Marlins (Tyler) vs Brewers (Myers): 7/28/24, 1:10pm

[Jim French Stepstool]

12 hours ago, nate82 said:

Yelich doesn't steal all that much so no. 

Maybe I grazed over it too quickly. I thought it also factored in the ability to get around the bases & score runs, in addition to SB.

[edfunderburk]

15 hours ago, areacodes said:

What gives you pause about Weeks’ future as a manager?

Maybe it's that he's been fairly invisible behind Murphy (which is probably by design). He was never one of my favorite players either ... he was okay, but he was average at best among other good players & I never considered him smart or a team leader. Time will tell. He may be a great manager - but he doesn't excite me.

[wiguy94]

4 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

Maybe it's that he's been fairly invisible behind Murphy (which is probably by design). He was never one of my favorite players either ... he was okay, but he was average at best among other good players & I never considered him smart or a team leader. Time will tell. He may be a great manager - but he doesn't excite me.

Was Murphy visible behind Counsell?

[Jim French Stepstool]

4 hours ago, edfunderburk said:

Maybe it's that he's been fairly invisible behind Murphy (which is probably by design). He was never one of my favorite players either ... he was okay, but he was average at best among other good players & I never considered him smart or a team leader. Time will tell. He may be a great manager - but he doesn't excite me.

I kinda felt the same way about him as a player. He was a hard worker & showed great toughness in light of the injuries he sustained, but overall left me wanting a bit. Maybe due to the high draft status.

As managerial material, I panned his appointment at first but he's grown on me somewhat. Not many opportunities to hear what he has to say but what I have heard I've liked. And they say Murphy was adamant about him in that role so there's that. If he's a leader he'd certainly be a quiet one, in the mold of a Yount or a Cooper.

At this point, if something happened to Murphy & he was thrust into the first chair it might be a bit concerning.

[edfunderburk]

57 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

If he's a leader he'd certainly be a quiet one, in the mold of a Yount or a Cooper.

Two of my all-time favorite Brewers 

Yount is the player I idolized growing up & during my college years 

I went to college with Cooper’s nephew - LaVan - who played basketball