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  1. TooLiveBrew
    I had not noticed Hart's reaction till this pic. How awesome. Same here. Another unreal moment, brought to you by Ryan Braun.
  2. TooLiveBrew
    Link via Chris Mehring... David Goforth & Yadiel Rivera were #s 15 & 16 on Matt Eddy's B.A. Pioneer-lg. Top 20.
  3. TooLiveBrew
    What an odd situation. Imagine being Nunez (or one of the obviously many dudes that pull this scam)... making really good money, pitching at the highest level of baseball in the world, but literally living a lie to do so.
  4. TooLiveBrew
    Since this is a Brewers board, we probably don't even want to talk about this, but if the Cards make the playoffs I think Pujols has a real shot at MVP. Braun/Fielder would lose Braun some votes, & Pujols is Pujols.
  5. TooLiveBrew
    Whoa, you weren't kidding. Yeah, probably not a player a (potentially) cash-strapped franchise would be looking to move.
  6. TooLiveBrew
    OK, how do you account for the fact that he has one of the strongest arms in baseball? Some of the throws I've seen him make just leave me in amazement. ... How many more outs does his arm generate whereas an average arm wouldn't get the runner? His arm is definitely strong, probably one of the stronger ones in the league at SS. The problem people have with his defense is that his lack of range means fewer chances to put that arm to work recording outs. I have no doubt Yuni's arm allows him to make plays some SS can't, but I'd just rather see one who can get to more balls in play. I think there are more instances of range being a positive than arm. Hairston probably doesn't really have the arm for SS, but he's such a good athlete & fielder that I'd vote for him. Yuni would fit better defensively at 3B. The bigger point of Whitlock's article, which some have caught, is that sometimes when people offer non-statistical reasoning to explain things that the stats crowd jump down their throats with stats as the end-all of the discussion. And that does tend to happen around here from time to time. Ok, and the same is true in reverse. I don't see why Whitlock needed to complain about it.
  7. TooLiveBrew
    Stats describe what has happened. Scouting explains why it happened. I can't think of one person on this board that celebrates being anti-scouting, but there sure seem like a lot that celebrate being anti-stats.
  8. TooLiveBrew
    I took his post to just mean win the two games (total), not the next two games.
  9. TooLiveBrew
    I know he's been used already, but I have to break this out again http://i.imgur.com/mNiAu.png
  10. TooLiveBrew
    It's just annoying that some people feel the need to expound upon how wronged they are by "stat geeks". You know what ruins this kind of discussion or "sports" for me? Self-righteous moaning.
  11. TooLiveBrew
    Via Todd Rosiak at the JS Online Brewers blog... - You really saved us, man! - It's kinda what I do. (It'd be nice if someone whose computer didn't completely fail at embedding videos would embed this)
  12. TooLiveBrew
    Even for as much as I love Gamel's offense, I think a mid-.800s OPS is about the highest I could predict for him, & iirc Loney is regarded well defensively. The only problem I see is that Loney hasn't been close to that career road split since 2009. He just hasn't been an acceptable hitter at 1B for two years running now. While I'm aware most of the NL West is pitchers' parks, if Loney's only going to give you about an .800 OPS, just stick with Gamel because he'll do that too, cost a lot less, & probably has a higher offensive upside.
  13. TooLiveBrew
    Nicely done! And you're welcome to cubsdie... scrolled right past the text in your post initially. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ag8cy9r2XdE/TG1l0UpbR5I/AAAAAAAAJSA/5eQW9iTQAEY/s1600/The-Three-Amigos-Photograph-C10101975.jp.txt.jpeg
  14. TooLiveBrew
    Piggybacking off this thread, I think the worst I can predict the Brewers doing the rest of the way is 3-3. 4-2 seems much more likely. Obviously, if the Brewers go 3-3, that means that no other team can do anything to keep them out of the playoffs. Plus, the D-Backs play three against SF & three against LA. That's a remaining opponents' W% of .521, while the Brewers' remaining opponents come in at .449. Not to mention that SF & LA have played much better lately than FLA & PIT. Even though I've been pretty frustrated with specific weaknesses on this team, exacerbated by the importance of each individual win, I think the Brewers are going to wind up with the 2-seed for the NL. That's basically a best-case scenario for this team, and I'm pretty sure 100% of Brewerfan would've taken that if offered before the beginning of the season.
  15. TooLiveBrew
    What's the typical timeline for one of these articles to be written -- once every two years? Three?
  16. TooLiveBrew
    I don't think you need to break out accusations of PEDs, this is a guy with a HoF-caliber career so far, & he's still only 35 years old*. Seems much more likely to me that he had a fluky bad season last year & is just back within career norms this year than that he popped a pill & remembered how to hit again. * I know we're talking baseball years/age here, but honestly 35 just isn't that old. You can point to tons of guys who have reputations as clean players who were still performing at a high level at 35 or older. Frank Thomas OPSed .926 at age 38, for one example. I think the smart move for Berkman, if he stays healthy through next season, is to sign a 2 or 3-yr. deal with an AL club. At the very least, the option to DH to have some quasi-off days will be big for him as he gets closer to 40, and worst-case for him he can DH full-time eventually.
  17. TooLiveBrew
    Good deal for STL, keeps a talented hitter in the fold & provides some nice leverage against Pujols. I still have a hard time seeing Pujols leaving the Cards, but long-term that might be better for that franchise than signing an A-Rod type of deal into his mid-40s or something.
  18. TooLiveBrew
    If you think nobody would question Wolf's toughness if he took himself out of the game after being HBP, you have too much faith in sports fans. I guess my larger point is, who cares?
  19. TooLiveBrew
    This is a cool study/revelation. I think it's been assumed (or known) for a long time that catchers have a big impact in nuanced or subtle ways... this is pretty interesting.
  20. TooLiveBrew
    I don't think anyone would have thought Wolf was 'soft' after getting drilled in the wrist by a Garza fastball. Besides, what relevance does the Cutler fan overreaction have here?
  21. TooLiveBrew
    Pretty cool. The comparisons (or whatever you want to call it) with the early '80s Brewers are just inevitable. Frankly, it should be an honor for the current group to be talked about up against guys like Molitor, Yount, Sutton, etc.
  22. TooLiveBrew
    "I don’t see how you can come back and throw and have the same feel as you would normally." That's a direct quote from Roenicke. Then he went on to say that the reason he left "Wolfie" in the game is "Wolfie" wanted to stay in & told RRR he was fine. Mmph.
  23. TooLiveBrew
    Simplest way I can explain it is this -- [img.] image url address goes here [/img.] Don't use the periods I added after "img" in either tag, though -- html tags are your friend! I had to add the periods so the whole line of instructions would show up.
  24. TooLiveBrew
    Hah -- well-played
  25. TooLiveBrew
    Reminds me of the Leaders and Legends fiasco, yet they stuck with it for no apparent reason.Yeah, that's a decent comparison. As others have said, for Marlins' fans sakes, I hope this isn't the finished product.
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