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Everything posted by joepepsi
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Too big a risk. He had a torn labrum. Lots of pitchers never come back from that or if they do, are never as effective. This isn't TJ surgery which is successful almost all the time. The severity of the torn labrum can be wildly variable. The surgery is a 10-12 month recovery time; Bedard didn't have until August. Knowing him, expect the full 12 month recovery time.
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It's not hte air travel, it the start time if you're sitting at home watching the game. Every Brewer division road game starts at 6-7 at night, more or less. For Ranger fans you're talking a lot of 9PM start times. Truthfully, how many of us watch Brewer west coast games from start to finish. That has to affect Rangers' broadcast revenues. It's not that I think it should be all about the Rangers. It's just, if writers are so worried about the disadvantages of teams in the AL east, shouldn't we look at the disadvantages of other teams in MLB?
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If all the media revenues were shared they probably wouldn't need a salary cap.
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I'm glad some like my idea! I just thought it up reading this topic. Invader is right; Houston has no business being in the NL Central. It's not really fair to Texas that all their division away games are two time zones away. This system would give them several more in the central time zone which should help with broadcast revenues. I'd go for the DH for all 45 interleague games. Let teams expand to 26 or 27 players for these games. The problem with a tiered system is it encourages teams to slash payroll and maximize profits. Who would want to be in the Yankees division? Why should the Red Sox try to keep up with Yankee payroll when they'd be better off slashing payroll by $30 million and being the best team in the 2nd best league? In 1998 the Orioles had the highest payroll in MLB. Then Peter Angelos realized there was more profit in positioning the O's as a mid-small market team. A tiered system would encourage this behavior. The Players Union would never go for it.
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Hart was sitting at a .768OPS before the appy. .785 isn't a stretch to expect at all. His power was way down last year. I think it's reasonable to expect him to get some of that back. He'll be 15-20 points on either side of .800.
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Move Houston to the AL West. Go to a 165 game schedule. Every team plays a 3 game series against every team in the other league. 45 games Every team plays 15 games against their 4 division rivals. 60 games Every team plays 6 games against every other team in their league; one home series, one away series. 60 games The season starts on April 1st and ends the first Sunday in October. In 2010 that would be 26 weeks. 165 games in 182 days. Take away 3 off days for the All Star break and you're left with 14 off days over 25 weeks. This would give the Orioles and Rays 12 fewer games against the "tough" AL East. 6 fewer games total against the Yankees and Red Sox.
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The problem is he has to make the 25 man by March 20-something. So if he, Heether, and Iribarren are all having good Springs, they'll have to make the decision two weeks before Opening Day.
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The difference is Carpenter always was a great talent, he was just young and often injured with Toronto. He was 1st round pick and projected by most to be a front line starter all along. I think Duncan is probably a very good pitching coach, but you're right, most of the miracle turnarounds he engineered weren't sustainable.
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Rickie might be my favorite player on the team, but I worry about his hitting going forward after two wrist injuries. He could still be a solid player, but the gaudy numbers we hoped for at the plate may never materialize. I'll go with Parra. He's extremely talented and as we learned at the end of the season, had a nagging injury most of the year. We learn more from our failures than our successes, so if Parra was a good student last year, he should win the Cy Young this year!
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Which is likely.
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Brewers claim IF Joe Inglett, DFA Chris Smith
joepepsi replied to battlekow's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Hurricane is also a lefty who can play 2B and the OF. I hope they start the season with him on the 25 man and Inglett in AAA. But managers always go the veteran on the bench when he's available. Letting Iribarren go leaves the team with fewer options down the road if Weeks continue to disappoint and continues to get more expensive. -
I will never understand this. Why spend a hundred bucks on an event when your top priority is to beat the traffic home? Why not just save the money and stay home in the first place. I was at an afternoonTwins game two years ago. After the 7th inning in a one run game, I bet half the fans stood up and left.
