Brace yourselves, Wisconsin sports aficionados, as I, Trag, your go-to guru on all things Brewers, Bucks, and baseball controversies, serve up the latest sizzling insights despite the frosty temps outside. This week’s episode is a heater, dissecting the Brewers' nail-biting 1-0 victory over the Padres—where our boys showed their mettle by snatching a win, even under the looming shadow of a no-hitter. We'll discuss the team's gutsy moves, like pushing Freddie Peralta's start, which ended up being a masterstroke. Plus, I'll break down our aggressive batting approach that's stirring the pot, both with promise and strikeouts.
Roll up your sleeves for an earnest chat about our pitching woes. The early season’s shine is dimming as concerns over stamina and overused bullpen arms emerge. Enter Tobias Myers from Triple-A with a cannon for an arm—could he be our knight in shining armor? I'll unpack the Brewers' strategic plays and analyze how they might shuffle their deck to ensure our pitchers last longer than a Wisconsin winter.
To top it off, let's wade into the controversial waters surrounding one Trevor Bauer. Sure, he's got a cannon of his own, but is his talent enough to overlook his past indiscretions? As I toss opinions back and forth, we’ll contrast Bauer's case with other MLB scandals, questioning the consistency of the league's disciplinary actions. And for those who love a good sports bet, we touch on Jonte Porter's NBA ban for gambling violations—what might this mean for the future of player conduct? So, grab your headphones and a brat, and settle in for a riveting mix of sports strategy, speculation, and the occasional curveball that’s all part of the game.
Brace yourselves, Wisconsin sports aficionados, as I, Trag, your go-to guru on all things Brewers, Bucks, and baseball controversies, serve up the latest sizzling insights despite the frosty temps outside. This week’s episode is a heater, dissecting the Brewers' nail-biting 1-0 victory over the Padres—where our boys showed their mettle by snatching a win, even under the looming shadow of a no-hitter. We'll discuss the team's gutsy moves, like pushing Freddie Peralta's start, which ended up being a masterstroke. Plus, I'll break down our aggressive batting approach that's stirring the pot, both with promise and strikeouts.
Roll up your sleeves for an earnest chat about our pitching woes. The early season’s shine is dimming as concerns over stamina and overused bullpen arms emerge. Enter Tobias Myers from Triple-A with a cannon for an arm—could he be our knight in shining armor? I'll unpack the Brewers' strategic plays and analyze how they might shuffle their deck to ensure our pitchers last longer than a Wisconsin winter.
To top it off, let's wade into the controversial waters surrounding one Trevor Bauer. Sure, he's got a cannon of his own, but is his talent enough to overlook his past indiscretions? As I toss opinions back and forth, we’ll contrast Bauer's case with other MLB scandals, questioning the consistency of the league's disciplinary actions. And for those who love a good sports bet, we touch on Jonte Porter's NBA ban for gambling violations—what might this mean for the future of player conduct? So, grab your headphones and a brat, and settle in for a riveting mix of sports strategy, speculation, and the occasional curveball that’s all part of the game.
Thank you. How we doing, everybody, and welcome to Wisconsin. Sports Time to go with Trage. I'm your host, trage. It is Thursday, a fantastic Thursday here in the great state of Wisconsin. Well, you know the weather. It's up and down right now. Right, we had 70s this last weekend, now we're down in the 50s again. But you can't complain. You can't complain too much because we've seen it cold, we've seen the cold, we've seen snow in April before, so can't complain whatsoever. Right now they're talking it might warm up a little bit there next week. So we're just waiting until next week before we pop out the grills one more time there. I'm getting ready, I'm getting ready to be out there on the deck grilling, but right now it's a little chilly. I didn't spring for that little blanket that they send with the Traeger. I know you can get one with your Traeger nowadays. I didn't spring for that and so you know I don't feel like bundling up that much to go cook. So that's where we're at right now, weather-wise here in Wisconsin, but right now sport-wise, hit or miss. It's hit or miss right now.
Speaker 1:Brewers. I mean we're going to talk about Brewers today. They got a win series finale against the Padres and they got a win there, right. So I mean you lose the series but you get the last one. That's what you had to get and it was a solid win by the Brewers all the way around there. Interesting game, to say the least. We had a lot of I mean interesting stuff in the sports world yesterday that I want to get into today. So right away I want to look at the Brewers. Let's just jump into this. Brewer game 1-0. 1-0 was the final there.
