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  1. jeffy
    I'm not sure what you mean here. Fielder had not earned or signed contracts for $20 million plus until January 2009. Up until then he had no guarantee for himself or his family of getting this quantity of money, no matter what unexpected things might happen. Career ending injuries and even deaths do happen on occasion. Fielder himself indicated that having this contract alleviated his worries: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/01/23/Fielder.contract.ap/index.html So your speculation that he somehow had insurance that would provide anywhere near the amount he gets even from this short term contract would appear to be mistaken.
  2. jeffy
    Putting Bosio in as pitching coach does not seem to have done much for Parra.
  3. jeffy
    I'd assume the agent has some sort of (legal or fiduciary?) responsibility to check with the player before turning down a $60 million contract.
  4. jeffy
    Except that someone else has pointed out that anyone picking him up after release would have to pay pro-rated share of ML minimum for the remainder of this season (that'd be ~ $100K), and then $400K next year and presumably the following year? So maybe the trade really saved only about $850,000?
  5. jeffy
    I am not sure we should pretend to know what a person's lifetime needs or wants are. There is no pretending, Ryan Braun said that this was the case with his own comments. Also not sure why you think stating my own opinion on the matter is "scorning" and why you think I am not entitled to question the wisdom of these athletes and their agent's decisions. I happen to think security and the certainty of $50 million, or whatever, with the opportunity of another contract for more money subsequently, is a better financial decision than taking, say, a 10% risk of ending up earning only a couple million in exchange for a 90% chance at $100 or 150 million in an initial long term contract. Fielder has already guaranteed himself about half of what Braun is going to make in his contract. He had not done so at the time he turned down a long term contract.
  6. jeffy
    I certainly don't know either, just meant if the fault does not lie with Melvin it would lie higher up. There does seem to be some evidence of "meddling" by Mark A, he seemed to be hot to get Suppan and was possibly the force behind the oddly timed firing of Yost.
  7. jeffy
    The Brewer's philosophy has been "draft the best available player, regardless of the team's needs". This is fine, but when nearly all the surviving "best availables" turn out to be position players, you then need to move some of the excess to aquire what is missing. That is where the failure seems to have occured. This failure has to be the responsibility of either Melvin or the ownership (allowing for the possibilty that, for example, Mark A thought JJ was too cute or had a too cool name to trade or something).
  8. jeffy
    Cameron's defense also makes the other two outfielders look better as well as the pitching (sucky as it is, it'd be worse without Cameron out there).
  9. jeffy
    Even if 6 years and $84 million is a good idea for the team, I think he would turn it down in the hopes of getting something like what CC did. As always, I think that is a foolish risk to take and Ryan Braun made the right decision in securing enough wealth to exceed his lifetime needs/wants.
  10. jeffy
    I believe it is wins above replacement (with an average player). So, if he is worth 3 wins, I think it means that a team of average players plus Prince would be 84-78, rather than 81-81.
  11. jeffy
    I've never really understood why baseball has this tradition (or requirement???) of guaranteed contracts? My understanding is Football does not, if you are cut you get nothing, not sure about other sports. It appears that the Yankees are to blame: http://books.google.com/books?id=FetjSKt7WHoC&lpg=PA55&ots=U0QPXTuO9S&dq=guaranteed%20contracts%20baseball&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=guaranteed%20contracts%20baseball&f=false
  12. jeffy
    Well he has Coffey http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif, what he needs is a CC and a healthy Ben Sheets.
  13. jeffy
    The dismal second half of this season has convinced me that I don't want any kind of season ticket package. Earlier in the season, I had seriously considered the idea of buying a 9 pack next year, but now I am planning to continue to maintain my freedom to just buy tickets whenever I want to go to a game, rather than end up with tickets to a bunch of games that I really don't really want to go to.
  14. jeffy
    I enjoyed not feeling compelled to watch this team suck tonight. So why will I be certain to have the game on tomorrow? Perhaps it's the drama of it all...will they lose all four games in washington or only 3.
  15. jeffy
    They seem to be really bad with him, too.
  16. jeffy
    What about the $500K buyout of 2011? If anyone wanted him that year, would they have had to pay at least $400K of that (or whatever the min is in 2011)? If so, then it seems that they maybe really got only $400K extra and a rental for the Manatees.
  17. jeffy
    Wait, so we could lose him after this season already? Yeah, apparently we got a rental to help the Manatees in their playoffs. Or could it possibly be that he was window dressing, so the fans could be told that we got a pitching prospect.
  18. jeffy
    I have no idea what they might have gotten by going the waiver route, but DFAing him certainly put them in a worse negotiating position. What was gained by DFAing him rather than going through waivers? I was being sarcastic, but really that is all that changed, isnt it...we have either Iribarren or Bourgeois 3 weeks earlier than what would have been the worst case scenario (ie. no trade) had they gone with waivers. The Brewers, via Gord Ash, are saying that the deadline pressure was a factor in what they were able to get. Several posters have said the same thing. The Brewers created this pressure themselves for no good reason.
  19. jeffy
    That could be it too. If Melvin keeps his job after this debacle, we will certainly know that he was not told that he was in jeopardy. I guess that means that now Mark A has to fire Melvin, if he really wants to prove that it was not his meddling that led to the oddly timed DFA of Hall. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif
  20. jeffy
    Suppan will be due to his contract. With their need for pitching, I'd think Bush would have to be on that list.
  21. jeffy
    How did it come to pass that they would have been able to get him for nothing in a few days? Was this due to Melvin's desperation moves that were aimed at saving himself, perhaps?
  22. jeffy
    Gord Ash: (and we had no choice but to put ourselves under this time pressure by DFAing Hall, because we needed both Iribarren and Bourgeois on the MLB roster NOW, not in three weeks...those two players were the key to our strategy for making a run at the playoffs.) http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif
  23. jeffy
    No, I did not mean as a result of the trade, I meant as a result of opening up a spot on the roster when they DFAed him. Why not have kept him on the roster, put him through waivers and then try to trade him, without this artificial deadline?
  24. jeffy
    But they were only in that situation because they chose to DFA Hall. What was the point of doing that at this late date? What great improvement to the 25 man roster did this result in?
  25. jeffy
    So this is a rental for the Timber Rattlers, or what?
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