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  1. Never Outhustled
    How unfair is it that Clark gets an error for a great throw just because Weeks can't catch?
  2. Never Outhustled
    Thanks for the quick response Patrick. Its like I'm carrying Jim Callis around in my pocket. Your work is just awesome and I feel guilty not paying you for it.
  3. Never Outhustled
    I also question the qualitative logic of your point. Show me the MLB organization that has developed a surefire strategy, or even a repeatable good strategy, for avoiding injuries to pitchers in their late teens and early 20s. This is true, what I'm saying is completely theory and is mostly unproven. The Brewers did not have a worthwhile plan in place for avoiding injury untill Doug Melvins 2nd year here when Melvin completely overhauled all aspects of the organizations training and medical staff. The oldest players who fall under this new plan are only 3rd year pros. Whoever, their durability has been remarkable. These players are the same age as the college pitchers in this year draft. Over the next 5 years, compare the health of the Brewers propsects to this year college draft class. I'd be willing to bet big money the Brewers prospects will mostly remain healthy, and a few 1st round college pitchers go under the knife within a year from now, just like they do every year.The Brewers plan will be the one other teams will begin to copy in 10 years. The Brewers will be miles ahead of the game.
  4. Never Outhustled
    Their profiles aren't up yet, but the Brewers have been reported to be scouting the three top college closers hard: Miami's Chris Perez, UC Irvine's Blair Erickson and Arizona's Mark Melancon. I've talked about this before, but with increased expectations the Brewers might feel inclined to take a player that is a lot closer to contributing at the big-league level. The Brewers took a reliever last year, Steve Hammond, and turned him into a starter. They did the same a few years ago with late round pick Jeff Housman. They also traded for Dave Bush, a collegiate closer who was turned into a starter. Any chance the Brewers see these Collegiate closers they're scouting as future starters? I see these closers as the few college pitchers who have great stuff that have not been abused by high pitch counts.
  5. Never Outhustled
    Second, there's the injury nexus. This is why I prefer HS pitchers. The Brewers are proving that in a carefully controlled setting, you can largely avoid injuries to HS pitchers. College pitchers are already wrecked from misuse before you even get your hands on them. The injury rate of college pitchers has been threw the roof the last few drafts. The most recent research shows the injury rate of HS and college pitchers are the same, and thats only because some archaic teams still don't properly care for their HS pitchers.
  6. Never Outhustled
    I may be wrong but let's face it is time for results and not excuses. Nope. The time for results is when they're in the majors. A+ is for development, and nothing else. What did Randy Johnsons A+ stats look like? He walked everybody, and nobody cares. Yo has a terriffic future and I'm esctatic we have him, but Rogers is a rare talent with an even higher ceiling.
  7. Never Outhustled
    I can certainly understand why teams wouldn't want there young pitching prospect playing the field in his off days, but why not DH? Is it that much extra of a workload? Pitchers already take some batting practice, so its really only a little more batting practice and 4 ABs a game. If the player eventually proves to be a better hitter than pitcher, I think you could catch him up in the defensive part of the game.
  8. Never Outhustled
    More info here on Perkins, also Sam Narron has been activated and assigned to Brevard County www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=423756 Seems the Brewer braintrust really thinks highly of Perkins.
  9. Never Outhustled
    I haven't been following the draft as close largely because of the lower pick, but also because this years talent isn't quite as interesting. As for whom I hope the Brewers draft, of course its got to be the best player available. I just hope the best player available is a lefthanded hitter. Any future Brewer lineup we make is becoming extremely righthanded. I'm with Edgardiazrocks and brettac1 in wanting Cody Johnson. I love the power potential, the total athletism, and his experience against top competition. While some consider High School talent along ways away from the bigs, I think top talents like Johnson can be fast risers. I'll point to Prince Fielder as an example. I hope we don't take 1 of those overworked, injury prone college pitchers in round 1. Jack Z has had little success with college pitchers, and like the progress of some of the teams high school arms like Inman and Gollardo. I'm sure the team will find a few more high school arms in rounds 2-3 this year.
  10. Never Outhustled
    Corey Thurman takes the mound for the Stars Saturday night and will be opposed by Braves? left-hander Brady Endl. Thats the Brady Endl from UW-W. He's a big lefty who throws fairly hard, and was just drafted a couple years ago, around the 10th round. He's really moving up quickly, I wish the Crew would have drafted EDIT: Cleaned up the EZCodes - bscr
  11. Never Outhustled
    Could one of you supersmart statheads (i'm looking at you Rluzinski) calculate the odds of a ball in play, with a runner at 1st, resulting in a sacrifice, and compare it to the same situation resulting in a double play? I would guess the double play would be the slightly more common outcome.
