I should also add the pessimist points that Doumit hasn’t hit Gulf Coast League pitching yet, and Milledge is certainly a big X factor as well.

There’s bad baseball on the horizon, but like you said, that’s the pain of rebuilding.

For once, I feel like it’s an honest-to-goodness rebuilding that has a chance to go somewhere. Watching bad baseball during the last 17 years has mostly been a two-step dream: (1) Get a competent GM who can (2) come up with an actual plan. Bonifay and Littlefield—especially Littlefield—failed at step 1, so I knew the second step would be doomed to failure. Giving those guys the keys to rebuilding is like trying to teach your kid how to ride a motorcycle before going through training wheels. (Yes, I’m purposely making my terrible analogy one step removed from the natural comparison point—a regular bike as compared to a bike with training wheels. Bonifay and Littlefield were that bad.)

I’ve browsed through the BD archives over the last few days to remind myself how bad it really was. I know the broad strokes well enough off hand, but some of the little details I had forgotten. Those teams screwed almost everything up, and Charlie struggled to find optimism in things like “Well, it’s a terrible signing, but at least it isn’t a multi-year deal.” Night and day between then and now.

at Buster Olney’s take on Braun’s comment:

Whether he meant to or not, he’s essentially implying that Melvin isn’t conducting his work with all necessary urgency…Melvin is obviously aware of his own team’s deficiencies…

…If Melvin stood in the dugout in the middle of a game in which the Brewers were being shut out and shouted, “We need to start getting some hits around here,” would that be particularly helpful to Braun?

"LHP Donnie Veal (6.43) allowed five runs and two hits in 1 1/3 innings of relief. He struck out two, walked four, threw a wild pitch and threw 19 of 42 pitches for strikes."

it’s kinda encouraging.

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