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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    Unfortunately, this IS the reality for teams like the Brewers or the Rays. However, the Rays had a stretch of five 90 win seasons in six years. They have more good young talent coming up. You have to be good, or even excellent at drafting. You have to be completely unflinchingly unafraid to trade away talent when it's at the end of it's 6 year team-controlled cycle, and get good young talent back in return. Talent in/talent out. The Rays had Matt Garza at his peak. Instead of re-signing him to a big deal, they traded him to the Cubs for Chris Archer. When Chris Archer is close to big bucks, they'll probably flip him for young talent as well. To operate that way, you absolutely HAVE to be good at identifying that kind of talent, and not having the sentimental attachment to the players on your roster. Is Stearns that kind of guy? We don't know yet. He appears to have NO trouble getting rid of guys, but then he has no attachment to any of the guys currently on the roster. Can he identify talent? We will find out.
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    It sounds like to the OP, .500 should be the goal. HOpefully OP will correct me if I'm wrong though. Building a .500 team should never be the goal, building a sustainable model of contention should be the goal. Rebuilding sucks. I don't think anyone "loves" rebuilding. I think a lot of people recognized that where we were (having a lot of overpriced, aging, poorly performing veterans) was not a good place. Rebuilding, and having a GM who was willing to jettison a lot of those pieces to turn over the roster, stock the farm system, and for the time being, bring in replaceable parts until the farm brings in the more long term guys is a step in the process. It is not the end goal. I think people are excited because we're not going out and extending the process of chasing 77 to 81 wins for the sake of doing it at the expense of building something better. Building a .500 team as the end goal is how you end up with what the Bucks were doing for 20+ years. Aiming for the 8th seed (and usually failing to do even that.)
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    Regardless of what we, the fans, think of Lucroys continued comments about the organization, I think this insight into what his own teammates think about his outspokenness is ..... interesting.
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    Good grief....... Arizona is just as much (if not moreso) hitter friendly than Miller Park, for one thing. Anderson is depth, and he's decent.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    I think dictating when and how often a manager is allowed to change pitchers is a really bad idea. On the other hand, I'm not terribly against the idea of the NL adopting the DH. I used to abhor the idea. But as I've seen pointed out on other forums and discussions, the strategy argument doesn't really hold as much water as it used to. The game is so specialized and quantified now that every decision is made before it happens anyways. Every manager manages by the book. There's no actual strategy involved in doing what "The Book" dictates that 29 other managers would do in 95% of all situations anyways.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    That transcript is nothing short of hilarious at times.
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    davis has two minor league options remaining. domingo santana has one minor league option remaining. if davis is kept optioned for most of the 2016 season, any major league club (including the brewers) would have an extra year of control of the player. that's an increase in value for any club. is it fair to davis to bury him in the minor leagues? probably not, but it may be in the brewers' best interests to do so. I'm going to just go with "umm........no" on this one.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    So many people say "Block was fine when he was with Hamilton". Or with Counsell, or with someone else. Maybe the problem here wasn't Cory Provus. or Joe Block. The problem obviously isn't Bob Uecker...... But the format the Brewers Radio employs certainly isn't helping anyone.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    Rasmus coming back wouldn't be the worst thing in the world here. While I'd like to see Broxton get a lot of playing time this year, I think we all know that Maverick P. is our long term future in CF. Braun for Rasmus + a prospect or two fills the immediate need of getting someone who can play CF, plus opens up a corner for Santana.
