Dear Brad Mills:

lol thats so funny

 

I had been a proponent of this before, but Altuve has taken off and Schafer and Lowrie have fallen off. More importantly, the latter 2's OBP's have fallen. (Their averages were low, but they were taking enough walks to keep them in the conversation as 1/2 hitters. No longer the case)

I agree, for now, keep Altuve in the 2 hole. Drop Lowrie to the 8 imo until he turns it around.


No idea why people already want Mills fired. Seems like he's done as well as possible with this team. The 1 run losses will even themselves out typically

 

Mills is in his 3rd year. I've been unhappy with him for a while.

 

He is really hot right now. With Martinez batting behind him he has the option to be patient and pick his pitch to hit. There is protection and the option to be patient and get on base. Eight hole is tricky because he has the pitcher following him so he has to expand the strike zone trying to get a hit. It is way easier to draw walks batting second than batting eight. Whats been a pleasant surprise is the power he has shown so far. Slugging is off the charts for him. He hit a home run to right center field in the brewers stadium, it takes some good pop to be able to do that. Hopefully it holds up Maybe we found a replacement for Biggio at second base!

 

There was no point in replacing him. Were they going to fire him and bring in a good manager (if they could get a good one) so the team could continue to suck? As long as you don't think Mills is going to hurt the development of the current players, you might as well keep him until the talent level gets back up to a level where maybe they can contend for a playoff spot. Then ditch him and get a better replacement.

 

true. though he's never really had much to work with

 

That is some fuzzy logic.

If Luhnow thinks that Mills can not help develop our current players, I am sure that he would have fired Mills. There are probably a ton of good-for-developing AAA managers to choose from.

 

I dont think juicysteam is judging him on his record. He, like I, have some problems with his in/pre game decision making (lineups, substitutions, playing time allocation, ect)

 

Exactly.

I think they felt since they weren't contending, Mills was on a guaranteed contract, and there wasn't necessarily a great replacement that they would go ahead and evaluate him this season and then make a decision.