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The Brewer Advent Calendar #23: Rickie Weeks

So 23 days remain until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. Behind door #23 on the Brewer Advent Calendar is the Brewers' #23, Rickie Weeks.

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Weeks isn't holding a lightning rod in the picture, but he frequently is one. We don't talk an awful lot about his speed, though, and it is notable. Consider this: Weeks has 78 stolen bases in 92 career attempts, a better percentage than any Brewer with at least 92 attempts in franchise history:

Player SB CS %
Rickie Weeks 78 14 84.7
Scott Podsednik 113 23 83.1
Mike Felder 108 27 80.0
Tommy Harper 136 37 78.6
Paul Molitor 412 115 78.2
Pat Listach 112 36 75.7
Darryl Hamilton 109 40 73.2
Robin Yount 271 105 72.1
Jose Valentin 78 32 70.9
Jim Gantner 137 78 63.7
B.J. Surhoff 102 64 61.4


 

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For those of us who weren't following the brewers in the 80s/early 90s

and didn’t pay attention to BJ Surhoff until he was good (’95 on) … the idea of him attempting 166 steals is hilarious. 6 triples in 1996? Hilariouser!

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Jan 20, 2009 12:12 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

He was my favorite Brewer

when I was littler. Probably ’88 or ’89 (I would have been 8 or 9). And it was only because I thought he had a cool name.

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 20, 2009 12:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

huh, we're the same age

I was surprised to look up Surhoff’s stats and see that he played when he did. When I first got into baseball, I was an NL fan (thanks, WGN and WTBS) so BJ didn’t really show up on my radar until the mid-90s. Can’t believe he was such a solid player for all those years in Mke and it took a move to Baltimore, of all places, to get my attention.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Jan 20, 2009 12:49 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Perception among many during his MKE days...

… was that Surhoff was a second half guy and that he put up most of his numbers when the team was already out of it. It was true some years, though not all of them. Surhoff, while being a great guy from all appearances, suffered from the same thing that gets Weeks in trouble with some of the fanbase (myself included): outsized expectations based on draft position. Many never really forgave him for not being a franchise player they could build the team around.

I have an unreasonable dislike of Bill Hall.

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 20, 2009 12:56 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Boy was he on the juice?

His best power years were ages 30-35 or so. I think atypical would be an understatement.

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 20, 2009 12:24 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

He would have been awesome in Milwaukee...

… if someone told him that the games count in April and May.

He was the target of one of the more entertaining heckling incidents I’ve ever witnessed. In the first game of a 3 game series, everytime Surhoff came to the plate, a guy seated near the railing between the Brewers dugout and the box would stand up and start booing his ass off. Later he started chanting BeeeeeeJaaaaaay in the whiniest, most obnoxious voice he could muster. Then he started shouting out various reasons why Surhoff sucked (some of which were even valid). It was loud and the stadium was pretty empty, so it wasn’t hard to hear him. Surhoff made the mistake of glancing over at him while he was in the on-deck circle before his second at bat, which only keyed the guy up even more. Finally, late in the game, as Surhoff walked back to the dugout after striking out, the heckler shouted “I’ve got tickets for the next two games, Surhoff. Seeya tomorrow,” prompting widespread laughter and a few groans from the other people in the section who also had tickets for the next two games. I heard Uecker bust out laughing on my oh-so-cool stadium headset radio. A few seconds later he said announced on air that the BJ Surhoff fan club would be attending the next two games.

I have an unreasonable dislike of Bill Hall.

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 20, 2009 12:51 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Haha that's hilarious!

I can just imagine that. Was it just me or did it seem like the old County Stadium allowed sound to carry so much more than Miller Park? Or maybe its just that it was mostly empty almost all the time…

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 20, 2009 1:27 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Wait until tomorrow. :-)

I don't specifically articulate my motives, because that wouldn't travel as well as a boo does.

by Kyle Lobner on Jan 20, 2009 2:58 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

ya. this has got to be my least favorite day. had to get rickie out of the way, right?

any way we can get gabe kapler’s shirtless pic on one of the calender days just for the fun of it?

i hope to see RJ’s Son of Clung Baseball picture from Star Trek at some point as well…

by Jamie in LA on Jan 20, 2009 4:58 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Worse than Kendall?

Compared to Kendall day this should be a national holiday.

by Braun Holio on Jan 20, 2009 10:18 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

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