So a few days after I call for management to consider releasing Bill Hall, they do me one better and send him down to AAA. This works because if Hall is really seeing the ball better, we’ll find out soon enough, and he could also be seen by other teams while he’s playing well, if [...]
Milwaukee Brewers Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), of everyone who has significant innings, 2009: Trevor Hoffman – 2.54 Todd Coffey – 2.88 Mark DiFelice – 3.58 Yovani Gallardo – 3.92 Mitch Stetter – 3.98 Carlos Villanueva – 4.65 Manny Parra – 4.69 Jeff Suppan – 5.65 Braden Looper – 5.7 Dave Bush – 5.82 Seth McClung [...]
Friends, family, and everyone else, We gather here today to mourn the loss of our friend, the 2009 season. It was a good season, a fun season — it had its ups and downs, like any fun season. We stuck with it through the thick and thin, and wanted so hard for them to succeed… [...]
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 [...]
Oops. 2007: .254/.315./.425 2008: .225/.293/.396 2009 (so far): .202/.264/.338 Big oops. That’s a move akin to the Jeffrey Hammonds pickup. Heck, they shared the same OPS in the first year of their big deals (.740). They divert from there, though. Hall is worse over the last two years than Hammonds was in the last two [...]
UPDATED BELOW!!!!!! With all the hubbub surrounding Roy Halladay I thought I’d chime in (again) on trading for him. As of right now the Crew is 2.5 games out of first place in the Central and 2.5 pitchers out of a halfway decent starting rotation. Getting Halladay would be pretty much exactly the same as [...]
Bullpen combined: 296 IP, 265 H, 254 K, 118 BB, 3.83 ERA, 1.294 WHIP, 2.15 K:BB That’s not too bad considering the sorry state the bullpen was last year. GM Doug Melvin did a good job over the offseason of signing and keeping the bullpen parts he needed and to jettison the parts he didn’t. [...]
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com/?p=5535 Jared from Right Field Bleachers takes a slightly different approach to the Halladay issue than I did, but he came up with similar results. In explaining the situation to a friend of mine tonight, I came to the same conclusion Jared did, one that I wasn’t quite ready to admit last night: “The more [...]
Some of this will be quite obvious to most serious Brewers observers, but I thought I’d jump in with both feet and take a peek at who the Brewers have under contract now, and who they’ll have in two years. The Halladay rumors have me interested to know whether it’s time to make a big [...]
Cody, you’re being modest. You’re doing a great job here, and I’m glad I can help. My name is Joe, obviously, and the JoeKnows name is one I’ve had for quite a while. It’s a play off of Bo Knows, which dates me a bit, but I was still born in the 80′s, for those [...]