Thursday, May 15, 2008
NEW CONTRACT FOR BRAUN!!!!
LF Bryan Braun has signed an eight year deal to stay with the Milwaukee Brewers through 2016. It was a historic contract for a player with as little major league service time as Braun has. He is a cornerstone to the Brewers franchise and is a great start to locking up our young stars. Other players we are in talks with reportedly are RF Corey Hart and 1B Prince Fielder, Hart is a clutch and consistent hitter and Fielder is our big bopper and important to our fan base. I anticipate Fielder signing last of the young stars due to his power adn ability to get paid for it. But great news with the Braun signing and it really shows a commitment by ownership and the front office to recognize how important Braun is. THIS MAKES UP FOR LAST NIGHT AGAINST THE DODGERS!!!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
OFFENSE HEATING UP!
The Brewers are finally ending their extended offensive slump and leading the charge is reigning NL Rookie-of-the-year Ryan Braun who has raised his BA over 40 points and added 4 HR's and 6 RBI in the past week. Taking three of four from STL was huge and a win over the Dodgers yesterday was critical to keeping the momentum.
Gagne is back as the closer after a "break" that lasted barely 48 hours. He is still not as sharp as we need him to be but he's back in the ninth for better or worse right now.
We are still in 4th place in the NL Central but only 3 games back of Chicago despite our being under .500 for a spurt there. We finish a tough series with LA at home here and then must face the Red Sox at Fenway for Interleague baseball, not a fun place to try to get a win! That begins a 9-game road trip that could very well give us an idea of how good we really are.
The Starting Pitching really needs to pick up the team because the offense is coming around and we don't have Gallardo to give use a quality start more often then not. Suppan is solid and our youngsters in Villanueva and Parra must get themselves in a groove here for use to make a playoff push.
LET THE OFFENSE ROLL BREW CREW!!!!!!
Gagne is back as the closer after a "break" that lasted barely 48 hours. He is still not as sharp as we need him to be but he's back in the ninth for better or worse right now.
We are still in 4th place in the NL Central but only 3 games back of Chicago despite our being under .500 for a spurt there. We finish a tough series with LA at home here and then must face the Red Sox at Fenway for Interleague baseball, not a fun place to try to get a win! That begins a 9-game road trip that could very well give us an idea of how good we really are.
The Starting Pitching really needs to pick up the team because the offense is coming around and we don't have Gallardo to give use a quality start more often then not. Suppan is solid and our youngsters in Villanueva and Parra must get themselves in a groove here for use to make a playoff push.
LET THE OFFENSE ROLL BREW CREW!!!!!!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
GALLARDO DONE!
This is devastating news for my Brewers who are already struggling the past couple weeks. Yovanni Gallardo is our #2 pitcher and a budding ace at 22 years old. He has a 3.38 career ERA and almost strikes out a batter every inning he pitches, he is amazing when watching him. The Brewers are already thin in pitching and had to recall Dave Bush to replace Gallardo on the roster, Chris Capuano is out for the year and we released Claudio Vargas before the season. Ben Sheets has been injured the past three season so taking Gallardo out for the season is absolutely devastating to the team.
ERIC GAGNE MUST GO!!!!!!!!
This guy has absolutely sucked so far leading the league in blown saves this year, with most being directly his fault. He has lost his command and doesn't have the same heat he had with the Dodgers. We should just try to cut our loss (Thank god we only signed him for one year!) and try Riske out at closer to see if he can.
OFFENSE OUT OF FUEL
Our offense is really sputtering and Cameron hasn't been the spark we thought would get us going, although he hasn't been bad so far the team is still struggling. We relied on the longball last year and this year haven't had the power we did last year which is very peculiar. We have so many good young hitters on our team it is only time that will get us going, THEY'RE TOO GOOD.
Possible Remedies to the offensive woes
ERIC GAGNE MUST GO!!!!!!!!
This guy has absolutely sucked so far leading the league in blown saves this year, with most being directly his fault. He has lost his command and doesn't have the same heat he had with the Dodgers. We should just try to cut our loss (Thank god we only signed him for one year!) and try Riske out at closer to see if he can.
OFFENSE OUT OF FUEL
Our offense is really sputtering and Cameron hasn't been the spark we thought would get us going, although he hasn't been bad so far the team is still struggling. We relied on the longball last year and this year haven't had the power we did last year which is very peculiar. We have so many good young hitters on our team it is only time that will get us going, THEY'RE TOO GOOD.
Possible Remedies to the offensive woes
- Move Rickie Weeks out of leadoff and down teh order to try to lessen the pressure on him, He's batting around .200 and is the key to setting up our offense
- Ryan Braun needs to take more walks, with Prince behind him he will get good pitches and needs to see the ball better.
- Prince Fielder needs to lay off the power stroke and let his natural abilities take over, with the slumping offense our best player must realize he can't lift up the whole team by swinging for the fences, but rather smart AB's every time, taking what they give him.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY OUR PITCHERS NEED TO STEP UP! The offense will press when behind and the pitching staff has let us down besides Sheets.
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