Made and Adamczewski might be my only untouchables. There are a lot of "I'd rather not see him traded" in the next tier down but those two are the ones I'd like to see in the big club in the future the most.
I 'member the ESPN chats but don't remember joining and posting on Brewerfan until 2005, or maybe even 2004. There was a feature article about JJ Hardy on the home page for the longest time.
I like his chances better than I like Perkins just because of the lefty/righty split no matter how often you want to change the metrics you're choosing. Frelick had at least seen game pitches. Perkins gets like 5 ABs a week and we're expecting him to execute that play?
If the goal was to move the runner up, I would take my regular who has excellent bat control despite mediocre results than the guy who has done this same exact play multiple times this year.
I have a hard time blaming Vaughn at all. He hit didn't get a hit in the 9th but he moved Yeli into scoring position with less than 2 out. Turang just had a terrible AB.
I thought the game was lost in the 8th inning. That was just all sorts of stupid.
That inning was Murphy over-thinking it. Let Hamilton just bunt. At least he's not likely to commit a mortal sin and ground into a DP. With Sanchez it was a high probability and there it was.
Perk sucks. If the bunt is the move, let Frelick do it.
Just maddening decisions that inning that resulted in exactly what we thought it would.
It's a little crazy to me that Turang has really been so good for a year now that even during his slump I kept thinking. "this dude is about to go on a tear". When Turang came up even into parts of last season you just kind of accepted the slumps and hoped he'd run into some. He is a completely different hitter from then.
Top 100 guy, IIRC.
Look, the guy is struggling to locate, but the stuff is there. It's silly to say he doesn't have good stuff; he's just not sure how to harness or use it.