Brewers at Guardians; Tuesday, May 13 @ 5:10 p.m.: Quinn Priester (5.08 ERA, 5.09 FIP) vs. Logan Allen (4.33 ERA, 4.50 FIP)

[yourout]

16 minutes ago, brewmann04 said:

I know the players need to hit but maybe the two hitting coaches can figure it out 

Three hitting coaches. Connor Dawson, Al LaBeouf and Eric Thiesen

[trwi7]

1 hour ago, wildcat2237 said:

Im flabbergasted the offense is this bad....

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, RobertCrawley said:

I don't like calling for the end of a man's job, but we need some new eyes on these hitters.

Confidence can be an epidemic. So can lack of confidence. I have no idea what the personalities of Dawson & LeBoeuf are, but if there's any exasperation, any sort of a suggestion of mentally shrugging or throwing up your arms, it can snowball.

Thursday is an off day, so if they don't produce tomorrow then anyone hoping for a change might put their chips on 5/15. I question what kind of a difference it would make but "change for changes' sake", while usually futile, can sometimes work w/a hitting coach. As @RobertCrawleysaid, different eyes, a different way of conveying a message, even if it's the same message.

Donnie Ecker was just fired by Texas. And he DOES have a WS ring.

[bigred]

2 hours ago, jason21nl said:

He’s probably begging to be fired.  Impossible to make crappy hitters good and this team is full of crappy hitters.   

Or, maybe what he's teaching them is what's making them crappy? 

[brooks_quichenick]

1 hour ago, RobertCrawley said:

Where's the Summer of Fun that Mark promised?

It's not summer yet!

#checkmate
 

[Bulldogboy]

If a team has a hitting coach who has had no success hitting in mlb what exactly are you teaching? Would you trust your car repairs to a guy who has never repaired a car? I don't get it.

[sveumrules]

2 hours ago, Bulldogboy said:

If a team has a hitting coach who has had no success hitting in mlb what exactly are you teaching? Would you trust your car repairs to a guy who has never repaired a car? I don't get it.

Good players rarely make good coaches because most players don’t have their same natural talents.

The Yankees (137 wRC+) have James Rowson, Casey Dykes and Pat Roessler as their hitting coaches.

The Dodgers (126 wRC+)  have Aaron Bates and Robert Van Scoyoc.

The Mariners (118 wRC+) have Edgar Martinez, Kevin Seitzer and Bobby Magallanes.

For the Cubs (118 wRC+) it’s Dustin Kelly, Juan Cabreja and John Mallee.

The Mets (118 wRC+) have Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez.

The Tigers (116 wRC+) have Keith Beauregard, Michael Brdar and Lance Zawadzki.

The DBacks (112 wRC+) have Joe Mather, Travis Denker and Damion Easley.

The Padres (110 wRC+) have Victor Rodriguez, Mike McCoy and Pat O’Sullivan.

The A’s (110 wRC+) have Darren Bush, Mike Aldrete and Chris Cron,

For the Cardinals (109 wRC+) it’s Brant Brown and Brandon Allen.

If I counted right that’s 27 hitting coaches employed by the current Top Ten offenses and five (Edgar, Seitzer, Chavez, Easley and Aldrete) whose names I recognized as having success in MLB. Maybe six if you want to count Brant Brown’s 380 PAs of 120 wRC+ in 1998, 

[Brian]

8 hours ago, bigred said:

Or, maybe what he's teaching them is what's making them crappy? 

With a .237 team batting average, Brewers standings plunge and your best seems to stink, something needs to be done.  Or will we wait till after the All Star break when were 10 games out? 

[Pugger]

15 hours ago, yfinn6 said:

Put Chourio on the bench. Now. 

Or at least give him a day off.   Losing 2 center fielders is an issue right now, especially with this anemic offense.