So what's all the love for Kremblas?

[Thurston Fluff]

I've read sevaral people who seem to want Kremblas as our next manager. Before I go too far let me make it clear. It's not that I don't think he absolutly isn't good enough or that I think he'll never be a manager but what exactly has he done to make anyone think he'd do a better job than Yost? (Please come up with something better than anyone can do a better job than Yost) Yost I might point out had far more experience going into his first job than Kremblas does. I'm sure there are other canidates with no major league managerial experience who has put in more time as a coach or minor league manager than he has. Looking back Yost learned from one of the best managers in the game. It could be argued that he learned from one of the all time best. Yet somehow someone with less time learning his craft some feel Kremblas could take over and do what Yost couldn't.

Some of the reasons that I can think of are...

 

1- Because he's home grown and has yet to fail. I love home grown players and root for our minor league instructors to get a shot as much as anyone. That's not a reason to give someone with zero experience one of the most talented young groups of players in baseball at a time when the organization absolutely needs them to succeed. In fact it would probably be the worst time for it.

 

2-He knows the young players. How well could he know them? Most of them have had very little time playing for him. Most of our players have had 1 year or less with him. Some have had almost no time with him at all. Some vets may never have really met or talked to him. Fact is very few players have had more time with Kremblas as they have with Yost.

 

3-It's time for a fresh face. If it's for a fresh face why not go outside of the organization for a complete change? If the players have not fulfilled expectations at the big league level then it follows some of those failings fall to those who have helped develope them.

 

4-He's put in his time and he deserves a shot. If it's because he's next in line that simply isn't good enough a reason. I'd rather have someone with actual experince to guide a team coming off of a 15 year rebuilding project.

 

 

From what I've read he does some odd things strategically. For instance having a catcher try to steal home. That's all we need is another guy whose strategic decisions could be seocnd guessed from the word go.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/frown.gif Honestly I don't know enough about Kremblas to think he's any better or worse than what we already have. Fact is nobody does. Which is the point. At this time, with this particular Brewer team, if we do fire Yost it darn well better be for someone who is as close to a lock to be an improvement as one can get. Kremblas would be anything but. Quite frankly I think I'd rather give Garner a shot than someone with zero experience. At least Garner has proved he can lead a team through tough times and has actually lead a team to the world series as a manager.

Again this is not to slam Kremblas just wondering why someone with his limited creditials would be considered an inprovement.

[logan82]

NOt sure it s love of Kremblas as much as dislike of Ned Yost. That or just wanting something different. Kremblas has also had sucess as a manager at the AAA level.

[sheethead]

He has consistently won while leading a team. This would qualify him as a good candidate. Granted he has had good players, but so does Yost. I think people are receptive to Kremblas because he seems to be a winner, not a whiner.

 

Edit: As far as the training under Bobby Cox goes, that definitely is great experience. But if you weren't cut out for the job in the first place, it doesn't really matter who you trained under. I would question how much Ned actually learned all those years. He sure didn't seem to learn how to win.

[Brian the Automator]

Kremblas is VERY much a players' manager, and as alluded to above, has some unorthodox ideas about catching the other team off-guard.

 

With that said, being a minor league manager and a major league manager requires two very different approaches. It's not inconceivable that Kremblas could change his approach when the goal (winning games, not developing players) is at hand. He's not my first choice, but not my last either.

[Thurston Fluff]

Success at the minor league level has little to do with success at the major league level since the criteria for success is differant. If the manager wins the AAA title every year but doesn't prepare the players properly to be solid major league players he's failed to do his job properly. While some of the players have contributed at the major league level they also came in to the majors incomplete. If they are failing here there is plenty of blame to go around and he is part of that. Especially when defense is taken into consideration. We've had plenty of players come through here that didn't play major league defense recently. If the major league team has to get them up to speed there it has to have an effect on what else they can work on. After all there is only so much time in a day. A lot of that should have been doen at lower levels.

