Jump to content
Brewer Fanatic

Ron Robinsons Beard

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17,246

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    27

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Blogs

Events

Milwaukee Brewers News, Rumors & Analysis

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospect Rankings

Milwaukee Brewers Videos

2022 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Milwaukee Brewers Trade & Free Agent Rumors

Milwaukee Brewers Fan Guides & Resources

2023 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2024 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Milwaukee Brewers Players Project

2025 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Ron Robinsons Beard

  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I thought you were limited to a certain number of pitchers on the MLB roster.
  2. Ron Robinsons Beard
    That is pretty much MLB average. Certainly not a great excuse to move the guy who has been the most consistent starter in your rotation to the pen.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    2.67 ERA in August says otherwise
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Did not expect Chourio to become Christian Yelich so soon, but here we are.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    #16 is 2018 Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductee Jesse Levis. Levis was a reserve catcher for the Brewers from 1996-98.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    interesting ...
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Ken McMullen was once a slick-fielding 3B, but he ended his career as a DH with the 1977 Brewers. Of course, a different #17 also made his debut that season following McMulllen's release.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    One time Brewer fandom's favorite whipping boy, #18 ... Wes Helms!
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I know I love the obscure Brewers, but #19 can be no other than this man.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    #20 features "Stormy" Weathers' 2nd go-round with the 2009 Brewers to finish off his career. Weathers was a solid middle-to-back-end relief option for a few teams over his long run.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    LOL doesn't matter. 'Ole Triple 8s is still gonna hate em.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Do you remember that Logan Morrison was a Milwaukee Brewer? Because I sure didn't! I think I may have a little selective amnesia and PTSD regarding that 2020 season. Actually regarding that year as a whole.
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I was off the grid this weekend, so time to play some catch-up. First off, #24 is for speedy outfielder Chuckie Carr (RIP), perhaps best known for defying Phil Garner's orders and swinging at a 2-0 pitch after ignoring the take sign. "That ain't Chuckie's game," he said. "Chuckie hacks on 2-0." For #23, it can be no other than my former namesake, and perhaps the Brewer prospect that was most disappointing for failing up to expectations, Joey Meyer. Meyer had prodigious power, but like many power hitters, struggled to make consistent contact at the big league level. His claim to fame is hitting a HR that carried a record 582 feet at Denver's Mile High Stadium as a member of the AAA Zephers. And for #22, another former power-hitting 1B prospect that failed to live up to expectations, Kevin Barker. He was once considered a future franchise cornerstone, but failed to show the power required for the position during multiple auditions in 1999 and 2000, and after the Brewers acquired Richie Sexson, his time as a Brewer was effectively over.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    So ... which bullpen is going to crack first? Neither offense seems to want to win this game.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    While the loss last night doesn't really mean much in the scheme of the season, considering the team's commanding lead in the division, losing like they did, especially against this team and hired-gun Arenado, still sucks. Hopefully they use it as motivation and blow the Cards out of the water today.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    A big part of the perceived "value" is age-related as well. Joey Ortiz just turned 26, and DL Hall will be 26 in September, so they are looked at by the industry as near finished products. Coby Mayo is only 22, though, and has more theoretical upside because of that.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Fedde has been meh. Flaherty has been pretty solid for the Dodgers.
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    A three-fer evening? Sweet!!! First, #27 is for one of my all-time faves, northern Wisconsin native Bob Wickman. A big part of my fandom was, on top of being shaped like Barrel Man and being a great closer, he grew up about 20 minutes from where I lived. For #26, as Bob Dylan once sang, "Here comes the story of the Hurricane!" Hernan Iribarren was once the darling of the Link Report around these parts. The sweet-swinging middle infielder just couldn't do enough at the MLB level to stick, though. Finally, for #25, I have always been a sucker for athletes who overcome adversity to excel, so of course I was an enormous fan of Jim Abbott. When he signed with the Brewers in 1999 in an attempt to resurrect his flailing career, I was stoked. But unfortunately he struggled, and was released in July of that year, subsequently retiring. He did manage to collect two base hits in his short time as a National League pitcher, though.
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    #28 may be a "Princely" number in Brewers lore, but to me it will always belong to Captain Jack Voigt!
  20. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Growing up in Wisconsin in the '80s, "the Boz" was never that clown Bosworth, but the Brewers' bulldog of a #2 starter. Loved me some Chris Bosio. You always knew you were going to get everything he had every time out.
  21. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I have an affinity for powerful 1st basemen who look like they should be batting cleanup on a beer league softball team, and Bob Hamelin was one of the best. He always looked like he just got done with his 9-to-5 as a CPA, then went to hacking at the ballpark.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Another two-for evening! Whoop-whoop! First off, Daniel Norris, a deal that didn't work out. And #31 is Bronswell Patrick ... perhaps best known for serving up Sammy Sosa's 61st HR in the steroid-fueled 1998 HR chase. He also hit the first pitcher HR for the Brewers after their move to the National League.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    If there were any year for Yelich to bring his 1st baseman's glove to Spring Training, 2025 would be it.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Sweet #33 can be none other than the vaunted (and spectacularly bearded) Ronald Dean Robinson. The talented Robinson came to the Brewers in a 1990 trade for Glenn Braggs and Billy Bates, and proceeded to pitch like an ace down the stretch. Unfortunately he went down after 4 1/3 innings in his first start of the 1991 season, missing the year, and while he tried making a comeback in 1992, he was never the same. We do have that sweet 12-5 record and 2.95 ERA in 1990, though, for the man who Pete Rose once called "The True Creature". Robinson is also known for taking a perfect game 8 2/3 innings for the Reds in 1988.
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Nice to see a philosophical shift to putting the ball in play in tense situations instead of swinging out of their shoes looking to drive one, like in past years.
×
×
  • Create New...