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could they let the pitcher hit and DH for Nieves? In Major and Minor League Baseball, a DH may only be designated to hit for the pitcher.

Statheads don't say there's no such thing as a clutch hitter. They say that stats haven't been able to identify clutch hitters. Stats can identify clutch situations, though, and this was certainly one of them. Counsell's single and stolen base certainly qualified as clutch, too.

Last year was an exception, but in general, Katin's OBP history isn't really solid. That takes the shine off of other more impressive numbers.

Gamel has already used his 2011 option. It's good for the year. He can go up and down as much as necessary.

This thread is ignoring that we have Mat Gamel waiting in the wings, and the possibility of re-signing one or both of Marcum and Greinke. I would rather spend Fielder's potential salary on a couple great pitchers, or one great pitcher and one FA shortstop (as an example). Of course, that was the intention. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif The idea wasn't to judge the merits of a re-signing. We've been there and done that, and I'm sure we'll do it again. We haven't spent much time on what it would take for a signing to be financially feasible, tough.

Today's Google home page honors Les Paul with a playable guitar graphic. You can strum the strings with your mouse, and if you're adept, you might even eek out a few simple tunes. Playable Google Doodle Honors 96th Birthday of Musician Les Paul

Here are some more lists. Brewers 1st Round Picks: MLB June Draft-Secondary Phase Greg Vaughn (4th overall, 1986) is the only one in that group that made any significant impact as a Major League player. Rob Ellis (3rd overall, 1971) is the answer to a trivia question: he's the only Brewer draftee other than Rickie Weeks to be signed to a Major League contract. Rob also went straight to the big league team before eventually being optioned. Brewers 1st Round Picks: MLB January Draft-Regular Phase Brewers 1st Round Picks: MLB January Draft-Secondary Phase There isn't much to note from the January Regular Phase. From the Secondary Phase list, Lenn Sakata had a career as a reserve infielder that spanned 11 seasons for Milwaukee, Baltimore, Oakland, and the Yankees.

Explanations of some taxable and exempt sales by grocers

Most food items aren't taxed in Wisconsin. Stuff like candy bars would be taxed.

The TV guys talked about the blue jerseys tonight. The starting pitcher chooses the jersey color for the day, and lately, blue has been considered to be good luck.

Does jsonline provide a "master list" of game wrapups?

There is plenty of parking… As you can see from the picture, there's a ton of parking. There've been times when the lot has been known to sell out, though. You won't run into an issue if you get to the park before the last minute. Since you'll likely want to explore, you'll probably want to be there early anyway.

I believe that a couple of years ago, our statheads said that six games was extreme for a manager and that Ned Yost was approaching that number.

Here's the third article in the series: http://www.baseballprospe...ticle.php?articleid=1622 I've had these bookmarked for years, but I'd kind of forgotten about them.

Russ, how did you determine the numbers that you decided to provide?

Thanks, Russ. The simulator imports your numbers perfectly. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif People should note that in addition to the names and numbers, "LineupSimulator.com FileVersion=1.0" needs to be included in your text file. OS X users can save an uploadable file in TextEdit, but it's necessary to make sure that your file is saved as plain text. Hit the "Make Plain Text" item in the application's Format menu to convert your document to plain text. (If your document is already plain text, the menu item will say "Make Rich Text.")

we should be voting for Votto just to keep him out When you say "him," do you mean Pujols?

I think that two months is a small sample size for most purposes, e.g. deciding on a player's long term future or permanently removing him from the lineup without an alternative that's clearly better. Having said that, I do think you can shake up a batting order — at least temporarily — based on a two month sample. In regard to Casey, the case would be strengthened by the fact that the projections weren't necessarily stellar anyway. However, it would seem that two months would definitely be a small sample as it applies to Lucroy. He's exceeding his projections and could easily move back toward the mean.

Opera's a good standards-compliant browser. Generally, any browser that's updated frequently and isn't IE is a good choice. All browsers keep user data in some sort of profile. The others aren't as well publicized as Firefox's, and I don't know if they're known to cause the issues that Firefox's profile can cause at times or not. The non-intuitive aspect of all this is that people try uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox without it doing any good. When they replace their profile, it generally does a lot of good. Mozilla wants to add the ability to fix profiles during the installation process. I don't think there's any work being done at this point, meaning that I wouldn't expect to see such a feature until at least Firefox 8. Replacing a Firefox profile (for most users) isn't as hard as the quote above makes it out to be. Generally, you can export your bookmarks and your move your old profile out to your desktop (in case you have to put it back). Firefox will automatically create a fresh profile, and you and import your old bookmarks. Once you're happy with your new profile, the old one can be deleted. It gets hairier if you have a lot of custom settings and extensions. It's not hard to re-add extensions, though. And if settings changes are complicated, they can be backed up with Firefox Sync, which is built into Firefox 4 and above and available as an extension for Firefox 3.5 & 3.6. If you have an automatic backup routine, it's generally easy to revert to an earlier Firefox profile that's known to be good. I get adventurous at times and do things I regret. Restoring a backup is a quick and easy way to fix the issue. By the way, if you're still running Firefox 3.5, it should be updated immediately, preferably to Firefox 4. Its final update occurred a few weeks ago, meaning that it'll no longer get security fixes. Mozilla is actually going to force a major update on 3.5 users in a month, as long as they have automatic updates turned on. That's the first time a browser maker has ever made a decision to do that.

I think that one of our gurus told us that given a large enough sample, a .500 team would likely be at about .540 at home and .460 on the road.

The first name in my head was Sixto Lezcano... now I have to look it up. The second name in my head was Tommy Harper.. because I know he had the first hit in Brewer's history and he had some wheels. *shrugs* *edit* .. Harper hit one in June of 1970. I don't know if that was the first ... but I can't find any that were any earlier... I'll have to wait to see the answer in the next half inning.I don't think Craig and Bill ever answered the question.

In your Help menu, you'll see an item that says "Restart with Add-ons Disabled…." Try doing that and see if things improve. If they do, you'll want to replace your Firefox profile. When you choose this option, you'll be presented with a list of checkboxes. They look creepy. I wouldn't touch them without knowing more about their effects.

I don't know why, but my guess on the trivia question is Roberto Peña.