Gobias Industries
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Unbelievable. It seems that a good portion of this forum thinks this is like their beer league softball team asking them to switch positions. The time and place to do this was Spring Training. Somehow DM and RR had very little foresight on something most casual Brewer fans saw coming. FWIW about 5 years ago before Weeks really hit his prime I advocated he try becoming a utility player ala Mark DeRosa during his time with CHC because he never seemed like he was gonna hit enough to make up for his D. Now that doesn't seem like a bad idea for him going forward.
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Went to the T-rats game today and Roache's HR was a BOMB. I'd have to guestimate 450+. Other things I noticed... Max Walla has a slow bat. Considering his milb stats so far it didn't come as a surprise, but I just have to wonder what in the hell the Brewers scouts saw in him. Did make a nice catch in RF though. Lance Roenicke made a couple boneheaded plays. Falling asleep on the bases, missing a catch at the wall in left, think maybe one more but I'm drawing a blank. Roache has a lot of Rickie Weeks in him. Lunges at the ball, so doesn't make consistent, solid contact like he should. But when he squares it up, wow. Covey didn't really stand out to me. Hit 92-93 on the gun a few times, but didn't make me think we missed out on a future mlb player. Arcia=swag. Looked good at short and hit the ball hard a couple times. Looks like a future stud. -
That definitely sounds like a plausible conclusion most MLB managers would make. He's a platoon player at this point. It's painfully obvious. At least against lefties his offense will negate his horrible d.
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That's a better team than last year for sure. Mayo is slightly better than Monta and Teague is light years better than Jennings. Throw in natural progression from guys like Sanders and Henson, add in a signing like Kirilenko to mentor the Greek/push Delfino to the bench; that team could easily win 45-50. I fully expect the Hawks to match though. 4/32 is a VERY reasonable deal for Teague. The only way this team is lotto bound is if Jennings comes back. That would be an absolute disaster.
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LOL. 3 million less than Millsap got. A top 40 player in the league. Unbelievable how awful Hammond is. Absolutely blows my mind.
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Yuni staying over Gennett (or anyone for that matter) is a joke. I guess his OB will have to drop to below 200 to make the FO cut him loose. Also, I really liked the idea of Weeks being in a soft platoon, sitting maybe twice a week against guys like Garza, Wainwright, Arroyo etc. It's what got him out of this funk to begin with. So of course they go away with it.
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Same.
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The call up Scooter Gennett thread
Gobias Industries replied to Bombers's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Weeks still has a ton of bat speed. He's slowed down around the bases (you're right JB, he's def overweight), but his hands are still plenty quick. He's had major slumps (which get more prolonged every year) in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and now 2013. And his main problem during every single slump is lunging at the ball. By the time he is about to make contact, he's so off balance there's almost no way he could square up the ball. At some point the Weeks apologists are going to have to look at the facts and see that over his last 1000 PA's he's been a .200 hitter that puts up a lowish 700 ops and plays league worst defense. Even if he rebounds during the summer months and winds up with a respectable ops, his value is completely shot. He's a sunk cost. Time to move on. I hope Melvin/Ash learned their lesson in that you don't wait until a very talented, underperforming player puts up career highs in every category during his age 27 season to extend him. Especially when he had one more year of arb left. Giving Bianchi the keys to see what we have in him is the right play here. Weeks can go down to AAA if he wants to play every day. -
Silver lining: roenicke's stubbornness with weeks might cost him his job. I don't care what the hell war says, his risp hitting has cost us at least 3-4 games alone.
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Melvin said he didn't get Overbay because they didn't have the DH spot to fall back on once Hart returned. Basically being in the AL guaranteed Overbay an extra 150-200 ab's, so they didn't have a realistic shot of even signing him. Makes sense.
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Facing Arroyo tomorrow, a guy who might be his worst matchup in the league. If he's in there Roenicke reaches a Yostian level of stubbornness.
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Roenicke is absolutely right to leave Burgos in there. This ballgame is OVAH! /Hawk H. No need to start doing damage for tomorrow's game. I think RR has been overall pretty competent in his handling of the pitching this year.
