Brewer Paradise Lost

First I said Bill Hall will revert back to 2006 Bill Hall and put up a drastic improvement. Well, that’s gone to hell, since the great majority of his secondary stats have gotten worse and he’s become a replacement-level player (even against lefties, it seems now). I’ll be changing the title on the main page here in the next few minutes since I’m jumping off the bandwagon.

Then I said the Brewers should be patient with Manny Parra. He responded to my post by giving up 6 runs in 1 2/3 innings and getting sent down to the minor leagues before the game even finished. Parra was getting extremely unlucky and he should be back and in full force after a short trip to the minors, but in the clubhouse he said he didn’t feel comfortable throwing any of his pitches for strikes and it seemed whenever he did just that someone blooped it for a double.

I went to Saturday’s game (and had amazing seats to boot) and noticed during the second inning Parra was unable to throw his secondary pitches for strikes and looked totally lost on the mound for awhile there. It was a testament to his stuff itself that he was only able to escape with the inane amount of bloops and texas leaguers he suffered. It’s kind of metaphorical for his season so far. It was about then I decided he could use a two or three week refresher course in the minor leagues where there isn’t nearly as much pressure as the bigs.

But, moral of the story: Not only am I unfit to be the general manager of a franchise, but I’m terrible at talent evaluation as well.

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