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Francisco had the 6th highest BB% on the Brewers last year. Higher than anyone who got significant playing time other than Braun, Ramirez and Weeks.

By that logic we should have made Braun a bench player after his rookie season.

Even with the big influx of money the contracts themselves don't seem to have increase much on a year to year basis. Looks like the duration has gone up a bit and it seems like teams are signing more of those top players.

Ideally we would want a guy like Bianchi who could hit more. The problem is they call them starting SS.

Please quote your source.

As a leadoff hitter hitting behind the worst hitters on the team the difference between a walk or single is even smaller.

We need Roache and Thornburg. Roache Is our only power bat in the minors. Thornburg is our 6th starter. Weeks just devalues the return on any trade he is a part of.

Right but Brantley doesn't play defense like Gomez or have Gomez' power.

If we could get a good prospect I would trade Estrada. I don't think Melvin will trade any of our starting pitching right now. I think he needs to do well this year or he is out of a job next year.

There are limits on international spending determined by the team's record the previous year.

If he hit .230 he would probably still have an OBP around .330 which isn't to bad for a 2B. I am not sure he can do that anymore except, possibly, in a platoon. I think at this point his defense isn't going to come back to average. People, at least myself, defend Weeks becasue up until 2012 he had a good batting line especially for a 2B. As recently as the second half of 2012 he was a very good hitter and the first half of 2012 could be explained away as still recovering from an injury. The main complaints usually seem to stem from Injuries, streakiness, strikeouts, his BA, or his defense. All players are streakier than we think. I am sure Weeks seems a little streakier than a typical player because he usually carries a lower BA and people don't remember walks. I lump strikeouts and batting average together as mostly useless stats people for some reason still care about. Both are already included in much better stats like wOBA and OPS. Strikeouts are marginally worse than other outs. Finally defense. Weeks is a disappointing defender considering his physical tools. Looking back the defensive metrics, I would peg him as about an average defender from 2007-2011. Before and after not good, but again the hope after 2012 was that the ankle injury effected his defense. A season later that doesn't seem to be the case. Even when he was good, the things he did well on defense were much less noticeable, range, than the errors. I can see why people emotionally don't like Weeks because he does poorly in almost everything that makes people angry about baseball, strikeouts, errors, injuries, low BA, while the things he did well go mostly unnoticed, walks, range.

Not for a first round pick. As bad as our drafts have been I still hate giving up the pick. I also think our drafting has improved as we have more high ceiling talent in the low minors now.

If I was asked the three positions I would least like to have a platoon in it would be 1B, 2B, and 3B. At least, generally, at 1B and 3B those guys would have a decent bat off the bench. At 2B usually at least one of the guys could play some SS in a pinch or possibly 3B. Not in this case though.

Seems like an overpay. UZR has him as an average corner defender at best. His numbers look like Carlos Gomez without the defense or power.

We would have to give up a pick to get Morales.

Weeks has been pretty consistent at getting on base at a decent rate up until the last couple years. He has probably underperformed compared to expectations but other than missing big chunks of time he has generally been an asset.

I have never had that problem at Subway. Time to go to a different one. Shouldn't be hard they are practically everywhere. Either that or go to a good sub shop like Jimmy Johns.

this is a team's first attempt to outright him to the minor leagues. if no other team claims him, hand will be forced to accept the minor league assignment. if he clears waivers, doug melvin has assured hand a non-roster invite to big league camp. I guess my Seinfeld reference was a little too subtle.

Can the Brewers still say they have Hand.

If either or both of those things happen we are in trouble because I doubt either will be pulled out of the rotation for somebody else.

80 wins sounds low. I think we were probably at least at 81 before signing Garza.

You mean the value of coaches can not be measured by sabermetrics. We shouldn't have to rely on players to coach other players.

You picked a really nice sample and stat to back up your opinion. You like BA, we get it. Please understand that it isn't very useful without other stats.

and I still wouldn't add Weeks to any trade. It would lessen our return.

Well, it's a complicated method -- you see, I add a "-y" sound to the end of a guy's name, and BAM! Nickname! Every once in a while he changes it up and uses an "ie."