What's up with this bullpen?

[davego]

Owen I'm not sure how whatever level you played at is real relevant. If you would like to tell us some baseball stories of your experience, that would be neat.

[pitchleague]

are you Spike Owen?

[logan82]

TooLiveBrew wrote:

hey messed things up further by using the bullpen to stash not one but two starters to preserve the notion of "starter depth". That never made sense to me. Now there's no room for one lefty specialist to get out the Ethiers of the world. I don't blame Macha. I do blame Melvin.

 

I completely agree with this part. It's just one more reason why releasing Suppan was, and still is, the right move.

I don't. The one I would have sent down was Villy and kept Stetter. We do need starter depth until some of our minor league guys step up. If we have a few pitching well at the all star break I say we cut Suppan.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Hawkins' stuff has really got me thinking he's injured. Check out his velocity on Fangraphs: http://www.fangraphs.com/...29&position=P#pitchtype. McCalvy also had an article up on his missing velocity: http://brewersbeat.mlblog...led_by_velocity_dr.html. The other telling sign, IMO, is that he's barely thrown his slider at all. I guess he has thrown his curve, so maybe its not injury related, but lots of red flags.

 

Sorry if this has been mentioned here already, I don't usually comment/read the major league forum.

As TLB mentioned in the other thread...huge post Marty.

Also, in defense of Melvin for the Riske/Hawkins signings...those were very similar to the Solomon Torres signing. Without Torres, no way we make the playoffs in '08. Can't get 'em all right.

[young guns]

Actually we traded for Torres, but the premise is the same and you are right, there was no way we would have made the playoffs without him.