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Questions, if we don't make the playoffs
homer replied to And That's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
This answer assumes he goes beyond that limit......depends how much. I know some here think innings limits are poppycock but it's not like GM's are pulling this stuff out of thin air. There is an injury nexus, there is evidence that a big jump in innings from one year to the next leads to an increase risk of injury when you are a young pitcher.....now, is that causation or correlation? That's the debate but if I'm a GM I'm erring on the conservative side of things. Having said all that, I don't think going over an innings limit by 10 - 15 innings is all that big a deal. Too much to give up, IMO. Linebrink has been decent but I think they could have gone another route to get the same production - either from within the system or through a different trade. The Brewers probably could have traded Inman by himself and gotten someone similar to Linebrink - if not better. No. They were 24 - 10 at one point. He would not have made them 30 - 4 or something like that. Maybe but I don't think he's more to blame than a bad defense, some bad bullpen work, and some really disappointing years from guys like Hall and Estrada. Yes. I'm not sure what other option they had other than to keep him. I don't know if it's as bad as everyone thinks it is since the bullpen was lights out the first couple months of the year but they have probably cost the team 15 - 20 games. Not sure what league average is in that department but my uneducated guess is that the Brewers are just below average in that department. For all the big leads they've lost they've probably held on to a lot of small leads. -
Questions, if we don't make the playoffs
homer replied to And That's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
But WARP is wins above replacement player. How do we know that the Counsellino combo wasn't AT replacement level (i.e. WARP = 0)?Even Weeks was better than a replacement level player. -
Was he banned because of his previous bannings or did he do something else?
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Oh I'm not saying don't party - I don't think there was a Thurs, Fri, or Sat that I didn't go out my entire college career - but everyone is different. Some guys can party on a Thursday night before a Friday exam, some can't. Some guys can skip every lecture and still get an A, some can't. Some guys can learn an entire semester of geology in one night, some can't. I would try to be a successful student first and see how much you can party while still maintaining that. It's that whole work/life balance thing http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Yeah, but Kat that metric is not defense only. It's Wins Against Replacement Player - which encompasses offense and defense. I agree with End that this stat has it's problems but it's still surprising that despite Braun's offensive prowess he's still closer to Weeks in terms of offense + defense than he is to Tulo.
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Weeks WARP1 is 3.5 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/weeksri01.php
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BP got it's defensive stats working again. Braun 3.9 Tulo 7.4 For comparison sake: Hart 5.9 Fielder 6.1 David Wright 9.5 Hanley Ramirez 7.6 Chase Utley 8.2 ARod 10.1
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If you have no idea what you want to do for a living, it behooves you to get a good GPA. Maybe down the road you want to go to grad school or something - a crappy GPA might not be the deal break but it certainly won't help. Why limit your possibilities?
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Can you get a different pic for that story? I thought it was the LaPorta interview at first. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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"I'm sure he meant it as a backhanded slap on the way out" You may be right but to be fair we have no way of knowing that for sure.
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"We can only dream that mak_nas sees this thread and posts his picture. " Or Stinky. I'd post one of myself, but my last company froze me out of my computer before I could save any of the pics.
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"I'm the svelte fellow on the right." You look like Drew Carey.
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I thought Jesus Camp was hilarious. That kid with the mullet and the head honcho from Colorado who later had sex with a male prostitute? That's comic gold!
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One of my phobias came to light today. I have a big fear of people getting upset with me (yeah, I probably have issues with an overbearing father). I'm down in Atlanta for work and took a tollway to get to where I needed to go. I went in one of the toll lanes and there was no cashier and I had no change. So I'm sitting there absolutely panicking because there's a line of cars behind me and I can't move because the gate is down. I kind of laughed later at how spastic I must have looked beeping my horn and waving my hands at the girl in the next cashier booth over.
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Not to mention that Braun's offense won several games when no one else on the team was hitting. I"m telling you, WARP is a great stat that combines defense and offense, but it's not available right now. Is that normal?
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"Well, VORP doesn't take defense into account, and like I said, Tulo is a great defensive player." Yeah you'd probably have to use WARP (wins above replacement player) but those don't come out until after the season I think.
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Just hearing about the VMA's makes me lose brain cells.
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or Sidney Moncrief!
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"Does anyone think that this writer might not intend to be taken seriously? " I considered that, but wouldn't he let everyone in on the joke at the end of the story? For what it's worth here are Tulowitzki's home/road splits. Yeah, no Coors Field advantage going on here at all. Home .337/.401/.573 Road .244/.315/.357
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Let's start with the numbers. Impressive power. Good average. Poor fielder. If Braun's numbers are prorated over a season (since he did not come up to the Brewers until late May), he could be considered the most productive first year slugger ever, could beat McGwire's rookie homer record of 49. But on actual comparison with Tulo-witzki, going into Sunday's games, judging the whole season and not some fanciful projection of it, Tulowitzki has more RBI, more runs scored, more hits, a respectable total of home runs and a range and arm at shortstop that anchors the best fielding team in the league. Not to mention, and this seems never to be mentioned, an unassisted triple play. No, in real time, over a whole season, there is very little to choose with what each has done, but the edge must go to Tulowitzki, who is also a year younger than Braun. But if the judgment comes just because there was a movie - mostly unseen, but still . . . - actually called The Hebrew Hammer, let us offer one called Troy, not to recommend either. The movies, not the ballplayers. Tulo-witzki is the clear choice there. I mean this guy could not possibly be more of a home town writer even if he tried. I like how mentions all the stats where Tulo leads, but fails to mention stolen bases, BA, OBP, SLG, etc. etc. Tulo is a terrific player but he'll be second in voting when the time comes.
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From the game story on MLB.com (9/8) The Brewers were bolstered by the noisy group of fans who owned a section near the visitor's dugout. One fan had shaved a Brewers logo into his chest hair. "Yeah, I took a picture with that guy before the game," Turnbow said. "That's hilarious. We love it. "The Milwaukee fans have been great. There have been a lot of them here the last two days, and that definitely helps us out."
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Too bad he still can't field worth a lick (see Dave Bush's start the other day) Hopefully that improves next year.
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Good to hear RyDogg And Blockbuster = Walmart of movie rental http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