Speaker 1:I didn't get to watch much. Usually, you know, I'm at work and I'm pretending to work and watching the Brewers at the same time, listening to them, whatever it is, and I'm up, I'm in this place right now, this little barn that they. I mean it's a barn but it feels like a cellar sometimes because the service ain't. It's nothing when you're inside there. So I had pop outside every once in a while, get some service, see what the score was, pop back inside. And then it got late.
Speaker 1:It got late in this one towards that eighth inning, and I was like I think I'll sit in the van, I'll pretend I'm doing paperwork and I'll sit in the van here and watch the rest of this baby. So I turned it on, got Vubo TV on my phone there so I turned on Valley Sports there, was able to catch the end and it was fantastic. Blake Perkins brings in the one run of the game there, brought in Terang late in this ballgame and the Brewers win this 1-1-0. They were being no hit for I believe what six innings of this game I didn't get to watch. I believe it was like five or six innings of this ball game. The Brewers were being no hit there and I mean ended up with three hits on the game there Did the Brewers, and it came late.
Speaker 1:I mean Terang had a hit. Adamas broke the no hitter by the Padres there, by King, and then, like I said, perkins ended up delivering the blow. And I guess in this one that's all you needed. That's all you needed was one run and it was going to get the job done. Now, would it have been okay if we wouldn't have been no hit through six? Sure, it would have been fantastic. But Brewers found a way. That's what you want to see is this young team finding a way to win ballgames, and that's what we saw in this one. The Brewers found a way, stayed in it and then won it late in this one. That was good stuff by the Brewers there. So, like I said, three hits for the Brewers, five by the Padres.
Speaker 1:In this game Brewers pitching staff pitched great. It was a bullpen day. Bryce Wilson started it. Day Bryce Wilson started it, I was a little confused by I mean I guess they were trying to give an extra day rest there for Freddie, extra two days now, because they're going to have off today here. So actually he's going to have a couple of days there because today was, or yesterday was, his fifth day. So actually he was I mean technically in rotation wise scheduled to start there. So it was interesting to see Freddie Peralta was pushed back. Now it's going to work out. I mean it worked out right and that's the big thing. If they would have lost maybe a different story. But win for the Brewers. You take it as a win right there by a move by Pat Murphy to push Freddie's start back to Friday there when they will play the Cardinals. So we saw the Brewers 1-0 game here.
Speaker 1:Like I said, it was a struggle for the Brewers throughout the lineup. I mean I already named off the guys with hits in this one 11 strikeouts for the Brewers in this game. The strikeout numbers for the Brewers this year has been a little bit alarming, but they are more aggressive at the plate. I think you take it one, you watch it in hindsight, you look at the box and you say 11 strikeouts. That isn't good. But when you watch the games, this team's aggressive right. They're up there, they're hacking, they're looking, they're swinging first pitch Something that I always hated so much.
Speaker 1:And if it was Craig Councils doing whatever it was, it just seemed like the Brewers like to watch pitches, which is fine. But when you get guys like I mean you can go back to last year. We had a guy like Rowdy Tellez. It seemed like he was walking up in an 0-2 hole, right. And there's a point where I mean you're facing big league pitching, right, some of the better pitchers in baseball. And when you get in those situations, sometimes that first pitch is going to be the best one you're going to see in the entire at-bat.
Speaker 1:It's like when Angel Hernandez was behind the plate. That game with Angel Hernandez behind the plate annoyed the crap out of me. I was just re-watching it today simply because it was like he's calling garbage. But then all of a sudden it's like when the Brewers need it. When they needed that call, angel Hernandez was like I'm not going to call it. You know it's a couple inches out of the zone. No call, a couple feet. Yeah, strike, strike on him all day long. It's like what the heck that was.
Speaker 1:That was kind of that irritated me rewatching that game with Angel Hernandez there but I mean Brewers in this one, like I was saying, just the aggressiveness of the Brewers at the plate. You might have an uptick in strikeouts there. You hope it doesn't balloon and become a problem. But at the same time I'm okay If they go up there aggressive. If they go down hacking and they're aggressive at the plate doing it, you take your wins with your losses.
Speaker 1:I guess you know I would rather have a guy go up there and be aggressive, swinging first pitch, trying to hit the best pitch up there, right. First pitch is generally the best pitch you will probably get in the at-bat, unless if there's a mistake pitch later on, right, they're just trying to get like a get me over fastball and if you put solid contact on that first pitch, nobody's going to complain. Nobody will complain. You go up there, you're hesitant, you're not aggressive. You watch a couple of pitches here and there and then all of a sudden, now you're in a hole, now you're in a one and two, you're O and two.
