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  1. joepepsi
    What do you honestly expect to get from a utility shortstop? He can hit for power and he can play at least respectable defense. That's good enough for me for a guy off the bench. Exactly, which pretty much describes Bianchi, except he's younger and may have upside. So we spend another million on Sea Bass, and waiver out a young reliever who put up pretty good numbers in his minor league career (3.5K:BB ratio). And next year Doug will be looking for a 30 something utility ss. This move doesn't cost the pennant or break the bank. Sea Bass is nice player who's had a fine career. It just doesn't seem necessary, and looks like a weak kneed, backpedaling move. The net effect could be two youngish, talented players with potential are out of the organization in favor of a one year rental for an aging vet who was injured all last year.
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    I remember when gammons insisted Sheets was going to be traded to the Red Sox.
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    His career ERA as a reliever is 4.10, and he shut down lefties pretty well last year. There's a respectable chance he enjoys a solid career in the bullpen.
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    This is true, BUT all games outside of you market area will be blacked out if you only have the Sports Pack.
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    I think your post is good, but Albert Belle came down with a congenital hip issue and is still able to walk, yet the Orioles were able to collect insurance money on his contract for several years since it was determined he could no longer play baseball. No doubt he could still swing a bat, but certainly he was not able to play baseball. IIRC, the O's had to keep him on the 40 man roster for the length of his contract in order to collect the insurance payment. ...
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    Alex Gonzalez career OPS: 691 Craig Counsell career OPS: 686 The hysteria on this topic is, well, hysterical. Sea Bass re-signed with the team because no one else wanted him. So we are taking one year on a 36 year old guy and letting Bianchi and/or Green go. Which means 2014 the Brewers will need to the 2014 version of Gonzalez/Counsell because once again they have failed to develop a solid young utility infielder. This is not a move for celebration. It's a move for mediocrity.
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    Backup utility infielders are easy to find. I find it hard to believe the difference between Bianchi and Gonzalez is worth the couple of million dollar hit to the payroll. If a move is made to provide cover for Hart, I'd rather it be in the form of a player who can make up for his absence in a tangible way. Someone like a power hitting bat off the bench or a pitcher.
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    I will order Weaver on Strategy: The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team on Amazon today. The best manager in the history of the game. I was 6 when the O's swept Koufax and Drysdale and the Dodgers in 1966. Weaver wasn''t yet their manager, but I became a diehard MLB fan and Orioles fan right then. I adopted the Brewers after moving to Wisconsin and listening to Uecker on the radio, but the Orioles will always be "my team". The organization owes their successes to the Earl of Baltimore. RIP. From Dan Agoniste. http://danagonistes.blogspot.com/2005/04/wisdom-of-weaver.html
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    I understand the WBC is important in other countries, but as an MLB fan all it means to me is a delay to the start of the season.
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    I would like to see Green get a legitimate shot to contribute to the team, but I wonder if he won't spend the year in AAA. He didn't have a particularly good season last year. I wouldn't surprised if the organization feels he's expendable, or at least not the sort of talent that you keep a spot open for. He's a 1B only in Ron Roenicke's eyes. Few teams keep a backup 2B/3B that doesn't play ss, unless it's a platoon situation. Brewers' 2B/3B guys play everyday, and Bianchi can back them up on Sunday afternoons. As I see it, Green will never get a chance until Weeks or Ramirez is gone. By then, Bianchi may have already established himself on the team.
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    I like this bench but it's missing the Branyan/Kotsay/Ishikawa/Kapler PH Veteran Gamer guy that Doug likes to have. There's that old school belief the VG is better as a PH'er than an inexperienced kid. If he adds someone like through an NRI or cheap one year, I expect Schafer or Green to start in AAA, depending on the VG's defensive skillset.
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    That was a great read. Right that. So according to the article and based on 2012 stats, the best lineup is probably this: Aoki Braun Weeks Ramirez Hart Gomez Segura Lucroy
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    This offseason is mostly about getting payroll flexibility, something they haven't had the past two seasons. Doug has done well acquiring three top pitchers through trade in recent year, CC, Greinke, Marcum. But that's pretty rare these days and not a strategy a small market team can count on long term. Neither is signing top line FA pitchers. So, they are doing what they must for long term success: growing their own pitchers and giving them a chance. If midseason they have a shot at the wild card, Doug could have some payroll flexibility to add a pitcher or two. If they are struggling, then guys like Ramirez and Hart can be moved, setting up more flexibility for 2014. The Brewers have built one of the best fan base's in MLB. They need to keep fielding competitive teams to keep the fans coming in; it's the best source of income given the paltry broadcast contracts. Letting attendance drop below 2 million while going through a several season rebuild will cripple the franchise financially for the rest of Braun's contract.
