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  1. RockCoCougars
    Perez? Haha, yeah right. They wouldn't give him up for Greinke. They got two Class A players. One position player, and one pitcher. I bet the Cubs are wishing he approved the Atlanta trade right about now. I'm sure they'd rather have Delgado. What's so great about Perez? Look at the stats. I would have been irate if he would have been the major piece coming back for Greinke.
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    I'm going to guess that the Cubs got Perez.
  3. RockCoCougars
    Because I've always considered Broxton to be a gas can, part of me was hoping that the Brewers would have traded for him. His arrival and impending implosion would have been a perfect cap to the season for the Brewers' pen.... eerily reminiscent of the Marshmallow Man at the end of Ghostbusters.
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    I have never really like this argument because I don't think it's true. First of all, I don't think everyone is in play in the offseason like that thinking suggests. For instance, I'm pretty sure the Cubs and the Astros wouldn't be in play during the offseason. I doubt the Royals or the Rays would be either. The argument is that only certain teams are interested in him during the season because they are still in playoff contention but the fact is only certain is will be interested in him during the offseason as well. This is true, but at the deadline, you are not only dealing with a limited number of teams, you are limiting the options that you can get back from them. It would be tough to get them to include any contributing piece from their MLB roster. This may be fine for a team dumping salary/pending free agents, or in a full fledged rebuild, but I don't see that as being the case with the Brewers right now.
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    Trading Gallardo at this point (so soon after losing Greinke) would be a huge roll of the dice, and would harken a rebuild to me. Trading Gallardo as part of a deal for a volatile offensive player like Upton would be a crazy risk (I'm not saying that such a trade would be crazy to do on paper, but it could turn out to be the type of deal that would get DM fired down the road).
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    Maybe Greinke, the scout in him, told him the best route is to be traded and pitch 2 months for the Angels while getting a stud SS and some pitchers that could help him when he comes back to Milwaukee. Who knows? Who really knows...? Believe me, I'd love to be wrong here. I just don't see anyone leaving 100 million dollars on the table, along with the financial security it would bring their family for such a scenario- considering the risk involved every time that a pitcher toes the rubber. I also don't see anyone leaving that money behind solely to 'compete'. I think that ZG has his 'eyes on the prize', and that prize will likely come in December from a large market team who will blow the Brewer offer out of the water. That said, reportedly ZG did turn down a 100 million extension from Washington, so maybe he would do that sort of thing. The major issue with that being at that time, he couldn't receive any competing offers. I can't see him turning down an offer from say.... the Dodgers, and leaving tens of millions on the table to sign here because he enjoyed his time with the Brewers. In hindsight, I think that Melvin could have locked him up last winter when it was apparent that Prince wouldn't come back, but I think that ship has sailed.
  7. RockCoCougars
    The other problem with trading a guy like Ramirez right now is that you are limited to teams in contention, and they don't want to part with any meaningful MLB pieces (or, as we've seen, any meaningful prospects). In the off season, everyone sits at the table. You may find a big market team who just missed the playoffs who is thin at third base perceiving themselves as missing a 'big bat'. A team like this may give some value for Ramirez. Right now, you have a handful of teams looking for that quick fix, and they are picking up multiple pieces while flipping middling prospects.
  8. RockCoCougars
    I don't think that he will get enough wins to be considered (yes, I know that wins are a meaningless stat, but still). He could allow 1 run every start for the rest of the season and not get to 10 wins with this pen.
  9. RockCoCougars
    If Greinke wanted to stay here that bad, he would have signed on the line which is dotted (to quote one of my favorite cinematic scenes of all time). Hey, I'd love to be wrong, but haven't we seen this before, along with all the right quotes from the right people? I was blindly optimistic that the Crew may have been able to retain C.C. or Prince, but no more. In my view, this is even a bigger longshot than those two were, because Greinke isn't even with the team anymore. Both C.C. and Prince 'loved it' here as well by all accounts, but they loved the extra 8-9 figures in their bank accounts even more.
  10. RockCoCougars
    I see where you are coming from and it's a valid point, but I just don't see the Brewers taking that route. Rightly or wrongly, I think that they are going to try to ride the coattails of last season as long as they can. They have a dearth of prospects that are going to be ready for the majors for the next few years, so if they start dumping payroll, we are likely in for at least three years of a bad team. Personally, I don't know if I want them dumping a guy who is still a pretty good player and then having more money burning a hole in their pocket for a subpar class of free agents this off season (there will be more teams bidding on mediocre players).