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Of course he has a right to ask for whatever salary he wants. I can't fault him for that, no matter how misguided his request. Still, he just doesn't seem like a very smart guy. Not meeting the Brewers in the middle on this is further evidence. Talent and hard work may get you to the majors, but brains and learning from experience gives you a long career. At the plate he flails away, as though he doesn't really understand the game. he makes ridiculous base running blunders. I expect him to be a bit better in 2010 than last year, but the league has his number and he's appears incapable or unwilling to make adjustments.
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Orioles Sign Miguel Tejada, 1yr/$6MM
joepepsi replied to crewcrazy's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
They already signed Garret Atkins, then passed on Adam La Roche who signed for less than Tejada. So Tejada will play 3rd although he's never played there before, and Atkins will play 1B although he was orginally a 3B. Kinda reminds when they decided Jeff Conine would be their 3rd baseman one year, although he'd never played there before. Despite the new GM they continue to show little regard for modern baseball statistical models. Andy MacPhail said they would draft the pitching and buy the bats. Recently he said defense was going to be a top priority. Atkins and Tejada are supposedly the bats they are buying. Don't quite see how they fit into the defense priority. -
The way they treated Loretta and to a lesser extent Ronnie Belliard that last season was a crime. Talk about a lost organization.
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Orioles Sign Miguel Tejada, 1yr/$6MM
joepepsi replied to crewcrazy's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Ever since the Mitchell report Tejada has lost all his power. Hmmmm. -
Looks like the market is set. Expect the remaining pitchers to all fall in line in the next week or so.
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I doubt Macha will be man enough to pull Suppan from the Opening Day rotation. It's going to be Parra or Bush that get sent to the bullpen, I'm afraid. They'll give Suppan 6-8 starts, just enough to give him 2-3 OK outings and justify keeping him in the rotation and keeping the Brewers from making the playoffs.
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I think you go with all 6 into Spring Training and see how it shakes out. No need to dump someone yet.
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A small sample size to be sure, but Gerut's first 5 plate appearance game for the Brewers came on August 13th. In the nearly 3 months previous he hardly played at all. From 8/13 to the end of the year: 116 PA, 276/345/467 (811 OPS) He should get 400+ plate appearances in 2010 if he's going to hit like that. Here's hoping Macha is smart enough to find him the playing time.
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Weeks avoids arbitration, 1 year, $2.75MM
joepepsi replied to Funketown's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Well, I'm sure Weeks getting a raise will tick off some, but such is the nature of the current arbitration process. C'mon, Rickey, give us a full healthy season! -
No one gets a pay cut in arbitration. I believe an arbitrator looks at the player's previous 3 seasons, not just last season, when making his ruling. Gerut probably would have asked for at least a$500K raise in arbitration, maybe more. I suppose the Brewers could have come up with a 20% paycut as their figure, but they wouldn't have won.
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How much money is coming off of the books for 2011?
joepepsi replied to BREWCREW5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
In 2007 the Orioles and Daniel Cabrera avoided arbitration by agreeing to $1.825 million. The next year, after going 9-18 with a 5.55 ERA and a K/BB ratio of 1.06:1, they again avoided arbitration by signing him for 2.875 million. He got a million and a half raise with a career ERA of 4.99. Never underestimate the money to be made by arby eligible players. -
And a healthy Dave Bush. At the risk of delivering famous last words, there's no way Bush and Parra will be as bad as they were last year. But if they are, they will be on a shorter leash and out of the rotation permanently. Those two returning to league average ERA's probably means 5 more wins compared to last year.
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You're making sense there, MJLive. Let me add I think some players' chances are hurt by playing in the steroid era. Fred McGriff hit 500+ homers, had a very similar career to my favorite player of all time, Eddie Murray, but will probably not get in. Most seem to think the Crime Dog was good, but not great when compared to his contemporaries. But his contemporaries may have artificially high numbers due their drug use. So if they get in it means cheaters win, while guys like McGriff who may have been on the straight and narrow, end up losing.