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by Kyle Lobner on Sep 7, 2010 8:24 AM CDT
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The Brewers dropped to 4-10 in their last 14 games with an 8-6 loss to the Cardinals yesterday, and there were no shortage of people to share the blame for some disastrous late-inning mistakes. Tom Haudricourt singled out three guilty parties: Casey McGehee, who committed an error on a key grounder and was thrown out at the plate, Todd Coffey, who allowed a grand slam, and third base coach Brad Fischer, who essentially ended the Brewers' eighth inning rally by sending McGehee home.
When the two teams take the field tonight, there will be three new Brewers: With the minor league season concluded, the Brewers called up shortstop Luis Cruz and reliever Brandon Kintzler (FanShot), along with Nashville coach Sandy Guerrero. Cruz had a career year in Nashville in 2010, hitting .281/.309/.414 in his tenth professional season. Kintzler was very impressive in his first full season in the Brewer organization, posting a 1.47 ERA in 42 relief appearances betweeen Huntsville and Nashville, and recording 16 saves.
Speaking of saves, Trevor Hoffman enters tonight's game sitting on 599 for his career. J.R. Radcliffe has a story on the approaching milestone for Cardinals.com.
Other notes from the field:
- As will likely become normal during sunny day games, yesterday's game was played with the right field roof panels partially closed to eliminate some of the shadows and glare.
- Albert Pujols, Yovani Gallardo and Yadier Molina are leading FanGraphs' Star of the Game voting.
- Here are the MLB.com video highlights.
For some, what happened yesterday isn't as important as what didn't happen. Plunk Everyone notes that the Brewers have gone a season-high seven straight games without being hit by a pitch, their longest streak of the season. But they still lead baseball with 69 HBP.
Yesterday I mentioned a post at Disciples of Uecker discussing Yovani Gallardo's offensive value. Today, Jack Moore has another post expanding on his findings: He says Gallardo has added an extra 1.3 wins to his value at the plate, putting him at 5.3 WAR overall. That's on pace with the likes of Adam Wainwright and Ubaldo Jimenez.
Carlos Gomez sat out again yesterday and still has just nine plate appearances since being activated off the DL on August 24. Ken Macha, Doug Melvin and Gomez sat down recently to discuss why he's not playing, and now it sounds like he's finally starting to get it:
"I'm not out of the lineup because I'm a bad center fielder or because I'm slow," Gomez said. "It's because I don't get on base consistent. If I get on base more consistent, there's no question about whether I'm going to play every day."
Gomez will spend the winter playing for Escogido in the Dominican Republic and working with Sandy Guerrero to fix the problem.
Maybe Gomez will get to face Doug Davis this winter: Davis hopes to be activated before next week's Giants series and pitch in a few games in relief, then plans to play winter ball to prove he's healthy while he looks for a contract for 2011.
In the minors:
- The affiliates went 1-3 last night and Nick Bucci pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing two hits, three walks and striking out four in Wisconsin's 7-0 win over Kane County in their season finale. You can read about that and more in today's Minor League Notes.
- Yesterday's games were also the last of 2010 for Huntsville and Nashville, and Battlekow says it sounds like this will be their final season as Brewer affiliates.
- Taylor Green had a pretty nice bounce-back season for Huntsville, hitting .260/.336/.438 as a 23 year old in the Southern League. At Brewerfan.net, Green's agent says he'll be spending some time at catcher in instructional ball this fall. (h/t Battlekow)
On power rankings:
- Beyond the Box Score has the Brewers holding steady at 20.
- MLB FanHouse moved the Brewers down one spot to 21.
- Craig Calcaterra has the Brewers at 23, down two spots.
Around baseball:
Angels: Released pitcher Brian Stokes.
Padres: Designated pitcher Steve Garrison for assignment.
Pirates: Designated infielder Akinori Iwamura and catcher Erik Kratz for assignment.
Rangers: Designated infielder Alex Cora for assignment.
This is a new one for me: As part of today's Aroldis Chapman update, Craig Calcaterra notes that Chapman's AAA pitching coach said the Cuban defector can't throw an effective changeup because his hands are too big.
Actually, this story is stranger yet: Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista leads the AL with 43 HR, and yesterday one of his foul balls knocked a letter off a sign at the Rogers Centre, causing it to fall and hit a fan.
It looks like the season is over for Jim Edmonds, who played in just nine games after being sent to the Reds in August. Edmonds is struggling to recover from an oblique strain.
While many AAA teams might be looking for a new parent club this offseason, one will also be looking for a new home: With their ballpark being made into a soccer-only facility, the Portland Beavers played their final home game yesterday. They're not sure where they'll play in 2011 at this point.
