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Certainly our offense was weak particularly in September but Weatherholt missed most of the month. Walker, Burleson and Winn were hurting.
Who decided to let them try to play through injuries. I would think that even if the player is trying to hide the injury to keep playing the modern metrics such as bat speed and exit velocity should make it pretty easy to tell that a player was less than sound. The decision to keep playing Weatherholt probably cost him the Rookie of the Year and a n extra Cardinal draft pick.
One of the bigget Cardinal problems we have is that we do not have a big home run team in a ballpark that is tough to hit home runs. Let’s move the fences a bit before our big hitters such as Rodriguez and Jesus Baez arive.
I am not siding with Brown but Three hitting coaches not succesful is a bad trend. With the obvios imrovement in hitting during the minor league season we should have several qualified hitting coaches already in the system. But I suspect Ollie and Bloom have someone in mind and I would not be suprised to see an announcement after the world series is over.
Instead of moving fences in, maybe tailor the team to fit the park. Far as the coach goes, we were near bottom in team hitting so it makes sense.
Much like our manager, I have never been impressed with most of our coaches. I realize they don’t have to have a big league history or pedigree, but the question to me is that we are being cheap with hiring less experienced coaching. I think our coaches should command respect. McGee is the only one who does that IMO.
I wonder how much Brant Brown and Jordan Walker’s dynamic fit into this. Brown had publicly criticized Walker in the past for his work ethic and general coachability. If Jordan’s breakout this year was attributable to Brown’s coaching, I think it would be hard to justify firing him, even with the poor offensive performance from the rest of the team. This is just speculation, but perhaps what happened is that Walker continued to push back on Brown’s approach and his breakout was actually in spite of, and not a result of, Brown’s coaching. If that was the case, that would have given the brass a clear cut reason for parting ways with Brown.
Instead of moving fences in, maybe tailor the team to fit the park. Far as the coach goes, we were near bottom in team hitting so it makes sense.
This is what we should do. I know average isn’t important to a lot of people these days. But maybe for us it should be. Winn and Church both could be really dynamic pieces in our offense if they could take some lessons from a couple of the Brewers players.
MIL pushed 10 runs across HP without the benefit of a solitary tater in the WS game 3 flogging of TB last night. And all 8 runs that came in the visitor half of the 5th came on 2 out RBI’s. Those are my favorite flavor RBI for the simple reason being that they routinely break the back of the opposition. There’s nothing wrong with HR’s, but during this entire post-season the Brewers have featured a hitting clinic that demonstrates the art of wearing down a pitcher with deep counts, fighting off quality pitches to stay alive, consistently making contact to place it in play, and spraying the baseball to every nook and cranny of the entire playing field. As we’ve well seen, that approach can be extremely effective and has a tendancy to produce the much sought after big inning in which numerous runs are placed up on the board. What I’m driving at is, that whatever the Brewers are selling to the kids that swing the bats, I want some.
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