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OT: Yost out in Brewer land

The Milwaukee Brewers have fired manager Ned Yost in the midst of a late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982.

Third-base coach Dale Sveum will become interim manager for the remainder of the season.

The Brewers have lost seven of their last 10, and share the NL wild-card lead with Philadelphia.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/2010ap_bbn_brewers_yost_fired.html

I know Yost is a terrible manager, but this is very weird this late in the season.  I guess the fear was that the Brewers would go down Metsville and tank in September and miss the playoffs yet again. It'll be interesting to see if this actually gives them a spark and rights the ship so to speak. Very odd.

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whoever....

was behind that firing ( i assume Senor Mustachio himself) has the biggest set of balls in the world. i don’t think it’s bad to get rid of him , as i didn’t think much of him myself, but the timing….damn….makes you wonder how high the heat is on others in the organization.

by Mateo-Leg on Sep 15, 2008 2:25 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Can't say I'm surprised

With that amount of talent on the roster, the Brewers should have been cruising to a playoff spot. That they may very well not make it should affect Yost, in my opinion.

by biff pocoroba on Sep 15, 2008 2:34 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow, timing

very unusual to fire the manager of a contending team this late. A lot of Brewers’ fans probably wish it had been done months ago. Melvin is either very brave or very scared.

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,
und freudenvollere.

by t ball on Sep 15, 2008 2:34 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Dale Sveum

That suprises me as much as anything.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Sep 15, 2008 2:40 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Well

That’s what happens when you give Jason Kendall a lot more ABs than he deserves.

It’s all Doug Melvin’s fault! For not giving us Yovani Gallardo in exchange of Laird. JK. I have no idea why they’d fire at such an odd time.

by chrisR on Sep 15, 2008 2:49 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Sabathia staying on the West Coast?

Not quite.

While it may be tough to outbid the Yankees, who almost certainly will pursue Sabathia (new boss Hank Steinbrenner has said as much) in an out-of-control bidding war, the Angels could still hold something of a homefield advantage for the California native. However, folks close to him suggest that he’s become more open-minded toward all locales after loving Milwaukee a lot more than he expected, and a recent report by Newsday’s Ken Davidoff suggested that Sabathia has at least delayed breaking ground on the dream home he’d been planning in Orange County, Calif.

Heyman reports.

by oc on Sep 15, 2008 3:00 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

wow im really suprised

Yost seems really stupid in the way that he lets Sabathia throw 120 pitches in a 7-0 game and in many other ways, but this rarely happens when a team is in the middle of a playoff race in september

"Tommy Hunter will be the best pitcher on the Rangers in 2009" Me- August 14th, 2008

by Seth. on Sep 15, 2008 3:05 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

lol

and Houston is getting no-hit again today. Has there ever been a back to back no-no?

by fds on Sep 15, 2008 3:10 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

nm

he just lost it

by fds on Sep 15, 2008 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

To do this right now...

just makes no sense at all.

What is Dale Sveum, and his extensive managerial experience, going to lead the Brew Crew to the playoffs now in the next couple weeks?

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Sep 15, 2008 4:49 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Gotta be more about subtracting a negative

not that it makes it a good move

Offense doesn't doubt me, but my first and primemost thing is defense and punt return and kickoff return

by Brett Perryman on Sep 15, 2008 5:06 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

"The question of how we came to be is a philosophical one." - 4HIM

by Chase Irwin on Sep 15, 2008 5:05 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Did someone...

just go rec happy and rec any fanpost done yesterday or today?

Seriously, this is news and fanpost worthy, but why rec it?

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Sep 15, 2008 5:18 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I wondered the same thing

And agree with you that it’s interesting news that should be a fanpost, but c’mon people.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Sep 15, 2008 5:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Interesting from Sheehan:
In the eighth inning of yesterday’s first game, the Brewers were tied 3-3. Guillermo Mota allowed a leadoff single to Jayson Werth, and was lifted for Brian Shouse so that Shouse could face Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. (Charlie Manuel’s refusal to always put a right-handed batter between those two is a big reason why the Phillies will have trouble winning a short series.) Utley sacrificed Werth to second, setting up Shouse versus Howard.

Yost elected to walk Howard to face Pat Burrell. This was… well, it strains my vocabulary to find the right word for it. Howard cannot hit left-handers, and would be a platoon player if performance mattered anywhere near as much as reputation does. Or if he had a competent manager. Howard is at .228/.313/.458 against lefties in his career, .212/.287/.410 this year. Howard. Can’t. Hit. Lefties. Shouse, on the other hand, is in the major leagues for exactly one reason: lefties can’t hit him, to the tune of .175/.192/.289 this year, and .211/.263/.325 for his career, which includes a bunch of years when he was barely a major leaguer. Manuel sending Howard up against Shouse was a continuation of a theme for the Phillies: not hitting for Howard when he has little chance of doing something good. He was giving Yost an out, and Yost gave it right back.

That set up Shouse versus Pat Burrell, which cried out for a right-handed reliever. After all, Shouse is a pure specialist (.307/.390/.455 vs. RHB career; .293/.371/.446 this year). The only way walking Howard even might make sense is if Yost were to bring in a righty to try and get a double play out of Burrell. Burrell doesn’t have the big platoon splits he showed earlier in his career—he’s a dangerous hitter against both kinds of hurlers—but leaving Shouse in to face him was asking for trouble.

Think about this for a second. Yost had a 481 OPS pitcher facing a 697 OPS hitter. He elected to issue an intentional walk in that situation to allow an 817 OPS pitcher to face a 905 OPS hitter with an additional runner on base. That’s when you start looking around the roof of the stadium for snipers, because gunpoint is the only place where that kind of decision makes sense.

So it was no surprise that four pitches later, the Phillies were up 7-3. Burrell singled in one run, and Shane Victorino cleared the bases with a three-run homer to left.

That really is ridiculous, when you’re talking about a team that needs outs and wins like it needs air.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8077

Offense doesn't doubt me, but my first and primemost thing is defense and punt return and kickoff return

by Brett Perryman on Sep 16, 2008 4:42 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I can see

Washington doing something like that. Or, just as bad, if Washington were the Philly manager in that scenario I can see him calling for Burrell to bunt.

Don't you know it's gonna be alright?

by t ball on Sep 16, 2008 10:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wash’s gut has no idea what a RHP hitting specialist is. Jamey Wright gets the call!

by FuturePants on Sep 17, 2008 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Geez

That almost makes Wash look downright perceptive.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Sep 17, 2008 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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