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  1. joepepsi
    A lot of people hate baseball. Football is an easy sport to watch and understand. It requires zero attention span and no knowledge of the game or players in order to enjoy it. Baseball is an acquired taste.
  2. joepepsi
    The main (only?) reason this team didn't win 96 games is a surprisingly dysfunctional offense that was terrible at getting on base. Since they finished 11th in the league in 2007 in batting average and obp, I suppose you can argue Doug should have seen this coming. On the other hand, one thing you can expect from talented young hitters is they will improve their on base skills with experience. Instead everyone of the young core of hitters regressed except for JJ. The offense scored 51 fewer runs comared to last year while the pitching allowed 87 fewer runs. Had the offense merely scored as many runs as in 2007 the Brewers would have theorectically speaking, won 5 more games.
  3. joepepsi
    Count me as one of his supporters throughout his tenure. His K rate decline is troubling. Here's a question for debate. Since the trade essentially ended up Bush for Overbay, who got the better end of the deal? Who is more valuable, a league average position player or a league average starting pitcher?
  4. joepepsi
    I think Sveum is/was terrible. He will be more infuriating than Ned.
  5. joepepsi
    I agree. The odd thing is that every year since he became a Brewer he has become a slightly worse as a SP but now suddenly people want to re-sign him instead of DFA him. ERA is a fickle stat and I sure hope our management uses better stats/scouting to judge our pitchers.It's a delicate balance between overvaluing a league average pitcher (Suppan) and underestimating his value (Doug Davis). Bush provided16 quality starts out of 29, not counting two 5 inning starts late in September when he gave up 2 and 3 runs respectively. Bush has averaged 31 starts over his last 3 seasons, 190+ innings. You can't just throw that away willy-nilly. Add in that he never gets injured and you have a valuable 4th starter. If the Brewers let him go through arby he might make Suppan money as a free agent. If they try and sign him to a 3 or 4 year deal this winter the dollars should stay reasonable.
  6. joepepsi
    If Suppan is healthy he will be in the rotation next year. Which is why I hoope he's traded, even if they have to eat half his salary. At any rate, if he's on the team he will prevent guys like DeFelice and McClung from getting a shot at the 5 spot. Gallardo pitched 187 innings in 2007, so I don't see why he can't go 32-34 starts next year. Same with Parra, though I fear he's not going to be a long term healthy pitcher, given his injury woes in the minors. I think they do need to find another top quality pitcher from outside the organization. Or re-sign CC, of course. I doubt Prince or Hardy will be traded. Weeks and Hart are possibilities though.
  7. joepepsi
    Bush is going to be a very rich man in a couple years.
  8. joepepsi
    Congratulations to the Phillies. They outplayed the Brewers and were the better team. Brewers had a wonderful season but there weaknesses were revealed in September; a very good but seriously flawed team.
  9. joepepsi
    I watched Hargrove manage my other favorite team, the Orioles, for several seasons. He's a decent likable guy who spends most of his time in the dugout picking his nose. He isn't much of a manager in my opinion. Does pretty much what you expect with the talent he's given, which I guess puts him ahead of Ned. But he loves the Veteran Gamers and is the type of guy who would play Doug Mintkeiwicz(sp?) at 1B and bench Prince. I'd ask Ken Macha to interview.
  10. joepepsi
    I think you let Dale interview for the job, but ultimately hire someone with an established record of success managing in the majors. Doug Melvin will be back. It's silly to even think he won't. There is much to do to improve this team, but cleaning house isn't going to make those improvements. I don't know why you wouldn't bring Maddux back--the team was 2nd in the league in ERA. The rest of the coaching staff probably needs to go though. New manager gets to pick his lieutenants. Svuem deserves some consideration for a job in the organization. He provided a cool head in a tense situation, but I don't think he will be a very manager.
  11. joepepsi
    Statistically speaking you couldn't have found two more similar teams. But the Phillies are peaking at the right time and the better team won. Congratulations to them and their fans. Go Phillies!
  12. joepepsi
    I'm kinda frightened of facing the Dodgers in a playoff series. The Dodgers were great in September. The Cubs were the best team in the league over the course of the year but they had stretches were they struggled and the Brewers actually played them pretty well for the season. So, I'd rather see a Cubs-Brewers series.
  13. joepepsi
    I hope Lidge doesn't get the opportunity to pitch again.
  14. joepepsi
    Exactly. I'm trying my best not to get hung up with Dale's eccentric batting lineup right now. It's the playoffs, I don't care how illogical things are, just win!
  15. joepepsi
    If the playoffs were in July I'd agree with you. But he seems gassed now.
  16. joepepsi
    Ok, you've convinced me.
  17. joepepsi
    Yovani didn't have good command yesterday. Not surprising for a guy who's been out for five months.
  18. joepepsi
    Good. He has a 3.50 ERA at home; a K:BB ratio of 3:1. Suppan might be the right guy for game 4.
  19. joepepsi
    Hardy raised his obp 20 points. Fielder's approach doesn't really bother me at all. He could draw a few more walks, but I'll take 134 K's, .372 obp almost anytime. Weeks obp was 108 points higher than his batting average. He actually cut down his strikeout rate this year. Unfortunately his walk rate went down too. Kendall walked more than he struck out. The real guilty parties here are Braun, Hart, and Hall. Braun needs to stop trying to win the game with one swing in every at bat; although admittedly he's been pretty successful with this approach. Hall's issues are entirely platoon related. Hart is looking less and less like an everyday player. I'm starting to wonder if Cameron's bat has just slowed down too much to get around on pitches. 32% strikeout rate?
  20. joepepsi
    Well that's a good thing then. Sounds like he won't try to latch on with another team. Can't expect too much of him right away, but he should make his way back as a useful starter in the bigs. Could be a big boost in July or August 2009.
  21. joepepsi
    So why do they keep swinging at them? And when I say "they", I mean you Corey Hart and Bill Hall.
  22. joepepsi
    I suspect Doug Melvin is taking notes and we'll see a couple new hitters in the everyday lineup who have radically different approaches to the current Brewer starters. I wouldn't be surprised if both Durham and Lamb are on the team next year.
  23. joepepsi
    By my count he has one more arby season. Right? So, do the Brewers offer him arby or do they release him?
  24. joepepsi
    I've always thought Sheets compared well to Schilling. Schilling had two great seasons in his mid 20's then battled injuries for 3 seasons. Once he hit 30 he did a better job staying healthy and really hit his stride. With this injury it's tough to argue Sheets in not injury prone. However, like Schilling or Molitor, the injuries have been unrelated for the most part. And this is really the only one that's been directly related to his arm. So while he may battle injuries his whole career, it's just as possible he'll start stringing together injury free All Star caliber seasons for the next several years.
  25. joepepsi
    I just don't understand a hitter being more careless and swinging harder at every pitch when he's in a slump like this. I could understand being tentative or trying to sneak a bunt or standing there with your bat on your shoulder until you have two strikes, but swinging for the fences on those three balls when the bases are loaded is just inexcusable. He's not going to be in the majors for very long if this is his method of breaking out of slump or trying to help your team win. I doubt he is being coached to take this approach. Which implies he isn't responding to coaching either. It would have been nice to see Nelson or even Gwynn out there for a game or two against a righty in the past month.
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