Craig Counsell is the highest paid manager in baseball. And this is the genius level of player development our top prospect gets: one game against an all-time great in Max Scherzer, followed by 0 playing time against a team he could actually get comfortable facing. I am at a loss.
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Getting paid 8m to do the same old shit that hasn’t worked. Genius stuff
Jfc
TIL that Ian Happs .225 average is considered “pretty good” performance
Am I the only one not mad about this? We’ve been struggling to win games
This tells me that the front office has a lot of say in what Craig is doing.
If this team was rolling and scoring tons of runs, it would make some sense. But our offense has struggled immensely since the ASB. We are in a tailspin. You called up your top prospect whose calling card is hitting – at least give him some ABs. Not having him pinch hit for Dansby in the 9th on Friday was another bonehead decision. Give him some experience! He’s a power hitter and you were down by 1!
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He looked comfortable against Scherzer too. That’s not to say that Scherzer is who he was but gdang you step in the box against him as a rookie it takes some balls not to be freaking out a little bit.
So he can’t play outfield because we’re loaded there, apparently. But he can’t DH? He can’t pinch hit? It’s stanky and I don’t like it. Just leave him in AAA. Makes me wonder if Jed and Craig are in disagreement on the path forward here.
Why are you at a loss? We’re trying to win a division and we need the best players out there.
All four of them have been below the MLB average OPS+ since the break.
They have been pretty good, sure. Just not within the last six weeks.
LMFAO so let me get this straight, so they don’t trade him because hes too good, but they won’t play him because he is somehow worse than all the outfielders that are struggling? Holy shit what a terrible response.
Well that’s infuriating. I’m going to ignore that until approximately 4 pm.
I’d rather watch Caissie than Happ
Gotta let Tucker keep rolling over on every swing to hit a ground ball to the right side.
Let Tucker sit a few games. He’s ice cold and isn’t going to be here next year anyway.
Would make more sense if they all weren’t ice cold lately
I’m not saying don’t play Caissie. Of course I want him in the lineup but adjusting to MLB pitching is hard. You are farm likely to have guys come out of slumps than Caissie go off and be stud immediately.
He’s gonna get some starts here and there and give guys a rest and play well with match ups. I think people just need to be patient.
“You can make me have him in my dugout instead of trading him for weapons in a playoff push, but you can’t make me play him.” — Overheard by Anonymous
Tucker should’ve sat the past 1 or 2 games. He’s pounding everything into the ground and had 2 hits yesterday. Before that ”outburst”, only 3 hits total in his previous 9 games. He’s getting on base via walks, but the lineup will then ground out, line out or strikeout to end any threat of scoring a run or even multiple ones. The team hasn’t even homered in this series yet and struggling to get extra base hits
I get crucified any time i suggest Craig is part of the problem. hE doEsn’T sWiNg tHe bAT
No point in bringing him up if you don’t plan on playing him. It’s not good for his development.
Hired the wrong Brewer
Then why is he up here?
If I was a Brewers I would have the biggest shit eating grin on my face every day. We take their coach and they continue to own our ass with half the resources
A long time mlb player and now manager, is probably ingrained with the mindset of playing the veterans ( ex PCA) like most managers do. I think in our particular case re Cassie, it is wrong, wrong. But he’s far from the only manager who has the same mindset.
fuck counsell
and now i feel like they only called caissie up because amaya got hurt again right away, and as soon as he’s back caissie will be back down.
counsell and jed are here because they’re the perfect yesmen for Ricketts….won’t rock the boat, happy to have jobs
Tucker is hitting nothing right now. The manager sucks
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
I get you’re probably not sitting Tuck, but Happ? And why is he not getting some PH AB’s? Calling card is power….we’re doing ok in that category recently? Well, no one can accuse CC of not being loyal.
It’s time to win. Not develop players. Ian Happ is still a gold glover too. You want that out there.
Last year I began to wonder if maybe Counsell was just an ok manager and the Brewers have just become a really good organization. The hot start this year quieted that thought for me quite a bit, but since the ASG I’m pretty certain that’s the case.
I’m in agreement here with Counsell. Caissie isn’t gonna play CF for PCA. I’m not playing Caissie over Happ, Tucker, or Seiya. It’s not really something to be mad about.
This is giving the same energy as all the people who were screaming we didn’t need to extend Happ because Brennan Davis was ready for the majors.
It takes a long time to get prospects up to speed at the MLB level. Amaya, PCA, and Shaw are all examples of this. Calling a prospect up who strikes out at a 30% clip and expecting him to suddenly out perform Seiya Suzuki or Kyle Tucker is insane. We’re not giving Owen Caissie 100 ABs to figure out while Tucker or Seiya rides the bench.
The odds of any of those players finding their groove over the next 100 ABs is 10x more likely than Caissie coming in and miraculously starting to rake
What do you honestly expect?
Like let’s be real here: Tucker is Tucker. He’s not gonna ride the bench for a prospect. PCA, even when he’s slumping, is still insanely valuable in the field. He is not gonna ride the bench for a prospect. Seiya is one of the best hitters on the team. He’s not riding the bench for a prospect.
The only one many of you may make a case for is Happ. Happ is our “face of the franchise” right now. Marquee plays an Ian Happ podcast commercial during like every break. Plus his skillset is pretty valuable…even during slumps he is getting on base at a good clip (elite walk rate) and making plays in the OF.
Tucker, Happ and Seiya have all shown to be very consistent players over 162. What that means is that you need to be very careful when you take them out because they have shown time and time again that they will bounce back. You could be benching a guy right before they’re about to get hot and it messes up their juju even more.
Bringing Caissie up was a great opportunity to put Tucker on the IL and they still won’t do it…
That’s a Jed thing, not a Counsell thing. But he’s needed to go on the IL for literal months.
More evidence Counsell is a computer analytics guys and not a feel guy. We should be trying something between Happ or giving Tucker days off.
Have we considered that Ross and Counsell underwent some sort of Freaky Friday brain switch? This is exactly the reasoning Ross used in 2023 while the Cubs withered down the stretch.
Caissie will get an at bat during a blow out game.
*Defense* certainly, but…uh… we need the bats, and it’d be neat to give him the PAs to at least try.
Thats craig counsell for you
Tom Thibodeaux of baseball.
That .711 ops from Happ is sure hard to take out of the lineup. Suuuuuuure
My favorite part of this post is the editorializing in the title that misrepresents Jesse’s post. The hysterics around these parts is unbelievable. Happ just scored fyi
Really? Happ and Tuck’s performance right now is the bar? They make dumb moves like this sometimes. If you want to shake things up then do it, stop being so mid about it.
Then why not call up Mo?
I don’t see the point of bringing him up to have him sit on the bench. Leave him in AAA is he wasn’t going to play.
Dude should be playing everyday, or send him back down. This was an overreaction to the trade deadline debacle because they needed to change the narrative. Berti can sit on the bench just as well as Caissie without stunting his growth. Unforgivable