Mench DFA'd

[And That]

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To make room for Sal Torres, Kevin Mench was DFA'd by the Brewers. What's your favorite Mench moment?

[JJHardy7]

What's your favorite Mench moment?

 

I'd have to say his arrival to Miller Park the day we traded for him. It looked like it was something out of a WWE show. I believe he even came up in a big spot at the end of the game...and got out. It only went downhill from there.

[patrickgpe]

ill remember the homer he hit against the reds? in 06 which was his first and only homer he hit with the brewers that year. I though we were on to something, oh was i wrong.

[Fatter than Joey]

What's your favorite Mench moment?

 

Probably today.

[milwaukeesportsfan]

I'd have to say it was at the beginning of Spring Training this year when he said he would not accept a platoon situation and demanded to be traded, and then after getting a good talking to from Yost changed his tune. What a turd that guy was.

[RyDogg66]

What's your favorite Mench moment?

 

Probably today.

agreed.

[billyhallfan]

i remember his first homer, i was at that game, it was a sunday, and he got a curtain call, didn't hit another one all year.

 

good bye, I really won't miss him a lot.

[RyDogg66]

i remember his first homer, i was at that game, it was a sunday, and he got a curtain call, didn't hit another one all year.

 

good bye, I really won't miss him a lot.

If Im not mistaken that was the first Cerveceros night. El Mench

 

[hawing]

My favorite was when my mom told me that Kevin Mench was her favorite Brewer, because he looked the least like a professional athlete.

 

On the field, we saw the same 2006 home run that patrickgpe did (Edit: It was a Sunday day game, RyDogg). The Brewers included it in one of their highlight collections for 2007, and I kind of rolled my eyes every time I saw it.

 

And of course, I'll miss the platoon names to which his surname was so well suited: Menchkins, Grench, Gwynch, etc.

[recte44]

What's your favorite Mench moment?

 

Probably today.

+1

[berniebrewer4life]

That's too bad. Oh well, atleast that frees up 4 more Million if we need to make another move.

[TooLiveBrew]

My favorite moment was his game at Wrigley prior to being left in to first-pitch chop it to SS v. Dempster. Iirc, he had a nice game going until he was played against his weakness.

 

Best of luck to ya, Kevin. Go mash LHP somewhere!

[sgtcluels]

That's not really a mench moment as much as it was a Yosting.

[ttsather]

Using the term "favorite" very liberally, his game-ending ground out against the Cubs at Wrigley on August 30th marks one of the most emotional (in this case, negative) baseball experiences I've ever had.

 

That's worth something, right?

 

 

EDIT: Too slow. Also, definitely a Yosting, but still a Mench moment.

[PaulRigdon]

So we in essence traded carlos lee and nelson cruz for the draft picks we are getting from the reds. Not one player in that trade is on the brewers now. Or is Julian Cordero still in our system.

[JohnBriggs12]

My favorite moment was his game at Wrigley prior to being left in to first-pitch chop it to SS v. Dempster. Iirc, he had a nice game going until he was played against his weakness.

 

Best of luck to ya, Kevin. Go mash LHP somewhere!

 

That AB will stick with me for a long, long time. It should have cost Yost his job.

 

Good riddance.

[aracko]

What's your favorite Mench moment?

 

I'd have to say his arrival to Miller Park the day we traded for him. It looked like it was something out of a WWE show. I believe he even came up in a big spot at the end of the game...and got out. It only went downhill from there.

 

I remember that but I remember it differently. The way I remember is they show mench arrive at the ballpark, follow him thru to the locker room - I agree much like a WWE moment. I remember being down like 3 runs and we had 2 runners on with 1 out. Mench just was moving so slowwwwwww. I was so pumped up and thought that he could have come into that ballgame and been a hero. Things like that live forever in milwaukee. Instead he took all night to put on his gloves and the game was over. Id agree that that is my most "memorable" moment - although its kind of a crappy memory.

[patrickgpe]

So we in essence traded carlos lee and nelson cruz for the draft picks we are getting from the reds

we still got more out of the deal than the rangers. Id rather have the pics than lee in left field under the terms of his contract with the astros.

[craigharmann]

Happy trails to you (and your big head) until we meet again (whenever that happens). So does this mean then, that Salomon is not going to retire and will be a Brewer?

[patrickgpe]

i don't think we know that, it makes sense cause even if torres retires we have a spot for gagne. It was going to happen might as well be today instead of wednesday.

[And That]

They had to make the move to clear a spot for Torres, because whether or not he will retire in the near future, he isn't retired yet and must be assigned a roster spot.

[JJHardy7]

Instead he took all night to put on his gloves and the game was over. Id agree that that is my most "memorable" moment - although its kind of a crappy memory.

 

Yea I think you're right. Did he get on the on deck circle or anything? I thought he was "close" to getting an at bat. I loved his entrance though. He was a superstar for a day.

[SoCalBrewfan]

So we in essence traded carlos lee and nelson cruz for the draft picks we are getting from the reds.

 

The only way in which that is true is if you assign zero value to having the year and a half of Cordero at below-market price (and the year and a half of Mench, less of a bargain). (Year and two months, if you prefer.)

[homer]

I always thought he got a bad rap - it wasn't his fault Ned kept playing him against righties.

 

I'm sure he'll be booed when he returns to MP.

[Thurston Fluff]

So we in essence traded carlos lee and nelson cruz for the draft picks we are getting from the reds. Not one player in that trade is on the brewers now. Or is Julian Cordero still in our system.

 

We traded 1/2 a season of Lee for 1 1/2 seasons of all star caliber closer and a useful, if over paid, platoon player and two draft picks. What we would have got had we not traded him would have been two draft picks from Houston. Just because the players we get in a trade aren't around for the next ten years doesn't mean it was a bad trade.