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  1. JimH5
    I think that our eagerness for this system to start producing star talent is going to set expectations too high for what Arcia is to become. That he was ranked so high at the start of the season doesn't help. There are so many great young shortstops in baseball. Is he going to be better than Seager? Correa? Lindor, Bogaerts, Diaz, Russell, either Crawford? Fangraphs had a piece that had him being not unlike Alcides Escobar. That's not a player to celebrate as much as one you settle for until he becomes too expensive. I would love for Arcia to be a superstar for years to come, but it's far from a done deal.
  2. JimH5
    Seems like a very good guy. He holds a special place in my Brewers memory. I first saw him play in the 2003 Southern League All Star Game. Huntsville sent Hart, JJ Hardy, Dave Krynzel, Mike Jones, Derek Lee, Matt Parker and Luis Martinez to the game. That shows how hard it is for prospects--even stars-- to succeed in the majors.
  3. JimH5
    I don't have a problem with players selling off their old stuff. At some point, maybe it just becomes clutter. Though I would think the team would want to aggressively bid on that stuff for future displays.
  4. JimH5
    It's great to see praise about the system, but why am I suspect about it when so many top players are not performing like top players? Skills and tools have to equate to impressive stat lines and team wins. Right?
  5. JimH5
    What is his fair market value? And what opportunities does he have to get FMV? He should use every opportunity to get paid.
  6. JimH5
    When Brian McCann is making $17 million and Lucroy is making $5.25, he deserves to use whatever leverage he has to lessen that gap.
  7. JimH5
    He doesn't have many opportunities to make sure he gets paid, and the teams must not have made it attractive enough for him to waive the clause. It's completely up to him. Hope it works out for Lucroy and the Brewers.
  8. JimH5
    By the time the Brewers got him in 1972, he was done. But in 1966, with the Indians, he lead the AL by throwing out 62 percent of base stealers. Not sure when, but he earned the nickname "The Immortal Azcue" for that cannon of an arm.
  9. JimH5
    Some nuggets on Lord Zaun... He had 8 games in his Brewers career with more than 1 hit. He caught the pitching staff to a 5.42 ERA (4.58 Team ERA). His CS percentage was 24 percent in a league that was 29 percent. He was better than league average in just 4 of his 16 seasons. The Brewers won 10 of the 27 games when he was their primary catcher. He was better than a lot of the stiffs mentioned in this thread, but for a team that had made history just two years earlier to turn to him as a starter was an insult to fans. And how about Ken Macha leaving him in all night on April 28, 2010...The game goes 14 innings, 4 hours 39 minutes. And Zaun catches every one of 249 pitches, as a 39 year old. And they lose.
  10. JimH5
    Why? Because he hit great and then had a career ending injury? It was because they signed a 39 year old career backup and made him a starter. And by Memorial Day, his season was over. His "great" hitting was league average. It really wasn't Zaun's fault. He was miscast as a starter.
  11. JimH5
    I think Lucroy is the best in team history. Porter was better than we remember, as was Ellie Rodriguez, but I would put Lucroy at the top of the list. And Greg Zaun has a special place for me on the worst list.
  12. JimH5
    My daughter was watching "Best Friends Whenever" on Disney Channel tonight and the special guest star was 87-year old Marion Ross of Happy Days fame. Not sure when this episode was produced, but she looked spry and delivered her lines pretty well.
  13. JimH5
    I would like to see every major leaguer who has a ridiculous beard (like Keuchel, Werth, Blackmon, and even you, too, Cappy) to fall into a tremendous slump--enough so that the only way out is for them to shave their stupid beards. I think Brian Wilson and Werth started it in this era--but I've had enough. Henry Chadwick is dead.
  14. JimH5
    I'm one of the appalled. Tackle football for kids under High School age is much too dangerous for developing brains.
  15. JimH5
    Stearns traded the original Hank for a replacement-level Hank plus a couple of parakeet eggs and a tadpole.
  16. JimH5
    I think it's different when it's a 35-year-old cousin vs. an 80-year-old father-in-law. Sometimes you fight to be right, and other times you swallow your tongue and keep peace.
