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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    If I'm RR, regardless of how this game ends, after the game I get Melvin on the phone and demand that someone gets put on the 15 day DL so the Brewers can actually play with 25 available players...or at least more than 22. Lucroy's dying for a day off, ARam's now dealing with something, Braun and Segura can't play, your bullpen's in the process of burning itself out due to every game being close and hiding a rule V guy, and you're getting exposed for having a weak bench way to early in the season. And Khris Davis is in need of a day off to get himself straightened out...really scuffling right now.
  2. Fear The Chorizo
    This game has the feel of the Brewers just running out of players and losing by attrition...really getting sick of the Brewers opting to play shorthanded with all these marginal injuries. Segura opened the season with a balky shoulder that probably needs a few weeks rest to get back healthy. He's scuffling to start the season and then he gets his face opened up with a weighted bat - for the love of God put him on the DL and bring up an extra OF, maybe Gindl...you already have a waterbug playing RF because Braun's already dealing with stuff that will probably DL him, too. The frustrating part about all this is the Brewers will play the next 2-3 games shorthanded, and then they'll retractively DL one or both Segura and Braun anyways. Happens way too often with this organization. Now Ramirez is out...was it from being target practice for Wacha?
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    In addition from mop-up duty, I think that from time to time RR has to try and steal an inning using Wang to get through the 6th/7th of close games. Do it against teams with weak lineups or when an inning starts with the bottom of a team's order. Even if it's only between 1 and 2 appearances per week, it will help the pen in the long run.
  4. Fear The Chorizo
    On Pujols in 2011: He led the team in nothing except SB Pujols actually didn't lead the team in SB that year, but he did lead in HR, RBI, hits, total bases, and runs - and by wide margins in most of those categories...if that's nothing to you than I don't really know how to respond. When 'failing to hit .300 for the first time' is Pujols hitting 0.299, I'm not going to view that as a horrible season, unless it's just compared to the lofty standard he set for himself. Pujols, Berkman and Holliday all had great seasons in 2011 - that team had three full season 900+ OPS hitters, with Molina also having a great year. Craig only got 200 ABs during the regular season but did OPS over .900, and had a great postseason. Since then however he hasn't replicated that production. Craig's career average OPS is 0.827, which is about league average for a 1B, and slightly over league average for a corner OF. That's good, but not 2011 Pujols, Holliday, and Berkman good. If he still played 2B it'd be great, but Craig can't play that position defensively at the big league level every day.
  5. Fear The Chorizo
    Allen Craig's a 1B who's now trying to play OF every day and hitting 0.179 doing so. Last season the Cards got an 0.830 OPS out of Beltran in right and an 0.830 OPS out of Craig at 1B with some OF play sprinkled in. This year Adams is OPS'ing 0.807 so far at 1B and RF is a black hole of offensive production with a career 1B playing the position. It's early and Taveras is the obvious answer to man RF, with Craig settling back in as a platoon partner/bench option for 1B and OF. Right now, the Cards do miss a player like Beltran in the lineup every day. That's likely to change if Taveras is the player everyone thinks he is, and he stays healthy. And I emphasized impact bats with track records, not just solid players with MLB experience. Holliday and Molina, IMO, are the only two hitters in that lineup that have MLB track records of plus production for their positions - and neither of them are likely to hit 30+ HR in a season at this point in their careers. Hitters like Carpenter, Jay, and Craig are good but aren't impact bats, IMO. A guy like Adams has that potential, but he hasn't been around long enough at the MLB level to put up those numbers. And also, at 12-11 I wouldn't call the Cardinals 'scuffling'...slumping offensively, yes, but I would hope there aren't alarm bells going off just yet in STL - that's still a deep and talented team that will inevitably get on a roll. They just don't have an offensive player like 2011 Pujols to anchor the lineup right now.
