The Brewers will place righty Zach Davies on the 10-day injured list, per Robert Murray of The Athletic (Twitter links). His precise injury situation isn’t yet clear, but it seems he’s dealing with some sort of back ailment.
Also heading off of the active roster is right-hander Aaron Wilkerson, who was optioned to Triple-A. Joining the big-league club are recently acquired Jake Faria and fellow righty Devin Williams, with MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy (via Twitter) reporting the latter’s promotion. Williams will need to be added to the 40-man roster.
Losing Davies is tough news for a Milwaukee club that’s as far out of first place as it has been all year (four games) after a four-game skid. While Davies has had a few rough outings of late, he has paced the team in starts made (23) and innings (122 2/3) while working to a solid 3.74 ERA with 5.7 K/9 and 3.0 BB/9.
ERA estimators have been predicting regression for Davies for some kind. But the Brewers had every reason to keep running him out there and hoping he could continue to generate results, at least until his velo began to droop of late.
It still isn’t known how the club will account for the open rotation spot. Faria has spent time in a starting capacity this year but has been working of late as a reliever. Williams has functioned exclusively in the pen this season. It’s possible recently acquired southpaw Drew Pomeranz could work as a starter (or, at least, in some kind of multi-inning capacity).
Stearns is too hung up on getting “good deals.” Sure having Grandal and Moose for 28 million is nice, but without any starting pitching it’s meaningless. And those two can’t receive QO’s anymore so with the one trade deadline they will walk and Brewers will miss the playoffs and get nothing for them. Forecasting injuries to pitchers is impossible, but everybody in baseball could see that they didn’t have enough pitching and no one is shocked by what is happening now.
Yeah, there was just no way to not expect regression out of those pitchers this year. Sucks seeing Wade Miley doing well for the Astros still. He didn’t even cost that much.
There is though. They are kids, and still have a bright future ahead imo. Brewers are not giving up on any of these young pitchers yet. that would be stupid. Should have gone out there and traded guys like Gray, Roark, resigned Miley maybe. That would have taken the pressure off these young kids.
Instead, Stearns said, “here you go, you are our number 2/3 starters! have at it!”
It was within their capacity to sign Gray and Miley. The Brewers would have been awesome with them. No vision or creativity by management
White flag officially rasied at this point. Just not gonna happen. Retool for next season I guess. I know they are technically only a few out but 2 pitiful series in Oakland and Chicago mixed with injuries all over the place makes it pretty tough. They legit look like they dont care anymore–bullpen is shot and exhausted–hitters swinging early and not caring to get into deep counts. Not having the waiver wire is stupid because teams cant go outside the organization when injuries happen. That rule needs to be reversed ASAP.
Guess another year of the Dodgers in the WS…and another year of the Dodgers losing in the WS lol
Stearns better have learned his lesson this offseason by going out and getting established starters instead of forcing kids into roles they are clearly not ready for. Peralta and Burnes WERE NEVER going to be starters with 2 pitches. Both have a future in the pen. Get some pitching this offseason, fire this god awful hitting coach and get back Derek Johnson from the Reds.
It was always gonna be another year of the Dodgers in the World Series
unfortunately thats true. They are too deep.
It’s ok Houston will demolish them again
It was always gonna be the Dodgers in the World Series
The waiver wire is still available and always will be.
Get what your saying. Yes were more then likely out of it but on the the bright side I think we have found out were going to have some keepers in Huira, Grisham, and William’s. The Brewers did too much of juggling between rotation and bullpen. Keep these guys in one or the other if they dont succeed then send them down to work on stuff in minors. They need to resign Moose to a three year deal. Sign Iglesias to be ss next year. Do Not sign Grandal at all. That was a mistake the pitchers were not comfortable with him. September use Nottingham and see what you have.
agreed. Grandal is a terrible pitch caller. Moose is a stud and the Brewers should overpay for him a bit
Does anybody else think as I do that the Brewers’ window is closing, and quickly? There is uncertainty up and down the line-up, despite Yellich and the surprising rookie, Hiura, at second base. Too early to tell if the new outfielder will sustain a good start. Braun is aging, so is Cain, Thames hasn’t been consistent, and who knows about Arcia. Shaw has been brutal. Moustakas will be a free agent, I think. The starting rotation is in shambles and the bullpen is overworked. They’ve become a mediocrity, and I’m wondering where they go now, or how they fix what perhaps can’t be fixed, except in the long term.
Hiura is a “surprising rookie” in the way that any top 20 prospect coming up and doing well is surprising I guess.
Some big contracts coming off the books but also some positional holes to fill next year: catcher, 1B, 3B. So maybe not as much money to help the rotation as we might hope for.
Some other holes to fill would be SP, SP, SP, and oh yeah SP.
I think the only fair thing to do is to not permit anyone from the NL Central into the playoffs, as none of the top three teams want or deserve the division crown. Give Atlanta and LA byes to the NLCS.
I’m calling my shot…Brewers go on a run here. Come the start of September, they’ll be in first place.
That’s a lot of faith in a team who’s only a game over .500
Brewers are done, its over. They have become a lousy ball club. Stearns knew there was a significant starting pitching problem last Winter. He never addressed it. It’s hard to understand why so many important players underachieved this year. This is a last place team without Yellich. Brewers would be foolish not to keep real competitors like Moose and Grandal around. Cain, Shaw and Aguilar really hurt the Brewerscthis year.
Brewers are done, its over. They have become a lousy ball club. Stearns knew there was a significant starting pitching problem last Winter. He never addressed it. It’s hard to understand why so many important players underachieved this year. This is a last place team without Yellich.