I don’t think there’s much hope left this season. The future doesn’t sound too great right now either.

Losing by 8 at home to the lowly Nationals is obviously the low point of the season. Tom H. has a new article up touching on the problems of the currently overworked bullpen, which one starting pitcher isn’t going to solve. I’ve long since advocated not giving up too much for a starting pitcher, and that’s only reinforced now that the pitchers are consistently awful. Rambling Al agrees that it’s no longer time to be buyers, and even toys with the idea of selling.

Selling would be interesting for the Brewers right now, but I’m not sure I’d sell any of those three guys. When Cameron signs somewhere else the Brewers will probably get a compensation draft pick at the end of the year. Hoffman’s too valuable and fun for the team to get rid of, and we need Braden Looper just to get through the rest of the season. J.J. Hardy would net an interesting return, but I’d wait until the end of the season since Alcides Escobar’s bat isn’t major-league ready quite yet and needs the rest of the year for some seasoning in AAA.

Obviously everyone’s disappointed in the awful Brew Crew play, but is it really that unexpected? Coming into the season all projections were at about a .500 team, and they’re pretty much around there right now. I don’t think anybody expected the pitching staff to be this bad, but they’ll have another hot streak sometime down the road and creep up back into playoff contention, I’m sure. They just happen to be mired in a super long slump right now.

Until then, keep hopin’.

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