Jason Kendall

Jason Kendall Got Rich By Sucking at Baseball

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jason Kendall is so excellent at what he does that the Brewers will be giving him a 400% pay raise. Currently making $1 million, Kendall hit the auto-bump mark last week as he started his 100th game. That means he'll go from $1.25 (assuming he hits 130 starts) in 2008 to $4.6 million next year . The Brewers will be paying Jason Kendall (.245/.328/.318, OPS+ 71, 1 HR, 1:1 k/BB, zero speed, zero power,...

Notes: Kendall savoring happy days in 2008

JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday

Catcher Jason Kendall, who vested his 2009 contract with the Milwaukee Brewers on their West Coast trip last...

Open Thread of Just Win Sheets, Just Win

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | yesterday

Braun sitting out hopefully just as a precaution. 2B Ray Durham SS J.J. Hardy LF Gabe Kapler 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Craig Counsell CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall RHP Ben Sheets Lets see if the Bats can show Sheets some CC like love and score him 5 or 8 runs

You Can't Spell Sabathia Without B-A-T

Baseball Musings (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

CC Sabathia was holding onto a 1-0 lead when the Astros intentionally walked Jason Kendall to load the bases with two outs. The big lefty goes with the pitch, singling to left to drive in two and give himself a...

Open Thread of Wolf Owns the Brewers

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

How does a terrible pitcher like Randy Wolf amass a OPS against of .635 against a team as offensively potent as the Crew? Seriously...how does that happen? 2B Ray Durham SS J.J. Hardy LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Bill Hall CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall LHP CC Sabathia Given the Brewers troubles against Wolf...CC is on the mound! I like Milwaukee's chances! Game starts in 90 minutes...Go...

Full count: Iron man

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

Jason Kendall has started 111 games for the Brewers this season, the most of any catcher in the majors. He is tied for...

Open Thread of Late Night Entertainment

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

You know how we all thought this Brewers team was so incredibly deep? Jesus is it being tested this week: 2B Rickie Weeks SS JJ Hardy LF Gabe Kapler 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Craig Counsell CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall P Manny Parra That is some ugly shit. Kapler in the three hole, Counsell in the major leagues...u-g-l-y. The Dodgers have their best pitcher going (not Ace material) tonight,...

Follow the Bouncing Ball

Baseball Musings (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008

An umpire following the ball and not the play costs the Padres a run. Jody Gerut was on third with two out when Jason Kendall had a pitch bounce off his glove. Gerut tried to score, Kendall fielded the ball...

Someone is too busy playing Madden to do an open thread Open Thread

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008

Brewers try to win on the West Coast game is in about 5 minutes line up full of grit 2B Rickie Weeks SS JJ Hardy LF Gabe Kapler 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Craig Counsell CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall P Jeff Suppan Lets get the road trip off to a good start Cubs rained out Cards losing in a rain delay Hurray Beer Chris

Open Thread of Answering The Call

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Obviously me calling out Ned in the JS comment section and today here at the WSB have forced him to play the muscle. We are blog...we are powerful. 2B Ray Durham SS JJ Hardy LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Russell Branyan CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall P Ben Sheets I still don't think this is the best lineup the Crew could have out there, considering Counsell has the most PA against...

The Brewers Crush Tim Redding

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008

The following Brewers have an OPS of .850 or higher against Tim Redding: Craig Counsell - 1.058 (25 PA) Jason Kendall - .971 (17 PA) Russell Branyan - 1.547 (7 PA) Prince Fielder - 1.167 (6 PA) Jeff Suppan (!) - 1.334 (5 PA) Ryan Braun - 2.500 (3 PA) Mike Rivera - 1.334 (3 PA) Manny Parra - 1.000 (2 PA) The following have been terrible: Bill Hall - .762 (7 PA)...not really terrible, but not up to...

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Open Thread of Sitting the Wrong Guy

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008

A righty is on the mound. Hardy is on the bench. Weeks and Hall are not. Color me unsurprised. 2B Rickie Weeks SS Craig Counsell LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Bill Hall CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall RHP Jeff Suppan At least there is some awesomely early baseball for me to listen to at work today!

Notes: Kendall slipping at plate

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

Cincinnati - Catcher Jason Kendall insists he is not wearing down. His batting average over the past few weeks...

Open Thread of No Sense, No Sir

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008

I don't get it. 2B Rickie Weeks SS J.J. Hardy LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Craig Counsell CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall LHP Manny Parra I laid out the numbers below. Why Weeks is in this lineup is God damned baffling. If Counsell needs at bats this badly, he can play second better than Weeks for God's sake. Russell Branyan continues to rot, despite STILL killing righties. But...

Open Thread of Stringing Some Together

The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008

Brewers need to get hot. These are the guys that are going to do it: 2B Rickie Weeks SS JJ Hardy LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder RF Corey Hart 3B Craig Counsell CF Mike Cameron C Jason Kendall P CC Sabathia Lefties crush Martin to an OPS of .895, so it makes sense that you would put Counsell at 2nd and Branyan at 3rd...which is why I am not the least bit surprised Yost opted to not do that.