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  1. JohnBriggs12
    Lets face it. They went the cheap route here. Got to believe he's going to be paid at the bottom rung of major league pitching coaches. He's got zero track record at the major league level. Kind of disturbing when you think now the GM, manager and the pitching coach are all learning on the job.
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    There's no evidence that your statement is true. Cubs are sorely lacking in home grown pitching. The Brewers have better depth in minor league arms than the Cubs have.
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    Other than Kyle Hendricks, name a pitcher that the Cubs developed in his tenure that's made an impact? Their bullpen was all castoffs from other organizations.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    Brewers back in first place! All division rivals vanquished! Cub fans I'm in the midst of silenced. It's a good day!
  5. JohnBriggs12
    It's hard missing bats in Colorado. So no matter what you throw, you are going to have plenty of base runners to deal with so it helps a ton if you can induce double plays. The guys who've had the relative success, like Ubaldo Jimenez early on, and Aaron Cook for while, have sink on their fastball, and a good defensive infield.
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    I would have agreed with you back in say July when he still was occasionally posting a decent start. Why risk turning off fans that suffered through the awful start in 2015, by subjecting them to more of Garza, the latest poster boy for what was wrong with the Melvin regime? If the 2016 Brewers are going to struggle out of the gate, at least have some fresh faces. The absolute best case scenario is if he pitches to some level of competence that a team out there will take a flyer on him if the Brewers eat 75% of his salary. Even then the return in talent back would be negligible. I'd rather risk a bit more and get someone who actually has an upside and who'll have a contract that isn't a deterrent to a deal.
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    They need to bite the bullet and just jettison Garza like the Cubs did with Edwin Jackson. Garza's signing was done by the previous regime. The new regime shouldn't have to live with it. Lets see if Stearns has the ba..s to go to Attanasio and tell him just that. To me that's his first big test as GM. Get your Cub point, but Pirates had young pitching and they still picked up Liriano in 2013 for a song. They didn't flip him because they contended that year but had they not, they could have struck gold. Brewers can use at least one veteran for first four months of 2016. They'd be a lot better off with a buy lower guy like Kennedy than Garza as that guy. Even if Garza returned to respectable numbers and an ERA around 4, he's got little trade value. Kennedy's upside is considerably higher.
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    Maddon cost the Cubs last night. No reason to take Hendricks out of game with score tied 2-2 after just 4 innings. Would he do that in June? Of course not. Especially when you replace him with the castoffs that the Cubs have in middle relief like Richard, Cahill, and Wood. If those guys are better than Hendricks, then they would be starting as all of those guys were starters for most of their careers. He'll likely make the same mistake tonight with Hammel. Take heart Brewer fans, if the Crew can ever get into a playoff series against Maddon's Cubs, it's likely he's going to overthink his pitching and turn into Tony LaRussa.
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    If Kennedy is as good as you say he is, there's no way he's settling for 2 years, no matter how saturated the market is, especially at age 30. He's not going to want to go back to free agency at age 32. He's going to want a contract through age 34, at minimum There's plenty of supply out there. Once the big time markets get their fill they will jettison some of their other arms. He might have to settle if he and Boras think he's better than his results the last couple years. It would only take one year where he fans 200 with an ERA under 3.30 and instead of getting 3 year offers for $30 million, he'll get 5 year offers for $80 million next off season. So why not take one year at $10 million and take your chances? Look at what Theo did with undervalued FA starters in Chicago. He signed Scott Feldman for 1 year and $6 million and that helped him get Arrieta. He signed Hammel for one year and $9 million then flipped him as part of Addison Russell deal. In Pittsburgh, they signed Liriano a couple years ago for 1 year and $6 million, and ended up re-signing him. All 3 of those pitchers signed multi-year deals the following seasons. Kennedy is coming of a year where he was 9-15 with a pedestrian 4.28 ERA. He's certainly a candidate to take a short term deal, especially if you can load it with incentives and he's more likely to take that from a team like the Brewers where he knows he'll get the innings and he basically is assured he'll end up on a contender by August.