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  1. RockCoCougars
    As for Rickie, I'm hoping for a bone bruise, bracing for a broken carpal somewhere.
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    For a minute, I thought I was hallucinating after watching that... I could have sworn that I just saw David Weathers in the dugout, but it was the batboy.
  3. RockCoCougars
    Good grief. This is starting to get ridiculous. If Ramirez grounds into a DP here, I'm shooting my TV.
  4. RockCoCougars
    Rickie actually swung at a first pitch tonight. That's a start....
  5. RockCoCougars
    That's the issue. His approach has changed if you ask me. According to Fangraphs, his swing percentage is down about 15 percent from his career norms.
  6. RockCoCougars
    One of my professors in a college finance course many years ago advised the class to never 'catch a falling knife'. I think that applies here. Beckett is owed about $40 million, based on how he's pitched, that's not buying low if you ask me. I think his value is negative at this point.
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    This has already been done numerous times, THT or BP did study on it about 5 years ago which is the most recent study I recall, top position player prospects have a success right around 50% while pitchers were something like 30%. The difference isn't talent, it's in the criteria used to judge the end result. Pitchers fail more often than not because of injury since they tend to be pushed too far before their bodies are mature, not because they can't throw strikes or get people out. If Prior had a been a Ray instead of a Cub, he might still be pitching today, we just don't know. Thanks, this sounds about what I had guessed. My original post was in the context of trading ZG sooner rather than later (like the CC trade around the 4th of July). Bottom line, Greinke is a bonafide ace... 100% (unless he gets hurt). In my view, you don't trade someone like that for basically a coinflip, unless you are hopelessly out of the race AND have no chance at extending Grienke. I fail to see a legit reason that the Brewers can't do the latter. Now, if the Brewers are 9.5 games out in mid July and Grienke demands a trade or something, I'll do that deal yesterday.
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    I want selective hitters that will attack a pitch if it's in their zone, regardless of count. If you always let the pitcher pitch ahead in the count, you're always going to be behind the 8 ball. Like the other day with Ish in the 9th, all I heard all day long was people calling and email radio shows about him swinging at the first pitch. If he's looking for a pitch in a certain spot and gets it, he should absolutely swing at it, you don't let your pitch go bye because you're trying to walk in a run, that's bad hitting. Exactly. These aren't 9 hole Little Leaguers looking to draw a walk, these guys are major leaguers. I watched Paul Molitor make a career of murdering first pitch fastballs. I'd like to see a stat, but to me, it seems almost every Brewer hitter this season lets the first pitch sail by (more often than not a strike). If I'm an opposing catcher, I see that and call for a first pitch fastball right down the middle. I don't know if this is some philosophy by the new hitting coach or if these guys want to get more TV time, but it's irritating. Sometimes I question if the goal is to get a hit or if it's to draw a walk (yes OBP people, I know the goal is to get on base......). BTW, I thought the criticism of Ishikawa was off base as well.... it wasn't Corey Hart grounding into a bases loaded DP in the playoffs or anything.
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    I'm no MLB hitting coach, but once again I'll say that in my view Rickie needs to alter his approach. First of all, he has been far too passive up there... you don't break out of a slump by taking pitches. When is the last time he offered at the first pitch? Over his career (as is the case with probably every MLB hitter) his career average is way down when falling behind 0-1 (25 points). I think that he should take the hacker mindset for a while, what's the worse that can happen, striking out? He's already on a JoseKian pace in that aspect. Now, I'm not saying that he should try to jerk everything out of the park either. He should just concentrate on making contact. See the ball, hit the ball.... let those fast hands and resulting bat speed do the work. I'd actually have him swing straight down on the ball in an effort to take pitches the other way.
  10. RockCoCougars
    Turning this into an OT thread, but the thing with Ramirez is that he's not been abysmal throughout his career in the early season, it's mostly been the past few seasons. Maybe it's a fluke, maybe it has something to do with age but it's going to be tough for him to keep getting hot later in the season to save his overall numbers. I think that he's going to turn it around yet this season, but I don't expect him to do what he did last year.
  11. RockCoCougars
    If he's gonna hit 30, he had better get on his horse. I'd be thrilled with anything over 20 at this point.
  12. RockCoCougars
    This is why you go for the playoffs in my view. It may be a longshot, but anything can happen once you get there. I don't want to hear how Philly is a much better team either. They played like complete crap in two of their wins, including last night. I'm not saying that the Bucks would have won the series, but they would have taken it to 6-7 games at the least.
