I was wondering Is Braun playing Hurt?

[brewmann04]

Braun has not looked the same since getting hit on his Elbow a way back.

[dlk9s]

He's looked fine to me.

[Invader3K]

His stats don't exactly say he's hurt these days. Not sure what you're getting at, brewmann.

[Funketown]

His defense makes him look hurt, but it's looked that way for the past two seasons.

[nullbyte]

He's definitely slowed down offensively in the last month or so. Check out his numbers...

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/...e=1&splitSet=1&statSet=2

 

"Only" an .834 OPS for May... well below career average.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

His stats don't exactly say he's hurt these days. Not sure what you're getting at, brewmann.

His average was .359 when he was hit on the elbow. I know that's a small sample, but I don't think there's a question the elbow has slowed him down a bit.

[rluzinski]

His stats don't exactly say he's hurt these days. Not sure what you're getting at, brewmann.

His average was .359 when he was hit on the elbow. I know that's a small sample, but I don't think there's a question the elbow has slowed him down a bit.

An injury might be slowing him down but that .359 was unsustainable. There are no true .359 hitters in the whole league. Mauer is probably the closest though.

[Oldcity]

Still, Braun has a .316 OBP the last 30 days. At the very least, he's in a pretty bad slump.

[TooLiveBrew]

His discipline is basically non-existent right now. It's really frustrating to see such a talented hitter go up there & flail around like Gomez.

And his defense this season... OUCH. It's downright brutal. A friend of mine said tonight about Braun, "He's really only good at hitting, isn't he?"

[JohnBriggs12]

Braun's played 23 games since getting hit in the elbow. The stats are ugly:

 

102 plate appearances

 

98 at bats

 

9 runs scored

 

25 hits

 

7 doubles

 

2 HR

 

6 RBI

 

4 BB

 

15 K

 

.255 BA; .284 OBP; .388 SP

 

Whether it's because he's hurt or not is anyone's guess, but this is easily the worst slump of his career. 6 RBI in his last 98 AB, are you kidding me?

[dlk9s]

He seems to be hitting the ball pretty hard for the most part, although I haven't seen all the games.

[Rhett16]

The more I see of him, the more I am starting to think there is a distinct possibilty he is trying to play through some sort of injury.

[DHonks]

Braun just hasn't been getting around on pitches for a while now. I've refrained from joining this thread, but I've also long agreed that he may be suffering from a nagging injury

[Ennder]

Just looks like a slump to me, he is swinging at tons of bad pitches, not hitting good pitches poorly.

[Invader3K]

While I liked Macha flipping Braun and Fielder in the lineup, it doesn't seem like it's helped. Maybe it's time to put them back in their "normal" spots.

[dlk9s]

Just looks like a slump to me, he is swinging at tons of bad pitches, not hitting good pitches poorly.

I agree. He seems to be pressing, which players often do when they are in slumps. I did notice, though, that the last couple games he has been swinging through fastballs down the middle, but I can't imagine that it is because of his elbow since he got hit around a month ago.

[cwolf2012]

I think we should DFA him.

[joepepsi]

Should have traded him for pitching when he was at his peak. I heard Zack Grienke was available. Doug Melvin can't do anything right.

[TheCrew07]

Clearly we should hold onto him and every other bat possible so we can field the worst rotation possible for the next 10 years because Melvin makes all the right moves.

[joepepsi]

Clearly we should hold onto him and every other bat possible so we can field the worst rotation possible for the next 10 years because Melvin makes all the right moves.

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I think we've summed up the last 6 weeks of discussion pretty well! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[FVBrewerFan]

I don't know if he's injured or not. What I see is a player swinging at far too many pitches outside the zone, which is very un-Braun like. Tems know he's looking for a fastball to hit, so they give him one at his shoulders or off the outise corner, and he's swinging at them. Why? I don't know, I think it's a bit of over-confidence because he knows he can still hit a fastball hard at times, even when it's off the outside corner. And he could be pressing, knowing his HR/RBI numbers are down this year.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

Provus said yesterday after one of Braun's at bat against Z that Macha asked him if he couldn't see the ball. Braun said he wasn't seeing any pitches well right now.

 

I think his injury set him back, but I think he's in a big slump right now.

[Patrick425]

This from CBS Sportsline, via MLB.com:

 

Brewers OF Ryan J. Braun entered Thursday's game against the Cubs riding a month-long slump at the plate. He came into the game hitting just .234 (25 for 107) over his last 26 games. He didn't help his cause by going 0 for 4 on Thursday. Although, he did have an RBI and walk, but he left four runners on base. Some speculate that Braun might be harboring an injury since his slide began about the time he was plunked on the left elbow May 10 by Braves SP Tommy Hanson. But Braun insisted to MLB.com on Thursday that his elbow was "not a problem at all."

(Updated 06/10/2010).

[brewmann04]

I sorry but it makes sense that Hanson ball hurt Ryan.

[rluzinski]

Braun lying makes more sense than it just being a coincidence?