It isn't so much the dislike of Yost I'm talking about as to why a person would feel Kremblas is an improvement. What qualities has he shown to make one feel he's more qualified?

[Ennder]

I think Kremblas has the best shot at being a good manager out of the people in the organization right now. No way would i hand him the team next year which is why I'd like to see Yost canned with Kremblas finishing out this season to get a closer look at him and see if he's the guy for the job or not.

[patrickgpe]

Kremblas has some postives in his favor. First of all he has won in Huntsville and Nashville, which has to be worth something. He is younger and can relate to the younger players on the team. That being said, if Ned gets the axe I want an experienced coach. Look at the bucks they were a young talented team under Dunleavy and Ford, but didn't do anything until Karl came here, and hasn't done anything since he left. Rookie managers are the cheap way to go, but we are at the point where we are going to have to pay someone about 5 million a year to come here and get us in the playoffs.

[mothershipconnection]

Especially when defense is taken into consideration. We've had plenty of players come through here that didn't play major league defense recently. If the major league team has to get them up to speed there it has to have an effect on what else they can work on. After all there is only so much time in a day. A lot of that should have been doen at lower levels.

 

I don't think you can blame any of our coaches at any level for that. Most of these guys were known to have deficits, so it's like blaming the coaches for Estrada's lack of speed that was probably apparent when he was 5. The front office is the best place to lay the blame, as it wasn't the minor league coach's decision to promote a guy a level when his D was still shoddy.

The most you can do is say that they failed to improve the players drastically beyond expectations. Look at our big prospects to come up recently and compare their performance with what people said on draft day:

 

Fielder - many said he'd be a DH. Safe to say he's exceeded expectations by not being a total hack.

Weeks - widely predicted a move to the OF. He's not good, but he's still not as bad as many predicted.

Braun - see Weeks.

Hart - I don't remember draft day for Corey, but in the early minors the report was that he's a good athlete and defender (ignore the 3B experiment), check.

Hardy - they said he'd be good and he is.

[dadofandrew]

The only thing I know about Kremblas is he has talked to the media about his players in a negative light a few times in his reign. That's not a positive, to say the least. I'm surprised he isn't a coach if he is highly thought of.

[RyDogg66]

What did Joe Torre do before going to New York, or Bobby Cox before going to Atlanta.

[homer]

What did Joe Torre do before going to New York, or Bobby Cox before going to Atlanta.

What did Rene Lachemann do before coming to Milwaukee?

[tigerbrew]

The only thing I know about Kremblas is he has talked to the media about his players in a negative light a few times in his reign. That's not a positive, to say the least.

I think there's nothing wrong with that if the player deserves it and needs a wakeup call.

[Thurston Fluff]

The only thing I know about Kremblas is he has talked to the media about his players in a negative light a few times in his reign. That's not a positive, to say the least.

I think there's nothing wrong with that if the player deserves it and needs a wakeup call.

There is if they haven't been talked to privately first. Especially with young developing players. They are young, impressionable and aren't finished products so it would be very easy for bad public comments to effect them poorly.

 

The most you can do is say that they failed to improve the players drastically beyond expectations.

 

That's saying a lot if the person's job was to do exactly that.

[44Fishy]

"Quite frankly I think I'd rather give Garner a shot than someone with zero experience. At least Garner has proved he can lead a team through tough times and has actually lead a team to the world series as a manager."

Not sure which is worse-
Yost who can't put together a 2nd half or Garner who can't put together a 1st half....

I like that Kremblas has won with some of these guys-
And the title he won with Nashville, wasn't he working the postseason with an empty cupboard after September call-ups took a lot of the talent off his roster?
His ability to get the new roster to perform has gotta count for something, too-

[pitchleague]

I don't want them to hire him, because then I'll have to read:

 

"We've been Kremblased" all the time, and that just doesn't roll of the tongue as smoothly as what we have now.