Speaker 1:You go up there in a hole every single time because you might be patient. Right, you're patient, but odds are 0-2, you're not going to get a good pitch to hit. Right, you're not going to get a good unless if it's a mistake pitch. You're not going to get a good pitch to hit. So, being aggressive up there, I like it Now, the aggressiveness of the Brewers there, 11 strikeouts. Hopefully there 11 strikeouts. Hopefully we see that number come down a little bit and sit maybe in that eight range eight to 11, but, eight to 11, I mean that's not bad.
Speaker 1:It's not bad it's when you only have three hits, though it looks a little bit worse. So Brewers, I mean throughout this one, like I said, not much to go around there hitting wise, but looking at the pitching staff for the Brewers, a bullpen day, right, Bullpen day for the Brewers, and I thought it was outstanding. Right, you had Bryce Wilson started three and two thirds, two hits, two Ks, one walk, nothing across the board for Bryce. And then you had Hudson come in there. And Hudson, I mean, if there's a guy this is my opinion on it, but there's a guy who has been an underlying factor in this bullpen early on in the year, it is Hudson. For me, it is.
Speaker 1:Hudson. Right now he's got a .96 ERA. He pitched two and a third innings in this game here and he had a walk and zeros across the board. For the rest of it. Hudson has pitched phenomenal for the Brewers early on here. Seven games, nine and a third innings, pitch eight strikeouts, his whip sitting at .75 and his ERA .96. Fantastic, brian Hudson has pitched fantastic for the Brewers out of the bullpen and I hope, I hope and I hope that it continues, because this guy is rolling as of right now for the Brewers, and.
Speaker 1:I mean thank you, dodgers for making him available, right, but thank you Dodgers for making this guy available because, as of late, he's been pitching very well for the Brewers. Elvis Paguero he continues his good pitching on the early. So he's had a couple rough outings. There has Paguero, but in this one, one inning, two hits, zeros across the board elsewhere. And then Abner Uribe this was a good sign of Abner there. One inning, one hit and a strikeout.
Speaker 1:Abner, I mean, he's had some struggles early on this year. He's had some dominant performances early on this year, right, the couple saves that he had, and then it all seemed to kind of it kind of seemed to fizz out on him. And now we're seeing Abner get a little bit better here. Last couple outings, I mean yesterday or two days ago in that game, yes, he didn't pitch his greatest game, but he got got out of trouble, right, he got himself out of trouble and I think that was what I took out of his outing. There is he got himself into trouble, which isn't a good sign, but he also found a way out of it, which is great. Which is great, if you ask me. So Abner pitches an inning in this one. He actually gets the win for the Brewers there and then Yoel Pajams closes it down there. An inning pitch for him, zeros across the board for Yoel in his save appearance there. Good stuff from the Brewers' bullpen. I mean you're talking about nine innings, five hits given up there, two walks and only three strikeouts. So the defense played good for the Brewers getting outs there and helping out that pitching staff, something that lacked on Tuesday. The defense struggled a little bit. Now you look at this game here and I mean Joey Ortiz didn't start for the Brewers came in later. Oliver Dunn did get the start. I don't know, maybe it's going to be something to watch, but maybe the Brewers lean on somebody else than Joey Ortiz to play third for now, because right now he's struggling over there. I don't know what they do with that. Joey Ortiz is swinging a pretty good bat this year, so it kind of sucks to say that we got to keep him out of the lineup.
Speaker 1:But the defense is inconsistent, right, and you can't have that inconsistent defense if you're going to be able to play the way the Brewers want to right now. Right, they have a lack of dominant starting pitchers, lack of dominant pitchers right now. I mean you're missing Devin Williams. You're missing Brandon Woodruff. You lost Corbin Burns. You traded Corbin Burns right. So you are missing that dominant pitchers that are going to take you and be able to get out themselves right, I'm not saying that Wade Miley or Joe Ross or these guys can't strike some guys out right, they're going to get some strikeouts. But those some guys out right, they're going to get some strikeouts, but those are guys that are heavily reliant on my defense is going. I'm going to get you a ground ball. Can you make a play? Right? That's the big thing when you look at this picture this pitching staff for the Brewers is. They are very prone to we're going to give up some not hard contact, right, but it might be soft contact. But we're going to get ground balls, we're going to get fly balls. We need you guys to play solid defense behind us and right away.
