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guys who wear baseball caps in nice restaurants. the "all-natural" Pizza Hut commercials. so other pizza is fake? that my school gives me an email address and then sells it to spammers. people who wait for the green light to turn right on red.
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money aside, to ask him to be our 4th outfielder isn't offering him anything that another club wouldn't, particularly against Seattle or a Florida team closer to his home.
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it would end up being an awful lot of money to have to eat, plus then who would play third for us?
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amazing how attitudes shift so quickly. two years ago he could do no wrong, but then he has a down year (for him) and all his issues get magnified. to a small extent, Molitor became something of an antihero when he bolted for Toronto. maybe something of the same deal. though we're middle of the road, Milwaukee will always be viewed as that small market that has to be careful about money, and we have that general dislike of big-money, big-market philosophies. Fielder and Boras represent that, plus the small-market curse that as soon as you develop a talented player, they leave for another team.
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i don't think anybody really sees Prince as being the cornerstone of the franchise anymore, not with the realization that he'll bolt from Milwaukee as soon as he's done with arbitration. the fat jokes just make it easier to see him go. are we just forgetting about Brad Nelson? if he doesn't make the squad out of spring training, he can opt to be a free agent. he's not a whiz at first, but sure provides a lot more offensive potential than Kevin Millar or Mientkiewicz.
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I like that idea for Washington, too. and when you consider that the success rate of 1st rounders is only about 30% to begin with (something like 20% for the second round), you could probably argue that flipping the players later for decent minor-leaguers nets you a stronger farm system in the long run, so not just in terms of quantity. but i guess to everything there's a flip side. I think of Kansas City with Juan Gonzalez and Reggie Sanders, that they paid decent money for both, seemingly with the intent of flipping them later in the year for prospects, but both of them get hurt and they got nothing out of them but a higher payroll. except now you're adding some high 2nd rounders in there, too. man, it's such an odd offseason. a bunch of players demanding more money and more years and teams actually not giving it to them. so strange.
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Why not take a shot? Andruw Jones
GAME05 replied to sheetswannabe's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
good point. he'd be a good fit for one of the Pittsburgh's of the world--one of those low-risk/high-reward type of players. and maybe that kind of potential would pique a fan's curiosity. I've never heard of a whole lot of millionaires who were content with the money they had and wouldn't take the opportunity to make millions more. the way baseball is, if Jones rebounded and had a decent year, some sucker team is going to give him $5 million for 2010. -
good point. he'd be a good fit for one of the Pittsburgh's of the world--one of those low-risk/high-reward type of players. and maybe that kind of potential would pique a fan's curiosity. I've never heard of a whole lot of millionaires who were content with the money they had and wouldn't take the opportunity to make millions more. the way baseball is, if Jones rebounded and had a decent year, some sucker team is going to give him $5 million for 2010.
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Sheets watch (closed in deference to new thread)
GAME05 replied to yoshii8's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
even if Benny only made 60% of his starts over a two-year contract, I'd bet he'd put up good enough numbers to at least garner Type B free-agent status, and therefore a pick. maybe it's safe to assume Melvin would like Sheets back, but I don't see Sheets returning unless it's a last-minute thing. I'm thinking Melvin's best move is to say "Here's a one-year, $12M offer that I'll put on the table." Sheets will look as long as possible for that two-year contract and hopefully realize that a 1/$12 is probably better in the long-run than a 2/$18 from someone else. -
that no player exceeded PECOTA expectations last year (excepting CC, and I thought Hardy had) I consider something of an aberration, and I fully expect two or three players to reverse that and perform beyond projection. And I think the additional run shares they create should make up for the loss of Sheets in the rotation. knock on wood, but there's also nobody on the team now who is a particularly brittle player. I'm also expecting this to be a closer division this year; I don't think the Cubs will absolutely run away with it, considering they have absolutely no bench and a lot of significant players with solid injury histories. not to mention a few players are starting to show some age regression.
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The father once called me insisting that if he got a wireless router, he could get an internet connection without having an actual provider. I went with the metaphor of the service provider being the radio station and the router being its FM signal. when that didn't work, I went with "Just trust me." when even that didn't work, I told him to call my brother. although that story is pretty weak compared to all the ones above. my parent's computer is basically a six-year old solitaire machine. when there's a problem they just don't go on the computer for however many months until me or my brother get home and fix it.
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my only surprise is that it took this long for the question to be asked. if the brewers had more lefties on the roster, maybe he'd be a better replacement over Gywnn. maybe. plus Jones isn't an OBP guy, and probably the last thing Melvin wants on the team is another power/high-K guy. and Jones probably has an equal to better chance of hooking on as a backup OF in Atlanta, and it'd be a far better move for him to go back to a team and a manager he knows well. in Milwaukee he'd never get the chance to become a starter ahead of Cameron.
