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So much for wishful thinking. Melvin is going to hire another 'winner' who won solely because his team was stacked with pitching. Heaven help us if this is true. -
Highly doubtful. Doesn't MLB have a process with rules in place for managerial hirings (for example, doesn't every team need to conduct one interview with a minority candidate)? I would guess that the process would take more than 72 hours.
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Team by team analysis of Fielder trade partners
RockCoCougars replied to NYChez's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
A quick Google search revealed that Joe DiMaggio has the lowest strikeout/home run ratio of players with 200 career home runs of 1.02 (in about 7600 PA). That's insane. -
Team by team analysis of Fielder trade partners
RockCoCougars replied to NYChez's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Point taken. You also have to consider that GDP's are partially (but not completely) canceled out by fielding errors. For example, one grounder to short could be a 6-4-3 DP, and the shortstop could throw one into the dugout. I would also say that the value of moving runners along (generally from 2nd to 3rd or scoring from 3rd on groundballs) would cancel out the GDP's somewhat as well. Obviously power guys have a little more leeway with strikeouts. A guy who hits less than 15 homers and strikes out more than 100 times a year won't be sticking around very long. Most power guys tend to fan a lot, but I wonder who has the lowest number of strikeouts per home run in a career of 10,000 PA? I'll have to do some checking. -
I would be very surprised if Simmons was the pick. I would have to think that there is some bad blood on both sides over how the Yost firing went down and his resignation. Reports are that he turned the job down then, so I highly doubt if he would come back to work for the same owner and GM two years later. I second the Garner idea. In my opinion, he was a very good manager. Despite having outmanned teams, and generally mediocre to poor pitching staffs- more often then not, he seemed to have his teams come out of the gate strong and in semi-contention well into the summer. They generally collapsed late in the summer because they just didn't have the depth and the horses to compete with the big dogs and their deadline deal pick ups. Why not at least bring him in for an interview?
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Team by team analysis of Fielder trade partners
RockCoCougars replied to NYChez's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
I'd ask why is okay to ignore how many K's a hitter has as an out is an out but at the same time preferring strike outs to other outs from your pitcher? Ground ball guys get more double plays in general. That being said I'm not completely sold on Porcello because ground ball rate isn't all that high either though he's still awfully young..'Pitching to contact' may be a good thing if you have pinpoint control and pitch for a team with a solid defense in a pitcher's park. That doesn't apply here. It follows that a strikeout pitcher would be more effective for this team. I would guess that most staff aces strike out somewhere in the minimum of 7 strikeouts per 9 innings. Porcello was under 5 this year, I believe. Personally, I'm more old school and take the contrary viewpoint that strikeouts for a hitter are 'worse' than a regular out. I've always argued against the 3TO. If you make and out and don't put the ball in play, nothing good can result. Hence my dislike of guys like Jose K. and Cammy. -
Team by team analysis of Fielder trade partners
RockCoCougars replied to NYChez's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Porcello throws low 90's, and is basically a one pitch sinkerballer who doesn't strike anyone out. Granted he is young- maybe he will develop an out pitch down the road and develop into a #2 type pitcher. I'm not willing to give up Prince to take that gamble. -
Team by team analysis of Fielder trade partners
RockCoCougars replied to NYChez's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
I'm not interested in adding anyone with the character of Lueke. If Detroit wants in, it starts with Scherzer, not Porcello. I can see them moving Porcello, because he lacks the stuff to be a top of the rotation pitcher, he's just another guy. I'd rather have the two draft picks. -
Randy Ready isn't young by any means. He was a bust here as a player over 25 years ago, and he will be 51 next opening day (my how time flies). Since 60 is the new 50, I'd rather go with Money. I'd have some interest in Simmons, but I'm not sure he'd want to come back here after the way things shook down with Yost.
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I'm not really interested in Joe Torre, and I highly doubt if he is interested in the Brewers job. To me, Joe Torre has kind of became the Phil Jackson/Pat Riley of baseball, namely taking very talented teams to where they should be. Before going to the Yankees job, inheriting a ton of young talent like Jeter, Rivera and Pettitte- with a sky is the limit payroll, you could have looked 'retread manager' up in the dictionary and you would have seen a picture of Joe Torre. He had a decent run with the Dale Murphy teams in Atlanta, but that was about it. Torre is going somewhere with a lot of talent in place and a bunch of money to spend.
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I was waiting for someone to bump this. I don't think that I could have been any more wrong. Should have stayed the pessimist....
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Drill Tommy Hanson in the ribs the first time he steps to the plate against you next year.
