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Not sure why you would compare Gamel to Patterson. Gamel has never had a sub .700 OPS in the minors in any year. Gamel has shown talent to hit at every level. If you disagree fine try to make a case for McGehee. He is average with little chance to improve. Gamel has shown better MiLB numbers than McGehee and held his own last year while getting sporadic playing time. This isn't change just for change.

So we should stick with a middling guy when we have a potential above average guy? No, thanks.

Where are you getting 25-30 starts from? That would be almost a full season and the stats you listed are just since the all star break. Even a full season is a small sample with ERA.

I dont know how Gamel's remaining contract compares to Casey's. Gamel has one year of service time. After this year McGehee will have 2. We would have control of Gamel for one more year than McGehee. Gamel has upside. McGehee doesn't.

I think Parra is worth more to us than he would bring back in trade.

Its because he's cheap for the next few years and the Brewers can easily replace him is why trading him makes sense. Yes, but who do you replace him with next season if Fielder is traded and Gamel is playing 1B? Lawrie should be ready to play either 1B or 3B by 2012. Range isnt that big of a factor at 3rd as people make it out to be. Reaction time is more important, and Casey seems to be fine Range and athleticism are important. It helps you cover and extra few steps that McGehee can't cover.

an injured Benny is still > a healthy Soup, because a healthy Soup is hurting the team. So would Sheets' replacement.

I would prefer a guy who hasn't managed at the big league level before. Not Money though. I know some people like a straight shooter but I don't think it works to treat your guys like that at the MLB level. In the minors where players are supposed to be getting ready for the majors, fine, point out a player's flaws so he can work on them.

Again, balls are rated on how hard they are hit. From Balkin's link. Fans watching are not watching as closely as the people watching the games to acquire data for these metrics.. Even 60% accurate if far better than even the trained eyes of scouts. Scouts are good for seeing raw talent or future potential. Not so good for an assement on what actually happened. They also do not watch every play from every game so they can't do a very good job of making comparisons across every player in the league. Defensive metrics are not perfect and are sometimes used to say how good or bad a guy is on defense. I have no problem with some skepticism of defensive metrics but this thread seems like taking things way to far in the other direction.

Not to mention we had Edmonds in CF with Gerut in right on the same night several times. Yeah I have to agree that Macha and Melvin seem to be not only different pages but in completely different books most of the time.

Big no to Randolph from me. Don't hire another retread manager.

I believe the phrase is draw a bead or in this case had a bead on the ball.

It should read "one sort of chance in Milwaukee and has just over one full year worth of PA in AAA."

I would have preferred Gerut and another guy in CF to Gomez. Gerut was one of the reasons I didn't like the Hardy trade. I don't feel that Macha really liked Gerut and didn't really ever give him much of a chance.

Which Sierra Nevada beer did you clone? My brother in law wants to start brewing again but also hates bottling. He wants to keg if he starts again. I just bought some bigger bottles for now. I have also been picking up O'Hara's Celebrations Stout once in a while for my wife. Comes in a 22oz bottle with a Grolsch type top. She likes it so I tell her I buy it because I know she likes it. Don't think I am fooling her but she lets it slide. Ask the Grocery store, duh, should have though of that. I used to work at a grocery store. Long time back but we had people ask for boxes now and then. I will check that and also look into banker's boxes. Sounds like the other guy I brew with isn't interested in making a wort chiller so we are buying one. What size pot would 60' of 1/4" copper tubing fit into? I only have a 5agallon pot for now but at some point I want to go full boil. Maybe after Christmas.

Cutting Hall with 1.5 years left on his contract was stupid. Hall wasn't cut. He was traded. Hall was clearly fed up with the Brewers and still thought he deserved to be a starter. Hall needed a reality check.

How hard balls are hit is taken into account in UZR. The main problem with fielding % is that it is almost completely dependent on one person to make a judgement and can actually hurt better defenders. If you have good range you can make errors that a worse/slower defender wouldn't even be able to get to. The other problem is that even very crappy defenders like Braun cna have a good fielding% because unless you drop a ball you are almost never going to get an error. So in the case of outfielders, fielding % is almost totally useless. Unless a guy has an extremely bad fielding % it doesn't give enough information to be very useful because most players fall into a small range. If you have range and get to a ball but can't make a play on it, it usually doesn't have any difference in outcome than if you can't get to the ball. That is correct. However fielding % would actually punish a guy for getting to a ball and not making a play on it. UZR gives some credit for range. I've felt that UZR is biased against leftfielders. The reason is because a majority of hitters are right-handed, and when they pull the ball it is usually hit much harder than if they hit it to center or RF. The harder it is hit, the less time you have to get to it; the less time you have to get to it the less balls you get to, which impacts UZR. I don't think that all LFs are outstanding defenders, but I don't think they negatively impact the outcome of games as much as some think. When I saw last year that Fangraphs had a higher value on Nyjer Morgan than Ryan Braun... well, that's all I needed to know about their valuation system. I don't think that is a problem with UZR. That is more of a WAR or more specifically the positional adjustment of WAR issue. For the most part you get a bonus for playing a harder position. I can't argue against it much since most LF couldn't play in CF very well. I could be mistaken but as a LF your defense is set at zero by other LF. You sont' get compared to CF or RF.

Me too. TLR is such a pompous hypocritical jerk it appals me.

We also saw comments on how the Suppan deal wouldn't hurt us much because we would have young cost controlled guys coning up.

I disagree with Phillips. The Cardinals are not whiners, they are hypocritical bullies. This is what happens when you stand up to a bully. They throw pitches at you or start a fight.

I think Gamel can be put near the top. Escobar, Lucroy and Cain I am not so sure about.

Having to turn on the heat and defroster so I can see through my windows in the middle of summer.

I agree with crewcrazy's compairson to Jack Parkman - to me, Edmonds gave off something of a mercenary vibe in joining the Brewers and muscling your way onto the roster. However, even my attitude on him began to soften the last couple of weeks. That is how I felt about him as well, except for that softening part. One reason I never got behind the nickname part of it. I don't go along with nicknames for players I don't like. Positive or neutral nicknames anyway. I did and still do refer to Wes Helms as fatty.

Thank goodness Edmonds is gone. Now all we have to do is somehow pick up a right handed hitting outfielder and we have our replacement for Hart when he leaves after 2011. Wait we extended him? Why?