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He doubled but I still didn’t like his approach at the plate, swing hard and see what happens approach
Can't let this one slip. Big few innings ahead!
I just can't stand the ******* Brewers. Was poking around some stats and, while they are very good, it's remarkable how "lucky" they are statistically as a team and thats probably why they are extra infuriating. They are getting some great fortune this season.
Offensively they make more soft contact than anyone, but have a top 8 BABIP. By far the most infield hits. 2nd highest groundball percentage (usually a bad indicator). So basically, they make as much bad contact on the ground as anyone, but get an inordinate amount of infield hits and very high BABIP for the type of balls they are putting in play.
On the pitching side, they have one of the lowest BABIP against in the league, actual ERA out performing FIP/xFIP more than anyone, all while having one of the highest walk rates. League high left on base %. They are a good pitching staff, but they are walking a lot of guys and benefiting by a super low BABIP, stranding a TON of baserunners and actual results outperforming predictive metrics at the highest rate around.
We can only hope they are due for some serious regression to the mean at some point here.
I just can't stand the ******* Brewers. Was poking around some stats and, while they are very good, it's remarkable how "lucky" they are statistically as a team and thats probably why they are extra infuriating. They are getting some great fortune this season.
Offensively they make more soft contact than anyone, but have a top 8 BABIP. By far the most infield hits. 2nd highest groundball percentage (usually a bad indicator). So basically, they make as much bad contact on the ground as anyone, but get an inordinate amount of infield hits and very high BABIP for the type of balls they are putting in play.
On the pitching side, they have one of the lowest BABIP against in the league, actual ERA out performing FIP/xFIP more than anyone, all while having one of the highest walk rates. League high left on base %. They are a good pitching staff, but they are walking a lot of guys and benefiting by a super low BABIP, stranding a TON of baserunners and actual results outperforming predictive metrics at the highest rate around.
We can only hope they are due for some serious regression to the mean at some point here.
Ha, just posted a rant on how their performance does not match the data at all. They seem to be riding a lot of luck.
True but they are doing little things to win games.
werent they caught cheating with some of the core players still on this roster? it wasnt that long ago and got overshadowed by the astros.
It's not 1986. Slug wins games and they don't have any.
It's wildly suspicious, starting with Andrew Vaughn...
Dansby could go 40 for his next 40 with 40 homers and that guy would find something to ***** about with him. It's obsessive.
Dansby swings at a middle-middle fastball with a 2-0 count and laces a double to the gap.
Eh, he should have choked up and moved the runner over.
Nothing to do with Swanson. I wish Kelly at least hit fly ball or slow roller to second
Well sure, they are good team and doing the little things well has been their calling card for years.
They still have been having a lot of things break their way this year.
I agree. The luck has been on Brewers’ side this year. We should be up 5 games if our players had done better job with runners on 3rd with less than 2 outs.
I disagree. S****** has done a terrible job but our team overall need to do better job with runners on 3rd with less than 2 outs
