2012-05-05 Brewers (Wolf) at Giants (Bumgarner), 3:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 5-2]

[jjgott]

Is it just me or have we given up a lot of hits to pitchers this year?

[3and2Fastball]

Can Bill Hall play SS?

 

 

Yep he sure can. We need a Time Machine back to 2005-2006 or so, though. After you pick up Bill Hall from 2005, can you stop by April 2008 and tell Ned Yost to sit Ben Sheets for most of the 1st half, to save him for the playoffs?

[Vgmastr]

Bunting to get to Izturis? Really?

[3and2Fastball]

Time to get Yuni B back.. maybe this should only be in half blue?

 

Like this

 

Time to get Yuni B back

[endaround]

If that was from the dugout, ughhh.

 

If that was Hart, someone needs to tell him not to ever do that again.

[adambr2]

Ramirez. Is this your first baseball game?

[yfinn6]

Corey really needs to understand just who IS batting behind him if that was his idea to bunt.

[Vgmastr]

The Giants gift wrapped us a run and we just said, "No thanks, you keep it."

[endaround]

Pace Bill, Ramierz had no shot. He left right when Melky caught and he would have been dead.

[coolcool]

I'm so done with Ramirez.

[yfinn6]

And with one pitch, the Giants do what the Brewers couldn't do -- drive in a runner with less than two outs.

[coolcool]

Oh come on. It was a tie game with a bad hitter coming up. You have to run there and at least hope for a bad throw.

[chickinbrickin]

That was the weakest base hit I have ever seen

[adambr2]

I'm very bothered by the fact that a 6 IP, 4 ER game from Randy Wolf isn't very disappointing right now.

[adambr2]

Oh come on. It was a tie game with a bad hitter coming up. You have to run there and at least hope for a bad throw.

 

Agree. Ramirez isn't fast by any means, but the right fielder is making that catch on the run with his momentum carrying him towards the stands. You definitely take the shot given the game situation, it's still going to take a good throw to get him.

[davego]

Can Green fill in at SS?

[markedman5]

So our new lineup is

Aoki

Weeks

Braun

AR

Hart

Lucroy/George

Ishikawa/Conrad

Izturas

 

wow........looks like a team that will struggle to get to .500

[Funketown]

I'd bet that this team without Narveson, Gamel, and Gonzalez projects to be no better than 81-81.

[adambr2]

Eventually you just realize that Rickie has about 3000 career AB's under his belt and probably isn't going to get better than he is. (not that he'll hit .184 all year, but he's never going to develop into the player that many of us had hoped for).

[Funketown]

Eventually you just realize that Rickie has about 3000 career AB's under his belt and probably isn't going to get better than he is. (not that he'll hit .184 all year, but he's never going to develop into the player that many of us had hoped for).

 

I think the 2010-2011 Weeks was exactly the type of player we hoped Weeks would develop into. .270/.360/.460, 25 HR's and solid defense.

[hawing]

[sarcasm]Remember, The Cards are a fragile team that will have tons of injuries.[/sarcasm]

 

Injuries are mostly luck based.

Oh, come on... "health is a skill"!

You're both wrong. Health is clearly a factor of character and karma. If the 2008 and 2011 Brewers hadn't been such thugs, untucking and enjoying life and such, they wouldn't be suffering as they are at present.

 

Now, let's distract ourselves for a moment by wondering how Chris Carpenter would explain my theory to his son.

[3and2Fastball]

Eventually you just realize that Rickie has about 3000 career AB's under his belt and probably isn't going to get better than he is. (not that he'll hit .184 all year, but he's never going to develop into the player that many of us had hoped for).

 

I think the 2010-2011 Weeks was exactly the type of player we hoped Weeks would develop into. .270/.360/.460, 25 HR's and solid defense.

 

Weeks' AAA hitting stats gave many hopes of him being much much better than that, certainly as good as Braun or Fielder if not even better. Granted it was only 200 at-bats in 2005 as a 22 year old but he was hitting .320 with a .435 OBP when he got called up with 12 HR's and 10 steals. At the time he projected to be a .400 OBP guy who was going to hit 35 HR's a season

[Funketown]

Eventually you just realize that Rickie has about 3000 career AB's under his belt and probably isn't going to get better than he is. (not that he'll hit .184 all year, but he's never going to develop into the player that many of us had hoped for).

 

I think the 2010-2011 Weeks was exactly the type of player we hoped Weeks would develop into. .270/.360/.460, 25 HR's and solid defense.

 

Weeks' AAA hitting stats gave many hopes of him being much much better than that, certainly as good as Braun or Fielder if not even better. Granted it was only 200 at-bats in 2005 as a 22 year old but he was hitting .320 with a .435 OBP when he got called up with 12 HR's and 10 steals. At the time he projected to be a .400 OBP guy who was going to hit 35 HR's a season

 

Yeah, I know a lot of people were hoping for that, but that type of projection is always going to be the 99th percentile projection for pretty much anybody in the minors. If Weeks was a 35 HR, .400 OBP guy as a 2B with average defense, he would probably be one of the 5-10 best players in the league.

[brewmann04]

Weeks has been down right bad and with these injuries can't be sit at this moment. The brewers are struggling and look like 500 BALL CLUB.

[pebadger]

Dillard looking a bit like Nuke LaLoosh right now. I mean physical appearance-wise.