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    Suppan had one decent month, he was terrible outside of June. His FIP by month 6.29, 6.87, 3.54, 6.61, 6.29, 5.53.
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    Villaneuva and Stetter have options. Bush has options but he needs to agree to go down and likely won't do so so he won't lose service time. But this is why I don't get the huge amount of hand wringing. Villaneuva has options, is buried on the bullpen depth chart so it looks like he's the 6th inning bridge guy along with Vargas so he isn't expected to pitch high leverage innings, and isn't getting paid so much that the Brewers would be leery of sending him down. I don't see the downside of him starting the year in AAA in order to ensure starting pitcher depth.
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    As long as the Brewers don't do something stupid like bring Schoenweiss to Milwaukee, there should be room for Bush, Suppan, Narveson and Parra. Option down Villaneuva and reevaluate when Riske gets fully healthy. Even then Stetter has options remaining and Narveson can be a Loogy for a bit if needs be.
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    Iribarren has been given plenty of shots, he's just not been that good. The Brewers are doing him a favor by letting him go this early while rosters are still in flux and there's enough time left for another team to give him a good number of innings.
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    Never would happen for Japan. MLB and the Japanese leagues have an understanding that MLB doesn't poach their talent and in exchange Japanese leagues won't do anything to upset that. Now there have been some instances where they've tried to get American players classified as international players but it tends to break down. Again this is an issue that's all about big market versus small market. The MLBPA singed off on MLB doing basically anything with the draft in the last CBA and nothing got done because the owners don't agree.
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    There were early Lou press conferences that had Lou calling out Bradley while covering for everyone else which fully signaled that Bradley wasn't a protected guy.
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    Bradley was set up as the fall guy by Sweet Lou from Day 1. Talk radio was on Bradley whenever the Cubs did poorly right from the beginning, that came from some one on the Cubs and all signs point to Lou.
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    Hoffman can't be traded until June 15th, same with Hawkings.
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    Well Jim Edmonds is one of if not the last active players that Bill probably directly interacted with left around.
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    The Brewers have room for everyone assuming Villaneuva starts in AAA and Riske isn't ready to go in April. I don't see the Brewers moving anyone until they absolutely have to given the lack of depth past Narveson.
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    I thought the title was some sort of joke at first, may want to fix it
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    Well let's see. You have a guy who you want to see if he can hack CF anymore and you have a bunch of meaningless games in which to put players in. Would seem that it would be managerial misconduct to not put him there. Edmonds would need to fall flat not to make the team.
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    Yep both Robert and I did not like the deal at the time. And Eveland didn't have to break out to make it bad, they sold low on Eveland because Yost and Maddux just did not like him (not saying there weren't reasons, but he was obviously not going to get a fair shot in Milwaukee). Eveland was a main part in the Haren deal like I said. He had value outside how he ended up pitching.
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    Thing is, on the scale of Royal weird divorce cases it doesn't even come close to the Tony Pena saga
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    Who are these "economists"? Larry Kudlow? There is absolutely nothing that shows inflation expectations to be anywhere near inflation in the 4-6%. The 10 year TIPS spread is at 2.5-2.75%. So by soon I mean the next 10-20 years.
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    Vargas was never seen as good as Davis by anyone, Estrada had one decent month, and Eveland was a huge piece in getting Haren. It isn't a franchise crippling trade but it was bad.
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    Actually no we're not likely to see high inflation anytime soon. The Fed won't even commit to a decent 3% inflation target which really needs to be done for a number of reasons.
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    No team is going to trade a Gallardo type for a single season of Fielder at $15m. And that's before you start looking at 1B alternatives available in 2011.
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    If people want a decent idea what Fielder would bring, I think say Ike Davis and Jenrry Mejia from teh Mets woudl be my upper guess. 2 prospects in the 50-70 range. Davis looks to be a decent 1B prospect while Mejia is a 20 year old AA arm with upside.
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    Yes, but does anyone think that if the Brewers offred Prince up to teh giants in trade that the fans would refuse to watch?
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    It doesnt matter where it takes place. Plus the Giants are still going to be on the field/dugout when it is going on. This is what happens when people show boat in baseball. I liked the celebration but figured he would get it someday. Just like the pitcher from the Pirates that beaned Braun last year....the Brewers took their sweat time in getting them back. Players dont forget what happened. And how many times was Kirk Gibson plunked then for his showboating?
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    That's a bit of a stretch. Supposedly the Brewers' offer was like 5 years and $100 million total. I hate talking like that was some sort of low ball offer. That is still huge money for any player. The Yankees went 2 extra years and tacked on an extra $60 million. They were irresponsible, disrespectful to the game, and threw their cash around like only they usually can. There was nothing the Brewers could do about that. But to talk like the offer the Brewers made to Sabathia was some token gesture is kind of disingenuous, in my opinion. It was a token gesture. Yes the Yankees spent more by putting on more years, but everyone knew Sabathia was getting $120-$130m over 5 years. The Brewers came in 20% below the expected market rate. Sure the Brewers would have loved for Sabathia to accept it, but there was no reason to think he would.
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    That's not why Fielder got upset. He was upset because he though he was going to get a bigger raise than what he did. After his first year the minimum contract in baseball went up to $425k. The Brewers generally pay their performing controlled players on a scale based on how well they've done. Fielder was expecting to get this raise over the minimum raise everyone was getting, he didn't. He was offered $450k when he thought he was going to get like $550K.
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    Yeah, I don't see Gomez hitting .271. I think .260 is generous for a guy with a career average of .246 in over 1100 PAs. Bump Gomez's average down by 10-15 points and everything tumbles down with it.
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    He did hardly hit in the minors. I'm not sure why that's an opinion. He was thought to be decent defensively so most think his injury screwed him up last year but no one knows what that means going forward.
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