  17. JimH5
    Gloom, despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me. I'm a grinnin'.
  18. JimH5
    We should recognize the HOF for what it is: a collection of people whose character we can generally assess as average, but who were really good at baseball. True--but if a player's baseball playing performance has been enhanced because of unlawful and unapproved drug use, then what is that player, really? We know that drug use can have positive physical results for a player. Is it right to honor A-Rod or Manny or Palmeiro for being really good at baseball when we have evidence that says they enhanced their bodies in ways that were unapproved? We know their baseball records would be less had they not enhanced themselves, right? Character is difficult to measure, except when it's not. You can shrug it off, or take a stance that you're not going to judge people for their off-field actions, or whatever. . .But why would you ask the HOF to honor guys who did things forbidden in baseball?
  19. JimH5
    However I think it is naive to think that there aren't several players who did Steroids already in the Hall of Fame. I don't think there are several. I think there may be a few, but that would strictly be a guess--and an unfair one at that. While you have guessed on Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan and Paul Molitor. . . How about Warren Spahn? He led the league in wins every year from ages 36 through 40, and complete games from 36 to 42. What about Dazzy Vance? He led the league in ERA and shutouts at 37 and 39. What about Sam Rice? He had 202 hits at age 38, 199 hits at age 39 and 207 hits at age 40. And Ted Williams. . .he hit .388 with a .526 OBP and .731 SLG (all league leaders) at age 38. And then lead the league in batting and OBP the next year. All those guys did those things before steroids were in use. It isn't unprecedented for great players to do great things at an advanced age.
  20. JimH5
    The Randy Wolf start in the 2011 LCS was especially big for me. He had closed the season out with 2 bad starts, then was bad in the Division Series against Arizona, and then in a must-win game, he came up huge to bring the series back to even. I was at Miller Park the night Carlos Gomez robbed Joey Votto in the 9th to secure the win. That was also a fabulous moment.
  21. JimH5
    Griffey is a lock and I think Piazza might get enough votes to get in. I think the voters are starting to soften a bit on the character clause as the known PED era gets further back in the rearview mirror--and as the electorate cycles younger voters in. I have been to Cooperstown probably a dozen times. The museum is filled with stuff and references to players in the PED era. Pete Rose and Joe Jackson are also well represented in the museum. But they don't have plaques hanging in the plaque gallery. And they haven't been inducted, with a ceremony and an audience and the living Hall of Famers sitting behind them. It does a disservice to those HOF players to honor guys who cheated their way to glory.
  22. JimH5
    If you have 8 batters with a .330 OBP, and hitting a lot of homeruns, you'll score a ton of runs. True. Branyan's career stats are: 3398 PA 2934 AB 682 H 403 BB 1118 K 192 HR .232 BA Converted to a pitching line, that works out to: 750.2 IP 8.18 H/9 4.83 BB/9 13.40 K/9 2.30 HR/9 A pitcher who allowed those rate stats would never be around long enough to log 750.2 IP.
  23. JimH5
    I'm talking in the micro sense, a plate appearance at a time. Two players (and their teams) are on opposing sides of one outcome. Whatever happens will result in a victory for one side and a defeat for the other, in equal proportions.
  24. JimH5
    I'm with jericoholicninja on the strikeout stuff. If a pitcher strikes out a batter, shouldn't the amount of goodness we apply to the pitcher come at the expense of badness charged to the batter? The pitcher didn't earn the strikeout in a vacuum. He earned it against an opponent. High strikeout batters can still be extremely valuable, obviously. And a strikeout is essentially no less harmful than an infield popout. And, I think a high strikeout team can also be a winning team. But if an outcome is good for one side, it has to be bad for the other.
  25. JimH5
    I wouldn't be too worried if I'm Scooter that a guy who's already 26 (Scooter's 25) and barely has any experience above AA is going to take my job. For all we know they drafted Walsh to play 1B or 3B. True. As long as he remains inexpensive, Scooter's roster spot for 2016 should be safe, but they do seem to be cycling through a lot of infielders. And he really hasn't shown that he is a major league regular. With arbitration in 2017, this might be his last chance.
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