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  1. homer
    I'd be willing to bet guys burnt out just as often but they did so in the minors so no one ever heard about it. There were only 16 teams for the longest time so any pitcher that had arm trouble probably never even made it to the show.
  2. homer
    Uh oh...Burkhalter with an inverted W!
  3. homer
    That's funny. What's changed? Oh yeah, the manager. Anyone else think Counsell might have had Braun in his office this week and told him to take the walks? Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. He hit 4 home runs in Roenicke's last 5 games as manager. I think he's just seeing the ball better.
  4. homer
    I had to delete a bunch of posts in the thread. Sorry if a reasonable post was lost in the process. Homer
  5. homer
    I guess I'd rather have a guy hit where he projects to hit with the big league....not that it makes that much of a difference in the end.
  6. homer
    yeah there is a premium on starting pitching. If you can guarantee "average" people will pay big bucks. That's why it's so important to have young, cheap starting pitching. Problem is that developing young, cheap starters is almost a crap shoot.
  7. homer
    I get that he had much more value as a catcher, but I also think his ceiling is higher than 22 homers.
  8. homer
    Probably need to target an AL team where Lind could DH.
  9. homer
    Baseball is much more than hitting a baseball or throwing 100mph. Baseball might be the most situation game of any major sport. When you have everyone looking to hit homers when all they need is a sac fly you run into problems. When guys run once the ball is hit you run into boneheaded mistakes. Baseball is not a selfish game like you seem to think...there is a big mental side to it. I don't think that it's a selfish game. But it is essentially a game of one on one - pitcher vs. batter. The only time you have "team work" is on defense when you throw a ball to a base or a cutoff guy. Like I said in an earlier post, there are exceptions where selfish play could impact things (i.e. not hitting a cut off man, refusing to hit to right field in order to advance a guy form second to third, etc.) but on the whole it's one on one. To summarize my point and then I'll bow out because i feel like I'm repeating myself: I don't think morale is important enough to significantly impact a baseball team's won/loss record. To me won/loss record drives morale, not the other way around. I respect the fact that not everyone agrees with that.
  10. homer
    I realize I'm not going to change anyone's mind, but just consider the fact that these are elite athletes. They are guys that can most likely roll out of bed hung over and still hit a 95mph fastball.They aren't built like you or me physically or mentally so I don't think all the comparisons to high school team sports or the business world are really apples to apples.
  11. homer
    And in "team" sports like basketball and football I tend to agree. But baseball is largely an individual sport - it's batter vs. the pitcher. It's not like you have to work with your teammates to succeed in that case. Yes, I'm sure you can find some exceptions but to me they don't occur enough as to matter significantly. In baseball, those "individuals" play 162 games together, double that of basketball and 10x that of football. Morale over the course of a season for a baseball team, I'd argue, is 2x more important than basketball and 10x more important than football. In 2003 the Marlins fired Torborg early in the season after going 16-22, then went 75-49 under that retread McKeon. How is that different? (I could pick apart that argument too and say that both of those sports are about winning individual battles - pro basketball is predominantly a one-on-one sport and football is about beating your man to make a play, but it's not the point of my argument. Yes, those sports are more directly about one person passing to another, but in baseball a team's performance is significantly impacted by the overall defense played, thus making it just as much of a team sport.) For one, we don't know if morale played any role. Maybe the Marlins just started playing better. Secondly, they called up Cabrera after McKeon was fired and he had an OPS of .827 from July 1 to the end of the year. So it's not like they were playing with the same team before and after Torborg was fired.
  12. homer
    And in "team" sports like basketball and football I tend to agree. But baseball is largely an individual sport - it's batter vs. the pitcher. It's not like you have to work with your teammates to succeed in that case. Yes, I'm sure you can find some exceptions but to me they don't occur enough as to matter significantly.
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  14. homer
    I don't think anyone is saying that. The problem is and I think it's a real concern with this management/ownership is that they start winning some games. Maybe stay within say 6 or 7 games of the wildcard, not really contending at all but not bad enough to the point where they're obvious sellers. At that point Melvin and Attanasio could start thinking "with just a few adjustments and new acquisitions we're pretty close to being contenders" to the point where they trade nobody and we go even further down the road to mediocrity. I think they're within 6 games of the WC right now.
  15. homer
    She's got some work to do. The dude from Brookfield is killing it. We've done this before....come on Brewerfan.
  16. homer
    How many extra wins do you think good chemistry gives a team over the course of a season?
  17. homer
    The Brewers may play better under Counsell but it won't be because of bro hugs.
  18. homer
    Congrats Craig.
  19. homer
    Counsell knew exactly what had to be said to Hector Gomez to get him to hit a triple and a home run off the best pitcher in the NL.
  20. homer
    After seeing your post I checked out Marquis' stats and stumbled across Jeff Juden's name. Yeesh.
  21. homer
    If the Brewers are holding a fire sale, anything they receive doesn't have to be MLB ready.
  22. homer
    Yeah another double and two hits total. Be nice for Tyrone Taylor to get hot.
  23. homer
    I haven't read through the whole thread but I think the Teddy Higuera contract was probably worse than Braun's.
  24. homer
    The Brewers have turned over the roster to younger guys. If Davis, Gennett and Segura were all studs Melvin would look like a genius. The problem is that they haven't drafted well the last five years, and they traded away guys like Cain, Brantley, and Odorizzi without having replacements of equal quality. He's also had a propensity to hang onto guys for one year longer than he should. Wolf immediately comes to mind on that one. Better to trade a guy a year too early than a year too late. And he should always be getting prospect nuggets in every trade. I still cringe at the name "Kevin Mench".
  25. homer
    And players this year will improve to the mean and Counsell will look like a genius for "getting them to play their best".
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