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  1. homer
    Seems like this team had to get in a few rolls in the hay before they headed out for Spring Training. Would seem more important to cover Braun's maternity leave by adding Wren, but what do I know? Elmore in starting OF? Please. Pena didn't miss the game and why would he? His family benefits more by his establishing himself as a major leaguer. That's debatable from several directions.
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    That's the thing people overlook. Davis has been hurt a lot in his career.
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    I agree. I think the best selling point the Brewers could make to a minor league affiliate is an extended run of success at the major league level. Also, I think Madison would be a nice minor league town but it might be too small for AAA. Too bad there's not a AA league closer.
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    This is a Fangraphs article with stats and video showing differences in DS's swing from last year to this year. It's from April and the results weren't there but the author seemed to think he was on the verge of a big improvement. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/domingo-santana-is-making-the-george-springer-adjustment/
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    I think that's the key here. I don't follow any other teams so I have no idea how they promote the bulk of their players but I have a feeling the Brewers are probably not much different than most organizations in how they promote.
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    I think the fact that he doesn't need surgery bodes well for the recovery.
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    I think most guys have a "spot" for pitch #1 and if the pitcher throws it in that spot they swing. The spot is in the strike zone obviously but is probably a very small window within that zone. As for Domingo, I could be wrong but last time I looked I thought he was right around league average for first pitch strikes. Could be wrong about that though.
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    There's an equal chance Davis never plays another full season in the field. He's been hurt quite a bit in his career.
  10. homer
    Thank for putting this together. It will be interesting to see the "transaction" tree as his tenure continues.
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    I'm curious what you need to see from someone to think they have a top of the rotation ceiling. I agree with you on Suter, but Woodruff led all of minor league baseball (every league, every level) in strikeouts this year and had numerous reports of him touching 98. If that's not TOR-type stuff, what is? I'd be curious who the K leaders have been the least five - ten years or so and see how they ended up. Is there an easy way to find that? EDIT: Baseball Reference rules! 2015 Jose Berrios 175 Ks 2014 Tyler Glasnow 177 Ks 2013 Daniel Winkler 175 Ks 2012 Drew Granier 167 Ks 2011 Matt Moore 210 Ks (wow) Berrios and Glasnow are top 20 prospects. Winkler had Tommy John in 2014 and is just now getting back to pitching (also fractured his elbow in 2015). Granier is out of the league. Looks like he had control issues. Moore has been hurt on and off his whole career. Has never pitched more than 177 innings in the majors. Not presenting this as proof one way or the other. Just researched it out of curiosity.
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    David The Incredible Hulse I was at a game at County Stadium and saw him drop a fly ball. That's all I got.
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    As an aside...apparently Tom Tango (who actually posted on this site once or twice) is developing some new defensive metric by using the stat cast data. Hopefully that takes some of the guesswork out of judging defensive value. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/a-qa-with-tom-tango-the-new-czar-of-statcast/ TT: For fielding, that one has great potential. Mitchel Lichtman has also been the leader with regards to fielding, but he will be the first to tell you the major problem he’s got is that he doesn’t know the starting position of each fielder. Statcast gives us that. I don’t know how many terabytes of data we get out of Statcast, but 50% of the value will simply be knowing where the feet of all the fielders are, when the pitcher releases the ball. Just by doing that, it would essentially make all other fielding metrics obsolete. Then we can spend the other 99% of the time focusing on all the nuances that we can get out of Statcast that will end up giving us some interesting angles. So, the value is in knowing the starting position, but the fun is knowing all the little things that we watch baseball for
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    It used to be I'd have to wait until the next morning to see a minor league box score. Remember the guy who self-compiled all the splits for minor leaguers? We were in awe. Then I think MiLB started doing it the following year. Amazing how much the technology has advanced in that regard.
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    Well he's not in the lineup tonight and it looks like he was subbed for in yesterday's game. Guess the coaches agree with you.
  16. homer
    Really interested to see what Myers can do next year.
  17. homer
    No way should they deal a 24 year old with that kind of power until they absolutely have to. We talked about Broxton's exit velocity in another thread. Santana's is almost as good (9th best in all of baseball).
  18. homer
    Ramirez the new Kieschnick!
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    Speaking of Haniger, he's top 15-20 in exit velocity this year. That surprised me.
  20. homer
    According to Fangraphs, Villar's line drive % and balls hit hard % are both up this year. this explains the rise in slugging most likely. I doubt he drops too much even with a fall in BABIP. And with his speed he'll probably be a relatively high BABIP guy anyway simply by beating out infield hits.
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    This would make an interesting ESPN 30 for 30
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    Good luck, Don! Don't be a stranger...
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    He got on base plenty before this year. So you consider the 263 OBA he had in AA last year to be plenty? He seems to struggle with advanced pitching. Maybe Stearns thinks the organization's focus on plate discipline can help Cordell, but that seems doubtful for a player already 24 who hasn't even seen AAA yet. His OBP has been roughly 50 - 70 points above his BA his whole career. Is he Barry Bonds? No but his walk rate is good enough. He can play multiple positions and has power. Might be a nice 4th OF at some point. Personally I'd rather take a flier on a young pitcher in A ball or lower.
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    He got on base plenty before this year.
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    He's played 6 positions as a pro. Flexibility is key for Stearns.
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