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The call up Scooter Gennett thread
Gobias Industries replied to Bombers's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Gennett might be the only option who would put up the same .280/.280 slash line as Weeks. Altough he'd probably do it with a .260 BA, so the casual fan would be ecstatic. It's getting to the point where anyone will be an upgrade, but I don't think Gennett is ready. The simple solution is for Weeks to suck it up and go down to AAA and get his swing back like he did in 2007. Bianchi and Yuni can split time at 2b while he's down there. -
Nice job trying to pull a low, outside pitch there Rick. What a completely useless baseball player. I had a feeling that Burgos wasn't going to fare too well in this park. Need him to suck it up and somehow go 5.
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I just looked at his numbers on fangraphs and he is really having an odd season. Like you said, his LD% is actually quite good. His IFFB% rate is way down . He doesn't have any infield hits on the year. Reading all that and I'd say he's been cheated on his singles. You'd think some of the GBs he's hit would have found holes, or he would of beat out a couple dribblers in the IF. Dat K% tho. Tough to overcome if you're not hitting for some serious power.
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Nitpick much? I didn't see the first play so I can't comment on that but the second is much more on the runner. It's his job to have a good secondary lead and to know when to advance on a wild pitch. Weeks is hitting a ton of choppers to SS and 2b. It seems he isn't elevating the ball this year and is really having trouble hitting the sweet spot because of poor balance during his swing. Yes, he's had some liners hit right at defenders. Everyone has them. Yes. And the original discussion is why do people hate on Weeks when Lucroy has been nearly as bad? Weeks has been at the plate about 30 more times than Lucroy. It's asinine that he's played every game. I realize that it's much more Roenicke's stubbornness at fault, but I can still understand why people are more fed up with Weeks. Especially considering he has a history of playing like this for prolonged periods of time.
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Lucroy is a very good defender. Weeks might be the worst glove of any MIF in baseball. Lucroy rarely ever makes a boneheaded mistake. Weeks makes the same amount as he did when he was a rookie aka A LOT. Lucroy has gotten unlucky far more than Weeks, who is lucky if he squares up one ball per series. Lucroy is on bargain contract. Weeks is the highest paid player on the team. Lucroy actually gets time off twice a week. Weeks writes his name in the lineup every night even though he clearly isn't the player he was from 07-11.
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He hit .300 at A+ Brevard County, and .293 at AA Huntsville. He's never going to be a big power hitter, but I'll take a guy hitting .290 with little power over a guy with all the power in the world hitting .165. I do not like Rickie Weeks AT ALL and thought his contract extension was a mistake the second the ink dried. But again, there's no reason to believe Weeks will continue to hit .165. He'll probably settle in at .230 like last year and put up a low 700 ops. Not a good ROI for what he's being paid, but it's most likely better than what Gennett would manage.
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I know Gennett is hot to start the year at AAA, but you really need to go look at his minor league numbers again. He hasn't had a good year since A ball. I do think in time he'll be a solid 2b, hopefully in the prime Brian Roberts mold. Weeks is plain awful right now and probably the worst player in baseball that sees as the amount of PT as he does, but there's almost no way he'd be outperformed by Scooter Gennett from this point on.
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Wow. I knew it was a losing proposition in that spot, but that's ridic. [sarcasm]But for the most part, it works for him.[/sarcasm]
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Luis Cruz. Batting .087. Was gonna say, finally, there's one hitter worse than Weeks. Proceeds to hit a rocket into left off our best reliever.
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nice job of just looking at strikes and swinging at balls tonight, weeks. good strategy, bro. i would have bet my friggin house he would of k'd there against belesario. what a joke.
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There's no way Gennett is coming up to replace Weeks this year. Why start his service time this early? He'd almost certainly be a poor major leaguer at this point. Let him finally dominate a level down in the minors. I think calling up Bianchi, DFA'ing Gonzalez and having Yuni and Bianchi share the spot would be much more likely if he were to get benched. But it's not gonna happen unless he's putting up the same line past Memorial Day. Or maybe they can sneak him on the DL or something and try to get him on track with a rehab stint.
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damn, if weeks liner drops this is really interesting.
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the way they had him shaded up the middle i don't think he would of got to 1st in time but I'm not really ready to give him the benefit of the doubt here either.