  12. Never Outhustled
    Weeks seems to have come back alive batting 7th. Good move Ned. I also like that Yost sat Overbay today facing a tough pitcher in Oswalt. Gotta keep that trade value up.
  13. Never Outhustled
    I just love your work Rluzinski. It shows where the teams real problems lie, which of course makes it easier to map out this teams future. You've shown the offense is fairly consistent, it just isn't quite good enough. A problem that should be remedied by improvement from our young talents normal maturation.
  14. Never Outhustled
    Brad Nelson is back in Nashville, with a hit and a walk in the 1st 2 ABs of his return. Heres hoping he finishes strong.
  15. Never Outhustled
    Tony Gwynn and Kennard Bibbs realized they didn't have much more time to hit there 1st homer of the season, so both went out and did so tonight. What were the odds of that?
  16. Never Outhustled
    Kerry Wood and Randy Johnson were just as bad in A ball. His stats mean nothing. He still projects as a dominant big league starter, as he still is a great athlete with great work ethic and an unreal fastball. When it finally all clicks for Rogers, he'll move up faster than most would ever dream.
  17. Never Outhustled
    Hart can play center? He just started playing there in AAA this week.
  18. Never Outhustled
    With Nasheville playing Salt Lake, I took notice of the falling numbers of Angel catcher prospect Jeff Mathis, who has been a much covetted in trade on this site.. He was hot early this seaon but is now only hitting 279, not all that special considering he plays most of his games in the western part of the PCL, which is the hitters paridise. He committed his 8th error tonight.
  19. Never Outhustled
    I remember back on draft day there was plenty of squacking going on when the Brewers made Inman there 3rd round choice. I don't think we'll here a peep of disapproval now. Inman is that rare polished high school righty, and he'll move up the chain as fast as any 3rd round college pitcher.
  20. Never Outhustled
    Ryan Braun with the gme winning homerun as West Virgina wins 5-4. Braun went 3-4 to push his average up to 314.
  21. Never Outhustled
    I saw it on TV, I think it was clearly a balk. Stanton's right foot moved back toward second base, which is illegal (if a pickoff attempt is going to be made). The reason Rickie was burned so bad was because that is one of the cues that baserunners are taught to look for. When the lead foot moves back toward second base, the pitcher is committed to throwing the pitch (or else its a balk). Excellent point Slobberknocker. Thats what makes Cappy's pickoff moves so good, because he never moves his right foot towards 2nd in his motion, so he can throw over at any time.
  22. Never Outhustled
    Is it not great to see these teams WINNING? Sorry, but I do think it is important! IMO. IMHO. Really. What I think is great about the winning that is taking place is because its happening because of player development. Other organizations have this fake way of making there minor league teams look good. They put players at levels they're not challenged at, and they have older teams full of minor league FAs. The Brewer farm teams are winning with the same prospects that lost in the 1st half. Now these players are learning to win on there own, instead of having some non-prospect doing it for them. Whats the value of that?
  23. Never Outhustled
    Branyan is a man. He's giving our lineup what its been lacking, a 900+OPS masher. Anyone who tells me the Hardy/Hall combo is better than the Hall/Branyan combo is lying to me.
  24. Never Outhustled
    Brendan Katin must have figured something out. He now has 5 homers for Helena after hitting just 7 for the University of Miami this year. He's absolutly massive, and definately has the strength to be a masher. Great to see Adam Heether with another homer, his 2nd in a week. He started slowly after he came back from his hand injury, but has now pushed his average back over 300. He's a topnotch defender, and is thought of highly by Reid Nichols. I expect him to be in AA by the end of the month. Enrique Cruz is putting up some serious numbers in a tough league for hitters. I bet he could be a valuable trading chip.
  25. Never Outhustled
    This is awesome news. Jemile could be the steal of the draft. He may be small now, but Rickie was the same size coming out of high school. One major difference is while Rickie played LF in high school, Jemile is already a pretty slick middle infielder. Major props to Jack Z and his staff, and props to Mark A, who is obviously ponied up alot more $$$ than the Seligs did last year.
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