Casey and Yuni can't really be that bad, can they??

Unfortunately, yes.  On Saturday, I stumbled across an article that I believe was on cbssports.com that discussed 2011's biggest disappointments so far.  Unfortunately, I can't find the article anymore, but I'm not really talking about those players--it just served as inspiration.

With Baseball Reference's help, I looked at ranks of qualifying players.  My initial thoughts were that with the struggles players like Adam Dunn, Jason Werth and Dan Uggla have been having, Casey and Yuni would rank in the lower quartile or so, but not be rock bottom.

I was wrong.  There are 162 "qualifying" players in MLB.  In OPS+, Casey is 156 with a 66 and Yuni is 157 with a 65.  For comparison sake, Dunn is 144th with a 76, Uggla is 160th with a 61.  The worst player by OPS+ is Chone Figgins (OPS+ of 40.  40!!).  

The real problem is right now, (Yuni's 3-4 day today and his "HR" yesterday notwithstanding), neither player is doing anything well.  Casey is 152nd in OBP (.283) and Yuni is 159th (.255).  Only Uggla, Tejada and Figgins are worse.  Yuni's only saving grace is a LITTLE bit of slugging (he's 136th).  Casey is 151st.  One can easily argue that Casey is the worst player on the Brewers right now.  Casey has history, though, so I'm not ready to entirely give up on him.  Yuni did have ok-ish offensive numbers with KC, but historically, Yuni's never really done much.

In my mind, this puts the Brewers in a very difficult position.  There are no viable internal options at SS (not even really any options that would be a reach or a stretch).  The only solution is a trade.  There are going to be people arguing for relief pitching, but I remain adamant that this is not only a bad idea generally it's also just not necessary.  Braddock remains an option once the team is confident his issues are resolved and Saito if he can stay healthy is a very good 8th inning option to have in the pen.  

Taylor Green is probably a bit of a reach option at 3B, but what does that mean?  We bring him up and Casey goes to the bench, because I'm fairly sure he's out of options and even with his performance this year, he probably wouldn't clear waivers.  I understand the PCL is generally offense heavy, but this isn't rookie ball.  In 66 games so far, Green has a slash line of .309/.374/.544/.918 with 11 HR and 38 RBI.  He has 25 BB and 41 K.  (The walks and K's are a little sketchy, but not too bad).

Since the Yuni problem isn't solved until a trade can be done, which means waiting for sellers to sort themselves out, I am ready to argue that the Brewers promote Taylor Green, giving him the starting job at 3rd for 2 weeks or so.  If it doesn't work out, nothing much has been lost anyway and he can go back to AAA.  If he even hits .260/.310/.430 or something, that would be a huge improvement.  It's not a desperation situation now because of the team's play and standing, but it can't go on for the rest of the season with performance like this.