  11. RockCoCougars
    Honestly, who cares? I highly doubt whether his lack of affinity for hitting will make the slightest bit of difference in where he ends up. Greinke is going to the highest bidder this off-season, and that most certainly won't be the Brewers.
  12. RockCoCougars
    his value right now is high as he's been scorching lately. Sure, he could keep up his current run, and stay healthy, but what if he doesn't? That's why you cash in now before it's too late or something happens. I want the Brewers to put together a contender next year as bad as all of you do, but I'm sorry I just don't see a strong possibility of that happening. Patching holes needs to stop and rebuilding needs to start. Patching holes pushes mediocrity, and I don't want that. I want to build up to another title run like last year. The biggest issue for me in moving Ramirez right now is that too many teams (Phillies, Cubs, Marlins etc.) are desperately shedding salary right now. These salary dumps have definitely depressed the going rate on a veteran bat. Rightly or wrongly, if the Brewers put Ramirez on the block, it's going to be perceived as a salary dump and any middling prospects that they are offered back will most likely make it look that way in hindsight (if they were to pull the trigger).
  13. RockCoCougars
    The Phillies are desperately trying to shed salary by any means possible. They have went on a drunken spending spree, and just woke up with a hangover and the credit card bills. Is it just me, or does the future look very bleak for the Phillies? They are stuck with several aging contract albatrosses on that roster. This looks to be a pretty blah return on a guy like Pence. If this is all Hart would bring, I'll keep him, thank you very much.
  14. RockCoCougars
    I don't see any urgency to make a deal today. Ramirez could very well have more value in the off season, once teams realize that Youkilis is the best free agent 3B on the market. Who knows, someone could get desperate in the next month (as cheap as teams have been during this 'trading season', I highly doubt that anyone will make a waiver claim).
  15. RockCoCougars
    I'm not trading Ramirez unless I get something of decent value for him. Teams that are trying to add pieces have been looking very tight in not only money that they want to take on, but also in talent that they are willing to part with. I wasn't a huge fan of the Ramirez signing, but looking at the 2012 free agent class, how do you replace him? The Ramirez signing certainly looks better than a Jimmy Rollins signing would have (looks like the Phillies are going to be stuck with him). I don't mind 'retooling' for a few years, but I hope that they don't sink back to 2002 ineptitude either.
  16. RockCoCougars
    Maybe I'm now overrating relievers in general after watching the Brewers, but this trade makes little sense to me. Lincoln has been very impressive out of the pen for the Pirates this season. Why mess up a good thing?
  17. RockCoCougars
    I bet that they didn't have to give up one of those blue chippers for him. Soto is probably on my list of the dozen worst (at least semi) regulars in MLB.
  18. RockCoCougars
    Wow. These guys are trash. Seriously, this is getting past the point of absurdity. It would be like an NFL team going 3-13 and losing 6 games because of missed FG inside 30 with time expiring.
  19. RockCoCougars
    I can kind of see the Rangers point in lowballing the Brewers.... starting pitching might not be a need for them. Roy Oswalt has really been dialed in as of late. Tonight another stellar outing, he gave up 8 ER on 11 hits over 5.3
  20. RockCoCougars
    I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kyles already has a job promise from the Brewers. This is pretty much a PR move for all intents and purposes.
  21. RockCoCougars
    I don't think you need a scouting report to tell you that. Nor should a coach be necessary to inform them that is a bad idea. Agreed. I was just being half sarcastic when I saw the scouting report thing. Outside of maybe Loe, I don't have confidence in any of the bullpen 'incumbents' being able to hit the broad side of a barn if they want to, let alone pitching someone in a specific way.
  22. RockCoCougars
    It sure looks like it. How do you miss that bad, that often? A good chunk of the time, these guys can't even throw strikes when they want to. It seems like they struggle with control, walk someone (or two), get an 0-2 count and are gunshy about wasting even one pitch.
  23. RockCoCougars
    At this point, I'm leaning against re-signing or even tendering Marcum. Time is running short this season, and probably the best case scenario for him at this point is to get back in time to make 8 starts or so.... he's going to have to look really good for me to want to take that risk.
  24. RockCoCougars
    I don't know, but someone should be in these clowns ears telling them that you don't throw a fat fastball or hanger right down the pipe on 0-2. These guys have been getting crushed on 0-2 counts this summer.
  25. RockCoCougars
    aside from Greinke being 5 years younger... is there a significant difference in Greinke's 2012 numbers compared to Lee? About 75 points in opponent OPS. Nowhere really to go but down for Cliff Lee at this point, and that contract is insane. There is a reason that the Phillies extended Hamels and now are trying to move Lee.
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