Brewers right-hander Jhoulys Chacin is on his way to the 10-day injured list with an oblique strain, Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel tweets. It’ll be the second IL stint of 2019 for Chacin, who previously missed time with a lower back strain.
When healthy, the 31-year-old Chacin has been a major disappointment for the reigning NL Central champion Brewers, which is one of the reasons why they’re out of a playoff spot right now. At 54-50, they’re two games behind the division-leading Cubs and one back of the NL’s second wild-card spot. Chacin helped guide the Brewers to a playoff spot a year ago, but he has pitched to a woeful 5.79 ERA/5.70 FIP with 8.12 K/9, 3.96 BB/9 and a 37.4 percent groundball rate in 88 2/3 innings this season.
Chacin’s struggles are among the reasons Milwaukee’s a prime candidate to acquire rotation help in advance of the July 31 trade deadline. General manager David Stearns downplayed the possibility Tuesday, but the Brewers are now without two starters in Chacin and their No. 1, Brandon Woodruff. Worsening the Brewers’ situation, their main healthy options – Zach Davies, Chase Anderson and Gio Gonzalez – don’t inspire a great deal of confidence.
Hello Drew Rasmussen
Ok Connor, hop off Davies’ jock for a second would you.
Davies’ FIP is 4.40 and his SO9 is 5.9. If you think regression isn’t due, you’re crazy
Brewers are the team that missed on Kimbrel and Kuechel
They will make a couple of Trades watch out.
Ah, the travails of poor Brewers fans with the team owned by a CHEAP owner! They draw well, where does all the money go?
Cheap owner? $128M payroll in the smallest MLB market, and after putting $50M into Arizona facility upgrades. And basically triple the payroll from the days when Bud Selig owned the team. It’s all about the broadcast revenue, and this is just not a major TV market. That’s the reality.
Brewers are a major disappointment to fans after last season’s success. So many players unexpectedly underachieved ruining the Brewers chances. Many of these players will not be back. Stearns either finds some quality starters or the season is over soon. Worst rotation in NL now.
Don’t really agree that “so many players unexpectedly underachieving” is the issue. LY, most overachieved, so most were expecting a regression. The main issue, IMO, is that they’ve never addressed the SP issue. They always think a middling rotation, full of #4 and 5’s, will be good enough.
Shaw, Cain, and Aguilar all were starters and all underachieved significantly. It put holes in the offense and led to many losses in the first half. The starting pitching deficiencies were big too and have hurt the whole time.
Last year was Aguilar’s first season as an everyday starter. Hard to say he underachieved this year when he’s 29 and has only had a half season of success under his belt.
He regressed badly, the data supports it. It started in August of last season
but buy but Brewer fans kept saying they had one of the best rotations in baseball coming into 2019..
What was one of your old usernames, dray?
You could say many of the same things about both the Cubs and Cardinals. The division is still wide open, not to mention the clusterfudge of the NL Wild Card race. The Brewers are far from finished.
We’ll see how well these teams can upgrade over the next week, which could have a much bigger impact on the NL playoff race than usual.
Boyd to Brewers. Dubon, Grisham, Erceg.
Stroman after is taken out of Game tonight with Smoak,Giles for Dubon,Thames,Grisham,Erceg and so on.
not enough, erceg can’t hit AAA pitching, his value is minimal. grisham is finally having a good year but needs to be more consistent. Detroit would laugh at that offer, they don’t need to deal him unless someone overpays and that’s not even close.
For a guy who has never had an era under 3? No thanks. That’s a package that gets mad bum or stroman. This didn’t hurt us in any way. Time to bring up Trey Supak and bring in stroman and will Smith and we’ll be right back in contention, especially in this crappy division
How do you expect to net Marcus Stroman and Will Smith with one of the worst farms in baseball?
Welp there goes the season
If Chacin was the season savior then you guys are in real trouble.
Lookouts below. Dive, dive!!