The Brewers have been to the playoffs four times in 45 seasons playing in Milwaukee. Ron Roenicke was the manager for one of those trips, which came in 2011 after the Brew Crew set a team record with 96 wins. on Sunday night after having collected his 342nd win as Brewers manager fifth-most in team history earlier in the day. Roenicke went out with a .508 winning percentage, Jonathan Allen T Shirts also fifth-best for the Brewers among skippers who worked at least a full season.

Firing Roenicke was a totally reasonable call by Milwaukee. The Brewers had a 31-48 finish to last season, blowing a 6.5-game lead in the National League Central to fall out of the playoffs. They started this year at 7-18, a 45-win pace.

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While it might seem like a quick hook, the decision makes sense: The Brewers already have pretty much buried themselves, trailing the Cardinals by 11.5 Deshazor Everett Jerseys games in the Central. gets an opportunity to manage the next 137 games with little pre sure and lots of opportunity to evaluate as Milwaukee points toward 2016. His winning percentage a suredly will be higher than Roenickes because while the Brewers have been bad, their true talent level is not 117-lo s bad. It winds up being a good look.

Over the next few weeks, Counsell can get a look at the roster and work with Dax Milne Jerseys the front office to figure out which players should have a future with the Brewers beyond this year, then the sell-off can begin. That time also provides the glimmer of opportunity for Milwaukee to embark on a miraculous run theres enough time left in the season Kendall Fuller Jerseys that making up 6.5 games for the second wild card would still be imaginable if the dead cat bounce from the Brewers miserable April turns into a legitimate hot streak. Stranger things have happened.

The timing, then, is really perfect, right down to having it come after a win. Roenickes previous years with the Brewers earned him the opportunity to start this season at the helm, but it did not work out. Letting him go out with a win is the right thing to do on a human level, especially if Roenicke knew the ax was going to drop andgot to Kyle Allen Jerseys say his goodbyes on a pleasant note.

This obviously was not what anyone in Milwaukee was hoping for, but when it comes to making the painful decision to part ways with a manager who has had succe s, the Brewers could not have handled things better.