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This. I would contact a lawyer and if they recommend going to the cops do so but it looks like a lawsuit is your best course of action. Just out of curiosity, what is the dollar value for the missing item?

Wow, that's cool. I was actually thinking about how different things would have been had Milwaukee gotten and NHL franchise instead of the Bucks. Don't get me wrong, I love the Bucks but I could totally see an NHL team being huge in that city in a way the Bucks haven't been since the early 80's.

Right now Carlos Gomez is #1 in all of MLB in WAR, regardless of position, pitchers or position players. "If you had told me in the offseason that Carlos Gomez would be leading MLB in WAR on June 13 I would not have believe you." Andy Understatement

Actually it has become a very interesting read in hindsight along with http://forum.brewerfan.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=28660 which revolved around the expectations we had of Gomez around this time last year. He has certainly proved plenty of people wrong this year. Agreed. It's much easier to read now that he's had some success.

Derecho!!! I don't know what that means but it sounds like a Bond villain so it must be bad.

This. Most guys in the majors will tee off on people that rely on avoiding the sweet spot. Like I said there are exceptions but they are rare.

My goodness I can't believe that was 10 years ago.

Also committed his 26th (not a typo) error. Cubs have a lot of future corner outfield prospects that's for sure.

In all honesty, of all the reasons to not like him as a prospect his failings in spring training and april are very low on my list. Yeah, I want to see him have another solid season but plenty of guys have bad springs and aprils and end up just fine.

I like the fact that he's not allowing runs but the lack of strikeouts concerns me. Yes, I know it's possible to succeed without striking guys out and Jungmann is a ground out machine but it still leaves me wondering if he'll ever be more than bottom of the rotation. I hope I'm wrong and he ends up being one of those guys that succeeds without having to whiff people (ala Lohse).

Nice story. Did you follow up with those guys you ran with to see how things ended up with them? Be pretty funny if Junior turned out to be a kindergarten teacher or something.

THIS. You can't throw out a state banning and not give us the details. Spill!

Needles in the haystack. Almost all of these guys end up being offensive liabilities. By power, it doesn't even have to be a guy with 15-20 HR potential. Hitting 5-10 with a bunch of gappers is alright. I feel like the benchmark is to be able to slug .400 in the majors. If you can't do that, you had better be a track star with pinpoint bat control (which probably gets you up to .400 anyways). That "hit tool" that was dominating the minors suddenly turns into .270/.315/.345/.660 in the majors when the pitchers throw right at you and defenses move in. Moreover, if I'm drafting these guys, I'd like to be playing in Petco Park or San Francisco. These guys have a bit more value there. I'd rather use all my picks drafting guys that have a projectable bat and size. Taking a needle in the haystack HoF projection out of the equation, guys like Omar Garcia project to Ben Revere or Nyjer Morgan. Brett Gardner and Bourn are the "home run" (no pun intended) projection. I'd rather draft a guy like Allen Craig in these rounds. Somebody that has a bat that projects to the majors. We have Khris Davis for that but unfortunately, that's about all we have and he's a decent impact bat. I'd like to load my minor league system with guys that could be that. Some miss and never pass AA. Some turn into Craig. A few needles turn into perennial All Stars. That's a better alternative than using picks on guys that have a very likely "best case" as turning into Ben Revere, a defensive guy with no bat. I don't claim to know anything about drafting baseball players but it seems to me that bats are more projectable than arms.

I'd be curious to know what teams push athletic development in the weight room?

I remember when I was a kid Gorman was a guest broadcaster on a TV game and they were talking about trades and he said "For some guys, like me, it can ruin your career." I'm paraphrasing but I think I'm pretty close.

Keith Law liked Milwaukee's pick. Crap.

The first round guy sort of reminds me of Lopez from last year.

Guys change position all the time. Moving off of SS is the easiest move to make since SS is usually the best athlete. Not to mention Arcia hasn't done anything yet and could bust. Segura might leave via free agency by the time this guy makes to the bigs. Also, SS is traditionally a position of need around baseball and the more good shortstops you have the more chips you have to trade. Always take best player available regardless of position. In baseball more so than any other sport. Arcia: I'd say keeping his head above water at Low A and posting a wRC+ of about 90 at 18 despite missing a full season of ball and skipping a rookie level qualifies as something. Segura: Expect him to agree to an extension. The rest is definitely true - you can never have too many SSs and BPA is always a good pick. My use of the word "nothing" in regards to Arcia was an exaggeration but until a player with raw talent gets to AA and has success I tend not to get my hopes up. And as for Segura, yes he might sign an extension. The point was that even with Segura on the team it doesn't mean you forego taking a shortstop.

Guys change position all the time. Moving off of SS is the easiest move to make since SS is usually the best athlete. Not to mention Arcia hasn't done anything yet and could bust. Segura might leave via free agency by the time this guy makes to the bigs. Also, SS is traditionally a position of need around baseball and the more good shortstops you have the more chips you have to trade. Always take best player available regardless of position. In baseball more so than any other sport.

You can tell that already?

Mass, I hope you had a good time. I'm sure you've covered this before but how did you become a Brewer fan in the first place?

Geez, how did I miss that baseball-ref had added MiLB gamelogs and splits? I knew they had minor league stats but I never delved into them enough to see if they had splits/logs. This was the first time I saw they had them. Guess I never had a reason to see seasonal splits before this question came up.

Actually, Scooter had the most fan reaction after being announced of all the Brewers players at last night's game. He easily drew the most applause by far. Right but how many of those showed up just because of Scooter?

I think being a homer is just fine. Of course, my username is homer so I'm biased.

vs RH .318/ .378 /.611 vs LH .266/ .305/ .448 http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=morris001hun&type=bgl&year=2012