This roster contained both Rickie Weeks and Yuniesky Betancourt, so the offensive bar was already set very low on this team. 169 batting average was beyond embarrassing. Maldonado only had 50 less at-bats than he did in 2012, but had half as many hits and home runs.

Like I said at the start, this is going to hurt. But as my grandmother always said, “there is a lid for every pot”.Īs you should know by now, I grade my Brewers on three specific categories: Performance, Attitude, and the always unpopular “Eye Test”. In my wildest dreams, I never thought that I would be capable of failing someone. In 2013 Lucroy emerged as one of the premier catchers in the game of baseball, while Maldonado showed why there is no reason for them to split the catching duties.Įven though I am not a member of the educational allegiance of awesome teachers, I always thought that I would be a nice teacher. If I was writing this last year, I would probably open with something about how much I like seeing Martin Maldonado and John Lucroy split time.

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