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  1. logan82
    How long do they have to go for what Maddux has done as for the cause and effect for both teams to garner praise? Another year? Two- Four more? Just curious. Never. Nate mentioned it earlier, coaches and managers are just scapegoats to be fired when the fans get restless.
  2. logan82
    Maybe it just takes the old guy a little longer to get warmed up than when he was a 35 year old youngster.
  3. logan82
    That's debatable.
  4. logan82
    Given what you said, isn't it possible Marcum would have cost more than Bush? Less service time and better K and BB rates would make Marcum a more valuable commodity than Bush and therefore cost more in trade, in my opinion. I think Melvin built the Brewers the right way. Taking safe guys with low ceilings got us to .500 and that is what we needed to do to win back fan support. Without a high attendance we would still have a payroll below $60M. The best thing for the franchise right now would have been blowing up the roster soon after Mark A. bought the team but I highly doubt that would have been allowed. It isn't misunderstood. Many people, and the front office apparently, didn't feel Escobar was ready for the majors. It could be debated that he still isn't. I would argue that the Hardy trade was trading a guy for a high risk player. Gomez certainly has potential but has done little to show he is going to be more than an average player even including his great defense. How many teams have actually traded for an impact pitcher? Just a page back TLB posted a link. I would think it is safe to say if their names came up, he tried to get them. I think we can say he just wasn't able to swing a deal. There is plenty of evidence to support the fact that Melvin has tried to acquire pitching. We don't have the pitching to trade for good pitching and we really don't have the bats to trade for it either, other than Fielder. There is little reason to believe Mark A. would have found trading players and taking a small step back acceptable.
  5. logan82
    Good luck Ned, you should have waited until you were offered a job managing a good team. Ultimately managers are judged on wins and losses.
  6. logan82
    I am so demoralized I decided not to watch the Brewers tonight.
  7. logan82
    No more than 5 years or $18M per year. The further you go over that, the less appealing the offer gets especially when you consider we could probably get Weeks for 4 years at $10M or less per year.
  8. logan82
    Just to expand on Lawrie a bit. I believe he has attitude problems or at the very least a questionable work ethic. I have heard and read it to many times to just dismiss it. Catcher would have been a bad position for Lawrie. Gord Ash stated that catcher was a position of need for the Brewers and it would have gotten him to the majors quicker. I think it would have pushed his MLB arrival back at least a year and he was drafted the same year Salome tore up AA. Lucroy was also coming along nicely at the time. In the context of just this interview, there is little to suggest any problems with Lawrie. Ash states we are weak at outfield and maybe 3B(seems pretty obvious they don't like Gamel). They are stacked at 2B so Lawrie may have to move to get his bat in the lineup.
  9. logan82
    Being there for the race is one thing but I'm guessing many of those people were indifferent/beyond incoherent by post time so that really only carries a little weight as far as "attending" the actual event goes. Oktoberfest with a horse race?
  10. logan82
    Yeah that really sucks. I mean he really didn't get much of a chance last year. He played a few games and didn't hit well so never got consistent playing time. Maybe he was referring to this year when he got hurt. I didn't think that anything he said about Lawrie sounded all that bad. He just said Lawrie didn't want to be a catcher and he could play just about anywhere on the diamond. Why would a player want to be a catcher if they can hit and are good enough to play somewhere else. Catchers tend to play fewer games and usually end up moving to a different position to extend their careers.
  11. logan82
    I thought the same thing a few years back and I know several others did as well. I think sbrylski had a new color B & G logo as his avatar for a while.
  12. logan82
    I would say that the Twins organization is virtually identical to the St Louis Cardinals (minus the Cards World Series win). You forgot minus the competitive division.
  13. logan82
    You don't get a suspension for your first offense. The second is 50 and the third 100. This is Jeffress' third offense not counting the failed test administered by the organization. Found it.
  14. logan82
    I would go with either Oberon Ale from Bells or Stone soup until D-Man comes out. Crack'd Wheat is hoppy and not really like a Hefe.
  15. logan82
    They matured to much to win at home?
  16. logan82
    Wow, just wow. 3 lefties in a row in the lineup. Macha lineup fail.
  17. logan82
    I think turning 28 this offseason will cut into his value a bit. Of course wherever he plays that team will have him through his peak years before he even hits arbitration. He will turn 32 during the offseason in his first FA year.
  18. logan82
    You are right, McGehee can also play 1B. I know Gamel is accumulating service time while on the DL. I have no problem with that. I however have a huge problem with him spending 67 days on the MLB roster in the middle of last season while getting sporadic playing time. By the way, fan was an abbreviation for fanatic in the 19th century and it still is.
  19. logan82
    Maybe Ash was the only one who thought they did Gamel a disservice by putting him on the bench last year. Gamel and McGehee are both 3B only. I have no idea why we would want a nonstarter with so little versatility. Gamel is about 14 days short of a full year of service time as of today.
  20. logan82
    I was going to say I thought that the team was playing better because they finally found some fire. It was apparent they were playing with more energy. What do we really expect reporters to say. They won some games because they pitched and hit better isn't interesting to read about even though it is the truth. There needs to be some mysterious outside influence that has some tenuous connection to them playing better for it to be a story. I didn't blame Macha for our losing and am not going to give him credit for us winning. The team played worse than expected for about the first month and now are playing a little over their heads. Macha isn't a good manager but he is hardly worse than most other teams have.
  21. logan82
    I didn't say almost every game. I said I didn't feel that when Gallardo takes the mound there is much chance he will go 9 innings. Bush is the only one I feel could go nine innings. With Gallardo you feel good if he goes 7. His pitch counts are almost always high by the 4th.
  22. logan82
    How much longer does this guy have to produce to convince the skeptics? All of this year and a good part of next year.
  23. logan82
    Nice. The guy gets away from our pitching coach and feels better.
  24. logan82
    I agree with Macha on this one. All 4 pitches to Zaun could have been called strikes. They all just missed. You are likely to get a get me over strike at 3-0 with the bases loaded. I think the mistake is on the other side. He walked the righty to get to not one but two lefties. Intentionally walking the bases loaded is colossally stupid. It leaves your pitcher in a really bad spot. If the bases are not loaded then you can try to get Zaun on your pitch. This was sound strategy on the part of Macha with bad results. Really bad strategy on the part of A.J. Hinch with good results.
  25. logan82
    I wouldn't mind a rental if we were in a position to contend. I think this year we are not contenders and should be sellers at the deadline. I think we are more than one good pitcher away.
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