On this day two years ago, the Brewers were one-hit by Chris Young and the Padres, losing 10-1. On this day last year, they were one hit by Chris Carpenter and the Cardinals, losing 3-0. This probably doesn't bode well for today.
If you're looking for more Brewer History, check out the team's new Twitter feed devoted to that topic.
Happy birthday today to 1983-88 Brewer and longtime Brewer broadcaster Bill Schroeder, who turns 52.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get this box off my head.
Drink up.
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Holy crap.
The slow drill boring its way through GoGo’s thick skull is finally nearing its destination.
I've read the quote a few times, and still find it amazing
“I’m not out of the lineup because I’m a bad center fielder or because I’m slow,” Gomez said. “It’s because I don’t get on base consistent. If I get on base more consistent, there’s no question about whether I’m going to play every day.”
That’s like if, at the beginning of the season, Corey Hart had said, “I’m not out of the lineup because I’m too short or because I’m too good-looking; it’s because I don’t hit the baseball well. If I start hitting the baseball well, I’m going to play every day.”
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by Lefti on Sep 7, 2010 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
If we're one hit by jeff suppan, I'm done with baseball.
by KittenMittons on Sep 7, 2010 9:29 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
so, we're not facing a pitcher by the name of Chris?
good, we’re fine then
by PagsBrewCrew on Sep 7, 2010 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions
I have this recurring dream
That Suppan beans Weeks and the dam finally breaks in Macha’s head and he storms the mound, and the benches clear with an epic battle of stout first basemen in the center of the brawl.
I don't think we have to worry about that
Kyle Lohse is pitching tonight.
My goodness.
by BrewHaHeather on Sep 7, 2010 11:18 AM CDT up reply actions
I was at the September 7 games
in 2008 and 2009 – but I cannot go to tonight’s game. Maybe that’ll break the spell?
Brandon Phillips understands.
I was at the Chris Young game
As I recall, he had a no hitter going late into the game.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Sep 7, 2010 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
I was at that game as well.
I think it was a perfect game he was pitching not a no-hitter. The only thing that game had going for it was the perfect game. We were down by a lot early. I was just starting to get excited about seeing a perfect game when Kapler hit that HR. I have not been much of a fan of Kapler since that game. I believe that Gamel also had his first career hit in that game. A double.
Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.
Yeah I knew it was a no no
couldn’t remember if it was a PG. I was a little drunk, and too lazy to look it up.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Sep 7, 2010 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Not a fan?
Why wouldn’t you be a fan of Kapler for breaking up the perfect game? You wanted the Padres to have a perfect game against the Brewers?
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Yes
There are not to many perfect games in baseball history. Much better to be at a loss that is a perfect game and witness baseball history first hand instead of a 10-1 blow out. Yay, Kapler hit a HR to pull us within 9 runs. La dee frickin da. Stupid Gabe Kapler.
Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.
by cooper82 on Sep 8, 2010 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
however...the flip side
I don’t like to see my favorite team in the column of perfect-game-against, much less in a recent year.
Neither do I
but that was the worst game I was ever at. The Brewers were doing nothing at the plate, obviously. My brother, son and I were ready to walk out in the 6th inning and we never leave a Brewers game early. It was so horribly flat. The crowd was dead. To add to that we were getting our butts handed to us by a very, very bad team. The only even remotely interesting thing was the possibility of seeing history and Kapler ruined that. I can’t properly express in words how dull that game felt.
Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.
That bad Padres game was also
Corey Hart bobblehead day, which at least made it more worthwhile for Corey Hart fans.
Brandon Phillips understands.
Sesame Street news flash
“I was very surprised, because I didn’t expect a ‘B’ to fall on me,” said Ian.
Kermit the Frog, reporting
An 'R' or an 'O' maybe... but not a 'B'
http://www.mlbsoup.com
by tcyoung on Sep 7, 2010 9:45 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
B was always a cranky b**** anyway.
Good riddance.
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by ecocd on Sep 7, 2010 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Haven't been keeping up with the AA/AAA market
If the Brewers aren’t going to be in Huntsville and Nashville next year, where will they be? All I remember is news of other tams re-upping with their current clubs taking cities out of the running. Will they go somewhere completely new? How many semi-pro stadiums are there out there sufficient to support a AA and AAA team? Is there a large market of stadiums waiting for their chance to host the Brewers affiliates?
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Out here in central NY...
…the Oneonta Tigers (Detroit’s Low A club) moved to Conneticut. I nominate Onenota so I can have some Brewers connection.
by thefreewheelin76 on Sep 7, 2010 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions
It was pointed out that region matters
The affiliates, as far as I can tell, would stay in the same league so the clubs will have to stay in the same general region. There’s a great stadium in the NW Chicago suburbs that could support a AA team, but that’s really far from Alabama. I don’t think central NY would work either. :(
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Regions matter?
