03/15/06: Brewers (Davis) at Giants, 2:00 PM CT, MLB Audio

[sheetswannabe]

Ya me too, I jumped to early, long day, felt like snapping on someone. My bad. But if he is serious he needs to be slapped.

[brewmann04]

Kolb won"t make the final 25 if yost plans to keep the best 25

[Ennder]

Yeah, Kolb has been terrible for a year and a half and a spring training now. I would think he's running out of chances here pretty quickly.

[ja002h]

Kolb isn't exactly inspiring confidence.

 

 

.. Now Prince, on the other hand...

[And That]

Anyone know who pinch hit for Fassero and grounded out to second? My audio went out.

 

Edit: Nevermind.

[RyDogg66]

Prince Fielder hit a HR. That's good news. A vs a LHP.

[JohnBriggs12]

"Kolb won't make the final 25 if Yost plans to keep the best 25"

 

This is spring training, not spring tryout camp. Kolb wasn't brought back to try out. Barring injury, he'll be on the opening day roster.

[brettac1]

He has a bit of a track record of suckiness, though, a season and a half's worth, to go along with a season and a half of goodness. I don't think he should be a lock, but maybe his salary dictates that he is.

[TauPentaRei]

Kolb is a broken man; he may as well be wearing Depends.

[kiwi brewer]

Nelson Cruz needs to be on this Milwaukee Brewer baseball team on opening day. That's it. Done. Enough said.

 

The guy is on fire. He is exciting. That's what we need. I hope Yost keeps him up.

[filthyfrog]

This might warrant its own thread, but is anyone else extremely underwhelmed by Gabe Gross? Given his minor league track record, I thought he was a nice nugget when the trade was made, but when I finally got to see him play on Sunday, he made me miss Magruder. And I'm on record saying that Magruder is one of the worst players to ever spend a whole season on a roster.

 

Seriously, does Gross do anything well? He was supposed to have decent plate discipline, but he's been chasing some pretty bad pitches. He was supposed to be a good enough corner outfielder to be passable in CF, but he looked shakey the other day, not even attempting to hold runners on third on two shallow sac flies.

 

I know, I know, small sample, Spring Training, etc., etc. He just doesn't look very good to me and today's 0-5 with two Ks doesn't help. If there's any sort of roster crunch, I'd be just fine with Hart as the fourth OF and some combination of Hall and Sorensen as the fifth. If we're really in need of a fifth outfielder, Cruz is only a phone call away.

[Brian the Automator]

[ Nelson Cruz needs to be on this Milwaukee Brewer baseball team on opening day. That's it. Done. Enough said. ]

 

Why? So he can rot? The boy needs to play every day, particularily, getting his reps in CF.

[DHonks]

just got back. A decent Brewers contingent there. I sat infront of Jim Powell and his family for the first few innings, so I couldn't stop laughing at how I was at a game, yet was hearing his voice still.

 

Fielder now makes me 6 for 6 in 2005 and 2006 spring training games. That's right, he's homered in all 6 I've been to.

Hall with two great hustling triples. Koskie should have hit one. His deep drive came up a foot short of clearing the fence. Then I looked and he was barely at 1st. It's 430 to center, so I guess he thought he hit it out, but at least he still got to second. Still, should have been a triple.

The Hurricane with a nice slashing liner that required a diving catch from I think Mark Sweeney. If he misses it, it's a triple. He's a lot skinnier than I thought he would be. I expected him to look more like Belliard. Nelson Cruz and Fielder absolutely crushed their homers. Both over the 430 part of the park.

 

And Gross looks very good in the field. He was battling a tough sun, and yet he made the plays effortlessly. He also runs better than I expected. That means he's matched the total number of games (spring training and reg. season) that I've seen where Magruder played well defensively, and it's after watching Gross once

[brewerjamie15]

Let's not get too pumped up about Kolb just yet. Maddux needs time to work with him. Kolb got himself messed up in Atlanta, Maddux needs time to fix it.

BTW Mike Maddux needs some kind of a cool nick name.

[milwaukeesportsfan]

BTW Mike Maddux needs some kind of a cool nick name.

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I think he has one already. Mad Dog.

[DHonks]

also, forgot to mention Capellan. The guy threw significantly harder than every other pitcher today, including Kane Davis

[rluzinski]

Cirillo is batting .429 in spring training. His OPS is .996.

[brewers19]

I say we trade him for prospects.

[HonoluluBrew]

DHonks, while you say Gross looks good in the field, he looks absolutely horrible at the plate. In the 4 games we have seen so far this spring, Gross has done nothing to warrant him making the team. Although it is *only* spring training, this is my first impression of him and he is hardly proven in the big leagues.

 

He should not make the 25 man, Cruz is really deserving. I like him more and more each time I see him.

[Jim Goulart]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060315/capt.e040d451481d4e2dbb27e1b7e70e6bee.brewers_giants_baseball_azer109.jpg

 

Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Gabe Gross dives and misses a fly ball hit by the San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds during the first inning of their spring training game in Scottsdale, Ariz., Wednesday March 15, 2006. Bonds doubled on the play.

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

[IslandsAC]

We were out in left field to welcome back el caballo... and to give barry some of what he deserves.

 

we had a big sign that said,

 

BONDS

* 'roids

 

and at one point I yelled, 'hey barry, is it the cream or the clear today?' to which he turned around and yelled, 'both!'

 

good to see he's got a sense of humor about tainting america's pasttime.

-andy

[brewmann04]

capallan might have found his nitch

[scoop53714]

dhonks

 

I was at the game as well. Was Powell with his wife and 3 daughters? I moved out to the rf grass and sat down because our seats sucked and a bit later a person I thought was Powell came and sat with his family right in front of us. They only stayed for something like the 7th and 8th innings and then left. I am pretty sure it was him though. I looked at him as he left and he must have known I was trying to figure out if it was him because he gave me a nod as he walked by.

 

Anyway Cruz's shot was enormous. That was the coolest Hr I have ever seen in person. Towering beyond belief.

[Brian the Automator]

[ Anyway Cruz's shot was enormous. That was the coolest Hr I have ever seen in person. Towering beyond belief. ]

 

He's a man amongst boys. If he could just cut down his K rate a bit, he'd be a monster.