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Brewers (0) @ Marlins (3) 5/6 — Tastes Great, Less Filling

Tastes Great:

Matt LaPorta hit his 10th homer of the season and is now batting .342.  In his last ten games he has 4 homers and 14 RBI.  Oh wait, he’s at AA Hunstville.

Catching prospect (when was the last time we had one of those?) Angel Salome is batting .356.  Oh wait, he’s also at AA Huntsville.

3B prospect Mat Gamel is hitting .372 and also has 4 homers and 14 RBI in his last ten games.  Yeah, AA Huntsville.

Jeff Weaver pitched 7 strong innings last night giving up only 4 hits, 1 run, 0 BB, and 1 K.  Shoot, he’s in AAA. I wonder if he’ll get a call pretty soon.  If he isn’t brought up by June sometime he has to be released. 

David Riskie–ah, finally a major leaguer.  He pitched out of a bases loaded-no out jam.  Pretty sad when the only good thing from your team is a middle reliever.

Less Filling:

2 hits………2 FREAKING HITS!!!!!!!

Suppan–blows a great chance to show himself as a stopper for this young team.  Didn’t pitch terribly but couldn’t get an out in the 6th inning before loading the bases and having to be removed.  Needed 7 strong out of him, although if the offense doesn’t score it doesn’t matter how few runs he woulda gave up.

Ned Yost–way to show some creativity after getting swept and running the same lineup out there.  Might make one change today with Counsell in for Weeks but God forbid we go outside the box and put 3 or 4 bench guys in to try to ignite something.  Also, that toss out seemed a little scripted just like the ones you got tossed 3 of 4 at the end of last year. 

Down on the Farm Report — 5/2

I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at some goings on in the minors of the Brewers system. 

First the good:

Matt LaPorta hit two more home runs today in an afternoon game for the Hunstville Stars.  This gives him 9 already on the young season to go along with 30 RBIs, a .319 BA, .413 OBP, and a 1.138 OPS!!

The Hunstville Stars (AA) have now won 8 in a row and sit atop the Southern League standings at 19-8. 

Another top Crew prospect at Hunstville, Mat Gamel, has 5 homers, 20 RBI’s, a .374 BA, and a 1.105 OPS.

And the not-so good:

Jeff Weaver struggled in his first outing as a Brewer farmhand.  He was staked to an early lead but couldn’t hold on.  He went 5 innings allowing 6 hits, 2 walks, 4 runs and striking out 7.

Meanwhile, after Weaver’s struggles Zack Jackson came in to pitch and gave up a run.  That’s right, the Zack Jackson that has pitched in the majors and many were high on has been so bad this year he’s been demoted to the bullpen to work stuff out.  He has a 1.94 WHIP and a 8.89 ERA.

The Nashville Sounds have struggled and are in last place in their division at 7-18.  The Sounds don’t have a lot of the Brewers big-time prospects though.  Instead they have a lot of guys that have been up and down in the majors like Dillon, Branyan, Nix, Rottino, Munson, Stocker and a bunch of guys that seem to be AAAA type players.