Name Yer Brewer, Episode 6

[Brock Beauchamp]

[Outlander]

Old school Brewerfan favorite Keith Ginter.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

1 minute ago, Outlander said:

Old school Brewerfan favorite Keith Ginter.

Yes!!! A standout of some very bad teams that ushered in the Weeks/Fielder/Hart years

[Frisbee Slider]

The R visible helps 🙂

[kestrel79]

Ginter always had massive forearms, this picture backs that up. The R doesn't hurt either. 

I want to say he hit 20 HRs for us one year before we traded him to the A's?

[AKCheesehead]

3 hours ago, kestrel79 said:

Ginter always had massive forearms, this picture backs that up. The R doesn't hurt either. 

I want to say he hit 20 HRs for us one year before we traded him to the A's?

Traded for none other than Nelson Cruz.

And Justin Lehr, who I cannot remember at all even though he pitched in 39 games for the Brewers across '05 & '06.

[Outlander]

Don't remember Lehr pitching much for the Brewers but he played a big part in my MVP Baseball 2005 franchise, was lights out there.

[dlk9s]

Dave Parker

[Brock Beauchamp]

The R on the jersey gave it away, I think.

[kestrel79]

On 3/12/2025 at 11:15 AM, AKCheesehead said:

Traded for none other than Nelson Cruz.

And Justin Lehr, who I cannot remember at all even though he pitched in 39 games for the Brewers across '05 & '06.

I think I remember that guy. Him and Ginter had crazy huge soul patches. Must of been the era of the soul patch.

[bigred]

5 minutes ago, kestrel79 said:

I think I remember that guy. Him and Ginter had crazy huge soul patches. Must of been the era of the soul patch.

Probably 1 of the most terrible trades in team history. If not, the most. I remember not being happy that they traded him. 

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

17 hours ago, bigred said:

Probably 1 of the most terrible trades in team history. If not, the most. I remember not being happy that they traded him. 

You were upset that the Brewers traded Ginter to the A's for Cruz and Lehr? That's kind of an odd one to get upset about IMO.

I could totally understand, though, if you were upset that they gave up on Cruz too early, and shipped him to the Rangers in the package for Cordero, Mench and Nix. Considering Cruz is a possible HOF'er, that would make more sense.

[bigred]

3 hours ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

You were upset that the Brewers traded Ginter to the A's for Cruz and Lehr? That's kind of an odd one to get upset about IMO.

I could totally understand, though, if you were upset that they gave up on Cruz too early, and shipped him to the Rangers in the package for Cordero, Mench and Nix. Considering Cruz is a possible HOF'er, that would make more sense.

Yes. I didn't like giving up on Cruz. 

[AKCheesehead]

The trade really didn't make any sense since they sent both Lee and Cruz to Texas.  Trading Lee and making room for Cruz would have made sense.  And then we wouldn't have had to watch Shrek as a Brewer. 

[kestrel79]

Ugh yeah the Lee trade kinda stunk. CoCo was a pretty good closer for us. But man Melvin was a little too high on his former players on the Rangers I think in that one. 

However wasn't Cruz more of an AL DH kinda guy? But he could mash. Could of used him for sure but I guess we had Prince coming soon.