Nashville is in the Pacific Coast League North. I’m not so sure they matter. The parent might attempt to have a team closer to the “region” to cut down on travel costs, but, I don’t think they have that much of an impact.
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So... you're saying there's a chance...
by thefreewheelin76 on Sep 7, 2010 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
What was all that one-in-a-million talk?
by thefreewheelin76 on Sep 7, 2010 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I will always rec appropriate Dumb & Dumber references.
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
I'd like that too
It did wonders for Appleton, unfortunately there really aren’t any other higher affiliates around here.
Should be interesting to see where our teams end up though.
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by GormanBraun28 on Sep 7, 2010 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Iowa!
Steal it from the Cubs in a military coup!
by Cheeseandcorn on Sep 7, 2010 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm still good friends
with some of the principal park employees, I’m sure they can sneak us in under the cover of darkness.
http://www.twitter.com/mykenk
Omaha isn't exactly close
but there’s definitely a regional feel to the league. There aren’t any American Conference teams on the east coast or west coast in the league. Huntsville is in the Southern League and those are packed very close to each other.
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Right
I think you’re probably right to a point, I’d say the lower in the minors you go, the closer geographically the teams should be.
http://www.twitter.com/mykenk
The Southern League, especially.
The Southern League isn’t very well attended, so I’d guess keeping travel costs down is a high priority.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Just a guess...
But I highly, highly doubt Kyle Lohse will 1-hit us today.
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
Don't be so sure
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI199906250.shtml
Jose Jimenez had a dreadful 5.85 ERA the year he no hit the Diamondbacks. These things don’t always make sense. At least Lohse isn’t making his major league debut.
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Inconceivable!
You’re just a faster typer than I apparently. Not to mention a phone that might have to be answered on occasion at your place of employment.
Andy Hawkins had some bad numbers when he threw his 4-run no hitter in 1990
Made the 4 runs seem fitting.
Maybe he should play first base instead. That is, he should lie out there and we can step on him when we get a hit.
Probably true
But anything can happen on any given day. Thats what is great about baseball….on any day of any year, the worst team in the league can sweep a series from the best team, or even win a game…the best pitchers in the game have awful games, and lousy pitchers with 6+ ERA’s have gems…
In 1999 a guy named Jose Jimenez threw a no hitter for the Cardinals in a year he had a 5.8x somethign ERA just to name one really great performance by one really bad pitcher. The list of one hitters probably has a list of players having awful years as well.
"lousy pitchers with 6+ ERA’s have gems…"
To counter that point, I present… Jeff Suppan.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Gomez
Let’s just hope the organization is realistic with him: his OBP in 91 ABs in winter ball last year was .373.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
Last year's Winter Ball numbers:
Gomez: .275/.373/.374 (91 AB) DWL
Escobar: .393/.440/.491 (173 AB) VWL
Gamel: .211/.268/.447 (38 AB) VWL
Cain: .242/.375/.303 (66 AB) AFL
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Sep 7, 2010 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Whoops forgot one
LuCroy: .310/.354/.483 (116 AB) AFL
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Sep 7, 2010 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
So basically
winter ball numbers tell us almost nothing. I really don’t have much of a problem with Gomez going to winter ball but I would prefer guys like Escobar and Lucroy who are going to be full time starters for us next year skip it and rest for the upcoming season.
Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.
THwitter
reports Gamel was out taking reps at 1st base. Given that he was whining about it at the minor league level, I wonder if he was really putting his back into it. I guess we’ll see next year…
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Wait, saying its difficult and that he respects the guys who play it a lot more is whining?
Huh, who knew?
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Sep 7, 2010 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
The Deity and C-Dick in the line-up
CarGo still grounded:
2B Rickie Weeks
RF Corey Hart
LF Ryan Braun
1B Prince Fielder
3B Casey McGehee
CF Chris Dickerson
C Jonathan Lucroy
SS Craig Counsell
LHP Chris Narveson
I’m not smart enough to look at the other stuff and do anything but drool and mumble.
Huh, Counsell is worse offensively than Gomez...
… didn’t think that was the case.
http://www.twitter.com/mykenk
By what measure?
OPS?
I’m not smart enough to look at the other stuff and do anything but drool and mumble.
Slight = .004 (a wash, essentially)
Neither of them are likely to do anything worthwhile.
http://www.twitter.com/mykenk
Wouldn't Prince be B.A.?
And Braun would have to be Faceman…I don’t know who would be Murdock.
This just screams for a Photoshop…
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