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  1. DougJones43
    I've even seen some people who are optimistic about almost everything else, but pessimistic about the Brewers. After 15 losing seasons (and then last year's tease), it's not hard to see why. I'll never understand people who feel the need to try and force "positive" thinking onto others (especially with something that has offered as much constant negative output as the Brewers). We can hope for the best, but assuming it at this point seems to be the more foolish of the two outlooks, IMO.
  2. DougJones43
    Jeff Suppan. Dave Bush. Carlos Villanueva. Manny Parra. Doug Melvin. Ned Yost.
  3. DougJones43
    The starters haven't been terrible ... this series aside, they've done their part to keep the team in games when the offense did nothing. Ben Sheets has been amazing, and Gallardo was very good in his 3 starts. Ben Sheets only pitches once every 5 days. Gallardo is done. Here are the ERA's of the other 4 starters: Suppan: 5.19 Villanueva: 5.56 Parra: 5.86 Bush: 6.46 Not a good situation.
  4. DougJones43
    It's not as though disturbing trends can't occur in 1+ month. The starting pitching has been terrible, and the offense hasn't been much better. Gallardo is done for the year. Ned Yost is still the manager, and apparently now loves TGJ as a the primary pinch hitter when the offense needs runs. I know there is plenty of time, but things aren't exactly looking up at the moment.
  5. DougJones43
    Zito is set to make $20M in 2013. The financial crippling hasn't even begun yet for the Giants. Funny.
  6. DougJones43
    I don't know, those 3 whole strikes he threw today were pretty impressive.
  7. DougJones43
    Thanks for the new sig, mastershake!
  8. DougJones43
    Right... I mean, it's not like I just started a whole thread yesterday, expressing that I would much prefer to have an additional bench player over Seth McClung. Granted, Helms wouldn't be my first choice, but I think he'd have helped us more than McClung.
  9. DougJones43
    I'd rather have Helms on the roster than Seth McClung.
  10. DougJones43
    Thank goodness we kept McClung as our 14th pitcher! Thank goodness that we traded Gabe Gross, so that we can watch Weeks get walked in the 9th to get to a semi-injured TGJ and his wet noodle of a bat. Thank goodness Ryan Braun has the biggest strike zone in history. Thank goodness the Brewers have scored 6 runs with their last 80 baserunners. BOO!!!
  11. DougJones43
    Was it known on April 17th that this is what would happen over the next 10 days? Yes. It should have been pretty evident that they weren't going to need to use their 14th pitcher very often, if at all, during April. Every other team seems to have known.
  12. DougJones43
    As I pointed out earlier, the Brewers have used Seth McClung exactly one time since April 17th. That's a ten-day span. I think one of the other 13 pitchers could have handled that one inning, and just think of how much an extra bench player could have helped us during that timespan. I'm quite certain the options, flexibility, and potential production provided by an extra bench guy would have far exceeded McClung's contribution of one inning pitched. Clearly the Brewers like McClung's future, and they weren't willing to release him so that they could have a position player for a few ABs. I can't disagree with that. Looking at his career statistics, I think it's pretty easy to disagree with that, and disagree with him even being on the roster to start the season.
  13. DougJones43
    As I pointed out earlier, the Brewers have used Seth McClung exactly one time since April 17th. That's a ten-day span. I think one of the other 13 pitchers could have handled that one inning, and just think of how much an extra bench player could have helped us during that timespan. I'm quite certain the options, flexibility, and potential production provided by an extra bench guy would have far exceeded McClung's contribution of one inning pitched.
  14. DougJones43
    J.J. Hardy http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4748/hardypf2.jpg also looks like... Haley Joel Osment http://www.eldur.net/binni/uploaded_images/PEOPLE_OSMENT-794180.jpg
  15. DougJones43
    I'm not disputing anything you are saying. What I thought was silly was saying that Counsell got an out, Surprise! You could say the same thing about most at bats. Some situations are more likely to fail than others. Agreed? Counsell vs a LHP is very likely to fail, so, as the poster pointed out, it wasn't surprising to see him fail there. A RH batter would have been less likely to fail there. Continually pointing out that most at-bats don't produce a "positive result" doesn't really change the fact that some situations are statistically less likely to fail than others. Doesn't it make sense that the Brewers would want to consitently give themselves the *best* chance to succeed? Or should they just say "most at-bats fail, so it doesn't really matter who we send out there..."
  16. DougJones43
    The other thing I find comical (well, mostly sad actually) is that while the Brewers are carrying FOURTEEN pitchers, Ned lets their 22-year-old stud prospect, fresh off the DL, throw 120 pitches.
  17. DougJones43
    I fear you are probably correct, sir.
  18. DougJones43
    At this point, I think I will be satisfied if he makes 25 starts this season.
  19. DougJones43
    There have already been a handful of instances during the past week in which the Brewers have been forced to keep a pitcher in to hit (or even send up a pitcher as a pinch hitter) during the late innings of a close game. It happened again last night, when Gallardo hit with 1 runner on, and no outs. Gallardo popped out, and was replaced to begin the next half-inning. It seems pretty foolish to continually rely on pitchers going up to the plate in key, late inning situations of close games. Who knows if, with a professional hitter at the plate that inning, that could have been the inning the Brewers scraped out a run and won 1-0 instead of losing in extra inning? It seems like we might have been better off with another position player during this past week or so. I think the Brewers could have survived without somebody like McClung, who has only made one appearance since April 17th.
  20. DougJones43
    Oops. The stats I was looking at probably didn't have today's game in there. I stand by my point, though, that the man is a walking machine compared to most of the rest of the team! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  21. DougJones43
    Too much stock in pinch-hitting stats? That's all he'd do the rest of the year once Cameron comes back. What I was trying to say is that I don't think pinch-hitting stats are necessarily a very good indicator of a player's pinch-hitting skills. 88 at-bats, scattered over 3 years, doesn't paint a very complete or accurate picture, in my mind.
  22. DougJones43
    That was an exaggeration, obviously. Actually though, the Brewers only have 51 walks as a team, and Gross has 10. That's nearly 20% of the team's walk total, and Gross only has 43 AB's. In the event that somebody gets hurt, I'd much rather have Gross in a fulltime outfield spot over Kapler or Gwynn. Also, I think you're putting too much stock in pinch-hitting stats, and not enough stock in how badly this offense needs guys who can take pitches and draw walks.
  23. DougJones43
    Gross is gone, and he's taking about half of the team's walks with him. But it will be great to have TGJ and the wet newspaper he swings back! Also, it is very likely that Gabe Kapler will continue to hit like he has been, and we really aren't at all short on left-handed bats.
  24. DougJones43
    Wait, he actually said that? That is just classic. Exactly. This has happened countless times, where our best options and best players never see the field, because Ned was "saving" them for a situation - that never happened... because the inferior players blew it. Maybe Ned just really appreciates good irony?
  25. DougJones43
    I missed the end of the game. Was Gagne actually warming up for the potential **SAVE SITUATION!!!** in the 9th? Wow. At this rate, Gagne's fastball will top out at around 78-79 mph in early May, before his arm falls completely off and he needs to start pitching with his foot to earn more saves.
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