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  1. Tbadder
    Whoa! Take backs. I didn't know they were dropping 12mil on him. Thanks RoCo.
  2. Tbadder
    Yeah...I think these are scary numbers as it really doesn't allow much wriggle room. If they non-tender McClung, Villy, and Bush they'll save potential money. But losing Bushie will hurt them competitively.
  3. Tbadder
    Still, I'd take my chances if the other team is ponying up a bunch of cash and I only have to give up a Tommy John pitcher.
  4. Tbadder
    Man oh man...I'd rather have Harden for 7.5 than Hawkins for 7.5 and an extra year.
  5. Tbadder
    I think Melvin is buying stuff in Hawkins. 37 years old. I don't think he'll be much help. They overpaid as well. If this means we don't get Counsell back (not that it will, I'm just saying) then I'm really not enamored. I'd rather have gone after 1 year of Harden. The Brewers appearred to me to have a totally adequate bullpen with some potential on the horizon in Braddock and Axford.
  6. Tbadder
    Actually I'm happy with this if they use him correctly. If he's a 3/4 inning at a time guy then he can be helpful to a bullpen that is overworked. If he's brought in, in win/lose situations then I think there's trouble abrewin'. When I was a kid the long reliever role wasn't just a scrub. He was a guy who could bail out both sides of the staff (starters and relievers) by piling up some innings once a week. I don't know why more managers don't go back to that strategy more often.
  7. Tbadder
    Before adding Wolf our rotation candidates consisted of Gallardo, Parra, Bush, Suppan and Narveson. We just witnessed a season where those 5 lead us to the worst starting staff in the National League. We gave up no draft picks or prospects to get Wolf. Im being completely serious when I ask this, and if this is another thread please let me know, but what should Melvin had done instead? What I think the Brewers should be doing is making trades like the Hart for Maine suggestion. Making trades like the Diamondbacks/Tigers for young pitchers. Taking chances on low cost high risk/high reward pitchers ala Mulder. I don't believe the Brewers can be a successful franchise following the free agent route because their resoucres are limited. We have to act like the Twins, and not the low rent version of the Yanks or Red Sox. I think we've got our undies in a bundle over Fielder's departure and this notion of a window of opportunity. If the franchise is going to fall apart after Fielder leaves then pack it in right now. Do you (non-pejoratively) know what the Twinkies window of opportunity is? Every year. Every year because they follow a business model that can keep a small market team competitive. That's what I'm asking for. Signing old pitchers to big contracts is a fool's game. Signing older pitchers to one year incentive laden contracts, that then return us draft choices, is an excellent strategy for a team like the Brewers.
  8. Tbadder
    Look, I may be wrong about this, but I'd like to document all the over 30 free agent pitchers who have ever signed with a small market team and see how many of those teams went from non-playoff status to playoff status. It may be quite a few. It may be a healthy percentage. What do the stats say? Oh, and just to be clear about it. If Wolf is our savior. If he wins 15 games and we get into the playoffs I will extol the virtues and admit I was wrong.
  9. Tbadder
    Sigh--the cycle continues. An awesome example of thinking inside the box and wasting precious resources. I don't want to hear a single complaint in two years or one year or six months. they've made their bed and now they're gonna lie in it.
  10. Tbadder
    Ka-ching for the Tigers. Exactly the kind of move the Brewers should be looking at. I like the Diamondbacks second, and Yankees third but I've never been a Granderson fan so I can understand those who are disparaging the Diamondbacks.
  11. Tbadder
    Free agent pitching for small market teams will never work. The truly best free agent pitchers will go to bigger markets, leaving teams like Milwaukee with the dregs. If the pitching is ever to be improved on a long term basis then the Brewers will have to start producing their own pitchers. The time for excuses is over. That money should be dumped by and large into scouting, player development, etc. The Brewers will never be Twin-like until the actually start producing Twin-like. Resources are finite especially for small market teams and signing Washburns and Wolfs and whatever is nothing but russian roulette. If you're gonna play that strategy you're better off signing cheap guys like Mulder, trading for players like Maine, etc. This idea that we've only got this small window of opportunity is just short sighted. It'll cause a GM to make a mistake that will debilitate his team for a longer period of time. If Mulder and a bunch of like duds fail at least you haven't mortgaged the future. if Washburn and Wolf fail, then there really is no hope. Which is the better model? But if you say "what if they succeed?" Well, maybe, but what if the cheaper version succeeds?
  12. Tbadder
    I don't know if Hart for Maine is fair, but this is the kind of pitcher the Brewers should be targeting en masse. I'd rather they signed or traded for four of these guys than dump a lotta cash in free agency. I also think Hart will bounce back somewhat, but will it be enough? I think he'll be a low rent Cameron--not quite as good defensively or offensively but adequate. does adequate make us playoff bound? Maybe.