  13. RockCoCougars
    I remember seeing TVP's first pro start for the Madison Muskies. I remember the hype when he was sent to Madison. The Braves are extremely lucky that they went for Van Poppel's smokescreen that he was going to college at Texas and wouldn't sign a deal. They ended up with Chipper Jones instead.
  14. RockCoCougars
    Good idea, but I don't think that the Angels would trade Trumbo for Kottaras unless the Brewers kicked in a lot more.
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    Rickie is 2nd in the league in walks. I'm not going to open up the great 'Walk Debate' again, but with all due respect, he should be. The amount of plate appearances that he has coupled with his lack of aggressiveness at the plate should lend itself to a ton of walks. This has boosted his OBP to a level that is somewhat surprising (though still not good), considering how abysmal he has been with the bat.
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    Every prospect doesn't have better odds of being a bust than he does being a success, I grow weary of this continual argument being used in any number of situations. If you have a legitimate concern about a particular player then by all means bring it, but generic over generalizations don't add anything to the discussion at all. Well according to baseballreference, Royce was the #6 prospect by Baseball America in 1992 (behind Brien Taylor, Todd Van Poppel, Roger Salkeld, Chipper Jones and Arthur Rhodes.... just ahead of Wil Cordero). Clayton had a similar frame (small). The only major difference that I see is that Profar is a SH and has shown a smidge of power at his age. I plead guilty to viewing prospects with a jaded eye.... but I think that there is another extreme with people who get carried away with Baseball America prospect ratings to the point where they want trade as many veterans as possible to stockpile these guys, sight unseen. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but I guarantee you if you go back 20 years and look, more of the Top 25 prospects have been busts than stars.
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    I just want to go on record that I've always stated "in a month or so..." or "...in late June/early July," and I've usually included something along the lines of "...if things go right and we're at or near the top of the division at that time we'll look to upgrade." There's no way we're going to sell on May 10, and I don't think any poster on this site is suggesting we start a selloff now. This makes more sense. If the team is out of the race in July, I'd look into some deals. I want to get half a season under the belt before I think about that though.
  18. RockCoCougars
    I'd prefer to retain Greinke because it seems easier to find offense relatively cheap. I think that Hamilton will come a bit cheaper than Pujols//Fielder, but not much. I bet someone will throw him 6 years in the $120-$150 million range, far too rich for the Brewers' blood. Probably that someone will be Texas.
  19. RockCoCougars
    The Twins are horrible. Ironically, probably the one of the few good moves that former GM Smith made was stealing Hardy from the Brewers. He later cancelled that out by trading Hardy to Baltimore for garbage to make room for the free agent Japanese SS who hit about a buck ninety or something last year. This doesn't mention the fact that they are paying a singles hitter about 25 million per for the foreseeable future.
  20. RockCoCougars
    If I'm trading Greinke for this Profar guy this early in the season, he had better turn into the next ARod, Ripken or Yount. Realistically, odds are he will be probably be the next Royce Clayton- if he's lucky. I'd be the first to show up tonight at Miller Park with a burning pitchfork if they gave up on the season (and likely started a rebuild) to acquire a 19 year old AA shortstop.
  21. RockCoCougars
    Hopefully next time our #5 hitter starts bunting guys over too. Come on, really? Good RH hitters will try to take the ball the other way in these situations. I know that's a foreign concept to most of the Brewers lineup...
  22. RockCoCougars
    Don't forget the Greinke home winning streak.
  23. RockCoCougars
    Why do these games always happen during the day when I can't curse loudly at the TV?
  24. RockCoCougars
    Seems like it's tough enough for the Bucks to get people downtown to the games, and it'd be even harder to get them down to the lakefront. I'm pretty sure that the Bradley Center was originally going to be put in the parking lots at County Stadium, but Bud put the kibosh on that. Elsewhere in the Menomonee Valley would be easier for me and other 'outstate folks' to get to, but in my opinion, the Bucks would have the biggest economic effect right where they are. If done right, a new arena complex could be a great shot in the arm for that area.
  25. RockCoCougars
    And Rickie gets on base. Cool. Sadly, he probably has a better chance at drawing a four pitch walk these days as opposed to hitting himself on. Thanks Cueto.
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