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    If they could find a taker for Morneau they'd be foolish not to trade him.
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    I think the success or lack thereof for smaller market teams has more to do with the inequality of revenues from TV contracts and not from the concept of free agency itself. Bingo. I don't understand how rock stars and actors are idolized for parlaying their (sometimes) mediocre talents in $20+ million annual payouts, but we begrudge baseball players, largely entertainers who do what only a handful can do in this world, the salaries they earn. the owners in the 1994-95 labor dispute are responsible for the disparities among markets in baseball. So is brewerfan.net hero Bud Selig who has always caved to the Steinbrenners, Lorias, and Henrys of the game.
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    Richie Sexson was similar height and build. I always liked both him and Corey. But Richie's last good season was 2006 when he was 31 years old. He fell off the table the next year, and was done after 2008. I know Corey may be more athletic and hits for a little better average, but Sexson was a good 1B, had better plate discipline and HR power. 6'6" is tall for a baseball player and the back starts a achin' on these tall guys past 30.
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    Isn't the NL the only league pro and amateur that doesn't allow a DH? I vote for it. I like the DH a lot. In the NL you bsically have the excuse to field crappy fringe major leaguers for your 7,8,hitters because the pitcher is an automatic out. Plus, in most games the NL uses a DH after the 5th or 6th inning anyway. They just call it a "PH" instead.
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    I agree with everyone about the playoffs dragging on too long. I really enjoyed all the playoffs this year, but the lull after Tigers beat the Yankees turned my attention elsewhere. I enjoyed the NLCS, but it just seemed to take so long to get to the Series. Still, I think if the Series had gone 6 or 7 games, the ratings would have picked up. The series ended on Sunday, also the halfway point of the NFL regular season. That's too long into the NFL. Football is America's sport, in larger part because every play looks great and exciting on TV, and it's simple to gamble on and set up betting pools. Like it or not, a big reason people follow football, NASCAR, and March Madness is the betting and the camaraderie it creates over a few cold ones in the suburban Man Cave or neighborhood pub. I know lots of people who follow baseball, but once the football pool starts, that dominates the interest and conversation.
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    Nerdy response: they're actually opposites on the color wheel, which is supposed to mean a perfect pairing of colors. Link. I don't see khaki on that wheel. Then again, those of us in the Business Casual world know everything goes with khaki!
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    If they stumble mid season they can dump him off and save $10 million, but otherwise his salary is already a budgeted cost. It's likely he'll bounce back to at least league average. If they trade him this winter, it will be for a salary dump to sign some big name like Greinke. In that case it won't take a top prospect; they will already be asking a team to absorb $20 million. They will be in no position to demand much of anything in return, maybe a reliever or a couple low minors prospects. If they want something better in return they'll have to eat salary or take on some other team's bad contract in exchange. Either way will defeat the purpose of trading him.
  21. joepepsi
    Hamilton seems to me the type of player who ends up in St. Louis or SanFran. They can outbid the Brewers and have the cash to compete every season. For a 31 year old, the guarantee of playing with an annual competitor is alluring.
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    Yes, and let me add if you haven't followed the link, this is an awesome 10 page discussion started in May 2012, with multiple paragraph posts based on conjecture and aggression. ENJOY!!!
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    How would Tampa Bay's attendance be explained? I don't think that Florida is much of a baseball state. I understand Loria is a creep, but I agree with Logan here. Florida has yet to prove it deserves Major League Baseball. From 2003-2009 the Marlins had only two losing seasons, yet failed to draw even 2 million fans in any season. In '06 they drew 1.1 million, '07, 1.3 million. The Brewers still drew 1.9 million in 2002 when they lost 106 games. Miami is a huge metropolitan area; 8th in the nation according to 2011 Census estimates. Tampa-St. Pete is 18th. Milwaukee is 39th. Florida has produced a lot of major league players, but few major league fans.
  24. joepepsi
    I doubt there's a major role reserved for Gamel, given his age and recent injury history. they'd like his bat on the 25 man I'm sure, but he's going to have to earn a spot now.
  25. joepepsi
    As I recall arbitration was the owners' idea. The players' realized right away it would mean huge raises and signed on board.
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