The Brewers announced that they’ve placed first baseman/outfielder Eric Thames (right hamstring) and right-hander Junior Guerra (forearm) on the 10-day disabled list. To take their places, the club reinstated left-hander Brent Suter from the DL and recalled infielder Nate Orf from Triple-A Colorado Springs.
Fortunately for Milwaukee, Thames’ injury doesn’t appear to be serious. After he departed their loss to the Pirates early on Friday, Thames told Mason Wittner of MLB.com and other reporters that his ailment isn’t “too bad.” With the All-Star break set to run for most of next week, the short-term loss of Thames shouldn’t be particularly damaging for the Brewers. Although Thames previously missed significant time with a torn thumb ligament, he’ll wrap up his first half with a stellar .250/.344/.556 line and 13 home runs in 183 plate appearances.
It’s unclear how long Guerra will be out, but the location of his injury is ominous. He’s also fresh off the worst performance of his season, having yielded six earned runs on nine hits in four innings on Friday. That aside, it was a successful first half for Guerra, who pitched to a 3.23 ERA with 8.85 K/9 and 3.59 BB/9 in 97 2/3 innings. ERA estimators FIP (3.96), xFIP (4.32) and SIERA (4.22) suggest he was fortunate in terms of run prevention, but each metric still paints Guerra as a useful starter.
Orf seems to be demoted or promoted almost daily
Which is what Orf means in German. (sarcasm)
That’s a big hit for the Brewers.
Brewers have lost 4 of 5 to crap teams (Miami and Pitt). Looks the standard summer swoon is upon us. For some reason mid to late July into August hits and the team forgets how to play baseball and we look like the brewers of…pick a year not 1982, 2008 or 2011 and it’ll apply.
You have a good ball club and it will be a tight race rest of the way. I’m a Cubs fan and Reds have been our kryptonite. It’s baseball and just when you think you can’t lose you lose to bad teams and just when you think your out of it you sweep top teams. Enjoy the ride
Make that 5 of 6 to crap
I wondered if something was wrong with Guerra simply because he usually dominates the Pirates.
They dl’d guerra cause we need help in the bullpen cause Craig f’cked us lately by yanking starters the first sign of weakness. He plays every game like it’s the playoffs and everyone’s drained
That’s gonna be the downfall of the Brewers. He overuses Hader like I’ve never seen. Yes the guy dominates but it’s July! They don’t have to win every game, just stay close.
But you do need to try to win every game that you have a chance in. I do not follow the Brewers closely but I would imagine Hader is not being used in five and six run ball games. Every game you win now is one you might not have to win in September.
He uses him for 2 innings sometimes. I saw a few games where he uses him 3. Regardless he may be burned out by September
As a fantasy owner of Hader he does not get used much…. maybe 2 -3 times a week if ur lucky..
That explains why Guerra never tried his splitter. Without it, the Bucs were just sitting on the fastball.
STILL NOT GOING WIN CENTRAL
4 game losing streak? No longer in first place (at this very moment, they are .5 games back), should I ask the same dumb question that was asked about the Cubs awhile back? “Brewers fans, are you getting nervous?”
Still waaaay too much baseball left
Haha, I forgot about those Brewers posters asking if Cubs fans were nervous. Can’t fake it for a 162, they should know that better than anyone after blowing a 6 game lead last year.
The pitching staff is going to be very weak in the second half. Bug regression coming….