  6. Fear The Chorizo
    I think a team like the Marlins has some veterans that would be improvements to the Brewer bench or help with platoon situations. Garrett Jones wouldn't be a bad replacement for Overbay as a 1b/pinch hit option that hits from the left side. Raffy Furcal wouldn't be a bad vet to add to the bench if he comes back healthy, just because he could play both SS and 2nd defensively, and he's a switch hitter. It's more of a statement on how useless Weeks is to the roster right now when I'm thinking of replacing him with a 36-yr old middle infielder who hasn't seen MLB action since 2012. Other than the handful of teams nobody expects to contend (Cubs, 'Stros, Marlins), right now it's too early to tell who's going to be buying and selling at the trade deadline. Most all of MLB is within a few games of 0.500 right now.
  7. Fear The Chorizo
    Even though it was the correct decision not to pay an aging Beltran what the Yankees gave him, The Cards' miss his bat in the middle of their lineup, especially hitting from the left side. They have to be hoping Taveras isn't going to be in AAA much longer. Only the Padres and Mets have lower slugging percentages as a team so far this season...the Cards have all kinds of pitching, but I think right now their MLB roster doesn't have enough impact bats with proven MLB track records. I expect them to add that via trade if anyone worth dealing for becomes available...their system is deep enough in arms to make that sort of move.
  8. Fear The Chorizo
    Even alot of the preseason prognosticators didn't know what to make of this year's Brewers - most of them hovered between 78-83 wins, all with the caveats of the team being better than that if Braun was the Braun of old post-suspension, injuries not gutting the MLB roster, and young guys proving their 2013's weren't flukes. I think the one thing that's looking like a good bet is there are four teams in the division who have realistic playoff hopes, when before the season I think most people expected only three. If anything, Pittsburgh's start (performance and injuries) has dampened there playoff hopes moreso than the Brewers' hot start has amplified theirs. The Cards are still the class of the division, but I don't think they are as great a team as what hot stove assumptions made them out to be. The Cards have much more depth to whether adversity, whereas the Brewers can easily hit the skids if injuries/bounces start working against them. On the bright side, remember that the Brewers' April schedule was viewed as a meat-grinder before Opening Day, and 22 games in the Brewers have the best record in baseball as they've played their way through it.
  9. Fear The Chorizo
    Starters often have 4-5 days of time between logging 100 pitches to recover and rebuild their arm strength with side sessions/throwing at 60-70%. Relievers throwing 3 and 4 consecutive days don't have the time to allow the arm to recover, and often have to warm up in a hurry and enter a game throwing max effort. A reliever's schedule is much less routine as a starters, and that unpredictability also is harder on their arms. Recovery time is the difference. Relievers don't have the opportunity to do the same things as starters and remain available for the next game. Many times the day after a start a pitcher does a ton of cardio to work up a sweat and cycle fresh blood through the body, particularly through their arm. A reliever can't really do that after each appearance and expect to be available in the pen for the next game at 100%.
  10. Fear The Chorizo
    If that were true, every player should just stay on the bench no matter what. I think they should - players/pitchers not in the starting lineup should not be allowed to run onto the field during skirmishes, IMO. They do nothing but inflame the situation. If something happens on the field that leads to an altercation, the team at bat can have coaches and players run out of the dugout to defend their own and help break things up, and the team in the field can have their coaches and fielders there as well. MLB has cameras everywhere, so after an incident they can use those to make sure nobody else ran onto the field. If players not in the lineup entered the fracas, they get a one or two game suspension without being able to appeal. After the Pistons/Pacers brawl, the NBA got a better handle on player skirmishes by making it a suspendable offense if a player on the bench ran onto the court during an altercation. Even in the NHL, where fist-a-cuffs happen often, you almost never see benches clear onto the ice. Had a rule in MLB similar to the NBA rule been in place, Snider and Maldanado never make it onto the field, and the altercation would've ended without any ejections or fights. I'm not saying what Maldanado did wasn't provoked or justified based on what he perceived was happening to his teammate in the heat of the moment. I think MLB needs to do alot more to cut this crap out of the game, and to me a good option is to create a deterrent so two rosters-worth of teams and coaches spilling onto the field every time opposing players start yelling at each other stops happening.
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    we're rapidly approaching what the White Sox did a few weeks ago, where they had a position player pitch in extras of a tie game, simply because their bullpen was completely gassed an used up.
