That’s the problem.

12. Can’t be understated how badly Ortiz and Turang are hurting the team right now at the plate. This team is going nowhere until they pull it back together.

13. I just hate losing games in this fashion – when a dumb managerial decision is made that costs us the game. Just leave Myers in for the 6th. So dumb not to. I don’t know what’s going on with Murph lately. He has not been pushing the right buttons these past few weeks. He, above all, needs to get back on track and just start making logical decisions again.

14. I mean this completely seriously and without hyperbole, this deadline genuinely feels worse than 2022. At the very least, the 2022 team lacked super obvious holes. They were pretty much B- tier at every single offensive position, only 1 regular (Caratini, a catcher, so it’s fine) finished with an OPS under .698 and the starting rotation was good at the deadline – Burnes/Woody dominating, Lauer 3.75 ERA, Freddy returning from injury and would go on to post a 2.43 ERA in 5 August starts, and then 4.13 ERA Ashby rounding it out. The market was empty. We wanted *something* to be added, but there were no glaringly obvious specific needs. And then when they made the Hader trade, there was a real plan there – replenish the farm and use 2 decent bullpen pickups at the time (Rogers/Bush) to patch the Hader hole for 2 months.

    This year though… I do like Montas in a vacuum. Junis/Wiemer had ever-diminishing roles, so we traded from our bullpen/outfield surplus for a decent-upside starter, that makes sense. But besides that, the inaction elsewhere is so much more damning than it ever was in 2022. This year our holes are INCREDIBLY obvious. Our top 3 in the rotation are inconsistent Freddy, terrible advanced stats Rea, and overlooked rookie Myers. They’re all alright but there’s no ace – *and* there’s no depth. Montas/Ross/Civale are all 5+ ERA dudes with no playoff experience. Not a single one of them is a good 4th starter, not a single one would be a playoff starter on any other division winner right now.
    But still, the equivalent of the Dodgers’ 8th and 22nd best prospects are too much for us to give up for a surefire top 2 starter Jack Flaherty on this rotation that was literally trotting out Dallas Keuchel a couple weeks ago???

    And then among our position player group, the outfield is obviously pretty set, but you’re seriously telling me the Hoskins/Bauers 1B platoon (and significant DH at-bats), the 2B/3B combo of the absolutely abysmal Ortiz/Turang duo (lately), and the utility man of Andruw Monasterio (who we trust EVEN LESS than current Turang) are ALL positions we didn’t pull the trigger to bolster at all? Fucking seriously? This offensive player core is a bunch of unproven 1st- and 2nd-year players. You’re seriously telling me we couldn’t have swapped a single decent prospect or two for someone like 3.1-WAR IKF?? The fucking Pirates went out and got him. And we stood pat and decided we still want 25 at-bats a week from the current state of Brice Turang.

    This is what you get when you don’t identify MASSIVE weaknesses in a young team trying to hold onto a division lead with no ace, no real SP depth, effectively no utility man, and a bizarre insistence on making total fucking nonsense game decisions. Elvis Peguero coming in with the game on the line and multiple runners on – TWICE in a week? Yanking the ONE good starter you’ve seen in the last week at fucking 64 pitches?? If he’s on a fucking pitch restriction then WHY DID WE NOT SIGN ANOTHER TOP-END STARTER???

    Just garbage management. They’re doing this to themselves and it’s horrible to watch.

15. We are FUBARed…
    Only hope is snakes,and sCrUBs…
    Otherwise it’s slip sliding AWAY ..
    BEEN A FAN NEARLY 50 YEARS and this BS is finally getting on my last nerve…
    Panic mode, possible,we are entering the toughest part of the schedule and it’s not looking promising..

16. So I’ll guess I’ll continue to use the adjective “lame” until I see reason to change my mind

17. Still better than the White Sox!

18. Someone hold me

19. We have like 5-6 rookie-ish contributors. This is an 88-90 win team, always was.

20. Chourio is the only reason i’m watching right now.

21. Another loss vs a left handed starter. It’s just mind boggling at this point.

22. This might not be the year