As a Brewers fan I am dismayed, but as Rivero owner, thrilled.  It is a confusing mix of feelings.

A weird last-minute irrational hunch about Aussie reliever Warwick Saupold (a Top Ten name) prevented me from claiming Clippard last Monday on Waivers. 

And after today's outing, closing out a sweep of the 1st place Brewers, his ERA and WHIP sit tied now at 0.70.

I waived him on Sunday. Who could foresee him being demoted from 7th inning duties one moment and closing the next?

Below posted by a contributor on MinorLeagueball.com.  Alex, it gives us hope with Giolito.

Giolito has 47 2/3 IP both home and road, so the comparison is easy.  

Home 47 H, 54 Ks, 23 BB, 10 HRA

Road 45 H, 49 Ks, 22 BB, 5 HRA

McTaggart did say this in a follow-up tweet...that the plan is for Gonzalez to play multiple positions. I'd guess that he mostly plays first and third (for Moran and Gurriel) though.

Boo!  I want Marwin to qualify at 4 positions going into the season next year.  He has a long way to go at SS (10 so far).  He only needs 4 games at 3B.  1B and OF hurdles are crossed.  He's got 9 at 2B as well, but it would be a terrible thing if he qualified at 2B.

Former top prospect Colin Moran was called up too.  He is a third baseman, so it's possible Moran will play 3B and Marwin will continue to be a super-utility player.

We have him (as noted below), and bemoaned (yesterday morning) that we had no (non-injured) pitching subs to skip his start.

So, we got it.

"Our reports," said Dusty, ""were he didn't have very good command, but he did tonight."

One hit in seven IP, one walk, seven SO.

Strangely, he threw first pitch strikes to only six of 23 batters.

Brian McTaggart of MLB.com says that Bregman will play shortstop in the Astros' upcoming series against Baltimore.

Been stuck at 9 games at 2B for some time now. The ESPN threshold in-season is 10 games.

I doubt Maddon is trolling fantasy owners, but if any MLB manager would...

I could have kept him in LABR AL. But you can't reserve active players in LABR AL and I didn't want to run the risk of the Rangers running him out there in mop up duty and destroying my ratios even more. So I cut him.

I don't really regret it (the odds of any reliever coming back from such a lousy performance to close with another team after he has been DFA'd are slim) but those saves sure would have been nice.

I did pick him up in CBS NL.

Enough already with the singles. After four of them in his first three games back, has homered in the last two.

Latest member of the 10-homer club with two last night against the White Sox.

NL is having a bit of a rally against the AL. With two wins in three games yesterday, the record is now 90-95.

It was a battle (a single, a hit batter, a walk, protecting a one-run lead) but when it was all over Sam had his fifth save in five chances for the Giants.

Why am I calling him Sam? I traded Moncada for this wretch before the season and, as we see, he cost me $9 beyond the $15 that was his freeze price.

Fifteen. Didn't that seem like a good price (4x4)? For a phenom who had a K percent somewhere around 90 in his cup of coffee?

Sam stunk up the joint in the AL and now, in the NL, he's even getting saves against AL teams. Cleveland last night. The Tigers on July 5.

Shouldn't I out least get those saves after he's traded out of the league?

I appeal to the Nabobs.

Given that nearly all of his injuries are not chronic, I wouldn't even be surprised by that.

The only one of Stanton's stats that should surprise anyone is Games Played.
Now has 9 HRs in his last 40 at-bats. If he keeps up his games played pace, with the way he's going now, he's got a shot at 60.

In 3 consecutive innings on the HRs. Bill James did introduce a stat called Victory Important RBIs early in the SABR revolution.  Opposition runs plus 1 divided by team runs scored in the games that team wins.

The interesting thing, to no one but Alex and me, is that we trashed the first few rounds of the March reserve draft in 2018, to add Carpenter and Hanley and Carrasco, when our regs got hurt, but we still are pretty stocked. If Mike does a fair job in the November auction (no pressure) we should be in the hunt.

The problem is that Steve Moyer has built a pretty stiff machine. I thought we had a good chance to catch him even after we lost Freeman and Trout for long stretches, but we need to have all our ace starting pitching perform. Cueto, Carrasco after we dealt for him, Syndergaard is hurt, have all cost us beaucoup points. Jason Vargas kept us in the game, but his last two starts have equalized that.

Moyer will still be powerful next year. Kudos to him. (But more kudos to Don Drooker and Jeff Winick, who have dominated this league. And Jeff is in the top group this year, too, again.)

In a fun afternoon in Coors for the hosts, Arenado hits three homers, two singles, scores four times and drives in seven. Just like that, he's got a big lead in the RBI race.

I'm so retro. I think RBIs are important.