courtesy of Adam McCalvy<\/a>, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to be able to keep William out. No matter what the analysis is on that injury, he\u2019s going to play.\u201d<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Contreras\u2019 injury issues date back to early in the season when it was announced he had an injury that would eventually require offseason surgery in his glove hand. The news only got worse on September 20, when he was hit by a bat on his glove hand. He returned quickly to play three more games at the end of the season, though he went 0-for-12 in that span. It\u2019s hard to tell if that\u2019s a meaningful sample size to draw any conclusions. The first-round bye will undoubtedly be helpful in making sure he\u2019s ready to go for the team\u2019s first playoff game.<\/p>\n
On the whole, Contreras\u2019 season was less impressive than last year, but he was still an important contributor in the lineup. While his OPS dipped from .831 to .754, he was still an above-average performer. He provided 17 home runs for the club while recording a career-low 18.2% strikeout rate.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee\u2019s probable starters for games 1 and 2<\/p>\n
In the aforementioned McCalvy article, Murphy provided information on the team\u2019s scheduled starters. As expected, Freddy Peralta is slated to make the start for Game 1 with Quinn Priester following in Game 2.<\/p>\n
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Priester\u2019s unexpected performance this year played a key role in the team securing an MLB-best record. This was Priester\u2019s third season in the majors, but his first with a full workload. Over 157 1\/3 innings, he pitched to a 3.32 ERA with a 13-3 record.<\/p>\n
Growing up a Cubs fan, Priester addressed the possibility of facing his childhood team:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve taken the thought process that whoever emerges, that\u2019s who we\u2019re going to play and that\u2019s who we have to take care of business [against]. There\u2019s certainly cool nostalgic moments and it would be awesome to face the Cubs, but Petco [Park] is an awesome environment, too. Ultimately, whoever it is, we believe in our team and what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Wild Card round underway, the Brewers received some news on when their Division Series will take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[113558,374,9893,21297,8263,363,369,100088,50313,61432,99,52836],"class_list":["post-196022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-adam-mccalvy","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brewers","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-milwaukee","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nlds","tag-pat-murphy","tag-quinn-priester","tag-sports","tag-william-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}