The Milwaukee Brewers Thread - CY Burnes, 2021 NL Central Champs

[titanrick]

Do we need a thread title change?  BR recently ran an article that named Freddy's four-seam fastball as the best pitch in baseball.  And I think when this title was crafted, the implication was Hader's heat was behind Burnes' cutter and the Air bender.  Food for thought...

[incognito_man]

4 hours ago, Herbie_Hancock said:

Sat 8 rows behind home plate yesterday. Wasn’t the result we all wanted but was awesome to be that close. Sonny was killing us and the homer Castellanos hit sounded incredible haha

nice. I was 6 rows behind home plate on Tuesday. Love being that close when you can hear the pitches humming. At least I could hear Burnes' ha

[beekay414]

This dude is throwing BP and we can't hit him. It's gross.

[beekay414]

I'm so ******* tired of MLB umpires, man.

[incognito_man]

quality win last night

let's stack a few more of those

[incognito_man]

no better options than justin topa with a 2-0 lead against the Giants? seriously?

[Herbie_Hancock]

We are good

[beekay414]

So now that Wheeler has fallen off, the main stream media has switched their gears towards pimping Walker Buehler for Cy Young. My thoughts?

IP: Buehler (176/27 to 139/23)
ERA: Buehler (2.05 to 2.27)
xERA: Burnes (1.96 to 2.93)
FIP: Burnes (1.58 to 3.10)
xFIP: Burnes (2.38 to 3.53)
SIERA: Burnes (2.64 to 3.65)
fWAR: Burnes (6.3 to 4.6)
K/9: Burnes (12.24 to 9.36)
BB/9: Burnes (1.68 to 2.25)
K/BB: Burnes (7.27 to 4.16)
BABIP: Buehler (.232 to .308)
BAA: Buehler (.185 to .202)
WHIP: Buehler (0.91 to 0.94)
LOB%: Buehler (85.0% to 76.6%)
GB%: Burnes (49.1% to 44.3%)
HR/FB: Burnes (5% to 9.9%)
Barrel%: Burnes (2.8% to 6.7%)
Exit Velo: Burnes (85.8 to 88.0)
Hard Hit%: Burnes (31.3% to 35.5%)

So, in summary, Buehler not only gives up more contact and harder contact than Burnes, he's also far more lucky than Corbin. Tell me more about bulk stats while ignoring peripherals because one guy goes longer in starts due to luck based numbers. This shouldn't even be a close Cy Young vote but Buehler's gonna win because of the LA bias in the media and depth of start lmao

[beekay414]

If Barker doesn't replace Topa (elbow discomfort) on the September 28 man roster, it's 100% collusion to keep Barker down due to how outspoken he is about MiLB player compensation.

[beekay414]

Of all the SP we've had, it's Adrian Houser that ends our 1000+ game streak without a CG shutout lol.

[incognito_man]

well you don't see that every day!

[beekay414]

5 minutes ago, incognito_man said:

well you don't see that every day!

I'm in the process of buying his rookie auto at this very moment just because of that lmao

[beekay414]

 

[Pugger]

On 9/3/2021 at 7:26 PM, beekay414 said:

So now that Wheeler has fallen off, the main stream media has switched their gears towards pimping Walker Buehler for Cy Young. My thoughts?

IP: Buehler (176/27 to 139/23)
ERA: Buehler (2.05 to 2.27)
xERA: Burnes (1.96 to 2.93)
FIP: Burnes (1.58 to 3.10)
xFIP: Burnes (2.38 to 3.53)
SIERA: Burnes (2.64 to 3.65)
fWAR: Burnes (6.3 to 4.6)
K/9: Burnes (12.24 to 9.36)
BB/9: Burnes (1.68 to 2.25)
K/BB: Burnes (7.27 to 4.16)
BABIP: Buehler (.232 to .308)
BAA: Buehler (.185 to .202)
WHIP: Buehler (0.91 to 0.94)
LOB%: Buehler (85.0% to 76.6%)
GB%: Burnes (49.1% to 44.3%)
HR/FB: Burnes (5% to 9.9%)
Barrel%: Burnes (2.8% to 6.7%)
Exit Velo: Burnes (85.8 to 88.0)
Hard Hit%: Burnes (31.3% to 35.5%)

So, in summary, Buehler not only gives up more contact and harder contact than Burnes, he's also far more lucky than Corbin. Tell me more about bulk stats while ignoring peripherals because one guy goes longer in starts due to luck based numbers. This shouldn't even be a close Cy Young vote but Buehler's gonna win because of the LA bias in the media and depth of start lmao

Today's performance didn't help Burnes' cause today.

 

I still can't believe we won on that walk off slam!

[beekay414]

Just now, Pugger said:

Today's performance didn't help Burnes' cause today.

Once again, it was soft contact that killed him. The highest exit velocity off him was 83 mph. The 3 hits that lead to the runs? 58 mph, 77 mph and 63 mph.

Also, that should've been an error on Escobar that lead to the last 2 runs Burnes gave up but our scorer would rather avoid giving our player an error than help Burnes CYA case.

Overall, he's still going to be vastly ahead of Buehler on everything listed, even with the game today. The only difference between the two is Buehler is insanely lucky with contact and Burnes isn't.