Speaker 1:This year the Brewers' defense played very well and, as of late we've had a couple games here and there with a couple errors back and forth, that's really killed this Brewers' team. That has killed this Brewers' team is the defense for Milwaukee. So hopefully I mean moving forward we see some of that go away and this Brewers defense starts to play well again. But hey, I mean it's early, it's early yet and we're not going to close the book on Joey Ortiz. That's not what I'm saying whatsoever. But what I'm saying is is that maybe it's going to take some time to ease them in. I don't know what it's going to take for Joey Ortiz. I mean, you're talking about a guy who has the potential to play shortstop but he can't make those plays over at third. How am I going to be able to rely on that guy to be my everyday shortstop? We went into this season and some people are saying get rid of Adamas because we got Joey Ortiz coming in the door Right now. I mean, adamas is playing very well defensively, along with Terang up the middle, but at third base Joey Ortiz has struggled a couple games here. Teams have struggled a couple games, a couple games here. So it's like how do you work that? It's gonna be interesting to see where the brewers move here with this moving forward. But with that I'm gonna. I want to stick with the brewers a little bit here more.
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Speaker 1:But that I want to stick with the Brewers. Talking about this Brewers team and you know it's early, right, you can't jump the gun on anything or say anything, but when I watch this Brewers team, the only thing that I can say right now that's still going into the season. It made me nervous and it still makes me nervous. Right off the bat we saw some very good pitching performances, whether it was DL Hall or Joe Ross or Jacob Junis in his first start, and now Junis is hurt, so we don't have Junis, but I mean seeing some of these guys. Right, it was great first outings, but now we got to that second one and we saw a little bit of struggle and we saw in both starts of some of these guys the struggle to take the game into the fifth, into the sixth and we talked about this early on this season and I talked about it here on the show is you can only play that game so long.
Speaker 1:Right Before now, the bullpen's taxed. Right Now you get to the situations where who am I going to pitch today? Right, I pitched this guy yesterday, I pitched this guy yesterday, I pitched this guy yesterday and I pitched them the day before too. And because this guy only went four, and then this guy the next day only went three, and you know, in Wade Miley's case he was injured. That's tough. That's a different scenario. There he took a line drive off the leg that took him out.
Speaker 1:But you look at some of these other starts, joe Ross, or you look at DL Hall and how many innings can he give you? I mean, you're looking at a guy like Wade Miley. How many innings can Wade Miley realistically give you? Right, and the hope is right. Five or six, but these guys are consistently going out. You can get Freddie for six or seven, right, that's what he's pitched consistently so far this year, not saying it's going to be always that right, but it's the hope.
Speaker 1:But then you go down the rotation. Can DL Hall give you the innings? Is Joe Ross able to give you the innings? Colin Ray has pitched well so far. But will Colin Ray give you the innings in that middle portion there? Because if you go through a four-day stretch there where you have DL Hall, he only gives you four because he starts to struggle, as we've seen a little bit this year, and then you have Colin Ray Say he starts to struggle right, and so you go through this rotation. You're going to have stuff like that throughout a year.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that the best rotations in baseball don't go through that. We've had years I mean we're talking about years with Burns, woodruff, freddie, and you had stretches where you had to tax the bullpen. I get that, but it's becoming a regular thing now where we're seeing the bullpen in the fifth, we're seeing the bullpen right away in the sixth. We're not getting guys there and that may become a problem. The pitching depth for the Brewwers is not there and that's what worries me, right, that's what really worries me, because if you're gonna get, let's just say I mean, like I mentioned those guys there if they're giving you four to five innings consistent and that's about it, that's about all they can fathom, otherwise guys will start to get to them. Then we have to dip into that bullpen. Now the bullpen becomes thin. Now we have this revolving door right and I mean the revolving door is going to work out if you have a guy like I know.
Speaker 1:The brewers are bringing up. I believe tobias myers is coming up from triple a to make his debut. He's gonna add some long relief there. I mean, looking at him, he has an above average fastball there with a 1.84 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 14 and two thirds inning over his first three starts at AAA. So I mean he's pitched both as a starter and in relief. So you're getting I mean basically you're getting a guy that you're going to use in a long relief role. Now, how long does that last right, and does he give you what you need?
