"Melvin hasn't proven he's willing or able to trade for impact cost controlled pitching" As long as you don't count Capuano, Bush, Davis, Marcum, and Greinke that is totally true.
He was hitting the mid to upper 90s earlier (94-96 regularly) He was gassed. Thank god we have men earning 6 figure salaries to monitor such things and pull him when he was tired...
REally no reason to since the return won't be worth it. And if the Brewers do enter rebuilding Hart and Aoki should both be traded anyway so plenty of space to play.
And yet the uncomfortable Morgan and Gomez were incredibly valuable last year to the point where out CF tandem gave us a WAR of 6.0 or near MVP level quality. These guys have been playing baseball in many cases on teams that switch rosters at the drop of the hat since they were 12. They are use to it.
PSHAW! Just like Gomez having an OPS of .970 in September last year meant he was a new, better hitter these 49 PAs completely overrule everything that Maldonadlo has done before.
Macha was fired because Braun didn't like him. The idea that Macha wasn't "fun" is refuted by how the Brewers played. People forget the whole untuckem' thing and the bowling ball celebration were both under Macha. Roenicke made it a point to turn down those things.