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  1. DuWayne Steurer
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  2. DuWayne Steurer
    Pretty much yeah, what Ennder said. Unless a player specifically comes out to the press and says "coach told me to start trying "X, Y, Z" and all of a sudden I was having success", we don't have a really big sample to go on with any of these guys, and most of them are performing the way we'd expect them to perform.
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    I was at the Brewers/Rockies game in early 2011. This was just when things were starting to come together. I was at game 1 vs. the D'Backs in the NLDS. My first ever playoff game. It was the 7th inning and the Brewers were up 2-1 with a man on 2nd, and a righty facing Prince. Does Kirk Gibson bring in a lefty? Walk Prince with the open base? Nope! He pitches to him!
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    While I certainly like what Perez is bringing to the table (power, speed, good D), I think the sample size is small enough that he really doesn't have a gripe if he's still in a "super sub" role next year. I can't imagine if he's not slotted in as a starter somewhere that he still wouldn't see 400+ plate apperances, and the opportunity to continue to prove that he belongs. He's got to improve that walk rate if he really wants to show that he's starter material.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    Did you need to respond? No one ever "needs" to respond on a message board. I was curious what "need" you felt he satisfied with the full page ad, when he clearly doesn't have to satisfy any needs in Milwaukee, now that he's not a Brewer.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    What need?
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    Broxton's almost got that OPS up to .700 now. I've been on his bandwagon since we acquired him so I'm really happy to see him finally doing well.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    Haha, but seriously. I know to some people having a good farm means squat.... but this is like "step one" of getting the club back to being competitive, and keeping the farm system consistently in the top 10 is another part of keeping a steady pipeline of talent coming into the bigs. Now let's see some of these guys start to show up and produce at the big league level.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    Even if he settles in somewhere at .350/.400 and ends up at 2nd base, he would have decent value (if he stops making outs on the bases at the rate he does. I think he's going to hit for more power than that though, and hope he can stick at 3B.
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    If (and it's certainly not a given) he's a .375/425 guy, I think he's fine at 3B, as long as he can cut down on the base running errors. If someone is in the top 10 - 15 in the league in OBP, I really don't care what position they play, or if it's a traditional "power" position. I get the value question. Does Villar as a SS have more value as a trade chip than he does as the Brewers 3B? The other part of that equation is "does the return plus Hernan Perez at 3B have more value than Villar at 3B and Hernan Perez as the super utility guy?" I like Perez, but there's no way the little bit more power he has makes up for the big gap in the OBP. If Perez hits .270, he may not OBP .300, and that just doesn't seem to be the type of player who fits Stearns mold anymore.
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    The way you describe him, he sounds like a halfway decent starting catcher. Catcher is an incredibly shallow position across baseball. We've been spoiled having a good one with Lucroy. Well.......2 of the last 4 years he's OPS'd below .600. This year he's hovering around .700. If he OPS'd .700 with his above average + arm, he would be a starting catcher. I like the guy. He fills a role, and he isn't terrible offensively, and can handle himself behind the plate.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    Maldonado is the absolute definition of a backup catcher. He plays good D, he throws out runners at a good rate, he handles pitchers well. He doesn't hit great, but he has a little bit of pop, and he can at least draw a walk. He's certainly not a guy that should be starting 70 games or more a year, but I don't have a problem with him being the backup for 40-ish games.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    Lucroy has been exceptionally vocal about wanting to play on a contender, and not on a rebuilding team. The Brewers won't be contenders within at least the next few years most likely, and Lucroy is on the wrong side of 30 for a team with the Brewers to be thinking about big dollar contracts for a catcher. I give this about a 0% chance of happening.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    Agree with this. Obviously things will be tough being in the same division with the Cubs and Cardinals, but you can't just sit on your chips and wait for those teams to be bad. What if that never happens? If "the best" you can hope for in a given timeframe is to play for the wildcard, then if you have 90 win talent, you get a wild card spot. I'd hate to think that if the Brewers had a talented young group (such as Braun, Weeks, Fielder, Hart, Hardy) coming up, that they'd for some reason choose to "sit it out" for a cycle just because they're in a tough division.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    If he doesn't get Gallo, I would say that means Stearns disagrees on the valuation of prospects and lucroys trade value with you, not that he doesn't "get it". Then he has no clue..Gallo is one of the top prospects in all of baseball..if he doesn't value that as an important piece for Luc...he really shouldn't be an MLB GM. This stark black and white mindset (again) doesn't mean he "has no clue". It means they see things differently than you. The Rangers may not be offering Gallo. The market for Lucroy may not be what the fans think it is (and fans always, always, always overvalue their own team's assets). Your insistence that Gallo has to be included to meet the criteria that Stearns has a clue is curiously single minded and extremely limiting.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    If he doesn't get Gallo, I would say that means Stearns disagrees on the valuation of prospects and lucroys trade value with you, not that he doesn't "get it".
