homer

ho hum, Grisham 2/2 with 2 doubles.

I think we answered the original question. Time to lock this one up.

I mean what else do you need to know?!?!

I don't think anyone wants to send him down again.

Good lord is Hiura a great hitter. His swing sort of reminds me of Paul Molitor.

Can Hiura win ROY in half a season? Sort of kidding.

ERA under 4!

Read somewhere today that MLB wants to implement an international draft as early as next year.

I think that's purposeful. They don't want the rules the same everywhere to make it harder to prepare to sneak something through.

I hope this was on purpose

Numbers for Minnesota's new football stadium: In the nine times the Vikings played at home, security netted a total of 43 knives. No guns were stopped at the stadium’s gates, but guards confiscated 20 of what are classified as “other weapons.” A stadium spokesperson would only say that could mean mace or any other banned item that could be used to harm others. But it seems fans attending events outside of football have had the hardest time following the rules. In the six big events the stadium hosted in 2016 — like concerts and soccer — security seized 52 knives and 74 other weapons at the gate. They also stopped four guns from getting inside, which were later checked at the stadium’s gun locker. All told, about 200 weapons were caught at the gates from August to January in 2016.

Hiura batting clean-up. Ask and ye shall receive.

My fingers are crossed

True, but most, if not all, stadiums and sporting events have a no-weapon policy. And I would bet that most people going to Brewer games have been to other sporting events or at least other Brewer games. If you forget once you probably won't forget again.

Please do not post your personal feelings on gun use or ownership. Stick to the question rickh150 asked. Thanks.

Ya know I am pumped he's doing well but seeing Saladino score a .900+ OPS in that league tempers my expectations a bit. Hope he's more Keston than Tyler.

This is probably going to be too pessimistic for certain posters on this board but I'm not going believe they have turned a corner until they can show that this pitching staff can go through the rotation a couple of times at an acceptable level of performance. I need to see the consistency with the pitching. Reasonable response.

Mom, dad...this is Touki

I am more impressed with leading the NL in steals, than the HR count. NL is pretty empty on base stealers. Leading the league with a pace under 40 is kinda crazy. Agreed in and of itself it's kind of meh. But to go with a 50+ HR pace it's pretty amazing.

Maybe this help them turn a corner?

He's got a legit shot at 40 steals.

You joined the site two days ago and know this already?

One way to look at it is many of the pitching coaches in the minor leagues (who must share some of the blame for the organizations inability to develop its own pitching) are holdovers from the Doug Melvin years. Chris Hook jumped from being a pitching coach in the independent leagues in 2008 to AA with the Brewers in 2009 and has worked his way up to pitching coach for the major league club. AAA pitching coach Fred Dabney has been a pitching coach for Milwaukee at every level of their minor leagues since joining the organization in 2004. AA pitching coach Dave Chavarria has been with the Brewers organization as a pitching coach since 2012. Low A pitching coach Steve Cline has been with the Brewers organization as a pitching coach since 2001. Helena Pitching coach Rolando Valles has been coaching pitchers for the Brewers organization since 2014. They've developed but a handful of pitchers in the last 25 years, and the GM who presumably has authority to fire any and all of the, has not only kept his predecessors coaches but has actually promoted most of them. So the lack of homegrown pitching can be distilled to: poor drafting/talent evaluation and/or poor coaching/instruction both of which fall on the GM. But if it's coaching then wouldn't guys become better or really good once they leave the Brewers? I don't recall too many guys getting traded or released that end up becoming good pitchers. Yamamoto was good while he was here. Miley was good while he was here. Wily Peralta has been about the same (meh). Marco Estrada was already 30+ when he left but he's been about the same guy. Scouting and drafting are probably a big part of it but that could just be bad luck too.

I don't know why people keep talking about the Brewers historic inability to develop pitching. What do Stearns and Co have to do with Sal Bando or Doug Melvin?

I think a case study in when NOT to go for it is last year's Pirates team.