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They're doing a live/on demand video for all games for $15. Seriously thinking about it...
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I hot Corey Hart batting leadoff is ok (though you could say that about Hart in any spot in the order), but is his OBP too BA-driven? I think he's a .320-.330 guy normally, so I wouldn't do that unless you're trying to catch lightning in a bottle. BADGERJOBOB's lineup looks good to me. I'm not huge on the pitcher batting 8th thing, but I don't think it makes much difference either.
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Is it too obvious to say that Gamel is going back down, and someone not on the 40-man is coming up to replace him? -
Miller Park has been open for a decent amout of time now. The shadows have never once been a called safety hazard until the Brewers lose a few daytime home games in a row. Its whining, thats all I think I'll side with Melvin in this. His comments were hilarious, Braun's comments are just boring and Captiain Obvious-ish. Still think they should make Braun a player-coach (or perhaps a deputy manager!), though. Then he can say "yeah our pitching wasn't very good today" and nobody would care, because coaches are supposed to say stuff like that.
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I just bought this a few days ago, and I've been pretty impressed so far. I haven't played OOTP since version 6, but it all came back to me fairly quickly, and I didn't have much trouble getting around the newer interface. It seems a lot more realistic overall than v5/6 (though I was able to get the Red Sox to give me Jason Bay for Bill Hall and Mike Rivera). In the past it was always pretty easy to turn just about any team around into a contender fairly quickly. Seems a lot more difficult now - I can't trade crappy vets for 5-star prospects anymore! The scouting system is interesting. You can toggle between a league-wide scouting database, which seems to be overly optimistic about most players; and your scouting director's database, which seems to be more accurate on most guys, but way off on others (for example, Yovani Gallardo is a 1-star player in my current game, and I offloaded Jason Tyner for a 4 1/2-star MR prospect who doesn't appear to be as good as my scouts thought). But we'll see how it goes...hopefully the game doesn't let me become a perennial 100+ game winner for 20 years straight anymore.
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Stoudamire will need to have Andrew Bogut take him suit shopping if he really wants to replace Damon Jones. He's not a 1, and too small to play a 2. If he makes the team, his role is going to be to shoot 3-pointers in garbage time.
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In the case of Matsuzaka, he was under contract with another club. His previous club shouldn't be under any obligation to release the player just because the Red Sox wanted him. Instead, they said "it will cost $50 million to buy out Matsuzaka's contract." Ok, if that's what they think the player is worth, fair enough. I don't see why Japanese clubs should be forced to give up their players for free. And if the team signing the player doesn't pay the transfer fee, who does, Bud Selig?
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I think the profile of the USL has grown quite a bit since then. Now they have lots televised games on FSC, and the standard of play is quite a bit better - just last weekend, three USL teams beat MLS sides in the US Open Cup, and another needed penalties to advance. Of course, if nobody cares about the game, there's not much you can do, but I do feel that the USL as a whole is a better product than it was when it last had a presence in Milwaukee.
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Postseason2006- Sorry, I'm not always good at explaining things. Looking at Hardy's last three seasons of work (including this one), his line is very similar to Escobar's 2009. I'm not looking at Escobar's previous seasons, because they were at lower levels and thus, less relevant for comparison purposes IMO. The difference is that Hardy did it in the majors, and Escobar did it in AAA. You have to assume that Escobar's numbers will drop a bit if promoted, because it does for just about every player. So (once again IMO), Hardy is by far the better option RIGHT NOW. As bad as Hardy's season has started off, Escobar would likely be worse. I do get the point that we might be better off overall trading him for pitching, but I think that would be a case of selling low, and that would be worse for us long-term. I think we would get better value in a trade by offering 1 year of Hardy fresh off a strong finish than 1 1/2 years when he's struggling. I've been a huge fan of Escobar since we signed him, and I think he has a chance to have a better career. But he's not there yet, and we have a better choice for winning now. You're probably right, but he's still just a few monster games away from being back on track, and he's historically hit much better in the second half.
