Hawkins to DL, Stetter called up

[Invader3K]

Being reported by Haudricourt and McCalvy.

 

Hawkins apparently has "right shoulder weakness."

[hawing]

While I'll never take joy in an injury, I'm okay with this roster move.

[Invader3K]

Well, after his last outing, it did appear that something was wrong with Hawkins. Hopefully he can heal up and come back as effective as he was last year, or close to it.

 

Stetter certainly deserves the opportunity as well.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Good, I knew something was wrong with him. Now Coffey can go into the setup role where he belongs, and Stetter gets the well deserved call-up. Hopefully Hawkins will come back and contribute after he rests up a little bit.

[dadofandrew]

That might just be a fancy term for dead arm. His velocity was off 5 mph the other night, that's tough to explain if you are not less than 100%.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Hawkins didn't seem to have that issue in Spring Training, hopefully this solves itself and we don't have another Riske situation.

 

We need a LOOGY up...glad we have Mitch back. Guess it was a matter of time before an injury hit.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

Is Stetter out of options after this?

 

They're going to face a tough decision after Hawkins comes back if he doesn't.

[PeaveyFury]

Stetter's option is good for a whole season, so they can send him back and forth the entire year if they need to.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

Stetter's option is good for a whole season, so they can send him back and forth the entire year if they need to.

Oh, thanks for clarifying.

[thablingster]

Well, I hope the DL stint for Hawkins will help him figure out what is going on with his velocity. It will be nice to have the situational LOOGY back in Stetter.

[SeriesFinale]

I'm more than OK with this as it lays...I'm with SoCal and hope we see Hawkins back and effective sooner than later

 

Otherwise, uff da. Riske 2.0. I thought it was a pretty good signing at the time but: uff da.

[bklynbrewcrew]

Hawkins hasnt been the same velocity wise since Macha let him throw over 40 pitches against the cubs. I fully blame our clueless manager for this injury.

[twobrewers]

Braddock, Smith, Axford and Stetter all a deserving of a role in the bullpen. I hope Melvin learns to not waste money on relief pitchers in the future.

[monty57]

I thought this would come after reading the article where Hawkins said he felt alright, but was throwing 90-91 instead of 95-96. Glad to have Stetter back up, so he can be Loogy with Parra getting multiple inning outings. Hopefully Hawkins can rest his arm and come back strong, and hopefully Suppan will be release when Hawkins is ready to come back.

[Invader3K]

There's no way they release Suppan unless he really falters soon in his relief role.

[honuswagner21]

Glad to see that this move was finally made. I still don't understand why baseball players insist that they are feeling fine when they clearly aren't. It is like they think that they will lose their job if they need to go on the DL while playing horribly will justify them staying on the roster.

 

I hope makes it back 100% and Stetter is lights out LOOGY awesome so Melvin's hand might be forced to dump someone else.

[Flood Pants]

Another bright spot to this move is that, without Hawkins locked into that "setup" role, Coffey and Villanueva should get more late-inning work. They deserve it. Especially Coffey, who was inexplicably bumped to middle relief after performing so well last year.

[rluzinski]

That might just be a fancy term for dead arm. His velocity was off 5 mph the other night, that's tough to explain if you are not less than 100%.

Or "dead arm" is just a layman's term for any number of actual medical conditions?

 

Invader3K

wrote:

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There's no way they release Suppan unless

he really falters soon in his relief role.

I

agree. Hell, he's ahead of Parra in the bullpen, so apparently

Parra would be released first!

[homer]

Hawkins hasnt been the same velocity wise since Macha let him throw over 40 pitches against the cubs. I fully blame our clueless manager for this injury.

That's like two innings of work. He should be able to throw two innings worth of pitches.

[Invader3K]

I fully blame our clueless manager for this injury.

I understand that you think Ken Macha is the antichrist of baseball managers, but this seems a bit over the top.

[BrewCrewForever]

Braddock, Smith, Axford and Stetter all a deserving of a role in the bullpen. I hope Melvin learns to not waste money on relief pitchers in the future.

Well put twobrewers. No need to spend money on guys like Riske and Hawkins when we have good young arms that are cheaper and proably as effective if not more.

 

I am glad to have Stetter back. Now Parra won't have to try to be that lefty specialist.

[bklynbrewcrew]

Melvin believes in having a "veteran" bullpen. Before signing Hawkins and Hoffman he wanted tom pay Cordero 40 million for 4 years. Melvin has shown no inclination to let the young guys fill bullpen roles.

[patrickgpe]

would have liked to see braddock up to see what he can do against big league hitters, but i'm happy to have a real lefty specialist now.

[TooLiveBrew]

Just want to say good call to marty22. He posted on Friday that he thought Hawkins was injured

[GAME05]

Hell, he's [suppan] ahead of Parra in the bullpen, so apparently

Parra would be released first!

well, Soup IS the veteran and Parra isn't. i just can't think of any alternative way to order a bullpen except by seniority, can you?

 

i'd love to see Parra tried out in the set-up role, which i think he'd be great at.