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2020-08-13: Brewers (Anderson) at Cubs (Darvish) [Brewers lose, 4-2]

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Just a reminder that Andy Haines was just the understudy of the hitting coach of a woefully underperforming Cubs offense in 2018 (who was then fired). That was his resume when we hired him.

 

I never understood why we hired him.

 

I'm firmly of the opinion that one should never hire a "good" hitting coach with a great reputation. That way when the bats go cold for the whole team at once it makes it really easy fix to just fire the hitting coach. In some sense all baseball coaches are hired to be fired, but that might actually the case for a hitting coach.

 

I get what you're saying, but man that sounds really stupid.

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The Brewers better make plans to find another high quality bat because Hiura just may not be it. He looks like a #5-6 hitter that will sometimes be hot.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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SomewhereInTime First Round Pick

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The Brewers better make plans to find another high quality bat because Hiura just may not be it. He looks like a #5-6 hitter that will sometimes be hot.

 

Yeah sometimes guys who strikeout a million times and post a .400+ babip their rookie year may come crashing back down to earth in year two.

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The Brewers better make plans to find another high quality bat because Hiura just may not be it. He looks like a #5-6 hitter that will sometimes be hot.

 

With the team struggling he might be trying too hard. He is better as a DH and not defending, however.

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Erik Kratz is still catching games in the MLB at age 40. And for the Yankees. Crazy stuff.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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The Hiura situation is alarming to say the least. I was really looking forward to his development this year but generally most guys can hit a fastball and have to learn to hit off speed. If you have the trouble he does with heat I'm not so sure the future is as bright as I thought.
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Another K for Hiura.......wow

 

This bunch has to have more strike outs than any other team in the bigs. We began to see this trend last season.

 

 

In recent years the Brewers have always been a high strikeout team but that really doesn't matter due to how much power there was in the lineup. To be among the league leaders in strikeouts and be near the bottom in slugging percentage, like this year, is just completely awful. Small sample or not, we're a quarter of the way through the season, it's not likely for season numbers to improve drastically.

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The Hiura situation is alarming to say the least. I was really looking forward to his development this year but generally most guys can hit a fastball and have to learn to hit off speed. If you have the trouble he does with heat I'm not so sure the future is as bright as I thought.

 

If Hiura can't make the adjustments necessary it would be disastrous for the franchise. I think a new hitting coach will help him.

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I'm not even sure what "this team was built for a 162 game season" means. Every team was. 60 games or 162 or 300 or 20, your team is built to win games. I don't buy the "they haven't gelled yet" or "they need time to come together" stuff. Every team most seasons is a somewhat new team. A 60 game season is going to be a crap shoot.

I think part of the difference is during 162-game grind players wear down, and being able to give them more off days with the ability to replace them with similar production is valuable. That is where the platoon game pays off because aside from facing top pitchers, there are a lot of guys where the handedness platoon advantage can make an incremental difference. Right now there are so few games that the inconsistency of the lineup/at-bats from day-to-day is possibly hurting them more than helping. That’s my theory on the difference between 162 and 60, but I have no way to prove my hypothesis.

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The Hiura situation is alarming to say the least. I was really looking forward to his development this year but generally most guys can hit a fastball and have to learn to hit off speed. If you have the trouble he does with heat I'm not so sure the future is as bright as I thought.

Haines should be fired just for this.

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