It's pretty common to see a baseball team fall apart towards the end of the season. But it isn't common for a team to fire their manager at this point in the season when the playoffs are so close. Well that's exactly what is happening in Milwaukee. With a record of 3-11 during September the Milwaukee Brewers are spiraling down in the NL Wild Card race. At one point the Brewers were sitting comfortably on top of the wild card with a five and a half game lead, but now the Brew Crew finds themselves one game behind the New York Mets in the wild card. In what I believe was an act of desperration the general manager, Doug Melvin, fired the Brewer's manager Ned Yost. Yost had already been under a lot of heat from last season when the Brewers started out strong then faded towards the end of the season. But people don't realize how much good Yost has done for the team since he was hired. Before Yost was their manager, the Brewers were not what I consider a good team. But now in the past couple years Milwaukee has been conteding with everyone in the NL Central. Yost has been a major factor in this turn around. So I don't think the Brewer's end of the season skid is the fault of Ned Yost. I think their slump is the result of a crapy bullpen. The Brewers have been having all kinds of trouble with there relief pitchers, I'm talking mainly about the disapointing season that former star closer Eric Gagne is having. This deffinetly isn't the same Gagne that used to close games for the Dodger's. His earned run average this year is a hefty 6.41. The Milwaukee Brewers have problems alright, but I don't think manager Ned Yost was one of them.
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