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2021-05-19: Brewers (Burnes) at Royals (Keller) [Brewers lose, 6-4 -- Bullpen falters and the Brewers drop both games in KC]

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Ah, Mike DeJean as the closer, those were the days. He is the only reason I ever remember Jerry Royster was a Brewers manager.

 

Along with another classic Brewers closer (probably in 2004?) Curtis Leskanic. Before Hader it seems like the Brewers had bout a 20+ year run of a revolving door at closer...most of them having one great year and then one horrible year where they replaced.

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Ah, Mike DeJean as the closer, those were the days. He is the only reason I ever remember Jerry Royster was a Brewers manager.

 

Along with another classic Brewers closer (probably in 2004?) Curtis Leskanic. Before Hader it seems like the Brewers had bout a 20+ year run of a revolving door at closer...most of them having one great year and then one horrible year where they replaced.

 

Axford had a pretty solid 3-year run in there, but other than him, you are right.

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Ah, Mike DeJean as the closer, those were the days. He is the only reason I ever remember Jerry Royster was a Brewers manager.

 

Along with another classic Brewers closer (probably in 2004?) Curtis Leskanic. Before Hader it seems like the Brewers had bout a 20+ year run of a revolving door at closer...most of them having one great year and then one horrible year where they replaced.

 

Axford had a pretty solid 3-year run in there, but other than him, you are right.

 

I think Kolb, Turnbow, Cordero, Axford, Knebel, and Jeffress were all All-Stars during their time as closers here at one point. So it's been a revolving door but at least we've gotten good production there.

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Having Jenkins, Sexson and a rookie Podsednik at least kept things interesting. Throw in Kieschnick and it make it a somewhat interesting summer even though they stink as a team. Of course a Glendon Rusch start usually put everybody in a bad mood so I am grateful to be able to watch Burnes/Peralta/Woodruff.
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Ah, Mike DeJean as the closer, those were the days. He is the only reason I ever remember Jerry Royster was a Brewers manager.

 

Along with another classic Brewers closer (probably in 2004?) Curtis Leskanic. Before Hader it seems like the Brewers had bout a 20+ year run of a revolving door at closer...most of them having one great year and then one horrible year where they replaced.

 

Axford had a pretty solid 3-year run in there, but other than him, you are right.

 

My recollection is the Brewers always had a decent closer from the late 1980s until 2008 or so.

 

Dan Pleasac (All-Star), Doug Henry, Mike Fetters, Doug Jones (All-Star) Wickman (All-Star), Leskanic, DeJean, Danny Kolb (All-Star) Turnbow (All-Star), CoCo Cordero (All-Star).

 

To the contrary most of those pitchers remained effective and had 10+ year careers in the majors. Their tenure with the Brewers ended when they were traded away for younger and/or cheaper players:

 

Dough Henry for Fernando Vina

Mike Fetters et al. for Jeff Juden and Marquis Grissom

Bob Wickman et al. for Richie Sexson et al.

Leskanic for Wes Obermueller et al.

Danny Kolb for Jose Capellan.

 

Plesac left as a free agent, DeJean and Doug Jones were traded off in mostly lateral moves, although Doug Jones had a few more nice seasons after Milwaukee. It was Turnbow who imploded overnight and was released. Cordero took a mega deal with Cincinnati as a free agent.

 

To the extent there was a dark age for the Brewers closer it began in 2008 with a washed up Eric Gagne. Trevor Hoffman was able to evade Father Time in 2009, but not 2010.

 

Since 2011 they've been pretty solid in the closer department once again: Axford (All-Star) Jim Henderson, Francisco Rodriguez (All-Star) Jeffress, Knebel (All-Star) then Hader (All-Star).

 

Again, most of these closers were traded away for younger and cheaper players:

 

Axford never regained the 2010-2011 form but was still managed to get 10 years of service time and was traded for Michael Blazek.

Jim Henderson suffered an arm injury and pitched on 40 more innings in the majors after his sublime 2013 season.

K-Rod was traded twice for Nicky Delmonico and then Manny Pina

Jeffress/Lucory were traded for Lewis Brinson, Ryan Cordell and Luis Ortiz

Obviously, Knebel was traded moments before being released in a cost saving move.

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Hey Jopal- I just wanted to say great post, thank you. It really brought back some memories.

 

Anyone else think Jeff Juden wasTony LaRussa’s kind of guy. I remember him throwing at people like it was his best skill (which I guess it may have been).

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Luis Urias on the bench tonight, which isn’t overly surprising given his defensive struggles. Counsell was somewhat candid last night about Urias needing to be able to be able to consistently make the routine plays in order to continue as the shortstop on a team with championship aspirations.
Not just “at Night” anymore.
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This popped up on one of my Facebook groups today as a random Brewer box score.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL200305190.shtml

 

What disturbed me is looking at the lineup and thinking it was a pretty great lineup and wishing ours was more like it.

 

Look at those batting averages! The sad thing is they were probably mediocre for the time. Now they’d be All-Stars…

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Narvaez has been a treat to have as a catcher.
"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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