Today In Brewer History: Happy Anniversary, Ned Yost

by Kyle Lobner on Oct 29, 2011 6:00 AM CDT in History

On this day in 2002, the Brewers officially hired Braves coach Ned Yost to be 15th manager in franchise history. Yost had been a Brewer from 1980-83 and a minor league manager, bullpen and third base coach for the Braves before being hired to replace Jerry Royster in Milwaukee.

Here's what Dale Hoffman said about the hiring in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

He comes across as a sincere fellow and exciteable to boot. He may in fact have set the modern major-league record for excitement in Tuesday's introductory remarks.*

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The general manager (Doug Melvin) said he would sacrifice the occasional Yost mistake for all the other qualities he offers. That may be a good sign all by itself. When was the last time anyone saw a Brewer sacrifice?

* - We later found out that may have just been the coffee talking.

At any rate, Yost went on to manage 959 games with the Brewers, the second most in franchise history, and won 457, also the second most. He remained with the team until 2008, when the playoff-bound Brewers righted a listing ship by throwing the captain overboard.

With help from the B-Ref Play Index, happy birthday today to:

2005-06 Brewer Dana Eveland, who turns 28.
1990 Brewer Narciso Elvira, who turns 44.

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"passion and enthusiasm is like...catching a cold"

Ned never really had a knack for constructing strong analogies.

Or maybe that’s a decent one, but there is something really unsettling about passion, enthusiasm/common cold. I do not want to take this literally, but he made it impossible to not take it literally. That’s really gross, because colds should only occur 2-3 times a year.

Every 7-10 days they are resolve, and they take care of themselves. If a person doesn’t sleep, it’s probably much worse. (Ewww…Happy Anniversary of your first hiring, Ned). *I hope he washes his hands.. ughhh. Definitely unfit for the managing job, but I probably didn’t start watching the Brewers again until 2007, so I’m pretty sure things went alright for awhile. And if I hadn’t read that quote, I wouldn’t have thought about how gross that (analogy) is.

FanGraphs should consider a venue for a Gallery Night... they could even serve a cake with a Win Expectancy Chart of the 7/7/11 Brewers' game etched in the frosting, and 7-up. Oh, yeah - and t-shirts that say "SABR-Friday." I'm totally there.

by Jess'HittheBall on Oct 29, 2011 9:05 AM CDT reply actions

So... Unhappy anniversary of your firing, Ned Yost?

Or happy?

I'm Ron Burgundy?

by MU_LOL on Oct 29, 2011 3:37 PM CDT reply actions

Well, this is the anniversary of his hiring.

One in two times in his life a team has decided he’s capable of managing. So I’ll call it a happy one.

Now that's great tasting chicken!

by Kyle Lobner on Oct 29, 2011 4:19 PM CDT up reply actions

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