  12. Fear The Chorizo
    I say have Maldanado serve his full 5 game suspension and let Weeks give him his credit card to buy 5 games-worth of merchandise/provisions.
  13. Fear The Chorizo
    stop running into so many outs on the bases and generate a few more insurance runs - get Wang into a few 6th/7th inning situations to steal an inning here or there, and use the arms available to you in AAA or even AA when necessary. tonight's an ideal game for Figaro to go multiple innings if necessary to try and get multiple relievers a night off. Or let's have Gallardo and Lohse go 8 and mop up with Wang and Figaro.
  14. Fear The Chorizo
    Cole should have been suspended for 3 games. Cole's a starter so a 3 game suspension is basically zero for him - he could serve that between starts. I would've given him a 5 game, so at minimum he'd have to miss a start or cause their rotation to get out of whack.
  15. Fear The Chorizo
    I agree - Snider got off light in terms of the suspensions...dude wasn't even in the lineup and he escalated the whole situation. Wondering why MLB can't just make a rule similar to the NBA and put an end to benches/bullpens clearing. It looks really stupid when guys start jawing at each other and then 25 yahoos from the bullpens come jogging toward the altercation. If you're not in the lineup, you can't come onto the field during an altercation. If you do it's an automatic 2 game suspension. That would lead to some serious roster problems for teams and maybe serve as a deterrent to limit how often this crap happens on the field.
  16. Fear The Chorizo
    Gomez needs to appeal and Maldonado should just start serving his suspension tonight. It's roll of the dice, but the Brewer roster can handle playing one player short with Lucroy having last night and Thursday's off day to rest. If something happens to Lucroy then the Brewers would need to make a roster move that impacts the 40-man, regardless of whether Maldanado's available or not. Right now, Gomez should appeal and hope to avoid serving any suspension until Schafer's back. The bullpen is stretched and they need as many roster spots as possible for relievers right now. Nothing for Cole, huh? I guess that's just par for the MLB course when it comes to these things. Snider should get 5 games with Maldanado - if it wasn't for his actions the fight never would've gotten to the point of him taking a shot in the face.
  17. Fear The Chorizo
    He started last night, correct? I say start serving it tonight, then plan on starting Lucroy the next 5 games...they have an offday Thursday so he'll get some rest. It actually sets up pretty well with their current schedule to serve it now. Even if he'd get a game or two taken off the suspension, when Maldy would need to serve it down the road may not be as good a time to do so as right now.
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    It's a concern, but I think the Brewers are well-positioned to keep key bullpen arms fresh if they're willing to shuttle relievers back and forth between Milwaukee and Nashville/Huntsville repeatedly. I like the early season moves around Kintzler's DL stint and Wooten/Figaro looking like they're going to be moved between Nashville and Milwaukee when the Brewers need 'em. I also like the idea of using Overbay's or Weeks' roster spot for an extra reliever to spell the key guys, particularly once Gorzelanny's back. If they really need to you can replace Overbay and Weeks with Gorzelanny/reliever and Morris/Green, then use Bianchi as a backup 2B option to go along with SS and 3rd.
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    Pitchers have been using PEDs for at least 40 years to recover between starts and relief appearances. In a way that's what I'm saying - what if over the past few seasons PED use among pitchers dropped significantly due to MLB imposing the testing program and intense scrutiny throughout baseball to clean the game up? What we're seeing over the past few seasons in terms of a spike in MLB Tommy John surgeries is resulting from the combination of: 1 - pitchers 'maxing out' with regularity to increase velocity and movement on breaking pitches to strike hitters out, and 2 - fewer pitchers using PEDs to assist with recovery than what had become the norm through 2010 I also think it's a product of the type of pitcher today's game values the most - guys who can throw it through a wall and who have breaking stuff that buckles knees...strikeout artists. A pitcher like Maddux could beat a great offensive team throwing all of his pitches 75-85mph with location and command. He'd probably have a tough time today getting a shot beyond AA if he had been born 25 years later. The emphasis on radar gun readings over the past 10 seasons for players, scouts, and fans has dramatically shifted how pitching is developed at even the youngest levels of baseball.