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    First, $10-12 million per year is hardly top dollar. That's the going rate for average FA. Still you make some decent points. But eventually, they are going to need to fill in around guys like Arcia, Phillips and Santana or have them suffer through half or more of their controllable years on 90 loss teams. I'm fine with using that money instead to extend Lucroy and trading for a cheaper option like Asche and I'll admit it's not likely they can afford to both sign a guy like Murphy and extend Lucroy. But I see the trading chips in guys like Peralta and Davis (where they should have replacements already in the system) in a year or two, and adding Murphy or extending Lucroy doesn't limit ability to deal them for significant return.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    He outslugged Ramirez in 2015. All signs point to him becoming more of a power threat as he's aged. You are aware that he hit HR in consecutive games off of Kershaw, Greinke, Lester and Arietta? He also had the lowest strikeout rate in the NL this year and still slugged .449 and while they've shortened the fences somewhat in Citi Field, it's still not the HR park that Miller Park is, especially for LH pull hitters which is what Murphy is. His OPS in Miller Park by the way is .869. He also hits lefties well enough that he doesn't need to be platooned. Yes he's 30. Signing him for 3 years plus an option means you'd have him for his 31-33 age seasons and possibly 34. They had Ramirez from age 33-37. If the intent is to be realistic contenders between 2017 and 2019 and why wouldn't they considering the track of guys like Arcia, they are going to need at least average production at 3B, and better balance in the lineup. He's capable of providing that and more.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    Unless Grandal was part of the package back.
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    Ok, lets throw it out there if at least to get some conversation going: Daniel Murphy. Lots of speculation that the Mets are still going to let Murphy walk despite his incredible postseason. He's been a solid if not spectacular offensive performer, who'd likely flash more power in Miller Park. While 3B is not his natural position, he's played a significant number of games there and he'd also have value at 1B should Lind depart or he could allow Gennett to be dealt too. Pricetag in dollars and years grows with every ace he takes deep, but he's likely still not a bank breaker in that he'll likely get a Ramirez type deal. He'd also have to be convinced that Brewers are closer than most people seem to think. Before all of you start screaming that he'd slow the youth movement, might I remind you that Brewers have no top of the line 3B options closer than 3-4 years away nor any real LH pop other than Lind who's future with Brewers certainly isn't long term. I also remind you that FA cost nothing in terms of players back. He'd also still be young enough to be flipped in 2-3 years if he produces at his recent pace.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    Let me take you young guys back to June of 1960. The Cubs had two much ballyhooed at the time debuts that month. One you all will know of course eventually became a Hall of Famer, Ron Santo. The other was a young outfielder just out of high school by the name of Daniel Francis Murphy who went by Danny Murphy. Murphy made his debut on June 18, 1960 at the age of 17. That's right, 17. Not only did he appear in the game that day, he started in CF and led off. As you can imagine this made some headlines back then. He played 31 games and batted .120 before being sent to AA and also appeared in a few games the next couple years. The fact that he did get sent down makes me believe he didn't fall under bonus baby rules requiring the Cubs to keep him on the active roster. In 1963, at 21, this phenom who had been so hyped was traded to Houston and didn't resurface in the major leagues until 1969 as a relief pitcher for the cross town White Sox. After two non-descript seasons, his major league career was over. So now we have another Daniel Murphy putting a hurt on the Cubs over 50 years later. Coincidence?