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I was just looking at the OPS that endaround posted earlier, which Hardy's was significantly higher. I'm not really big on the consistent vs streaky hitter thing (IMO its just all a huge coincidence), but do we know that Escobar is any better? He's seemed fairly streaky to me, and his career month-to-month splits jump around just as much, if not more. Impossible to be sure of this, but the point is that 1) the transition from AAA to the majors is not always seamless, and 2) a player's major league numbers are almost always going to be worse than in AAA. If Hardy's injury makes those points moot, then look at Rickie Weeks instead. Or just about every other player in the history of baseball. Last 3 combined including this, so 2007, 2008 and 2009. Which are better than what Escobar is doing in AAA. As someone else mentioned, if we could plug in a 26 year old Alcides Escobar right now, I'd be all for it. But right now, if he replaced Hardy, we'd be looking at a sub-.300 OBP, .650ish OPS player according to his MLE. That may not be much different from Hardy's current line, but Hardy has always been much better in the past, while Escobar is probably about as good as he'll get for this point in his career. I'll be shocked if Hardy doesn't match his career .264/.325/.434 by the end of the season, and I'd be equally shocked if Escobar gets anywhere near that this season. Unless we're going into rebuilding mode, you have to stick with Hardy.
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Link Report for Fri. 7/3 -- Latest: Rattler Photos
Diskono replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
I don't think that's necessarily true. Most guys are better than Manny Parra at stretching out and building up endurance. -
My point is that Hardy was horrible offensively in his rookie year, despite putting up better numbers in AAA than Escobar is currently. So you very easily could be losing out on offensive production quite a bit. Either way though, Escobar is having a good season offensively in AAA, but those numbers still aren't even as good as Hardy's last three seasons in the majors. I just don't see how you could expect Escobar to be as good. You could certainly hope, but expecting it is very unrealistic IMO.
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Yeah, and remember how awesome Hardy's bat was during his rookie season?
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Doug Melvin isn't a moron, and neither is Ken Macha. I'm sure this is all very much on both of their minds, and I'm sure they will make a decision soon to get Gamel more playing time. But a couple weeks of sporadic playing time for a prospect isn't the end of the world...he's not going to magically transform into Sean Berry just because he didn't start today.
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He's had pretty good success vs lefties in the minors: http://www.minorleaguesplits.com/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?pl=442707 Doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot, but he's only faced 60 or so lefties in his major league career, so he might not be that bad.
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Grapler platoon doing well for the Rays
Diskono replied to logan82's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Butler is actually having a very impressive season. He didn't do much at first, but the Brewers clearly liked something about him, and now it looks like it might pay off. -
I'm all for this. I never got a chance to go to any Rampage games, but USL games that I see on TV always look like a lot of fun. Maybe the Wave can go back to outdoor and rejoin the league?
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I disagree with that. Even if we did trade him, we still would have had to take around $5m in salary back. Instead, we actually have enough flexibility to use a MLE on a free agent - we wouldn't be discussing Josh Childress right now if we try to sign CV, and I'll take Childress any day of the week. If the Bucks were planning on spending that money anyway, the decision comes down to where you can better value - through trade, or through free agency. There's also the theory that we didn't extend the QO as a favor to him and his agent, who just so happens to be Luc Mbah a Moute's agent as well. Makes some sense.
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That would be awesome, if the Hawks would take Ridnour for Childress. Might end up having to throw in a pick. Sessions/Jennings Redd/Bell Childress/LRMAM Johnson/Illyasova Bogut/Thomas Not too bad.
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Could be. There are a lot of teams in Europe and South America with the word "Racing" in their name. I don't know what the significance is, but its not at all related to auto racing. My guess is that its a Spanish equivalent of "Rovers" or "Wanderers".
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Another annoying thing about driving in Madison: there are no good ways whatsoever to get on 90/94 (with the intention of going west) from the west side. If you don't want to drive backwards for a half hour, you have to go all the way to Baraboo. Also, bicycles.
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Sounds like he may have been a transplanted Cubs fan or something.We generally refer to those routine fly balls as "Cub fan home runs"
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Actually, now is probably a very good time. If your goals are long-term, you want to get in before things get better (which it already is), thus finding bargains. Investopedia has a ton of information to help get you started.
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Hardball Times did an analysis on the new HITf/x data, which gives us information on how hard and which direction a ball is hit. They only have data for April so far, but during that month, Hardy was the second-unluckiest hitter in baseball: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/using-hitf-x-to-measure-skill/ Kind of goes along with what most people are saying.
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Pretty simple really, they had 3 RFAs and had to pick two. The Bucks preferred Illyasova over CV, which is probably the right choice.