Speaker 1:That's going to be my biggest question mark for the Brewers moving forward is is if you're not going to add in the pitching department I'm going to go through in a second some of the free agents still out there that maybe the Brewers could look at yet. But I mean, if you're not going to dip out there, you need to find somebody who can give you innings right, because you cannot have this. Maybe Joe Ross gives you one start where he goes six right, but consistently. I mean we're talking about a guy who he's not overly dominant. He is going to excuse me there, oh, had a tickle there he is going to give up runs and he is going to give up hits Like he's not an overly dominant pitcher. So in that sense, I mean then you have the backup of that of Wade Miley right now, and I mean whoever comes up here and Ashby at some point maybe comes back, or you have somebody else fill in there, like Jacob Junis.
Speaker 1:You can't have, you know, those guys who are only giving you four to five innings consistently, because then we're going to run into issues with the bullpen. With bullpen, because you're going to get into long stretches where you're playing seven games, you're playing eight games in a row, you're playing 12 games in a row and you need the bullpen to be at full strength for that stretch. And right now the way the Brewers are trending is we're using a lot of bullpen, we're using a lot of these bullpen guys and we're taxing them, and now we're constantly moving pieces. We've got to send a guy down, bring a guy up, fill in that spot. Now we've got to send a guy down again. Now we've got to bring a guy back.
Speaker 1:It really worries me the pitching depth of the Brewers. How far can we dig into the bag before we run out, before we run out of luck? And I mean the starting pitching is really where it's at. For me, it was before the season started, and now I mean it's early. Right, it's early, you can't get into this big tissy about it, but I'm going to. I'm going to anyways because I can, because I can, and what I'm saying is that right now, the only thing that's worrying me big time with the brewers is that pitching staff. How deep is it? How deep is it really? Because right now we brought up aaron ashby the last time and aaron ashby hasn't really gotten much time in triple a yet to figure himself out. Why would we do it at the big league level? So I mean that's kind of where I'm looking right now with.
Speaker 1:My worry is just in that aspect when does this team lean for depth and can they find it in-house, or do they have to look outside of house there? So I mean looking at some of the free agent pitchers still out there, some of the guys where the Brewers could add some experience. Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't, I don't know, but maybe it's experience. I mean, you have guys out there Julio Urias. Now, if you guys remember Julio Urias, he pitched with the Dodgers. He's a lefty and pretty good starter. The Brewers saw him in the playoffs Glasses. I don't remember him there, I can't remember what number he was exactly, but he had the glasses on. I think he's from Japan. Pretty darn sure Urias. I don't know if that's Japan, korea, whatever that is, but I'm pretty sure he's from overseas there. But either way, I mean from what we saw to Urias there, he was a pretty good pitcher all the way around there for the Dodgers for a couple of years there and now he's sitting out there in free agency. Yet Maybe the Brewers decide, hey, we take a shot on a guy like Urias there, give him a short-term deal, maybe we can work with this guy and figure something out with him. So that's one option.
Speaker 1:There's also a guy out there like Zach Greinke. I don't know if this would be a good move for the Brewers or not, but I love Zach Greinke. That is the weirdest dude I have ever watched play a game. That is the weirdest dude. If you haven't heard some of the stories about Zach Greinke, you gotta hear them. You gotta look him up and just listen to some of the stories that his teammates, his managers, will tell you about Zach Greinke. That is one off dude. But I mean experienced, solid pitcher. When he's right he might be able to give you a 3-4 ERA. And maybe he comes in for a smaller contract. Right now I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Zach Granke would be an interesting one for me. I just love, I love Zach Granke, I love Zach Granke. So even if he came to the Brewers and was a complete dumpster fire, I would just love that he was there. I would just love that the Brewers brought him. It'd be like when they brought back John Axford that time, like nobody really was like, yeah, john Axford's coming back, this is going to be fantastic. Nobody said that, but I mean I was like we get to see the Axeman, we get to hear the walkout song, we get to see the Axeman, and it ended barely before the Son of a Gun started, ended barely before the son of a gun started. But I mean I, I loved it. I wouldn't be opposed to zach cranky, just to see it. Just to see it. I gotta see it one more time. Right, he gave us some good years. Maybe he's got one left in the bag I don't know about that one, but maybe he's got it.