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Why not take a shot? Andruw Jones
GAME05 replied to sheetswannabe's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
my only surprise is that it took this long for the question to be asked. if the brewers had more lefties on the roster, maybe he'd be a better replacement over Gywnn. maybe. plus Jones isn't an OBP guy, and probably the last thing Melvin wants on the team is another power/high-K guy. and Jones probably has an equal to better chance of hooking on as a backup OF in Atlanta, and it'd be a far better move for him to go back to a team and a manager he knows well. in Milwaukee he'd never get the chance to become a starter ahead of Cameron. -
Brewers Hot Stove Report Baseball Tonight
GAME05 replied to Brew City Baseball Fan's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
how much were you expecting a Hot Stove report to actually tell you? i've come to realize that as anxious as i am to hear about the Brewers on national outlets, that there's never been anything they've told me that i don't already know. also that there's no statistic about a player they could give me that i couldn't list five more about the same player. it's not that the national guys are stupid, it's just that they have to know a little bit about every team and most everyone on brewerfan is focused on just one, so i'd wager my knowledge about the Brewers over any all-around sports commentator any day. -
maybe it was a play by his agent, knowing that if Hamels does stay healthy, he'll make $10 M in that last year of arbitration instead of the $7 he's getting now. yet if he does get injured, he's still got a healthy $20M in the bank. it seems like in the end, signing guys through at least most of their arby years is still beneficial to the club. plus maybe it's also a good-faith move by the Phillies. i've heard interviews by Hamels saying he respects players who stick with their clubs their whole career and how they become heroes in their respective cities. He listed Gywnn Sr. as a player he really admired growing up.
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Kendall is such an asset to this team in that he can call a good game, and that's especially important with younger pitchers like Bush and Parra in the rotation. and yeah, his offenses started to really fall, but i'd expect that of even a young catcher who caught that many innings, let alone an older one. sure, he was overused, but there still has to be a good reason that Yost kept playing him even during his bad offensive months instead of Rivera.
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i was only thinking about how the draft-pick compensation might actually be hurting the mid-range players. maybe guys like Sheets and Cruz could have taken arbitration, but then they'll be going through the same thing next year. a FA is going to make maximum dollars when other teams bid, but these two especially have been forced into limbo.
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Pie to Orioles for Garrett Olson + a relief prospect
GAME05 replied to PeaveyFury's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
this immediately made me think of a certain Brewer center-fielder. I don't dislike Pie. He'll make an awesome 4th outfielder. one of those guys who doesn't get on base enough, but when he does he's scary. boy, the DeRosa trade was already a real head-scratcher, and the reason for this one i can't really figure, either. -
was anyone honestly expecting more than 8 starts out of the guy to begin with?
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or if not the money, the fact that a 40-y/o LOOGY is still holding out for anything more than a one-year contract. i would definitely prefer to keep the draft pick than to sign Perez. giving up picks to sign so-so pitchers would slowly destroy a mid-market team like Milwaukee. i think the only time the Brewers should be giving up picks is when they can sign a difference-maker, of which Perez is definitely not. plus you have to think there's a good chance Milwaukee will go out and sign a bigger-name player in 2010, which would then mean giving up two first-rounders in a row.
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Does anyone think he'll ever get signed? I've been curious about where the guy might end up not because he's any huge difference-maker, but just because to me he represents the downside of the draft-pick compensation policy. But now as a Type A guy, nobody is going to want to give away a 1st-rounder for a set-up man. Anyone know if there's a certain date that if a player remains unsigned, the draft compensation expires? in a way, i almost feel bad for the guy. Would he be a player that a team like the Yankees should go after? just because they've already signed higher-ranking Type A players, it'd probably only fall to a 4th-rounder they'd have to give up to sign him. Seems like Sheets is getting to be in a similar situation, that keeping a 1st-rounder is getting to be preferable to signing an injury-plagued player.
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I agree. I've seen Barry a few times and it IS fun. When his agent hinted at collusion, I don't think he was far off. still, though, it's SO hard to root for the guy. i mean, really, just try to say "Poor Barry" and not be sarcastic. you just can't.
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I'm trying not to put all my eggs in the Gallardo basket. I think he's going to be an excellent pitcher, but it's asking a lot to be figuring he'll equal or better Sheets' numbers from last year. If a Yankee fan talked the same way about Phil Hughes we'd likely laugh, and i don't think there's a tremendous difference between the two. I'm not trying to compare them, because that's for a different thread. I'm only saying the dude has tons of talent, but he's still really young and doesn't have a whole lot of experience yet as a ML starting pitcher. more than anything, i'm trying not to forget that Cleveland had a winning record after they traded CC last year.
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no Sheets but a healthy Gallardo. it's a bit of a dropoff, but i'm also expecting the offense to be better. so all in all, an equal team to what we had last year. i don't think we can beat the Cubs to a division title, but i expect about the same chance at the WC as we did last year. what i think is going to be exciting about this coming season is that even if we're out of it, it's going to provide the opportunity to trade players like Fielder and Hardy and Cameron, and we'll get the chance to see a ton of new faces that will make for a great team in 2010.
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Twins interested in Gagne
GAME05 replied to TuesdaysWithRillo's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
if i were Gagne, there'd be no way i'd come back to Milwaukee knowing you'd be incessantly booed every time you pitched.
