Crew @ ATL

Not to defend the pitching, but the defense this year sucks balls

Will Smith gets the boot, obviously has something on his arm

Is Broxton available?  Because i can't think of a more fitting scenario in recent history for him to blow up his ERA than the based loaded

Did you see Broxton last night? 

Garza didn't pitch as bad as the box score will make it look.  Balls under the gloves twice will kill you.

 

time to let Gomez play short and Parra pitch.  

Seriously, this is a clown show now.  Put in a position player to throw BP

But Counsell does have them playing with more urgency than Ron, that we can tell. 

Their road jerseys look nice. 

Don't worry - Broxton will be fine.  He's just in a little slump.  So says CC

Yippee ****ing skippy

Well the team can't pitch.  But they make up for it by lack of clutch hitting and shoddy defense

Built for HRs and strikeouts .... Pathetically built offense.

Your 2015 Houston Astros, currently first in the AL West:

 

1st in HRs: http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/t.../homeRuns/order/true

2nd in K's: http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/t.../expanded/order/true

 

Pathetically built but with guys playing well...

Thanks Al

Extend Doug Melvin right now!!  Stats and Ivy League degrees be damned!!   Oh the horror (and we are watching it every night on FSN)

Bottom third in OPS, second to the bottom in ERA, most errors in the NL.  

 

Lots of problems to go around.

 

We should focus on strike outs though, cause that feels good.  

I struck out last night. Didn't feel good at all.

If only Doug were smart as some here and built an offense for for singles and ground ball outs.  Like the Phillies!

• Home Runs are the best outcome in the game.  Maybe some of you aren't aware of this?  Are you new to the game?   Do we need to discuss that Touchdowns are a good thing in football as well?
• Outs are bad.  All of them.  
• The only outs that are "worse" are outs that lead two outs - like 5-4-3 double plays for example.

If you want to say "The Brewers offense has too many guys that can't get on base" you would sound like a relatively intelligent person.

 

If you want to say "The Brewers offense has too many guys that are not patient, don't take pitches, and by god they just don't take walks" you would sound like a reasonably intelligent person.

 

If you say ""The Brewers offense has too many guys that make outs instead of getting on base" you would sound like a reasonably intelligent person.

 

If you say "The Brewers offense strikes out too much instead of other productive outs" you would sound like a person that doesn't understand anything other than thinking back to your little league days when grounding to second base and PUTTING THE BALL IN PLAY would lead to many good things because the opposing 2B was picking his nose instead of playing, and besides your coach in 1981 made you feel bad when you struck out.  JUST LIKE IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!

 

For the millionth time if strikeouts were "worse" there would be a correlation to things like team runs scored, individual OPS, etc.

 

Here's a look at the top 10  guys that strike out the most and strike out the least.  

The average OPS of the guys that strike out the most?  .758   

The average OPS of the guys that strike out the least?  .756

WHY IT'S LIKE IT DOESN'T MATTER!

 

 

Name	Team	PA	K%	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Souza	Rays	162	38.30%	0.225	0.321	0.394	0.715
Davis	Orioles	151	37.70%	0.224	0.298	0.455	0.753
Zunino	Mariners	124	37.10%	0.175	0.234	0.351	0.585
Carter	Astros	159	35.80%	0.161	0.270	0.328	0.599
Rasmus	Astros	135	34.10%	0.244	0.304	0.528	0.832
Soler	Cubs	174	33.30%	0.265	0.333	0.387	0.720
Stanton	Marlins	179	30.70%	0.239	0.324	0.523	0.847
Bryant	Cubs	141	29.80%	0.289	0.411	0.482	0.894
Pederson	Dodgers	162	29.00%	0.234	0.385	0.523	0.909
LaRoche	White Sox	143	28.70%	0.222	0.364	0.359	0.723
							0.758
Brantley	Indians	151	6.00%	0.328	0.404	0.527	0.931
Murphy	Mets	164	7.30%	0.245	0.299	0.371	0.670
Simmons	Braves	167	7.80%	0.253	0.311	0.409	0.720
Cabrera	White Sox	167	7.80%	0.252	0.301	0.285	0.586
Aoki	Giants	174	8.00%	0.297	0.374	0.381	0.754
Escobar	Royals	143	8.40%	0.295	0.331	0.388	0.719
Revere	Phillies	170	8.80%	0.256	0.300	0.338	0.638
Moustakas	Royals	166	9.00%	0.342	0.396	0.503	0.900
Altuve	Astros	190	9.50%	0.306	0.360	0.445	0.805
Posey	Giants	165	9.70%	0.299	0.370	0.463	0.832
							0.756

 

If only we could have a team of nine Melky Cabrera's on offense!  Trump and Tschmack would be in heaven.  No strikeouts, no HRs.  Just weak ground ball outs and singles.  My heart is all aflutter.  We'd likely be undefeated.  

 

Here's more data.  This is the K%/Runs/G data for all 30 teams this year.  X axis is K % from lowest to highest.  Y axis is runs/game.  If striking out would be worse than other outs and lead to a less productive offense, you SHOULD see all those points moving in a relatively straight line from upper left to lower right.  It looks nothing like that!  It's a relative blob, meaning K% does not correlate at all to how productive your offense is.  WHY IT'S LIKE IT DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL!