Speaker 1:Other guys out there I forgot about johnny cueto. Johnny cueto is out there on the free agent market yet now. I'm not signing Johnny Cueto, I'm just saying he's out there. So Johnny Cueto is still out there. Rich Hill forget about Rich Hill. If it was some team that wanted to play the Brewers, I would sign Rich Hill and just have him pitch against the Brewers every, whatever, however many times he played the Brewers, I would sign him through a three-day contract and just say every time the Brewers come to town, you're pitching against them. That's what I would do with Rich Hill. I mean it just seemed like he always had the Brewers number. I don't know if it's true, it just felt like it. Every time the Brewers faced Rich Hill, it was like we can't hit this guy. He throws 80 miles per hour but we can't hit him. We can't hit this guy, he's going to get us out. So I mean, rich Hill is still out there Looking down the line here.
Speaker 1:Zach Davies still on the free agent market. I don't know, if you take a shot on Zach Davies when he was with Milwaukee, it wasn't like he was bad, it really wasn't like he was bad. Was he fantastic? No. Was he Cy Young? No. Will he give you depth? Yes, he will give you depth. A lot of people don't like Zach Davies. If he's right and he's hitting his spots a pretty good pitcher. He gets outs and that's what the Brewers need is out-getters guys who can stretch games. That's Zach Davies. He goes into the zone. He's not a big walk guy, he goes into the zone. So Zach Davies is still out there. A lot of people won't like that comment there, but I mean he's out there, he's still out there. Alec Mills.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure Alec Mills no-hit the Brewers, if I'm not mistaken. I got to look that up now. I'm pretty darn sure Alec Mills no-hit the Brewers. Maybe if we bring him to Milwaukee he no-hits somebody for us. I mean, there's the logic. The logic is there. He did throw a no-hitter. Who was it against? Yeah, it was the Brewers. It was the Brewers that got no-hit by Alec Mills. See, we bring him to Milwaukee and he no hits somebody for us. I mean, that's the only logical way to do it. So, Alec Mills another notable name still out there. I do not want to see Chi Chi Gonzalez back we had Chi.
Speaker 1:Chi at one point. I want nothing to do with Chi Chi Gonzalez. Caleb Booshley you remember him. He came up last year for the Brewers. He's out there on the free agent market yet Right now. Maybe the Brewers say, hey, boosh, come back to Milwaukee, we'll sign you up. Zach Godley I forgot about Zach Godley. He had some pretty good years and I mean just fell off a cliff. He's out there right now. He is in in free agency.
Speaker 1:I mean maybe you take a shot, maybe you take a shot on them. I don't know you have. I mean there's some interesting ones out there. I'm not taking a shot on them, but I'm just saying they're interesting. You have guys like Noah Syndergaard and Madison Bumgarner still out there. Do you take a shot on guys like that? Mad Bum hasn't had a good year in a while. Neither has Syndergaard, so those would be very risky ones. I thought Syndergaard did pitch terrible. He didn't pitch great. He's not back to the Thor status that he was with the Mets, but not terrible, right. Maybe he's an outgitter for you and I mean they're still the guy.
Speaker 1:Everybody has had a discussion about this at some point. I figure somebody eventually has just got to make the move and that's Trevor Bauer. I mean, at this point, at this point in time, why not? I mean, you know, there's the out of baseball stuff and maybe he is a clubhouse nightmare, maybe he is. But at some point don't you just say, maybe we just got to bring this guy in, maybe somebody's just got to bring him in and say, hey, we know you can get us out. Just everybody else Nobody's going to talk to you around here, nobody wants. We know you can get us out. Just everybody else Nobody's going to talk to you around here, nobody wants to talk to you. But we're going to sign you, we want you to come get out. And honestly, you know, if he has the fire and he ticks some people off, or this guy comes to Milwaukee and you know everybody was all upset about his antics. But if he comes to Milwaukee and he becomes this guy who has everybody in that clubhouse's back, right, and he's just a pain in the uh a to everybody else, to every other team, and he's, he's giving other teams the business, but he, he has the back of everybody in that clubhouse.
Speaker 1:I don't care, I don't care, bring him in. Bring him in Because that's Reese Hoskins. Right, hoskins is a great clubhouse guy, but he is a menace to other teams, right? He is not afraid to tell you how it is. And look at Jeff McNeil, right, that's not just a Jeff McNeil thing. I mean Jeff McNeil and Hoskins, they probably have a little bit of beef from his time with the Phillies and McNeil being up there with the Mets. I'm not saying that they probably don't have a little bit of beef in that time, but what I'm saying is that, man, if Trevor Bauer is going to come in and he's going to have that kind of fight for me while still having a good time hanging out with his teammates, everything like that everything's just fluid in the clubhouse, but on the field he's a menace to other teams.
