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Today’s fangraphs article on Kimbrel’s early season dominance. Ben Clemens touches on Kimbrel’s historical numbers before dissecting his 2024 pitches, where Kimbrel is throwing his breaking ball with more sweep and less drop than prior iterations. Notably the swinging strike% for his curveball has dropped off dramatically, but Clemens points out that several have been called strikes and fooled the batters.

and he’s looked great defensively so far too.

Yeah was top notch closer stuff today striking out the side. He has been nails so far this season, glad we signed him.

Burnes struggling with location today, but man velo is up to 98mph on TV gun.

Brewers with the high school small ball and the Os morph into RedSox defensively.

Love the flip shades on Sunday afternoon by Westburg. Classic 70s/80s look and sporting the stache too.

Brewers exploited Holliday there, who should have charged the throw and gotten the play at the plate. Learning experience.

I noticed during both Fri and Sat games that the Brewers catchers would come set and flash receiving position with their glove in one location (like they were calling for a pitch up or a pitch in) prior to the pitch being thrown and then once pitcher motion began would move to second location where pitch would ultimately be delivered. So my suspicion is that Brewers players (Sanchez, Adames, etc) were either (a) peeking back at McCann to see location, or (b) getting signal from runner on base. I think it was the former that set McCann off on Adames because he saw stealing a peak back at the glove. Some of this could be mitigated if McCann actually called better pitch mix and moved in/out….to me McCann was basically setting up outside almost exclusively and would just vary up/down. And he would very early set his target for the pitchers.

Now back to 92mph but good movement and bottom of zone.

Yes, TV gun was showing 94mph

Now Wells is only tossing 91mph heaters.

During the in game, Hyde said he wanted Wells to start using both sides of the plate but I’ve yet to see an inside fastball. These guys (and Pitts last time too) are just sitting on outside pitches and crushing the hanging breaking ball.

He was decent last series but you’re right, tonight he looks like the guy with weaker stuff and a tired arm. 92mph fastball when elevated, that is batting practice.

Mel & brother Low were my favorite TV guys as well on HTS, but Mel got plenty excited on calls from time to time…”back to the wall, Ohhhhh!!!!, and Orsulak makes a spectacular catch!”

Was the H/R confirmed or perhaps Cowser was just trying to wave swing at the pitch to prevent quick transfer/release from C and give Mullins more time? I’m speculating a bit bc Cowser swing was so late and as others mentioned the ball was well off the plate.