05/20/2006 Twins (Baker) @ Brewers (Hendrickson) 6:05 pm CST

[brettac1]

Rarely will I say this about a guy with so few innings under his belt, but Ben Hendrickson sucks. And that's coming from a guy who has defended him a lot in the past.

 

He makes me yearn for David Manning.

[Jopal78]

With 40% of the rotation consisting of Eveland and Hendrickson for the foreseeable future, I can forsee another 90 loss season come September.

[bucksman4]

That 'a boy Jenks....gotta pick away at Ben's mess 1 run at a time (or 2 in Geoff's case).

[PeaveyFury]

When Melvin moved Hendrickson up to the majors, it wasn't to be in the bullpen.

 

Yes it was actually, since Hedrickson was brought up to replace Fernandez as the long-relief man and actually made his first appearance of the season out of the pen.

[xisxisxis]

Rarely will I say this about a guy with so few innings under his belt, but Ben Hendrickson sucks. And that's coming from a guy who has defended him a lot in the past.

 

I agree with you there Brett. Ben's career is over with the Brewers. They probably will option him to AAA, but I probably have a better chance starting a game for the Brewers than Ben Hendrickson. If the Brewers do keep Ben in Milwaukee then his nickname has to be changed from "Little" Ben to "batting practice" Ben.

 

Great! Picnic area finally pays off.

[KCBrewerfan34]

Pogo,

 

I really don't care, I said over a year ago this guy is terrible, all I heard give the guy a chance blah blah blah!!! what is he 1-10 career, It's a joke and its not inappropriate.

[giffted1]

Hopefully JDLR can keep us in this and we can chip away at this lead.

 

As for Ben, he has no reason to be on our 40 man roster. I wish him the best of luck in KC or Tampa Bay.

[adamb100]

YES!! Kankles comes through!

[bullox]

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He makes me yearn for David Manning.

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ZING!

 

ooh ouch.

[PeaveyFury]

With 40% of the rotation consisting of Eveland and Hendrickson for the foreseeable future, I can forsee another 90 loss season come September.

 

Eveland and Hendrickson have been 40% of the rotation for about a week now, and we were 5-1 coming into this series on the homestand.

 

Helling will be back and in the rotation soon.

[Jopal78]

Seriously, it least the six runs were given up early the Brewers still have eight innings to chip away. Baker has been equally as bad for the Twins, and some of their better bullpen guys pitched last night and thus won't be able to pitch much today if at all.

[PeaveyFury]

Also, Carlos Lee has had a pretty bad May, and is now 2 for his last 19, without a homer since May 9th. Whenever Jenkins has a bad stretch like that people are all over him, but not a peep about Lee.

[gobrew23]

Does anyone know what the worst outing in MLB history for a pitcher would be?

 

I have to imagine 6 ER with no outs has to rank up there.

[Shampoo4U]

Did that 4th guy on the right in blue, have his bo-obs out???

[Jopal78]

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Eveland and Hendrickson have been 40% of the rotation for about a week now, and we were 5-1 coming into this series on the homestand.

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How do you figure Peavey? The Brewers have lost every game Hendrickson has pitched in this year (Houston, @LA, @SD) being down four runs early doesn't make things look real good for tonight either. So the Brewers are more like 1-4 in games either Eveland or Hendrickson pitched.

[bucksman4]

I really don't care, I said over a year ago this guy is terrible, all I heard give the guy a chance blah blah blah!!! what is he 1-10 career, It's a joke and its not inappropriate.

 

This guy is the epitome of the player who excels at AAA and can't convert that over to the bigs. His stuff, frankly, is not good enough. He is not a major league pitcher. The only reason some fans think he's going to be good is because he is in our organization. People's visions of reality are sometimes clouded by one's love for a team and a player's shortcomings or 'suckiness' is brushed to the wayside because of the 'upside' that people would like to think someone has.

[Shampoo4U]

And now we start to get all the defense into the act!!!

[PeaveyFury]

How do you figure Peavey? The Brewers have lost every game Hendrickson has pitched in this year (Houston, @LA, @SD) being down four runs early doesn't make things look real good for tonight either. So the Brewers are more like 1-4 in games either Eveland or Hendrickson pitched.

 

I'm not sure I get your question. We were 5-1 on the homestand coming into this series, which is what I said.

 

The point I was making was that despite having them as 40% of the rotation, we won 5 and lost one in the course of that week. I don't think them having a 90 loss season is predictable at this point.

 

And nothing like giving the Twins 5 outs in this inning....

[xisxisxis]

Also, Carlos Lee has had a pretty bad May, and is now 2 for his last 19, without a homer since May 9th. Whenever Jenkins has a bad stretch like that people are all over him, but not a peep about Lee.

 

You seem to be doing a pretty good job getting on Carlos, Peavey. So do Bill Hall and Rickie Weeks also need to "try" on defense too?

[brettac1]

ZING!

 

I actually had to endure a Manning start in person. I believe, off the top of my head, that he went 1 1/3 and gave up seven. It's the only time I've ever booed someone at a game. Burba came in and dominated, though.

[PeaveyFury]

People's visions of reality are sometimes clouded by one's love for a team and a player's shortcomings or 'suckiness' is brushed to the wayside because of the 'upside' that people would like to think someone has.

 

I don't see how people's visions can be blurred by a guy that had pitched in 10 games total coming into this year.

 

Now, yes, his future is very bleak, but coming in, there was still justifiable optimism.

[Brewtacular]

So what exactly are the options going forward with the rotation?

is this an audition jorge?

[PeaveyFury]

You seem to be doing a pretty good job getting on Carlos, Peavey. So do Bill Hall and Rickie Weeks also need to "try" on defense too?

 

Hall's play was bad, but not because of a clear lack of effort like Carlos has displayed in this series.

 

And Rickie's defense is simply horrible, wouldn't you agree?

[Shampoo4U]

Many people have been hoping for Jorge to get a chance.

[Jim Goulart]

Ty Taubenheim reminder bump (Toronto @ Colorado, 7:00 Central) -- maybe you'd like to follow at least on Gameday tonight.

 

MLB.TV customers can watch live or the archive later on.

 

I'm pretty sure Ty will retire at least one batter http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/embarassed.gif .

 

There's a Ty thread in the Major League Forum.