Speaker 1:I don't care, bring him in, sign him up, right, because you know what you can hold all of this stuff against. I watched a video the other day. You can hold all these scandals against Trevor Bauer. You can hold them all. I don't care, you do you? I'm not going to tell you how to feel about a situation or anything like that, but there's literal texts and conversations between him and his the women who are accusing him. Right, there is literal text between the two parties that state that basically trevor bauer is innocent in this whole thing. He is scotch free and yet we're gonna blacklist them because we want to. That's just, it's blasphemy, it is just ridiculous. You know, and I get, maybe some teams don't want to be the first one to sign him because they think it's going to make this big uproar. I get it. But at the end of the day we're just basically screwing away a guy because he got I mean wrongfully, from everything that I've seen and everything that has happened in court so far wrongfully accused and found innocent of everything that happened, and yet we're gonna blacklist him from the league. We're gonna just say he's not quality enough. We have a gambling scandal between Shohei Otani and a friggin interpreter.
Speaker 1:Right now you're telling me that we're not gonna blacklist that guy. We're not gonna blacklist Otani when he had and I quote, he didn't have any clue that anything was going on in his financials and he had $16 million stolen from him, $16 million. And we're going to sit here and just believe this guy didn't have a freaking clue. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me right now? That is that's the definition of brushing that baby underneath the rug and walking away. That is the definition of it To this day. Unless if they give me some hardcore evidence which nobody has seen except for word of mouth. Unless if they give me some hardcore evidence, I am not going to believe that Otani had no part of that. No part, I will not believe it.
Speaker 1:You can think different. I'm not going to tell you how you should think, but what I'm saying is you look at all the facts of this entire story. There is something missing. There is something missing in this entire thing and to me it's rough. But how do you blacklist one guy from the MLB when another guy very well could have got away with a betting scandal? And we have guys like Pete Rose, who is blacklisted from the MLB, can't be in the Hall of Fame, one of the best hitters of all time, right, and he can't be in the Hall of Fame. Why? Same thing, same thing. Yet we're going to hold him accountable. We're going to hold Trevor Bauer accountable. We can ruin guys' lives just because we don't care, just because it's like whatever. We're going to get over it.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm not going to say that Trevor Bauer is a perfect person Not going to say it. But what I'm going to say is that this guy, through all the antics, is still a very good pitcher. What's it going to take to give him a shot? That's what I want to know. What's it going to take to give this guy a shot Now? Is a team going to? Probably not, probably not. I mean this, what we've seen so far, what we've heard, it would have already happened. Nobody most likely would give him a shot. Which to each their own. I'm not going to sit here and say that that's a good move by teams, a bad move by teams. What I'm saying is that this guy, definitely to me, I wouldn't be opposed to give him a shot. I wouldn't, I really wouldn't, and that's just my opinion on it there with him.
Speaker 1:So I mean just going through, like I said, I just want to go through some of the starting pitching options that are still available out there in free agency, and I mean there's probably more. There's probably guys that I didn't even name that are out there right now, but there is a lot of options left that the Brewers could just jump in on and say, hey, we want this guy. I mean you have look at the bullpen guys. You have David Robinson still out there. Mark Melanson is out there right now. We don't want Trevor Rosenthal back there, I don't want to deal with that again but you have guys like Brad Hand still available out there in the moves. Jimmy Nelson, the man, the myth, the legend, jimmy Nelson is still out there in free agency. So I mean there's a ton, there's a ton of guys out there right now in free agency and it's going to be, I mean, something to watch to see if the Brewers make a move there to add to some of that depth that they have currently out there and in that pitching rotation.
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Speaker 1:But with that I just wanted to cover a little bit of the crazy stats I saw from the day. So I mean, well, not crazy with the first one, but we did figure out the bucks tip time. We'll talk more about that bucks pacers game one coming up tomorrow here in the weekend preview of the show. But on sunday the bucks will face the indiana pacers. That'll be a seven o'clock tip there on tnt. So get. If you're not going to the Pfizer to watch the game, make sure you're watching that baby on TNT there because Thanasis says he wants it loud. So make that baby loud. That's all I know. That's the man, that is the guy, as in Charles Barkley's words, has the most job security in the world. So get yourself to Pfizer and check out that one. But I saw.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm gonna go through my stats now, my stats that I saw today, and my one stat that kind of came across to me on Twitter was it was tweeted out there was, uh, by Brooksgate how many pitches outside the zone have been called strikes on each team this year? And also the player with the most in the team, the brewers, are actually near the bottom of this list. They've only had 42 pitches called outside of the zone for strikes on the air. And sal frelick, that poor guy, he's actually got the most for him seven on the year so far.
