The Brewers will open the second half without their starting right fielder. Milwaukee placed Sal Frelick on the 10-day injured list, backdated to July 15, due to a left hamstring strain. Blake Perkins was recalled from Triple-A Nashville to take his spot.
Frelick suffered the injury in Milwaukee’s final game before the All-Star Break. He first showed some discomfort on a stolen base and came out of the game after making a sliding catch in the following half-inning. Isaac Collins finished the game in right field and gets the start tonight against Dodgers righty Emmet Sheehan. The switch-hitting Collins has a solid .259/.363/.389 line with five homers in 228 plate appearances. He’d mostly been playing left field, where Jake Bauers and potentially Perkins could get more playing time.
This interrupts an excellent season for the 25-year-old Frelick. He has seven home runs and is hitting .294/.354/.404 across 385 trips to the plate. Frelick has stolen 17 bases in 21 attempts and is playing his usual plus defense in right field. The Brewers haven’t provided a timetable on his return, though it’s perhaps encouraging that they waited a few days to monitor his progress before making the injured list decision.
Milwaukee concluded the first half on a seven-game win streak. They’re a season-high 16 games above .500 and have pulled within a game and a half of the Cubs in the NL Central. The Brewers hold the first Wild Card spot in the National League and are 4.5 games clear of the Giants, the top non-playoff team in the NL.
Sheehan is pitching Saturday. It’s Glasnow tonight.
Perkins is a solid replacement, glad he’s back
His offense…. When Perkins can put up a .700 OPS then he is quite the fourth outfielder but when he struggles to slug .340-.350 it can be rough, like his D but with Collins/Chourio (both average to above average D but very fast) out there I’d like them to get Bauers bat in the other OF corner, the Crew need the better bat
Even if Frelick is out a short time I think if White Sox send some money that Andrew Benintendi would be a perfect pick up for them. I think he will be the best trade pick up of this year trade deadline. But dont wait
Oh they can wait. Wait for him to be dfa and pick him up for peanuts.
Brewers are right there in the fight with the Cubs. The way they’re going, it might come down to the wire between them for NL Central.
The Brewers need to stick to the lineup and guys they have now because honestly at this point in his career Collins is better than Benintendi.
Collins has been surprisingly good, like top 10 LF good. Put up 1.7 fWAR while not playing every day to start. Agree on Tendy doing nothing for the Crew.
So where are all the “ laughin larrys” yuckin it up at me all off-season…. I know my Crew rants are “painful” but the truth is the truth and those guys in Mil have some special stew simmering/cooking up…. After all the decades of baseball these jokers in MID MAY wanted me thinking my crew was dead, they’d be sellers and the cubs would dominate the central the next decade+…. The crew are once AGAIN top ten in runs scored (8th as of now) ahead of the Mets, Phillies, Jays, Reds ect….. they’ve scored 67 more runs than the padres and have played fewer games…. But just because people say their offense isn’t “good enough” that just makes it “true” huh…. Obviously and Thank God Not, and the Truth is the truth, if u ever wanna know the state of the crew ask Craig counsell, after the season was over last year he commented on how far of a gap there was between the Crew/cubs I’m nearly every facet of the game (it was 10 games last year) and he knows his pitching is not anywhere close to where it needs to be to overtake that 10 game difference from just last year…. And the crew get better to, cubs get tucker but have no third baseman…. Brewers add loads of pitching talent to active roster, not through trades/spending money but by consistent internal development, to add Woodruff/Misiorowski to an already above average starting group, now Cortes is nearly back as well…. Traded civale, the cubs third best starter wasn’t even going to be in the Crews top ten this year so they literally let him walk when they had a very reasonable option they could’ve picked up to keep him…. DL Hall/Aaron Ashby are insane lefties to pair with Uribe/Megill in this years pen….Not sure why it’s hard to understand that the team that pitches best, runs fastest and plays the best defense is going to be a good team…. And oh they’re 8th in MLB in runs scored…. Anyway that’s my rant for now, Thank God for Murph!!!!