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  1. igor67
    Definitely some interesting numbers, I could learn to live with Wolf being the 5th starter.
  2. igor67
    How about .265/ .310/ .390/ .700. If the drop in strikeouts is a real phenomema that could easily account for a modest bump in batting average, which with great defense could turn him into a useful guy. Obviously more walks are nice, but I'd be happy with him morphing into a decent slap hitter.
  3. igor67
    Too bad they won't stream it through the Wii. I don't really want to pay that much to be stuch watching it on my computer.
  4. igor67
    It looks like there is something of a bias in the voting towards the 80's teams. Which is unfair to Cirillo and even Burnitz, though I'm note sure if he belongs. Certainly the clubs best 3rd baseman who played most of his career here deserves it.
  5. igor67
    Maybe you could get something close enough with say Hawkins and Betancourt (plus prospects) for Furcal and a cheaper reliever? It's hard not to like the idea of that OBP near the top of the order. Having the CF platoon and Lucroy battle out for the 7th and 8th spots in the line-up gives a really nicely balanced team.
  6. igor67
    With such an obvious hole I'm still a big believer in fixing it right away, instead of waiting for the deadline. I kind of like the Furcal idea if you can somehow make the salary work. Nice OBP solid defender still. WAR has him a good 3 wins better than Betancourt. That's huge for us.
  7. igor67
    Development success has a big role in evaluating systems in my opinion. The Braves and Twins tend to stand-out in my mind as teams that have generally had systems that people like, but don't hit top 5 status or that sort of thing. They just keep producing players. And someone else mentioned compared to a decade ago is absolutely correct. Josh Klimek was a top 10 prospect back in those days. The best comp I can think of for him would be Brendan Katin. Big difference in system quality.
  8. igor67
    Nashville's roster looks pretty good very deep in pitching prospects, and quite a few position guys worth at least keeping an eye on. I'd like to see Gamel in Milwaukee, but there's a decent argument for at least starting him at a new position full time in triple A (though I'm still partial to Hart moving to first and Gamel in RF). Brevard could be a little rough, since it is so heavy on position player prospects, and not as many (though still a decent group) of pitchers.
  9. igor67
    The team definitely has the depth to cover a DL stint, and It's hard not to like that career ERA. 50 more or less lights out innings. I can handle that requiring some careful workload managing. As others have said that's way easier with our current staff than past years.
  10. igor67
    It's not quite as good looking as when Jeffress was still out there, but I'd argue one of the biggest virtues of the bullpen is that it doesn't have "the guy". Bullpen arms even the pretty good ones have bad stretches, and I think it's a virtue for a manager to be able to quickly de-leverage guys who aren't performing. Rather than continue to trot them out in their roles. Or even better if a guy ain't go ti one day give him the hook before he coughs it up. That said there is a nice mix of guys with some experience out there, and a number of guys seemingly you can shuttle back and forth for depth. Even Parra seemed to be finding his stuff out there. And with the 3 aces, a top 3 bullpen of Axford, Braddock, and Parra pitching like his stuff says he should that's a pretty good mix of run prevention.
  11. igor67
    It was a pretty bad year for Arnett, but stuff and pedigree are still there, so I'd guess even one good month and he is probably closing in on the top 10 again. I mean even Chad Green showed more than Arnett has so far, so I don't think it would take too much for him to get back in the conversation. In terms of passing some of the other guys I'd say more like a good half season.
  12. igor67
    I like Gindl a good deal, but at some point he does have to show that his height won't limit his power. Or he'd have to turn into a high average guy. I still think he has a major league career, because of his age at each level, but at this moment it looks more like a Brady Clark career than anything else.
  13. igor67
    In other threads it hasn't been too hard to identify a number of available SS out there that would post a higher WAR in all likelihood. That 1 win improvement is in the margin of error for the entire teams winning percentage, but that doesn't make roughly a win win improvement trivial. Far from it, the difference between say 88 wins and 90 wins is huge. And the beautiful thing about Betancourt is that he is so bad in so many ways that it doesn't really matter what stat you want to use he's bad, and there are number of relatively cheap better options available. If you can get a decent SS glove, our team defense won't be a strength, but at least you are average or better at every up the middle position with that staff, high K relievers and the offense that's a pretty big combo.
  14. igor67
    Can't wait for Ueck to interview him.
  15. igor67
    I don't even need a good OBP from Gomez, get up to a .320, so it's not a complete blackhole and let the glove play. With as much power as we are likely to have at the top, of the order we can't really just give outs away in the 7 and 8 spots.
  16. igor67
    It's a start to resolving the Betancourt issue, but I'd still like to see another guy to limit Betancourt to limited starts, and pinch hitting
  17. igor67
    I could be wrong about this, but I don't think during their extended run the Braves ever had a top 5, and rarely even a top 10 system. It tended to be viewed favorably because they seemed to continually find some major leaguers, but after they got that initial cluster of talent in the early 90's they only averaged finding an impact player every 3 years or so. The rest were decent guys to keep filling in, and using in trades. Even with a depleted system it's not to hard to envision the Brewers finding guys at a similar rate going forward. It just makes a huge difference when you are already really good and have few holes vs. needing to build from the ground up.
  18. igor67
    We could actually have enough bench space to do some decent platoons and let the manager manage a bit, since we don't need to have 3 long men in the pen with all of these starters and competent relievers.
  19. igor67
    One advantage of rearranging parts and ending up with one really good player and one really bad one is that it makes improvement on the rally bad player much easier. For a team in the 90 win range the marginal value of 1 win is huge. Fangraphs for last season has Cabrera and Renteria as being worth 1.3 WAR last year and Punto at 1.4. Punto as a SS is a lot more palatable than the Twins running him out as a 3rd basemen a whole bunch. Given how far they've gone, and the fairly minimal cost Doug needs to get 1 of those 3 and put Betancourt on the bench. An ideal solution is probably to cut Betancourt and get Counsell and one of the other 3, but I think then your starting to chase some moderate improvements in the bench. Bottomline though the Brewers offense isn't so great if can afford to carry more complete black holes and sub .300 OBPs, but more importantly you can't try to sabotage the pitching staff with what just might be a historically bad infield defense.
  20. igor67
    I think the shakeup will be interesting, but I'll taking having to "gut" the system by trading for ace pitchers under contract for multiple years and graduating lots of players to the majors as causes of the gutting every time.
  21. igor67
    Teams who give up quantity for quality usually come out ahead on these kinds of deals. I'll make a random guess that If included Jeffress makes the most money as a player, but Cain ends up being the most valuable as a consistent league average guy who has a pretty long career.
  22. igor67
    This looks like a go for it now move, but if you get those rotation extensions we have quite the group of starters together for awhile. Taken along with Melvin finding a way to get decent bullpen arms off the farm and at least a trickle of starter prospects that you can try at the end of the rotation. It's a solid longer term plan. As long as we have Braun and above average pitching the farm doesn't need to crank out massive impact bats to keep the team in contention.
  23. igor67
    I don't think Cain was destined to be an All-star, but a good defense, cheap high OBP CF is pretty valuable. I like signing Renteria to fill the SS hole, but it seems like the best we might get in CF is a combo of Gomez and Dickerson then. That said never doubt the 'stache.
  24. igor67
    The more impressive thing might be that Henderson wasn't KOed on that kick.
  25. igor67
    A big chunk of Cirillo's value was his glove.
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