Speaker 1:You want to look at a team who's being getting screwed by pitches outside the zone the new york yankees 70 pitches outside the zone. The New York Yankees 70 pitches outside the zone there. The Tampa Bay Rays 67 outside the zone. Some of the other notables I mean you got the Dodgers with 66. Looking down the line there you have the Pittsburgh Pirates 47. The Cubs with 46.
Speaker 1:The Mets the interesting one on this entire list is the Mets Only 27 times. I mean you look at the difference between the Mets and that top team there in the Yankees just a crazy difference between 70 and 27 there. And you look at the guy leading the Mets, brandon Nimmo. He's at seven called outside the zone. So that means the other 20 pitches are coming against the entire roster that's left for the Mets. I think that's pretty interesting right there. So I mean going through that list there, it's real interesting. The guys who have had the most called outside the zone actually Mookie Betts leads the league with 14 pitches called outside the zone for strikes Wyattford he plays for the Texas Rangers there he has had 13 outside the zone. So I just think that's interesting to see where the difference are there. Actually, if you look at, the least amount called on a player from a team is actually coming from Zach Gelof. He's only had six called outside the zone for him there.
Speaker 1:For the A's the A's are up in the middle of this list. How are umpires screwing the A's? The A's are up in the middle of this list. How are umpires screwing the A's? They're already screwing themselves, the owner's screwing them already and now we got umpires doing it too. Come on, now. Come on. I mean I wanna see. I wish they did a list of how many games Angel Hernandez has called in that. Stretch there because that would explain a lot of things happening there Also stretch there, because that would explain a lot of things happening there.
Speaker 1:Also, I saw coming out of the nba today jonte porter has been banned from the nba for violating team gambling rules. Now, excuse me there, what makes this interesting to me, and it's my? This is gonna be it for the day here. I just wanted to say what you know, what makes this thing the the most interesting to me, and it's my this is gonna be it for the day here. I just wanted to say what you know. What makes this thing the the most interesting to me is this was going to basically decide. Say, I mean, let's just go down the line here. I mean say, tomorrow, right, we're all doing our thing. Tomorrow, right, we're all doing our thing, we're working.
Speaker 1:And all of a sudden, espn pops up LeBron James has been accused of gambling. He's been accused of gambling. Now, I'm not saying this is true. Don't come with me and tell me that. You think that I'm just feeding a blast from me right now, but just say it. I mean, steph Curry has been accused of gambling. Okay, the NBA has to ban him.
Speaker 1:Right, because this is one of the. I mean this is the first of this nature that the NBA had to deal with and this was going to set the tone. Because now, every time after this something happens, you got to take action. Now it's just Jonte Porter. So, like Shohei Otani and MLB, there's a good chance that everything's going to come out squeaky clean, right, but say it doesn't, say it doesn't. You have to ban whoever it is for life simply because you made this decision with Jonte porter.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I'm not saying they were wrong. This is why I don't make the big rig decisions right. This is why we're all sitting at home right now and I'm talking to you guys through my laptop here is because I mean, I, I'm not the I'm not boss man at the nba right, that's adam, adam Silver. But what I'm saying is now, down the road, adam Silver's going to have to make these same decisions and he's going to have to look back on this one and say, well, jonte Porter got banned for life, so this guy was proven guilty, I have to ban him for life. Now I mean, that's just to me. You had to, you had to lay down the law in this situation. I just was waiting for it to go a different way. I was waiting for it to be like a year of suspension, maybe two Lifetime ban. Lifetime ban is something different, because now that's got to be the same penalty as handed down to other players down the road so with that I mean that's about all I got for today.
Speaker 1:I just want to lay a couple interesting things I saw out there in the sporting world today out on you guys. I mean we talked a lot of brewers today. Hopefully I mean the brewers day off today. Tomorrow they're the two day. Tomorrow they'll be facing off in a weekend set there with the cardinals. I mean first time seeing the cardinals this year going to st louis should be a fantastic series there. Can't wait for it. But I mean with that that's about all we got for today. We got the weekend preview coming up tomorrow. Lots of good stuff in that thing. So with that this has been wisconsin sports on the go with trades. Thank you guys for listening. I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your Thursday no-transcript.