Milwaukee's Postseason Strategy: Relying on Small Ball

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I really don't know what to make of this Milwaukee team here, who I thought they had a pretty
good shot last night with the right guy on the mound with Kyle Harris going up against
Walker.
Boy, that didn't work out well at all.
He got absolutely smacked and, you know, at some point, the small ball is great.
But I'm really starting to worry whether, I mean, how many 2-0, 2-1 games is Milwaukee
going to win in the postseason?
Because the more I watch that team, the more that's how they're going to have to win, because
I don't think home runs are going to be a part of any postseason success for them.
It's really not.
And this is why I had, you know, so many issues with what they did at the deadline.
And I've said it before, I'll say it again, the bottom four-seater lineup is not good.
It just isn't.
And that's just a fact.
And they're great pitching, and they're calling up players, and you get to the back end of
the bullpen, as Craig and I always talk about on Pro Baseball, say, you get to 7-8-9 with
the Brewers, you know, against the Brewers, you'll probably lose that game.
Back end of the bullpen is great.
They can have multiple pitchers go five, six innings and only give up one or two runs.
But when your offense can't score one or two runs, and the top of the lineup's great, as
I've said before, those top four hitters, they are awesome.
But those hitters are also going to go through their natural fluctuations and ups and downs
because it's baseball.
And if you don't have a bottom half of the lineup that can, you know, compensate for
that, they will get smoked by the Dodgers.
And again, I'm going to say that the Braves are still the best team outside of Dodgers
in the NL.
I like that lineup, and they don't have the pitching that the Brewers have, but we need
to find something else.
And if the Brewers, it means calling up a prospect, injecting some type of life into
that lineup.
That's what they need to do.
They're going to have to show me a little something down the stretch, especially against
some of the better competition, because for the Padres, it's been about the long ball.
It's been about home runs, and they're on quite the stretch right now.
You got to be able to hit home runs in the postseason if you're going to make a run out
of it.