  15. JohnBriggs12
    I know it's always tough to trade starting pitching but imho, Marco Estrada was not going to be the difference maker for the 2015 Brewers experiencing success. Trading him coupled with having a lousy season has opened up some rotation slots for young guys that might actually have a future here and it's not like Lind played badly for us. Let's see what we get back in return for Lind before making a call on who won this deal. That is one (good) way to look at it, but reality is that the 2015 Brewers weren't going to experience success. Estrada should have been traded for a prospect not Lind. But then again such decisions led to a regime change in the Brewers front office, so if I look at it that way I'm thrilled with the trade! Eventually, they'll likely get a better prospect out of dealing Lind than what they would have received for one year of Estrada last winter. Estrada would've started 2015 in the Brewer bullpen, and likely stayed there despite the woeful performances of Lohse and Garza, until Peralta went on the DL. Then he might have taken innings that went to Jungmann. He'd have had June and July to boost his value for a deal at the deadline. That's not a ton to go on. Brewers also might have wasted more money on a guy like LaRoche in FA. I think it worked out well. Will be interesting to see what Estrada gets in FA.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    You can have all the geniuses you want on the payroll, but can they compete with the team 90 miles to the south that has both the geniuses and the revenue? My guess is Milwaukee is a stepping stone job in their minds.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    As a 63 year old myself I take offense! Seriously, 63 is a great age to hit the golf course and let the young guys do all the work.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    I would rather have gotten Longoria from the Rays, but this is ok I suppose.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Can't believe Mayo's got 13 guys ahead of Hader on the Brewer prospect list. He's number 5 on mine and the most likely guy on the list to crack the top 3 by mid season next year. Finally a lefty to get excited about.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    We all know the Brewers have one with Garza. Anyone out there with an equally bad contract it might makes sense to trade with? One name that comes to mind is Adam LaRoche who's got one year and $13 million left as opposed to Garza's 2 and 25. LaRoche looked done at 35 in Chicago with a horrible season. Maybe he'd have some value with a little turnaround as a soft platoon partner with Rogers at 1B if Brewers deal Lind. Anyone else have suggestions?
  21. JohnBriggs12
    Did the Brewers develop one LH pitcher who made any impact for the Brewers other than arguably Manny Parra, who was an underachiever, in all the time Nichols was running player development?
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Here we go: 1. Orlando Arcia 2. Jorge Lopez 3. Brett Phillips 4. Trent Clark 5. Josh Hader 6. Zach Davies 7. Devin Williams 8. Tyrone Taylor 9. Gilbert Lara 10. Michael Reed 11. Tyler Wagner 12. Dari Orimoloye 13. Jake Gatewood 14. Clint Coulter 15. Victor Roache 16. Kodi Medeiros 17. Cy Sneed 18. Adrian Houser 19. Jorge Ortega 20. Wei-Chung Wang 21. Damien Magnifico 22. Garrett Cooper 23. Monte Harrison 24. Yhonathan Barrios 25. Troy Stokes Took Stokes at 25 because any guy who impressed scouts enough that they overlooked his 5'8" stature and drafted him in the 4th round out of high school has to have some special talent. Also rewarding his nearly .100 point OPS jump in a higher level.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Yes he did, but the key here is "of the SS that had enough at bats". That implies comparison to bona fide starting major league SS, not prospects, AAA, or utility players and it's one year of 3 for a guy who is still only 25. It also shows a level of durability that teams also covet. OPS isn't the lone measuring stick for a SS either. Peralta in St. Louis is a great offensive SS but he can barely get the ball to 1B with his noodle arm and doesn't cover all that much ground either. Not saying Segura's going to be in great demand or that you might not have to add a player to sweeten the deal to get what you want in return, but he certainly has some value.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    His late decision to slide into Tejada could be interpreted as good hard baseball, but when you start your slide beyond the base and hit the fielder with such force to break his leg, you're deserving of a suspension regardless of intentions. There's a line between good hard baseball, and cheap shots, and he crossed it and baseball needs to discourage it.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    The talk about Franco is silly and shows how a suggestion about genuine Brewer interest in someone who actually might be available (Asche) quickly devolves into a blockbuster proposal that's completely unrealistic. Peralta may well be a trade candidate a year from now but not coming off an injury plagued season. There's also no reason for Phillies to trade the one young gem in their lineup for a power bat with limited other tools. Not every deal being discussed here needs to be earth shattering. Can't their be intelligent discussion of lesser deals? The interest in Asche which I believe was genuine may or may not be a priority of Stearns but it shows that Brewers a. are looking to find another LH bat to stick in the lineup which coincides with a position the appears to need an upgrade. Stearns mentioned something about Herrera being that guy but they should still explore other options. I've suggested offering Segura (plus a sweetener if needed) to get Solarte from SD. Maybe Kelly, once he's added to the staff officially will lobby for that. Another guy I'd like is Jake Lamb from Arizona but I'd be less confident there'd be a match there. Anyway I don't see any team trading a top of the line 3B prospect with a high ceiling like a Franco, so that doesn't mean they can't set sights lower and hope that adequate suffices at that position for now.
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