2011-07-17 Brewers (Marcum) at Rockies (Cook) - [Brewers win, 4-3]

[logan82]

33 AB are not predictive. Not compared to the hundreds upon hundreds where he stunk before this. There is no way we should look at a measly 33 AB instead of those hundreds and make any kind of meaningful decision.

[topper09er]

Weeks 5 is just dumb.

 

He's one of your 3 best performers, so you move him down 4 spots in the order, to limit his at bats.

 

Prince doesn't need 'protection'. Protection is almost wholly a myth. It's unsubstantiated, and full of holes. If 'protection' were real, Prince wouldn't have 22 bombs and 73 RBI with McGehee and Betencourt hitting behind him.

 

To mirror what Logan said, Weeks hitting 5th isn't a good thing, it's just that RR did it yesterday, and got lucky.

Weeks hitting 5 is good because we need someone to take advantage of Prince's .421 OBP and get another shot at Braun's .396 OBP before we enter the blackhole of Yuni/McGehee. Prince has only scored 32 non-HR runs this seasons because the guys behind are sucking it up.

 

Weeks is on pace to hit 31 HRs but only have 70 RBI this season, which would be a waste of his run producing potential. He also has a .347 OBP this year and .359 over the past 1.5+ seasons, which is nothing amazing for the top of the order.

[davego]

...what RoCo said... Get our best hitters up in the order and leave them there. I'd you have to toy with the hitting order, do it at the bottom where it can do less damage.

[Funketown]

Kotsay has 33 AB's, Gomez has 10 AB's this month. Gomez has 3 hits, 2 of which were on July 1 against Liriano. Kotsay has been hitting well as of late, so I really can't complain about him being in the lineup.

In terms of predictive value, 33 AB's is really no more useful than 10 AB's. Why should we focus on what a player has done in the past week rather than the past three years? Any reasonable projection has Gomez hitting nearly as well as Kotsay, some have Gomez hitting better. He also doesn't let line drives go through his legs in the outfield like Kotsay (that's line drives, plural).

[logan82]

Kotsay has 33 AB's, Gomez has 10 AB's this month. Gomez has 3 hits, 2 of which were on July 1 against Liriano. Kotsay has been hitting well as of late, so I really can't complain about him being in the lineup.

In terms of predictive value, 33 AB's is really no more useful than 10 AB's. Why should we focus on what a player has done in the past week rather than the past three years? Any reasonable projection has Gomez hitting nearly as well as Kotsay, some have Gomez hitting better. He also doesn't let line drives go through his legs in the outfield like Kotsay (that's line drives, plural).

To be fair he didn't let a couple line drives go through his legs. They were no hit hard enough to be line drives.

[BrewCrewForever]

My lineup today would have been:

 

Morgan - CF

Hart- RF

Weeks - 2B

Fielder- 1B

Kotsay - LF

McGehee - 3B

Kottaras - C

Wilson - SS

[PrinceEatMeat]

My lineup today would have been:

 

Morgan - CF

Hart- RF

Weeks - 2B

Fielder- 1B

Kotsay - LF

McGehee - 3B

Kottaras - C

Wilson - SS

I'd flip Fielder and Weeks and McGehee and Wilson.

 

[BrewCrewForever]

Anyone else find it odd that the Brewers have worn the road grey tops for this entire series? Those are the tops they wear the least, usually they go for the blue "Milwaukee" tops on the road. Just found that interesting.

[TheCrew07]

So Braun reaggravated his injury yesterday? I depise the Brewers' medical team with a passion.

 

Can we not just let players get fully healed before they come back? Baseball does not lend itself to playing hurt.

[topper09er]

My lineup today would have been:

 

Morgan - CF

Hart- RF

Weeks - 2B

Fielder- 1B

Kotsay - LF

McGehee - 3B

Kottaras - C

Wilson - SS

Why does everyone around here seem to think Casey McGehee is a major league baseball player? He is hitting worse than Jason Kendall this year, he should NEVER play at ANY TIME EVER, but if he has to he really needs to be buried in the 8 hole.

[TheCrew07]

And Rock is back... hooray and stuff.

[PrinceEatMeat]

And Rock is back... hooray and stuff.

Crap, that really sucks.

[PrinceEatMeat]

So Braun reaggravated his injury yesterday? I depise the Brewers' medical team with a passion.

 

Can we not just let players get fully healed before they come back? Baseball does not lend itself to playing hurt.

I agree. Braun shouldn't be playing if he can't make it through a full game feeling good.

[RockCoCougars]

Anyone successfully watching this on Directv? If so, could you shoot me a channel #? Thanks.

[tomwopat]

Chat ain't workin again

[topper09er]

Marcum's change is looking really nice so far

[Glennron]

Anyone else find it odd that the Brewers have worn the road grey tops for this entire series? Those are the tops they wear the least, usually they go for the blue "Milwaukee" tops on the road. Just found that interesting.

Bill just said it's supposed to be in the upper 90's in Denver today, maybe that's why.

[TSack27]

Anyone successfully watching this on Directv? If so, could you shoot me a channel #? Thanks.

669

 

 

[PrinceEatMeat]

Anyone else find it odd that the Brewers have worn the road grey tops for this entire series? Those are the tops they wear the least, usually they go for the blue "Milwaukee" tops on the road. Just found that interesting.

Bill just said it's supposed to be in the upper 90's in Denver today, maybe that's why.

Yeah, if I was the SP I would go with gray in that heat.

[topper09er]

With Kot, McGehee and Wilson due up Id just play for 1 run and try to get em over and get em in

 

Edit: good work Kot, now dont strikeout out McGehee

[PrinceEatMeat]

Alright, Kottaras got him over. But can McGehee actually drive him in?

[owbc]

Very nice work getting the run in.

[topper09er]

Nice job! Any inning that Kot, McGehee and Wilson hit and we score a run is big for us.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Good, he got the job done.

[BrewCrewForever]

Anyone else find it odd that the Brewers have worn the road grey tops for this entire series? Those are the tops they wear the least, usually they go for the blue "Milwaukee" tops on the road. Just found that interesting.

Bill just said it's supposed to be in the upper 90's in Denver today, maybe that's why.

Yeah, if I was the SP I would go with gray in that heat.

Ah yes, that would make sense then.