TooLiveBrew

It's not like they can't alter the logo or font prior to next season. Maybe leaking this logo was to gauge reaction to it ...? But you shouldn't need public opinion to tell you that it's pretty lame. The Marlin aspect of the logo is cool, but that's it. Time to head back to the drawing board.

I really don't agree*. And I've advocated all season long for Green to be up & starting over McGehee... never been a McGehee fan. EDIT: * don't agree that the comparison is close. I agree that I don't think McGehee is going to start hitting all of a sudden, but I definitely disagree that there's not a better chance of that happening than Betancourt suddenly getting hot.

Nice!

Sounds pretty cool... I'm envious

In fact, Betancourt DOES have an upside if you want to scoff at it or not. He had a hot streak after the Break, and is just as likely to have one as McGehee is. Betancourt's stunk for like the past 5 or 6 seasons running. McGehee was a very acceptable hitter for his position as recently as last season. The comparison isn't even close, really.

Plus McGehee has the higher offensive upside

I remember earlier in the season, some of the discussion about Greinke was that he wasn't really as good as his '09 season, & that he was more likely a mid-3's ERA talent. What I wanted to add here is that the really top SP talents in the league appear to be guys whose ERAs tend to be under 4 year in & year out, & then occasionally dip waaaaay down into the filth-o-sphere. Greinke certainly looks to fit that bill, & isn't alone in perhaps being labeled as "not really that good". Here are some off-the-top-of-my-head examples... Career ERA Lowest Season Highest Season #1 3.52 2.29 4.84 #2 3.78 2.24 6.26 #3 3.80 2.50 5.01 #4 3.47 2.27 4.11 #5 3.81 2.16 5.80I used a minimum of 150 IP for citing single seasons Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 And to tie Gallardo in as well, his career so far certainly has the look of an elite SP's, from year to year. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see that sub-3 ERA season from him in the very near future. If the Brewers can lock up Greinke to a long-term contract, they'll be in a position to contend for a long time. EDIT: TL;DR -- Greinke & Gallardo both profile, statistically & physically, as legit #1-type SPs. And there was much rejoicing. FIP is a bad stat. It's not a bad stat, it's only a 'bad stat' if it's being used, standalone, to show a pitcher's total & ultimate worth. FIP is a stat that's exactly what its name says it is. I think you said it best, FVBF, with "I have no problem looking at just about any stat, they're all helpful in context." You can't look at any one stat & say 'this is why pitcher X is the best'. Imo you have to evaluate both talent & production, just like when discussing MiLB prospects.

I can't be the only one that finds all this conference & school money-grabbing really annoying

Best relief pitcher ever?

He looks very serious.

The top 15 picks are protected iirc

AVG OBP SLG OPS .250 .268 .375 .643 .218 .264 .378 .642 .228 .285 .348 .633 One of these players is Carlos Gomez, the guy who draws the ire of just about all Brewers fans for being useless at the plate. Pretty sure everyone can guess who the other two are; if not, here's a hint: they're the players to whom Roenicke has given the third & fourth-most plate appearances on the roster. Further hint: the worst line is from the guy with the third-most PAs on the team.

Seconded: Pujols & Cabrera. Add to the mix: Jose Bautista, Adrian Gonzalez.

Do you know Mat Gamel? Lose wieght? Have you seen Mat? I also thought it was a little odd that the article cited him being like 30 pounds overweight. That's a ridiculous amount of weight on a 6'0" (listed height) frame. He's listed at 6'0" & 215 lbs. ... so Money's assertion is that he came in tipping the scales at like 240 lbs.? That just sounds like hyperbole.

I would say the amount of injuries the Giants have had to deal with this season would fit within the "well, there's like a 5% chance they'd have that many injuries" category

Nice, congrats to Taylor! What a great story he is as a prospect. From 25th rounder out of h.s. in Canada, to up-and-coming prospect, to crippling wrist injury, to big-leaguer/Brewers MiLB PoTY/2d-tm. all MiLB. EDIT: It should be noted that he has some lofty company on Baseball America's 2nd team: Bryce Harper, Anthony Rizzo, Travis d'Arnaud

I don't know why this would be either news or a distraction to anyone. Anyone with even slight knowledge of the Brewers should've had a really good idea he would be leaving via FA for a long time now.

Took me a while to remember where I saw this, but Tom Haudricourt tweeted back on 9/6 about asking Roenicke about this, or at least a similar topic. In response to: Why is Lucroy not batting 6th? He's .326 w/ RISP and Yuni is 100 points lower! What gives??? That's a very good question. It makes no sense whatsoever. We've asked Roenicke about it many times and gotten nowhere. Also, TH doesn't mince words about Betancourt. And remember, this is the guy that was talking down his nose to people who pointed out how terrible YB is immediately after the acquisition.

This was sent to us today from a friend of ours. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Profound thoughts.

"he has only hit .268 in Sept with an OPS of .936." I took "only" as applied to both AVG & OPS. Oh well. There's just a lot of denial about this guy amongst BF.netters imo. Can someone point to the post that said he's going to be a HoF player? Because otherwise let's drop the "ushered into the HoF" stuff.

We all know he wants to close, and none of us blame him for that. I do, he's being a knucklehead. Instead of just being part of one of the best pitching staffs in the league & chasing a WS title, he's going to pout & whine about not closing. The closer's role has to be one of the dumbest things in this sport.

Only a .936 OPS so far this month ... what a bum

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Colin Fly basically said a national writer came in and re-framed the whole story. When I saw the name of this guy's column was "Bull Pennings", I knew to be suspicious. Thanks.

of the five or six players, the majority were either really good players or superstars, but one of those players was also Jeff Francoeur. I understand when people are skeptical of young players translating their games to MLB. But when a talent like Lawrie puts up numbers like he has in his debut, I'll borrow from Homer (in a different sense) & say where there's smoke, there's fire. This guy can hit, and every once in a while, that guy that OPSes like 1,000.000 in his first taste of pitching is the real deal. Lawrie is the real deal imo.