Sunday May 20, 2012 7:07 AM
MILWAUKEE — Manager Ron Roenicke pronounced that this year’s Milwaukee Brewers competence be too
sedate.
Prince Fielder, Nyjer Morgan and a Brewers were a boisterous garland final year on their approach to
winning a National League Central. Milwaukee is a season-worst 8 games next .500 after a 5-4
loss in 11 innings to Minnesota yesterday.
Roenicke says a organisation is personification and operative hard, though that something is blank from a group
that mislaid Fielder, LaTroy Hawkins and other hall personalities over a winter.
“This year, we’ve got a still group,” Roenicke said. “Sometimes, when things aren’t going really
well, we need somebody to disencumber it adult a small bit. we know some guys are perplexing to do that, but
it’s hard.”
Roenicke, regarded as one of a some-more indifferent managers in a majors, watched Milwaukee get
drubbed 11-3 on Friday night by a Twins, who came in with a misfortune record in a large leagues. It
was a Brewers’ third true detriment and fifth in 6 games.
“We haven’t figured out what kind of organisation this is going to be and a certainty we need,” he
said.
“We knew where we were final year. We knew what kind of organisation we were. We had a lot of
personalities on a organisation that we suspicion meshed unequivocally well.”
Roenicke would like to see Morgan turn some-more outspoken in a hall and a dugout. The
outfielder was that approach final year, and infrequently Roenicke had to rein him in when Morgan’s
excitable celebrity became a distraction.
“I’d rather have him step it adult this year. I’ve had conversations with him,” Roenicke said. “It’s
unequivocally tough for him, since he’s not personification that well, to be that man he was final year.
Unfortunately, infrequently we can’t be yourself.
“Last year, things were going so well, he could be himself. This year, I’d like him to be a
little bit some-more of that guy. But he’s unequivocally concentrating, perplexing to figure out how to get his
swing behind and start personification like he did final year.”
Fielder, who over Milwaukee for a Detroit Tigers as a giveaway agent, ordered a participation on
and off a field.
“Prince is a large celebrity that has an edge,” Roenicke said. “He was means to disencumber adult a
clubhouse, though since of a edge, he’d say, ‘Let’s go. Enough is enough.’ When things are not
going well, that’s when we unequivocally need a personalities, to keep things lax and keep things
positive.”
Roenicke pronounced that a coaching staff is perplexing to replicate final year’s atmosphere, with little
success.
“Sometimes players get a small sleepy of conference us,” Roenicke said.