 

 

Melvin has plenty of faults and deserves plenty of blame for this roster and its shortcomings.  Striking out is not THE problem, it's not a problem.  Making more outs than hits and walks is a problem with this offense.  

 

Oh well, back to your PTSD of Coach Screamy McTightshorts yelling at you for striking out.  

 

Dead last in batting average and bottom third in runs scored.  In just about every offensive category this team is really bad. 

However, I am not sure though the 2011 Brewers offense (Melvins shining moment) could save this team. 

The pitching stats might be worse than the hitting stats and they make a ton of mistakes in the field and on the pads. 

Bad combination all the way around

A winning percentage of .350 sounds about right

The young guns down in A ball can't develop fast enough

Funniest thing I have heard all week

"The Brewers even suck at cheating"

Thanks Will Smith

You could see the stuff on Smith's arm from the upper deck.  

 

And the Braves love to mess with Smith, he should have known better.  

Add to the embarrassment of last season's debacle ending and this mess of a season now with Will Smith getting ousted...it starts at the top. 

Doug Melvin told him to put that on his arm?

No Roenicke did and Counsell forgot to tell him to wipe it off.

No, Attanasio did.

 

 

No, Homeruns are not like regular TD's ...

Homeruns are like 50yd bombs for TDs and the Crew are putting on a Cutler like display while believing they have ARodgers.

 

A little more Lacey and RAC from the WRs for the Crew is the way the new GM should refit the Crew.

And yeah, build a new defense to because the pen and the fielding is suspect at best.

 

 

I going to go out on a limb and say you "CAPackFan95" have played baseball ... so I'm sure you've actually got in the box and hit a pitched baseball.

 

Are you saying that the way to "coach" or "push" a player to get power numbers does not matter with his approach, stance, balance .... I'm thinking it does.

 

We have A LOT of players back-footing it when they should be contact hitters(and should be able to hit the infield dirt on a throw from standard OF position BTW). You can go to generic theories on power numbers, etc, etc ... but it sickens me to watch guys that K, do not hit HRs consistently and bat sub-.250 ... sickens me.

Did I mention it sickens me.

 

CAPpy, as soon as they put electronics on Homeplate Umps for balls and strikes auto-calls ... the game will change IMO.

 

Yes, they are ... because IMO, they are symptom.

 

Simply put guys like Carew, Cooper, Brett, Yount, Gwynn(senior of course) ... were .300 hitters because they wanted contact first, then graduated (or got count in their favor statistically speaking, whatever) to power when it was appropriate.

These days guys that have no business swinging out of their shoes are doing it ... doesn't matter count, doesn't matter situation, doesn't matter who is pitching.

The chicks and the agents luv the long-ball so that's whats going and baseball is worst for it right now IMO.

Rant over.

 

 Carew, Cooper, Brett, Yount, Gwynn

 

Pujols, Thome, Berkman, Belle, Delgado

 

What do they all have in common?  (hint- it wasn't focusing on "making contact")

They played MLB.

http://joeposnanski.com/shrink-the-plate-what/

 

Kind of what I was trying to explain.

With Roids leaving, IMO you are getting a very bad brand of baseball.

 

You guys have the right theory, but Roidless MLB has made average guys average again.

 

Also above:

I would suspect the first 5 guys were not on steroids and the second 5 IMO, definitely

were.

This team is hitting .226

That's bad

They are also near the bottom in runs scored

That's worse

The lineup features too many guys that either can't get on base or can't score runs - however that occurs

It's a problem for sure

Ideally you would have more guys that hit singles or doubles or draw walks to set the plate for guys like Gomez and Braun but they don't. 

Doug Melvin is all about power - and he favors hitters to a fault that take that approach.

Of course, Doug did not tell him to do it.  But I think the culture in the Brewers organization has been eroding into a state of futility, mediocrity and breakdown.  Last season's end was the example of that and this season's beginning is the exclamation of it. 

 

When Ron Wolf took over the Packers operations, he came and changed the culture and made it stick.  Doug Melvin was able to boost the Brewers back into respectability and contention, but it is evident to me the environment starting at the top (him) does not have what it takes to turn around this team and keep it heading that way.

 

Now this incident with Smith...sheesh!  You can see the junk on his arm, just shining like a new silver dollar.  Whether it was intentional to leave it on or not, the fact that he say he forgot makes me wonder...In a tight and tied game?  Winners don't forget stupid stuff like that.   And certainly some of his teammates or coaches for that matter, couldda/shouldda said something.

 

Same thing with Ryan Braun's stupid deal with steroids two year ago.  Had Melvin been running a tighter ship, maybe Braun thinks better not to get involved with that junk.  Then you add in Gallardo's DUI last year.  And there's are few other examples too.

 

I think Craig Counsel may be a good choice to manage this team back to respectability.  But he cannot do it all by himself.

 

 

Braun with a first pitch, two run homer !

Freaking Melvin and his focus on power...

 

I know!!  It's great isn't it?

His .480 winning percentage as Brewers GM is awesome

Extend him another 10 years

Melvin hates stat geeks too

He must be Satan

Is Mark Reynolds still available?