I’ve been out of the Brewers loop for the last little while, what with my wedding on Saturday and all that, but I’d just like to commend Doug Melvin for getting Seattle to pay even a little bit of Bill Hall’s 2010 salary. Any little bit helps.
Well the Crew shook things up Wednesday, sending J.J. Hardy to Nashville, firing pitching coach Bill Castro, and DFA’d Bill Hall. They’ve been teetering on the end of desperation for awhile now and getting rid of the pitching coach and worst player on the team were two moves that pretty much had to be made, [...]
It’s been a tough weekend to be a Brewers fan. To keep things simple, I’ll just list off what made it so hard. 1. Losing a 7-1 lead to one of the worst teams in baseball. 2. Losing Corey Hart for a month just as he’s starting to come around. 3. Having Bill Hall return [...]
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 [...]
A pretty good post from Adam McCalvy last night regarding the recent pine-ride for hot prospect Mat Gamel and whether or hot he’ll get sent back down to the minor leagues after this upcoming series. In case you didn’t read the article: Casey McGehee has forced himself into the Brewers’ everyday lineup, in turn forcing [...]
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 [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have lost to the Milwaukee Brewers four out of four times so far this season, and going back to season the Brew Crew have beaten them up to the tune of a 9-1 record in their last ten meetings. Milwaukee’s kind of treated them recently as if they were the Pirates, [...]
Everyone knows by now that Rickie Weeks is out for the season with a torn tendon sheath in his right wrist. This is the same injury that sidelined him for awhile and subsequently irritated him until last year, and so far this season he looked to be completely healthy and fulfilling the potential he was [...]
Ryan Braun decided to own once again in the bottom of the eighth on Friday night against a FSWisconsin-doctored 100 mph Aaron Heilman fastball on a 1-0 count by serving it into the UW-Milwaukee sign in right center and give the Brew a 3-2 lead that they wouldn’t give up. The next day, the Cubs [...]
There’s only so long I can put off evaluating the performance of the Brewers so far under the excuse of it being an absurdly small sample size and thus totally useless to look at throughout the season. 3 weeks still isn’t nearly enough of a sample size to make me ever legitimately wonder if a [...]