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  1. 1992casey
    Miller's parents were the best man and matron of honor at the wedding of Les Paul and Mary Ford. His first guitar lesson was from Les Paul.
  2. 1992casey
    I'll be disappointed if he takes abs away from Villar, for instance. Cecchini is the one that I'd be concerned about.
  3. 1992casey
    Yeah, like I was surprised at what we got in return for Ramírez. The common thread is the Pirates.
  4. 1992casey
    I can't say if it's a better return, but it's a more tangible return. It's interesting watching these trades shake out. I would have thought that Rodriguez would have brought back more, Ramírez would have brought back less, and with Lind, who knows. This one looks good to me, though.
  5. 1992casey
    I don't see anything in Briggs' post that's LOL-able. And while I don't necessarily agree with some of the points made in this thread, I don't see anything that qualifies as hilarious.
  6. 1992casey
    A child abduction report just came on the tube. It mispronounced "Burleigh" and referred to North Avenue as "North Street." This causes people to have to think about unnecessary stuff when they should be listening.
  7. 1992casey
    Legit doesn't bother me as an informal substitute for legitimate, but I can't see it working as a substitute for legitimately. As writing gets more formal, legit shouldn't be used, though. I think it's fine on a message board but not in a business letter.
  8. 1992casey
    I'm going to be cautiously optimistic without getting scientific. 2,265,000 Unlike the last time the team bottomed out, the Brewers have good will going for them. There was a lot of fan frustration after Miller Park first opened.
  9. 1992casey
    I think I'd rather correlate to runs too, but my gut says that it's likely OK to correlate to ERA as long as the sample is large enough.
  10. 1992casey
    What I don't want to see the Brewers doing is paying someone else 15 - 20 -25 million to have Braun playing for them. Throw in that if the Brewers were to deal Braun to a team that isn't on his approved list, in order to get him to waive his no trade clause, there'd likely be even more money involved, paid by one team or the other.
  11. 1992casey
    The logic doesn't add up there. If there are actual numbers of significant sampling that state it does, I'd like to see that. I think that math is "logical" by definition. It's common sense that isn't adding up. The discrepancy is definitely befuddling, but it is what it is. sveumrules has offered up some numbers. I think that the most important thing is that you can't dismiss a Gorman Thomas or an Adam Dunn or a Russell Branyan simply because they strike out a lot. And you can't laud a Yuni B. because he doesn't. There's more that comes into the picture. José Hernandez was an interesting case. He was with the Brewers for three years. The year he struck out the most was his most productive at the plate (188 K, .356 OBP, .478 SLG, .834 OPS). The year he struck out the least was his least productive (125K, .315 OBP, .372 SLG, .687 OPS). When we talk about the Royals, we tend to zero in on their very low strikeout total, but that doesn't tell the whole story. They were still above the MLB average in both OBP and SLG. The low strikeout total is just a part of the story.
  12. 1992casey
    The fact that a downstream stupid move (overrating him and giving up assets) becomes possible doesn't make the initial move (signing him to a technically risk-free deal) a bad one. It just means you have to trust that you'll make intelligent downstream decisions. Of course, we've seen our share of downstream stupid moves, so even though the regime is new and deserves a fair shake, it's natural that fans might be apprehensive about the possibility.
  13. 1992casey
    Everything's negotiable.
  14. 1992casey
    Agree with jerico all you want. Strikeouts don't correlate well with runs on offense. Math can defy common sense. I'd surmise that the statheads were surprised when extensive testing showed no correlation between strikeouts and offensive runs.
  15. 1992casey
    For the most part, strikeouts don't matter in determining a player's value because a they statistically rate as about the same as any other out. In other words, a higher OBP and more strikeouts is better than a lower OBP and fewer strikeouts. However, strikeouts can matter in certain at bats when a strikeout might be the worst possible outcome. That illustrates that it's good to be able to choose a pinch hitter who's appropriate to the given game situation. Look at Yuni. He rarely struck out. A reason why he rarely struck out is that he generally made weak contact (resulting in an out) before he ever had the chance to reach three strikes. Note that for the same reason, he rarely walked either. He likely would have been better off risking more strikeouts in order to wait for a better pitch to hit or take a walk.
  16. 1992casey
    Sterns is planning for 2020, not 2017. I'd submit that he's planning for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and maybe beyond that. To have a sustained run, you can't just zero in on one year. You hope to bring in new contributors every year. Unless you're trying to fill a hole, it's probably best to go for the best "haul" available, regardless of level. Your return could be anywhere between the low minors and the major league team. In a year or two, it might become appropriate to trade to fill holes.
  17. 1992casey
    They can definitely make a deal with the Twins to keep him, but I'm not totally clear on where waivers would fit in. Based on Wikipedia's Rule 5 draft page, I think that the odds are that he'd have to clear waivers first.
  18. 1992casey
    It's been documented here somewhere. A starting catcher is very unlikely to change teams mid-season.
  19. 1992casey
    It's been posted here that the Brewers have received cash, but I can't find any article to corroborate that.
  20. 1992casey
    One of Dick's 21st century endeavors has been to perform with an a cappella group called the Vantastix. Here they are performing the lyrics to the [cite]Dick Van Dyke Show[/cite] theme (written by Morey Amsterdam): The national anthem at a Lakers game: Chitty Chiity Bang Bang: Chim Chim Cheree and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:
  21. 1992casey
    If Invader has already given Windows 10 a go-around, shouldn't it continue to be free for him even after the year is up?
  22. 1992casey
    Cubs add to offseason haul by adding Jason Heyward on 8-year, $184M deal
  23. 1992casey
    It doesn't take much for a car to be totaled. Often enough, simply triggering the airbags will do it.
  24. 1992casey
    Yet the Brewers got more for a half year of broken down Aramis Ramirez. That's what I don't get. I didn't think that Ramírez would net much of anything at all. I don't want to knock any individual trade, but when you compare them, the returns from one trade to the next don't always seem to logically fit.
  25. 1992casey
    Now that the draft has occurred, I'll close this and direct everyone to these topics: Major League Rule 5 Selection: 2B/OF Colin Walsh (Athletics; released after 2013 by Cardinals) Major League Rule 5 Selection: RHP Zack Jones (Twins) Mitch Lambson, Kender Villegas: 2015-2016 Minor League Offseason Transaction Thread
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