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    "Another extremely important benefit for anyone that is physically active, is that as your levels of HGH increase, your bones and ligaments and tendons will be strengthened. HGH regenerates the processes that builds healthy tendons, ligaments, and increases bone density. This can help you avoid common sports and exercise related injuries due to a weakness in any of these joint and bone related components. More recent studies have shown that neurologic injuries are also less likely with amino acid supplementation. " This was pulled from a resource talking about benefits of HGH use...there are tons of PEDs out there that won't turn a pitcher into a 250-lb linebacker who can bench press a buick.
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    This team is no longer just being aggressive on the bases - they're wasting innings-worth of AB's per game by being stupid and running into outs.
  22. Fear The Chorizo
    Some of this 'unwritten rules' pontificating is just guys looking for ways to get into physical altercations with opponents they are frustrated with, I think. Baseball is the one major sport where physical contact with an opponent isn't part of the game. There's a striking trend of people/players who love to spout off about 'unwritten rules' also displaying their meathead, or caveman gene. Oftentimes the same guys who are supposedly stewards of baseball's unwritten rules find themselves repeatedly involved in bench clearing incidents. Players criticizing other players for 'not respecting the game', or 'playing the game the wrong way' is nothing more than veiled animosity intended to make a small-minded person feel better about themselves. I've wondered why the list of unwritten rules has never been written...I think it's because those rules change at the whim of whichever red-assed manager or player wants to cite them in a way that demeans something an opponent did while they were beating them at baseball.
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    appeals to these kind of suspensions typically need to be heard in person at the league offices in NY, if I remember correctly. Normally the appeals get lined up during team off days and/or scheduled team trips to play NY area teams. Players can announce they are appealing a suspension and continue to play until their appeal is heard and ruled on. Oftentimes if a team's schedule lines up appropriately, a player will drop his appeal even before the scheduled hearing and then serve his full suspension starting with the team's next game. unless recent CBA rules have changed that process, it seems like there are ways for teams to minimize the impact suspensions have for certain players being unavailable. This Padre series wouldn't be a bad one for Gomez to sit if he gets 2-3 games even with Scafer on the DL...but, if the suspension is too long I would hope he'd appeal to at least trim a game or two off its length. I think Maldy has to appeal any suspension so the Brewers have some more time to make reasonable roster moves to cover themselves when he does serve any suspension and line up LuCroy's rest accordingly. I can see them sitting Luc for a few consecutive days and starting Maldy just before he starts his suspension, so Luc can play everyday until Maldy's back to give him a day off.
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    So how much of the recent spike in Tommy John surgeries could be the result of the game trying to clean itself up from a PED/HGH standpoint? From a pitching standpoint, PED use was most beneficial to help guys recover faster and prevent chronic fatigue that often leads to injuries, particularly HGH. If pitchers aren't taking PEDs to help recovery and are being conditioned to throw harder than ever before, breakdowns would inevitably occur more frequently. I'm not saying today's pitchers who blew out their UCLs were former PED users - I think it could speak more to why there weren't more occurences of that injury at the major league level sooner than what we're seeing presently.
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    I remember Gomez doing the bat flip when he first got to Milwaukee whenever he actually made contact that resulted in line drives/fly balls into the outfield. It never seemed to be a big deal because Gomez was a shell of the offensive player then compared to what he's developed into. Now that those swings are leading to HR and extra base hits, teams are getting their panties in a bundle. Here's a thought - if you don't like it, try to be better at baseball and get him out. I love the way Gomez plays the game - if he's getting under opponents' skin it's because he's become a quality player and he's winning games for the Brewers. I think Sunday's fracas had more to do with the Pirates' frustration of winning 1 of 6 (at the time, now 1 of 7) games against the Crew, and Gomez's antics just triggered things. Most of these games played over a short span of time could've gone either way, and the fact that the Brewers took 6 of 7 definitely helped make the Pirates extra red-assed and agitated.
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