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  11. DuWayne Steurer
    I would agree that a payroll floor of some type is not a bad idea, but setting it at 80-100 million seems restrictive. There are times when small market teams by necessity have to go through rebuild phases and it just doesn't make sense to spend money unnecessarily on expensive free agents just to meet an artificial cap floor for the sake of spending money.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    Agree. Even though the Gordon contract wasn't a huge over-pay, I still didn't like it for them. He's 31, and previously, a lot of his value came from his defense. How long will he continue to be an elite defender? And Ian Kennedy hasn't been good since 2011. Not sure why they're throwing buckets of money around like this.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    While boring "athlete speak", and not what the hardcore baseball fans want to hear, this is probably what Lucroy *should* have said. (again, given how his comments last year inflamed a segment of the fan-base. Did anyone think the Astros would go .500 this year? Did anyone think the Astros would be 2 innings away from being in the ALCS?? (Seriously, I'd be curious to see what the pre-season playoff odds were for the Astros) I'm not even saying the Brewers HAVE a ghost of a chance. But don't close the door on it before it even happens.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    Not sure if being srs or what, but Coors field won't make an extreme ground ball hitter hit more flyballs. As Toby just showed, Segura hits WAY more groundballs than league average. The fact that Segura got under a couple when they happened to be in Coors field was likely a matter of luck or happenstance more than anything.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    LIterally everything. The fact that it's not business as usual. The fact that we're not going to try to squeeze one more year out of an ancient veteran core and signing another mid tier, 33 year old veteran starter to a contract in which he'll be super terribad at the end of it.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    I'd say offensively he's definitely an elite performer. Calling him "average at worst" defensively is generous. His numbers at 3B and outfield are pretty terrible. He can play an adequate 1B, so I honestly don't now why the Orioles mess around with putting him in the outfield at all.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    My dad was a Braves fan (was born and raised in Wisconsin) and he latched onto the Braves when he came to the state. When they left, he continued to follow them when they bolted for Atlanta. I know some did, some didn't. He became a Brewer fan when they came around in 70, but continued following the Braves. To further muddy the waters.... my dad always had a subscription for the CHicago Tribune, because he was big into horse racing, so every morning I got a huge dose of Cubs news. So I followed the Brewers (first) Cubs (2nd) and Braves (3rd). After the Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz era, my interest in the Braves kind of waned. The Cubs were definitely a CLOSE 2nd for me as far as rooting interest. I justified this by saying the Brewers were my favorite AL team, and the Cubs were my favorite NL team. When the Brewers moved to the NL, and the Zambrano/Theriot/D-Lee era, I grew to really hate the Cubs. Just plain despised them. Now, with this new crop of young exciting kids, I kind of like them again, but they're still our division rival. If the Brewers moved away.... I hate to say it, but I'd probably rotate back to being more of a Cubs fan.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    Away from Coors Blackmon is a worse hitter than Nieuwenhuis, and he's a negative value defender. We already have Nieuwenhuis, and didn't have to give up anything to get him. This makes zero sense, from a cost analysis perspective.
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    People don't like the Lind trade because none of those kids are projectable. I get that, that's fair. If even one of those guys makes it to the bigs and is an even serviceable reliever for 3-4 years, that is a win for the Brewers. One year of Lind in a non-compete year for us just wasn't going to matter that much. Could they have gotten more? We don't know what was being offered besides this trio. Anyways, that aside, Cliff gave us a B- for the offseason, and I think that's fair as well. There's a lot of moving parts here right now, and none of the incoming pieces are superstars, but most of them should be serviceable until the next wave appears, and some of them may even be pieces that stick around.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    Chris Davis is 30, and one season removed from hitting .196 with a .704 OPS, and the Orioles offered him 150 million dollars. Chris Carter is what he is. He's going to hit .220, bash about 30 homers. OPS around .750 - .775, and hopefully be about league average. For 2.5 million, that's what you get.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    I don't think he's a "valuable" trade piece. I think he's mostly "just a guy" In order of importance 1) he's got some power 2) He plays 1st base 3) if he plays well, he may be able to be flipped for a prospect. Probably along the lines of what we got for Aram last year. HOwever..... I don't think those types of guys should be overlooked either.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    The Blue Jays won 93 games last year (and totally mashed) with a mostly RH lineup. They had Ben Revere and Justin Smoak. Smoak and Revere both played half the year. Encarnacion, Bautista, Donaldson, Martin, Colabello, Tulo.....all their power.... all their mash, the entire middle of their order was all right handed. They did a-ok.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    I'm keeping Davis in my lineup, as he's still on the roster. 1) Villar 3B 2) Lucroy C 3) Braun RF 4) Davis LF 5) Carter 1B 6) Broxton CF 7) Gennett 2B 8) Segura SS
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    Going into a season when you are going to most likely win somewhere between 65 and 75 games, worrying about the handedness of your lineup should be of very little concern. As someone else said, finding semi-competent bodies to fill in until your prospects arrive is the goal. Carter is cheap, under team control for three years, and if he produces at 2014 levels, can most likely be flipped for a nice prospect or two. Those are the things that matter far more than what side of the plate he hits from right now.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    They're all totally believable. http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/article/media_slots/photos/000/644/819/palmeiro_congress_original.jpg?1355202813
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