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    I remember simming a brewers reason with (i think) mvp baseball the year they got Eddie Perez. I didn't play any of the games, I just managed the roster and set the rotation and stuff. Like 5 times Eddie Perez miised "2 to 3 games with diahrrea" and I was like ???!!??? What is virtual Eddie eating?
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    I'll never forget this game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL200709030.shtml That 2007 season was a fun one for sure. I see he allowed a passed ball and 3 wild pitches. Is there something else I'm missing there?
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    If we're compiling a list of "worst" catchers, depending on the criteria, Matheny could/should be on that list. He may have been ok/good defensively, but he had no business getting 300+ plate apperances per year in the offense-heavy decade like the 90's.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    Santana (Before he got hurt) had a *not terrible* .737 OPS, and some of that was compiled while he was playing hurt. That's unfortunate, as just about everyone was looking forward to seeing what he could do with 500-600 PA's this year. EDIT: Also, I didn't realize Hernan Perez has played 15 games in the OF, and he's been surprisingly not bad out there, and his bat has improved (also a .737 OPS). While still not what I'd call "selective" at the plate, he has 8 walks (4 walks last year!), and his power has improved. He's a decent option for an all around utility guy, and I don't feel bad any day that he starts.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    I get that you're very impassioned about this argument, and I don't want to diminish anyone's statements, but referring to other people's arguments or opinions as "ridiculous" isn't how we want to comport ourselves here. Just a friendly reminder.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    Ichiro is a pretty interesting case of rate stats vs. Counting stats, and old school stats vs advanced metrics. He has great counting stats, because he played a long time, and he never got injured, and he has a great batting average, because he hit a ton of singles, and got a lot of stolen bases, and scored a good amount of runs. Those things are impressive, and I do think longevity is worth mentioning when you talk about an all time elite ballplayer, but I think that's kind of far down the list. Is Sandy Koufax elite? I'd put him up there, and he played about a decade. 200 hits a year is a great feat, but what is the context? Hank Aaron or Babe Ruth never did that. They also got walked a lot, they hit a ton of homeruns, were massive run producers, and didn't hit slap singles, and didn't hit leadoff. Ichiro has 5 seasons where he OPS'd over .800, and never over .900 (in MLB) A corner outfielder who NEVER had an OPS+ higher than 130 (to me) is not an "elite" offensive player. He's a good (maybe even great) singles hitter, who will smack an occasional double and triple (and even more rare homer), but he's absolutely not an elite offensive force. I just don't see "top 50 player all time" value in a .775 OPS hitter who plays corner outfield.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    I don't think it's arguable that Ichiro is an "all time great". But he's absolutely not top 20, and I think it's pretty tough to put him top 50. He cranked out a ton of singles, and played great defense. His OBP skills were good (not great) he stole a good amount of bases, and he didn't hit for any power. The lack of OBP and the absolute lack of XBH skills just doesn't put him in the all-time elites. The counting stats are great, they're a nice talking point....they'll absolutely get him in the hall of fame (and deservedly), I'm not arguing that he doesn't belong there at all. I just don't see a guy who quite cracks the top 50.
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    I mean, if it was the same judge handing down all the sentences for the cases you listed, I would be with you 100%. Just because a couple of idiotic judges handed down nothing sentences doesn't mean Correa doesn't deserve 46 months. I *don't* think he deserves 46 months. It's a non-violent crime. I realize corporate espionage isn't a "victimless" crime and is serious, but 4 years in *prison* doesn't make sense.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    I realize it's the Cardinals and screw the Cardinals...... but does anyone else think 4 years in the joint is a bit much for hacking into someone else's computer (considering the guy's password was probably "Go@stros1") We got affluenza teen getting probation for quadruple homicide. Stanford swimmer getting 3 months for raping an unconscious girl, and this guy gets 4 years for what amounts to snooping around in the Astros draft database. What's wrong with this picture??
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