Since my last substantive Brewer post, the team has endured 5 straight losses and now come back to win a big game against the division leading Cardinals. In that time, there has been a lot of speculation on Ned Yost's future with the Brewers and the overall direction of the team.
It's hard to say exactly what General Manager Doug Melvin and owner Mark Attanasio are thinking in regards to Yost's position, because they have been largely silent on the subject. Sure, they re-upped Yost before the season by picking up his 2009 option, but that was probably more of a move to avoid the dreaded "lame duck manager" situation.
The temptation for fans who have been waiting a long time for Yost's dismissal (which seems like most of them from where this writer sits) is almost to simply expect that he will continue to darken their door as he has for so long. There does, however, seem to be a mounting tension surrounding team. JS beat writer Anthony Witrado talks quite a bit about it in this chat. Taken together with the fact that this is his 6th season at the helm and that the Brewers are now in a position to expect to be competitive, it is difficult to imagine that Yost's future with the franchise isn't in serious jeopardy at the moment.
The Brewers win on Friday night may turn out to be the start of something big or nothing much at all. For Ned Yost to keep his job, it will probably need to be more the latter than the former.