  13. Tbadder
    I just can't agree. The Brewers are throwing money at a problem that won't go away. If they dole out two of these contracts they'll be doubly hamstrung for years to come. The Suppan contract was bad. It hurt the Brewers, so now lets give out another one for a guy who is only slightly better, but who also might go down in a heap as well given his hstory. No, standing pat is indefensible if only we want the brewers to conduct business as usual. This idea that we have to compete is debilitating. We try to force the issue by wasting money on one of the highest risk/low reward strategies that baseball offers. The offense has already been weakened significantly this off-season, so that 80ish win team is probably only high 70s win. No amount of crappy free agent pitching with ridiculous contracts is going to make the Brewers competitive. Just because we have three quality players doesn't mean we have to destroy our future forcing the issue. Wolf and say, Davis does not make them a playoff team. So while I believe we will continue making the same mistake, it doesn't make it right.
  14. Tbadder
    One thing sure. He will have a career year with the Cardinals. It's a law of nature. Good signing for them.
  15. Tbadder
    Just reiterating: I don't think anyone is a difference maker and the Brewers should have nothing to do with free agent pitchers. The only guy that would make the Crew real contenders would be Halladay and they'd have to give up their future for that. Please Melvin, stand pat.
  16. Tbadder
    I'd take Harden as he's currently the healthest of the bunch, but in reality I'd want none of them. Anything over 5mil a year would be a fools game unless they're incentive laden. What they'll actually command? Something ridiculous no doubt.
  17. Tbadder
    Yeah, it's amazing what a team can do if it marshals its resources, unlike the Brewers who refuse to be even a little creative.
  18. Tbadder
    I'd be willing to bet that Lopez and Naverson will be worth more than Davis or Washburn and maybe even Wolf. Melvin can save all the money he wants, but the pitching that's available is not very good, and they got a better chance of pulling a "Suppan" than acquiring a starter that will make them competitive. This is a poor decision.
  19. Tbadder
    I'm now an EX-Melvin supporter. This is ridiculous. The lifeblood of this organization is draft choices and he turns down a slam dunk sandwich pick. If he signs washed up pitchers like Davis, Washburn, or Wolf for big money then it's katy-bar-the-door. It's time to step down Doug. Please go away.
  20. Tbadder
    Maybe economically it is stronger, but econmoically it is still skewed tremendously (which leads it to be skewed competitively) and it is Scott Boras' job to use that to his advantage. It is a travesty what has happened in the draft and free agency and that can be laid at the feet of people like Boras. He isn't the only one obviously, and the owners have to look at themselves as well, but all one has to do is look at this years world series winner and one could make a case for saying that it was player agents who determined the competitive outcome. And I don't want to hear the old saws about "but nobody put a gun to their head" or "but that's the system" or blah, blah, blah. The system is broke. Money determines the winners, and the few anomalies we have doesn't make up for the year in year out frustration, the year in year out sense of inevitability. But to be a Brewer fan, or Royals fan, or Padres fan, or Pirates fan...and support this system, well, on some level that isn't a fan at all or a fan with an aberrant taste for punishment. Bud should have been hammering this home everyday of his tenure. he should have taken it to every city that supports baseball and said "you can demand a better system out of the owners, the players, the agents, the unions, etc." but he didn't and for me that makes him an average commissioner.
  21. Tbadder
    I think what I'll remember most about the Bud Selig era is how Scot Boras and the like consolidated their hold on baseball. He is no doubt a sincere guy who loves baseball, and when I look at the very nice list compiled by obsessedwithbrewcrew I'd have to say he did a fair job, and that's where I'd place him objectively--somewhere in the middle of the most effective or ineffective commissioners. Subjectively, he didn't do enough for me and I won't miss him. Many of the annoying little problems have been fixed under Bud's watch, but it's most fundamental problems remain.
  22. Tbadder
    Bodies, bodies, bodies--some losing warmth, some already stone cold. Pretty soon Melvin's going to have him the last nine yards of a World War I battlefield.
  23. Tbadder
    Rivas, Salome, and Hart. That's it. Let someone else overspend.
  24. Tbadder
    If he's cheap, I'd take a chance. I'd rather give him an incentive laden contract than Davis or Wasburn.
  25. Tbadder
    My intial reaction to this thread is--good idea. I just don't see that much help out there. What if they put the lionshare of the savings in player development and scouting--maybe a stronger foreign presence, etc. It's almost certain that we regress somewhat offensively, and I doubt we can progress that much pitching wise to overcome the difference and then tack on the additional 5 to 10 wins they'll need.
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