by Jack Cobra, Cobra Brigade
The Brewers signed Jason Kendall to a 1-year contract for $4.25 million yesterday in the hopes that he will take care of their problematic catcher situation. The real problem here is, he won't be able to do that. Take it from someone who had to deal with Kendall at the end of last season.
Here is what Kendall is going to give the Brewers....a warm body. At this point he's a horrendous catcher in every sense of the word. I believe 'calling a game' is overrated at this point in history, so we can chuck that out of the window real quick. Kendall lets runners steal bases like it's their right to have them. It will get to the point where fans become flat out angry with Kendall.
As a Cubs fan, this signing makes me happy because it means an easy out in the Brewers lineup and more stolen bases for us. If I were a Brewers fan....I'd have some issues to discuss with this decision by management.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
BREW CREW SIGN KENDALL
Posted at 8:07 AM ET
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Sir, I take umbrage with the easy out comment.
Kendall gets on base 36 percent of the time. The problem is his OBP is higher than his SLG.
Also, yes, if the Cubs had any speedsters, that would be bad. But as a Brewers fan?
When you have Derrick Turnbow as your closer you have to wonder if Jim Hendry ate Doug Melvin's brains.
I can see where the stats don't back up what I said (.360 obp) but I'm telling you...the dude is an easy out. He must have jacked up his ob% when I wasn't watching and I watch like every game. I was really surprised to see that stat. He's an out waiting to happen, seriously.
Your experience with Jason Kendall is colored with his awful start with the Oakland A's. You got a guy who had a .540 OPS (Royce Clayton laughs at that), and he gets an extra base hit as often as Jay Mariotti gets a compliment on his journalism.
He'll hit .270, he'll get on base at about a .360 clip. He will let the Brewers down.
Never in anyone's life had anyone wanted Paul LoDuca on their squad so badly.
I watched JK on a daily basis in Oaktown. Cut him a tiny amount of slack in that he gets everything out of his talent and body (part of the OBP is his willingness to take a HBP at any moment)... and he once saved a game against Texas by putting his face in front of some spikes... but he's ancient, has less power than many pitchers and the arm isn't a plus.
He'll help young Brewer SPs, but not enough to stay in the lineup. However, you really want him around in the event of a brawl. This is a guy that gave up a foot and 100 pounds to John Lackey, and yet still came after him. Fearless.
The Brewers will have to put a cut-off man between the pitchers mound and second base if they hope to throw out any base stealers with Kendall catching.
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