TooLiveBrew

Davidson have also won their last 17 games. Tough draw for Marquette in terms of a 3-14 matchup.

Check out this tweet from him tonight, and be sure to take note of his background image. Seems like a real class act.

Gotta love Vin -- called him "Arias" initially. Also... Arcia. In big-league camp. At age 18. Seems pretty clear what the club think of his potential at this point.

I completely agree. I can't wait for this dance to get started!

I think this makes you a LROOGY

A follow-up from you would be totally appropriate imo. Just mean that I don't think you'd be out of line to ask them what's going on. I agree, to not get back to someone you liked enough to interview is maddeningly poor form.

I agree with this so much. With all the Brewers have invested in his career so far (literally & figuratively), it would be so disappointing to see him let go.

At this point, they're so deep & balanced. It's really been fun to watch. I'm really glad the championship game will be against OSU. MSU just terrifies me at this time of year.

Good insight, and that's a perfect summary of Schafer. He's a more polished player than Gomez, but also clearly a 'makes the most out of his tools' type. As of right now, he's a perfect 4th OF for the Brewers. He should get plenty of spot-starts & pinch-hit PAs, and of course injuries will probably get him on the field even more.

Thanks for the first-hand report, Brad! Glad to hear Roache looked impressive... I can't wait to watch him in Appleton.

That Bayern-Juve matchup is the one that jumped out to me. Should be really intense. Really not a bad pairing to be found, though. Can't wait to watch.

I don't mean just tonight.

I wonder if non-Yankees fans, due to watching the WBC, now understand why many Yankees fans felt the Torre-era teams won in spite of his game management, not because of it.

I don't want to see him do it continually. My point, relative to potentially selling high on Gómez down the road, is that Melvin has had many opportunities to sell high and never done it with the Brewers. It's not something he does as a GM.

We agree to disagree. At least I do. I don't want to hijack this thread any more than I already have.

In your mind. The last time we had any sort of organization depth in the system it led to a trade of Hardy for Gomez. Melvin doesn't trade random guys with no plan at the position just because they had one decent year which doesn't really pump a players trade value up much anyway. If you want to construe that as some sort of trademark more power to you. Casey McGehee is about the only guy I can think of that would have made sense trading who we had a reasonable chance of replacing from within. We had chances to trade Hart or Weeks but they always came with injuries that suppressed the value. We did trade Hardy. The window at the time made no sense at all to trade Fielder in. We haven't had any type of depth in pitching where a trade has made any kind of sense. The majority of trade value in the organization has been in the minor leagues and he has pulled off those trades and almost none of the guys he has traded have become consistently good players so he seems to be doing an ok job at it. In addition to McGehee... Hardy (not when Melvin sold at the lowest point, when he could've sold high with Escobar nearing the bigs), Fielder, Morgan, Wolf, Marcum, Loe, Hart, Ramírez... to name a few that he could've potentially sold high on. It's not his style. It's not what he does. He's too risk-averse, which isn't entirely a bad thing. But not selling high on players is absolutely a Melvin trademark. He typically keeps players until he's squeezed every ounce of value he can get out of them. You seem to believe in the same mantra that Melvin does, which I don't -- that you have to have someone ready to instantly take over from within the org. Not surprised we disagree. "The window" has been a big downfall of this organization's recent management. To veer slightly back on-topic, I would love to see Melvin sell high if Gómez provides the opportunity. If Gómez produces at the plate even like he did last season, he should carry good value. I just obviously don't believe Melvin would take that opportunity even if it presented itself, based on his track record.

I don't really agree with that. People always want players traded without having any sort of reasonable depth behind them or when player value isn't really as high as they think. This is just one of those items people make up in their heads. The Brewers have never had any depth and it is pretty hard to trade players when you have no depth. It's definitely a Melvin trademark.

Adam McCalvy tweet on Morris: In general, monty57, I agree with you on Melvin's aversion to giving non-elite prospects their shot until it's his last resort. However, I'm glad to see that they are keeping Morris in the minors. I don't believe he's ready yet.

http://i.imgur.com/Szm0iVx.gif I want to believe he can change, but Melvin's inability to sell high on players is one of his trademarks. I sure hope Gómez builds upon his success at the plate in 2012, because Melvin won't move him unless Gómez has proven to be a complete waste of money (or when we reach the trade deadline in his final contract season). Going forward, at the very least the Brewers will have one of the best defensive outfields in MLB with Braun/Gómez/Aoki/Schafer. I like Carlos, and really want to see him continue to improve on offense.

That's good to hear. I watched his first performance & thought the opposite.

Done

Are you in from the get go this year? Has Ted been around at all since the AFL? Yeah, I'll hop on for the full season. And I have no idea about Ted-whatever.

I guess I'd like to take Nashville, but I agree with Mass Haas that juggling the affiliates should work well, too.

THIS is maddening.

they lost him because they intended to outright him to the minor leagues in order to clear a 40-man roster spot for alex gonzalez. he was never outrighted off a 40-man roster, because the padres claimed him. Thank you. Not sure why I couldn't remember that they outrighted him.