Just four more days of spring training!
The Brewers will play their penultimate game in Arizona this afternoon (not including an additional Spring Breakout game there tomorrow), when they host the San Diego Padres at American Family Fields in Phoenix. For Milwaukee, Robert Gasser has one last chance to impress the Brewers’ decision makers. For San Diego, Randy Vásquez will take the mound.
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Gasser is still in contention for a rotation spot early in the season, but it’s not really due to his spring performance. In 6 1/3 innings over three appearances, Gasser has allowed seven runs, all earned, on nine hits and three walks. It would be nice to see Gasser lower that 9.95 ERA today, given that he has a real chance to earn some time in the Brewers’ rotation to start the season; With Quinn Priester injured and Brandon Woodruff taking it easy, the opportunity is there. It will be a cavalcade of lefties today, as Aaron Ashby and DL Hall are also scheduled to pitch, as is Easton McGee.
Milwaukee features an interesting outfield lineup today, with Brandon Lockridge, Garrett Mitchell and Jackson Chourio left to right. Jake Bauers is at first base today, with Andrew Vaughn handling designated hitter duties and Brice Turang, Joey Ortiz and David Hamilton rounding out the infield. William Contreras is a catcher and bats third.
A note from the roster today that isn’t a huge surprise: Reese McGuire has exercised his opt-out clause and is a free agent. There was a week where it looked like McGuire had a good chance to make the Brewers the backup catcher, but when they brought in Gary Sanchez to a major league deal, any route for McGuire that didn’t involve an injury to either Sanchez or Contreras was closed. He also had a rough spring and hit just .103. All the best to McGuire.
Today’s game can be seen on Brewers.TV and is MLB.TV’s free game of the day. First pitch at 3:10 pm central time.