2012-04-12 Brewers (Greinke) at Cubs (Garza), 1:20 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 8-0]

[owbc]

Finally I have a few free minutes to watch some Brewers baseball and they don't show up. At this pace I'm never going to watch a game this year.

[bjkrautk]

On the Parra frustration factor, can anybody come up with a position player who was similarly apparently talented and frustration inducing? Going way back I guess Glenn Braggs sort of loosely fits, if for no other reason than he never killed a pitcher on a comebacker as everyone expected would happen sooner or later.

 

I don't think we have to look any further than Carlos Gomez for that one.

 

The fear with every LHP is that things will eventually fall into place for them, especially if they have a 90+ fastball. JDLR comes to mind almost immediately, albeit the Royals gave up on him after the Brewers did.

[chickinbrickin]

Rickie needs to settle down a bit and get the bat going. He is currently on pace for 215 Ks. That would even impress Drew Stubbs and Mark Reynolds.

[brwrsfan]

I'd be all for giving Rickie a day off. Unfortunately, that means Izturis has to play....so absolutely not. Please correct the stupid roster mistake and bring up Conrad or Green.

[3and2Fastball]

Rickie needs to settle down a bit and get the bat going. He is currently on pace for 215 Ks. That would even impress Drew Stubbs and Mark Reynolds.

 

I wonder if Rickie will ever grow out of chasing the outside breaking ball. He's a very good player but he could be a .420 OBP guy if he learned to lay off of that pitch

[hawing]

 

Most of this bad luck can probably be put on the Ghost of Yuni Past.

 

 

 

*fist shake*

 

Shake harder, boy!

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[RWeeksFan23]

Parra is without a doubt the most frustrating pitcher I've ever rooted for. How can you be a LHP with a legit 93-95 MPH FB when you come up to the bigs, have more than 2 plus secondary pitches, and still stink? He appears to have every tool any pitcher of either hand would ever want except for the one that counts. I'm not sure what goes on in his head, but it sure isn't right.

 

Sabathia was definitely right about Parra, he should have whittled his repertoire down to 3-4 pitches and just gotten after hitters. I keep holding out hope that he'll figure it out and be the dominant pitcher he can be.

 

Of course as I'm typing this he gets strike outs for 3 of 4 outs.

What did Sabathia say about Parra?

[TheCrew07]

That he should just focus on his 3 best pitches and get after it.