Is anyone worried?

[brewcrew82]

Is anyone worried about the errors the brewers are making in the field? Thus far they have made 11 errors in 11 games.

I was partially expecting the infield to have a few (Weeks has 4 to date), given that they are reasonable inexperienced-- they SHOULD improve as the year goes on.
What is worrysome is that Jenks has 3 already. Whilst he's not the world greatest defensive player his career high is ONLY 7 ('99 and 2000).

[The Dude]

I'm not that worried persay. If they're still committing that many errors in may, then I'll be extremely worried. I think it's just the opening of the season jitters for the young guns like Weeks, Hardy, and Fielder, and Jenks is getting older. Just needs more time to warm up at the beginning of the season is my theory.

I know some of the errors are also do to Miller Park and the sunlight there. Lee had a few mistakes, but It's tough with those window panes.

[Ravenlord]

wouldn't worry yet. if its still going at 1 error/game rate at the end of the month, then there should be some concern. but really the only real defensive liabilitys are Weeks (who's athleticsims will compensate for some the defeciency) and Fielder.

which is still a better defensive on the right side of the infield than Womack/Hatteberg or Aurilia/Hatteberg.

[brewer fan]

As the others have said I wouldn't worry too much yet. Weeks does scare me sometimes with making the errors on easy plays. I think the main concern right now should be the lack of clutch hitting or well placed outs (not strikeouts)...getting bases loaded with no outs and not scoring a run is hard to swallow.

[BrewCrew]

As the others have said I wouldn't worry too much yet. Weeks does scare me sometimes with making the errors on easy plays. I think the main concern right now should be the lack of clutch hitting or well placed outs (not strikeouts)...getting bases loaded with no outs and not scoring a run is hard to swallow.

ditto, totally unacceptable....

[grizzly451]

Poor clutch hitting can really bog down a team's otherwise good season. It is pretty amazing the difference a few well-timed hits can do for a season.

But even with the more or less lackluster clutch hitting, the Brewers are still rolling along fairly well for a team as young as they are.

I wouldn't even worry too much about the error rate until the end of May or even June, it takes quite awhile for guys to get used to how balls play on different infields, especially at other teams ballparks.

[Ravenlord]

I wouldn't even worry too much about the error rate until the end of May or even June, it takes quite awhile for guys to get used to how balls play on different infields, especially at other teams ballparks.
same thing applies to the so called 'lack of clutch.'

though the Brewers don't have enough oppritunities yet to eliminate random variance, they have a 257/345/451/796 line with Runners On, and a 303/408/477/885 line in Close and Late situations.