Truly desperate times by Tom H. Desperate times call for desperate measures. And, make no mistake about it, these are desperate times at home for the Brewers. Manager Ken Macha loosened the pitch-count leash on his starting pitcher Saturday merely to get him into the sixth inning and lessen the burden on an overtaxed bullpen. [...]
Since school began taking over, I haven’t had the time to write about the Brewers… that doesn’t mean I haven’t been following them. Although posting will continue to be sporadic until I actually finish, I’m going to write as much as possible. As everyone knows by now Doug Melvin traded J.J. Hardy for Carlos Gomez [...]
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 [...]
New manager Ken Macha didn’t make many baseball statheads too pleased when he decided to set the spring training rotation with Jeff Suppan to lead off the spring training schedule. Hopefully this is only a spring training move — Macha noted specifically that this is only the spring training schedule and not necessarily the one [...]
The Brewers made the playoffs for the first time in 26 years mostly off of the pitching staff’s second-half excellency. It’s been well-documented how incredible CC Sabathia was, so we don’t hear that again. With the loss of Sabathia and (assumingly) Sheets to free agency, the rotation is going through a major change (and downgrade). [...]