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I have been disappointed with the direction of our pitching but other than that I like what Mark A / Doug Melvin / Rick S have built. From Marketing, Stadium improvements, drafting of positional players, it's been great ... The only thing is pitching and that has been a giant F Edited for brain fart in Ricks name
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I agree with that assessment Svuem. The quoted piece above is spot on. I have said it before and others have too, I really think our minor league system needs a drastic overhaul of its pitching and development coaches. Just like what is being wrote about in the other thread of why do we suck at developing pitchers
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I don't think you need to get deep into stats. I think you can take the litmus test of, do you feel he makes his pitchers better under his control. I would lean towards no, he doesn't. Look at his track record here and find a starter he has made better?
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And another thing is ... why he is given such a leash is beyond me. He hasn't been an effective coach since he was with Florida for 2 years in 2006 & 2007. I am beyond done with this guy.
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Dear Doug ... Please Fire Rick Kranitz Thank you
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Even though he made an out - I love Seguras hustle Way to be Braunie
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No, what's stupid is trying to justify 7 hits and 2 walks in 1 and 2/3rds and to continue to make excuses for a guy with a 6.62 ERA game after game. Electric stuff doesn't mean squat if you can't throw strikes with the bases loaded. Manny Parra had electric stuff too. I agree - Peralta is pitching horribly. Just another example of our inability to develop pitchers. As I have said before - might be time for a system wide redo of all involved with scouting and developing pitching.
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My top 3 are: Major League - Comedy at it's best Major Leauge II - I also found this one to be hillarious Sandlot - I too quote this movie a lot and loved every minute of it. You're killin me smalls! I also enjoyed: Moneyball Bull Durham Field of Dreams A League of Their Own 42 Trouble with the curve Brewster's Millions was also funny but not exactly a baseball movie per say Fever Pitch 8 men out
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Why are we so bad at developing pitchers?
Bombers replied to The stache's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I agree with this. I also think it is time for a change in management. And not just a single person change. I honestly believe we might have to scrap our whole pitching department from scouting through coaches and start new. I am sure there are a few guys you could keep but when you have 10 years of drafting bad pitching you need to make a change. In the end, there were just to many years where we walk away with nothing from the draft. -
This is where I am at. Our pitching is atrocious
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2013 Season in form of a GIF (daily updates)
Bombers replied to torts's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
This had me literally laughing out loud - nice one torts -
This thread: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=28027&hilit=Rickie+weeks&start=460 My post was more around what does Scooter need to do to be given a shot? Weeks won't be a Brewer past next year and at some point, lets see what we have in Scooter to see if we need to go 2B shopping the next off season or two
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Don't you mean Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder, Yovani Gallardo and Zack Greinke took them to the NLCS? RRR had very little with our getting there, but his dumb decision had quite a lot to do with our not getting by the Cardinals. Starting Mark Kotsay in right field in game 4 over Corey Hart was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a manager do. I agree ... I was just trying to imply we have had good teams and changing a manager really doesn't have much impact ... In the end I agree with what TheCrew wrote. I just don't see RRR as the easy button of fixes. It runs deeper than the manager
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Ha. No kidding
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Yost couldn't get them to win Macha couldn't get them to win RRR took them to the NLCS in his first year and now he can't get them to win To me when will we stop blaming the Manager and start blaming the players or the GM? Maybe Melvin is to blame? We give him so much credit but with 10 years and only 2 playoff appearances, maybe it is time for him to go? We rank last in the NL in ERA this year. We have wasted so many years of good hitting teams because our pitching sucks. Maybe Melvin will finally trade Hart, Ramirez at the deadline and get some top AAA arms ... If he doesn't then maybe it really is time for him to go?
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Awesome a race quote ... I love those ... Lets see. 1. Weeks makes $10 million a year ... Lucroy is making $750k 2. Weeks hit a whopping .230 last year and is following it up with a .183 3. Lucroy hit .320 last year and yes is off to a putrid start but .235 > .183 4. Lucroy has a fielding % of 1.000 weeks is .972. Lucroy is a better defender at a position that is more difficult. 5. Yuni had a fielding % of .975 playing 2B last year ... Weeks is a standing at .972. Maybe Yuni is a better fielder than Weeks? I could go on and on. But to claim race is simply ridiculous ... You know nothing JoePepsi
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At what point can you stop denying that he might be able to contribute at the big league level? He has hit .300+ every step of the way ... Weeks is atrocious - bring up Scooter. Get it done Doug
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I am done with Weeks ... He is useless. At least start a platoon with Scooter and Weeks. We need to fix the giant hole in our order that is Rickie. Not that this will make our pitching better
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The top 5 of 6 of our order is just ridiculous ... Keep it up guys .. Always can count on the inning killer Weeks ... Way to continue your uselessness Rickie
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And the only reason you can hear crickets, instead of everyone cheering, is because everyone is holding their breath.
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Dont forget that a few of the scoreless were in LA and SD and he had some very loud outs in those games. So maybe you are just saying don't pitch him at home. Maybe that is the answer. He can only pitch in large ball parks. What an awesome 8th inning man. Him and his 10+ ERA.
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Kind of like when the Cardinals kept us scoreless for 26 of the first 27 innings played in the series from earlier this year. They only ended up winning 2 in that series. It sucks when that happens, just like in this series, but it shows the importance of not trotting out mop up duty scrubs. Axford sucks.
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I notice you don't even mention that Yuni hit .333/.333/.542 against the Cardinals in that series with 5 RBI. He wasn't the reason they lost. The pitching was awful. Yuni had lots of big hits in the 2nd half of that season too. You are correct, I didn't reference that specific series. Not sure if I should look into the 50+ series played through out the year either. In the end, he was not very good that year. (Not sure how 1 series trumps a whole year of futility) ... Like I said, I am glad he is doing good this year even though I thought the signing was laughable when we did it. (Glad I am not a GM)
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If I had to guess, the group of his haters has been shrinking faster than you can say Yunieski. The haters had quite a valid point if you review the 2011 season. I will never forget the ball up the middle in the NLCS that he didn't even go for (And Weeks almost got to) when it was on Yuni's side of 2nd. I also couldn't stand, how he never saw a first pitch he didn't like. He swung routinely on the first pitch and it routinely ended in a 6-4-3 double play, pop-up out to the first baseman or some other lamely hit ball. I am happy for him and glad he has found his swing. And as long as he never see's a lick at short, keeps swingning a good bat and continues to be useful at 1B / 2B / 3B ... well then keep on keeping on, Yuni
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Continuing from last nights IGT YOU get a home run! And YOU get a home run! And YOU get a home run! EV-ERY-BODY GETS A HOME RUN!