I'll agree with the others. While Counsel isn't my favorite choice in the world for a second hitter, he's much more useful there than Hall would be. The only change I could really see given the brewers every day lineup is putting Spivey batting second and overbay third, the brewers really do not have another player that can do the job of batting second properly, taking pitches, letting pods have his shots at stealing bases, executing hit and runs, dragging out the pitch counts etc. If counsell only hit .050 higher in avg he'd be a very solid 2nd hitter, now he's a sound second hitter that just isn't a very good hitter.