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I'm not sure that I'd call Macha a 'stand up guy' after reading his parting words. Excuses, backhanded compliments..... and how many guys you can you throw under the bus in a few paragraphs? He's always came off as smug to me, and I'm glad he's packed the truck back to Pittsburgh.
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I'm not very high on Listach. Maybe it's because I still have a bad taste in my mouth as to how badly he tanked as a player after he got the contract extension. I guess I don't see what he brings (outside of being younger) that Money doesn't. Money also has a great track record in the minors and knows many of the players.
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Look at the pitching that Valentine inherited with the Mets. Macha may have been a 'winner' before he came to Milwaukee, but in my opinion, there are three reasons for that: Hudson, Zito and Mulder.
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I like Valentine because he has the reputation as being a player's manager. Most guys who've played for him rave about him, and he seems to get a lot out of younger players. He also has a personality, and shows his competitive nature on his sleeve. Basically the opposite of Macha, which is a good thing. Going further, in both jobs that he's had in Texas and New York, he took over crappy teams, and brought them to respectability. I also think that he would relate well with international players based on his stint in Japan. It would be nice to have a manager with some personality here, which we haven't had in a long time.
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We can blame him for start #30, which was unearned and a complete joke.
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How would you go for it next year?
RockCoCougars replied to igor67's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
I have no interest in Beltre for a big contract. First of all, 3rd base is not a position of need. Secondly- and most importantly- as someone else pointed out, Beltre's best seasons come when he is playing for a contract. He's no spring chicken either. I'm not interested in giving him a big contract that will take him in to his mid 30's. -
I don't get all the Bob Melvin talk. He was mediocre at best in his two managerial stints. Hopefully the Mets swoop him up first. If you are going to hire Melvin, why not just bring back Phil Garner who was his mentor? I think that Garner would do a good job with this team. He had a lot of crappy teams here, but had a lot of them in semi-contention, plus he seemed to prefer the NL style of baseball. Plus he took Houston to a World Series. The only other retread manager that would appeal to me would be Bobby Valentine. I'd still prefer one of the internal candidates- Sveum/Money or Randolph in that order.
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True, but Macha filled out the lineup card didn't he? If so, he was the one who started Jeff Suppan 30 times last season. He was also the one who let Capuano rot in the bullpen for about two months as well this season. Going further, no one put a gun to his head, earlier this season to stubbornly keep going to Hawkins and/or Hoffman in April and May when it was clear they were not able to get the job done. Guys like McClung and Villanueva were doghoused and buried for doing much less damage. Mind you, I'm not absolving Melvin of guilt in this fiasco either. Due to pulling the team out of the mess that Dean Taylor created, he's earned one more season in my view. It's put up or shut up you're gone next year
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I disagree, and think that your analogy of the team is a little off. Basically, Macha inherited a playoff team and put out two mid-90's Garner-esque type records- with twice the talent, mind you. You can cry and pout about losing Sheets and Sabathia, but he did have at least one legit pitcher in the rotation in Gallardo. Though some here appear to relate to and enjoy Macha's stoicism and game strategy, I get the feeling that he lost this clubhouse very early on. I'm not even going to go into how poor this team was on fundamentals.
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RIP, we are losing a lot of Milwaukee Braves. I'm not old enough to remember Shaw's career as a pitcher or as a pitching coach. Thanks for making me feel a little younger guys!
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159, but I have age on my side. I did pretty well up to about 2000 missing only a handful, then I missed a bunch over the next 5 years, and then hit most of the past 5 years. I don't know how I forgot about Loretta, Overbay, and Lee.... that said, I'm glad that I have been able to block Jose K. from my memory. The Dean Taylor teams were truly brutal.
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He should be brought back as the #5 pitcher for sure. My guess is that he won't cost an arm and a leg and will be amenable to returning. The guy knows how to pitch, and his stuff is almost the same as it was pre-injury. In many ways, he is the antithesis of Parra, and that's a good thing.
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Fielder, Parra and Hart were Taylor draft picks. Not directed at you specifically, but a lot of people seem to credit Melvin with turning around the minors, but the process really started with Taylor. He never got to see the fruits of his labor because he screwed up the big league club so badly. Not sure why I typed that, I had a few cocktails last night. At any rate, Taylor's drafting was much better than Bando's, but really he produced only 3 quality players in his three drafts (Fielder, Hart and Hardy). Three all-stars, so I will tip my hat to him for that, but I think some overrate his rebuilding the farm system. Outside of the three all-stars, there is little or nothing outside of Parra, with higher round flame outs left and right.
