Rolling Young, Controllable Talent - Your 2018 Milwaukee Brewers Let's Make it Happen Thread

Reds glad to help in the MVP race. I think Yelich is hitting like .500 against the Reds this year.

counsell starts dan jennings and pulls him after one batter (matt carpenter). september baseball!

LOOG-y starter then send in a Righty?

guess so! carpenter has been slumping for about a month now so i'm not sure it was necessary for today's game, but still pretty interesting to see counsell do something like that in this final week.

Huh, that's a scenario I never thought of before. If a starter comes out after one unretired batter and the 2nd pitcher throws 4.2 innings and comes out with 2 outs in the 5th, is the 2nd pitcher eligible for the win in relief even though he wouldn't have been eligible as a starter?

It's up to the scorer.

can't believe Counsell pulled Jennings in the middle of a perfect game

wasn't it an UltraOpener move?

anyway, looking good for the Brewers, and i hope they play the Rockies.

yea given our history of getting knocked out by the Cardinals I'd be happy to not have to face them in a do-or-die game

gotta say I've liked the way Counsell has managed these last few weeks, as though every game is a playoff game. they're 23-10 since 8/20, back when their playoff chances were something like 30-40%.

congrats brewers

destroy the cubs

apologies that the pirates are unlikely to pull off a sweep in chicago

umm... go Cards !??

Works for me, but only if simultaneously go nats

apologies that the pirates are unlikely to pull off a sweep in Chicago

don't speak so soon

Hader seems... tired?

Go Brew crew. I'm game for a Brewers vs. A's or Cleveland World Series.

Act like you want it, Jeffress.

Yelich is doing a pretty good '67 Yaz imitation.

After today:

Yaz '67 (Sept./Oct.) - .417/.504/.760, 9 HR, 26 RBI
Yelich (Sept.) - .360/.500/.826, 10 HR, 33 RBI

(It was an offhanded comment--didn't realize they were that close.)

He's two RBI's from a triple crown.

Christian Yelich's last 14 plate appearances:

Three-run homer
Walk
Walk
Walk
Walk
Walk
Two-run homer
Walk
Walk
Strikeout
Walk
Two-run homer
Strikeout
Solo homer

— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) September 30, 2018

So he’s just another Mark Reynolds really

pic.twitter.com/9ZYGLSm75j

— kluch53 (@kluch53) October 1, 2018

except the brewers had the lead for most of the first half but ok

immediate regret for nit-picking a meme

brewers are a good team, congrats to the ilx brewers fans

tbh I wasn't too bullish on this season b/c a lot of players had breakout years in 2017 and I didn't know how repeatable that was. Thames, Santana, and Pina all regressed this year (I thought Shaw did too, but apparently his increased BB% made up for it), while most of last year's starting pitchers were notably worse this year, and our top guy Jimmy Nelson didn't pitch at all. All those offseason moves really worked out.

current mood:

Eric Thames. Boss. pic.twitter.com/mMsWIHKvff

— Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) October 1, 2018

Since the break, Yelich is hitting .367/.449/.770 in 64 games, and down the stretch he has been nearly impossible to get out.

Over his last 13 games, Yelich is 21-for-43 with six home runs, five doubles and two triples. That’s 13 extra-base hits in just 12 games, and he’s driven in 21 runs while scoring 17 times. He walked 14 times, including all five times last Wednesday to finish off a sweep of the Cardinals, one of eight straight victories the Brewers finished the season with.

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/10/1/17919174/christian-yelich-triple-crown-red-hot-brewers-mvp-case

Impressive.

lol

https://i.redd.it/5aalx0ievmp11.jpg

https://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/yelich-wrc-plus.png

very good time to be streaking

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lift-off-for-christian-yelich/

I don't believe there is a 2019 thread, so I'm placing this here:

Bob Uecker is going OFF pic.twitter.com/i3c9IXyIM6

— SI Extra Mustard (@SI_ExtraMustard) September 26, 2019

we migrated over here this year:

NL CENTRAL PREDICTATRON 2019

Oh, that makes sense.

I didn't know till today they had a 29-year-old rookie pitcher named Jason Alexander. I wish I were a headline writer for one of the local papers--I'd have one for appearance.

"every appearance"

Maybe we can have a rolling fake headline thread

Brewers Twitter is calling this the Summer of George

Over/under on how long till the first "Master of His Domain" headline.

Another divisional leader without a thread (nothing since 2018)...Don't know if FB links work, but I'll post this for frogs.

https://www.facebook.com/BlueJays/posts/pfbid029JSxqQKn6j6daSsHtxFuQbqXsnDcSYzvKV5oPpNfUeo8NcT1ty8WujG3gDhBMfAXl

at a certain point, team-specific threads started to seem unnecessary with the small number of regulars on ILB, and some people started just posting on the general season thread instead. but that isn’t a hard and fast rule and some of the team-specific threads are pretty popular. but that’s why you don’t see a 2023 thread for every single team.

Makes sense. I'm glad I started the Rays thread, though.