Rolling Bob Uecker Anecdotes - 2017 Milwaukee Brewers Still Rebuilding Thread

It speaks to the beauty of baseball that this has been both an amazing season and a heartbreaking season

I don't think we're gonna make it, but damn we were so close and with just a fraction of luck (something we had none of this season) we'd all but have a wild card locked up

no kidding, they really felt like the team of destiny until this last week

hey if they can sweep the Reds at home while Colorado loses 2 of 3 to Miami, they go into the last weekend 1 out of the WC2. (and Rox finish vs Dodgers)

i was impressed by their lineup of talented young no-name starters. i knew about davies but hadn't seen any of the other starters pitch yet, and they all acquitted themselves pretty well.

Just doing the fan math here... Rockies are all but sure to win today. But if the Brewers can somehow win tonight, then win tomorrow night, too (when the Rockies have off), they'll be just 1 game back. That means to tie the season they'll need to win two out of three against the Cards this weekend, and the Rockies will have to lose two of their final three games against the Dodgers.

It's.. doable, I guess. But man that's no room for error.

Dodgers are probably gonna be sitting guys too

It's nice that they still have a chance, but the Cubs series kinda crushed my hopes. Wish the Rockies would stop winning games.

well what a shitty last 4 days of the season

hold on! win tom'w and you have a meaningful Saturday

Battling to the end, love it.

man, within one game of a playoff. sucks because we lost so many close ones down the stretch, but whatever, this was a really fun team to watch, which I was definitely not expecting looking at that roster on opening day.

signing yovani gallardo and jhoulys chacin is a little underwhelming for a team that missed the playoffs by one game

yea they basically have no contracts except Braun, I kinda thought they might go after Yu Darvish or something

I dunno, I see the logic in bargain pickups. Gives the team plenty of room to make a trade mid-season if they're in the race, or make a big offseason pickup next year when the window is hypothetically wider. Gallardo looks like a really solid bounce-back candidate (his velo is back up) and Chacin stabilizes the rotation with Nelson out. Can't complain.

i admire your positivity

gallardo turns 32 in february and has been genuinely awful the last two seasons; chacin was dominant at petco last year but horrendous on the road. i mean, they might be okay! and they're not terribly expensive. but it seems more like moves the pirates or braves would make rather than a team on the edge of contending

Teams on the edge of contending usually have more than 3 solid starters. and even then...Nelson's coming off an injury, Davies is still young, and Anderson has really just had the one good year. I like both these moves, though obviously I hope there's a few more to come. as for Gallardo...he comes super cheap and I think there is some precedent for struggling pitchers finding renewed success with their old teams - Jeffress was a total bust in Texas last year, but he did well in Milwaukee

sullivan thinks chacin could have another gear: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jhoulys-chacin-will-be-a-fun-brewers-project

Stearns' track record is good enough at this point that I give even his most suspect decisions the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't fall for pricey, shiny objects the way Melvin used to.

The implicit messaging in these moves is "we're NOT contending, everybody chill out," which is a little disappointing, but I do like that they leave open the option of making bigger moves if the window opens.

O.o

Might start the 2018 thread earlier than usual, because it's... been quite an offseason.

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they may not be done, don't jump the gun

yeah I think there's more to come. I am very cool with Stearns gobbling up anything on the market he perceives to be a bargain

I like the threads that pun off a players name FYI