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Perez in lineup at 3B. Has there been a subtle switch? Is Ramirez now the platoon bat with Scooter? Glad to see as that makes sense and they need to look at Perez as much as possible. Any team wanting Ramirez probably sees him in a platoon/PH role anyway.

Wilson's 2015 form is a 3.92 ERA in the AL and 1.183 WHIP. You bet that Garza will bounce back to those numbers? I'll take that one. Wilson's age is irrelevant in that he's only under contract through next year and he has less remaining on his deal than Garza does.

McGehee was never as projectable as Perez. Detroit started burning Perez' options at 21 so they were high on him for a long time until the numbers game finally caught up to him. Cubs didn't see enough in McGehee to protect him. In both cases though you have to look at their numbers in the context that they were very young for the leagues they were in and that even though their numbers weren't great, they improved as they went up the ladder. That's almost always a pattern you like to see.

Cowart doesn't excite me, certainly not for Lind, maybe for Parra. They are going to give Perez a look and have Dominguez behind him. What Cowart does in Salt Lake City has to be taken in context like the Colorado Springs stats. Newcomb would really excite me too but I doubt Lind is enough to get him. Could Lind get Tropeano perhaps? He's not in the elite status like an Andrew Heaney or even maybe Newcomb, but he's a good solid major league ready starter prospect. As for Wilson, if they could get the Angels to take Garza in the deal (granted a big if), then why not? He's better than Garza. He's a lefty, and though he's scheduled to earn $20 million next year, if he's pitching well in 2016, they'll be able to move him next July.

In which small sample? The stats just with the Brewers? Or the .213 BA/.244 OBP and 44 OPS+ he's put up vs MLB pitching in 2015? I think he has an MLB caliber glove & arm. Jury is still out on his bat. Again, I posted even before he started getting hits, that he passed the eyeball test as a hitter with flying colors. He never looks overmatched, and the ball jumps off his bat. I was at the game Thursday and deGrom was blowing it by Brewer hitters. The one exception was Perez. His swing is balanced and he generates more bat speed than his power totals might indicate and he uses the entire field. Of course as with all young hitters, time will tell but early indications are positive. The fact is the Brewers had the first shot to claim him and they did, even with his being 2 for 33 with the Tigers knowing that if they didn't the next team in line would. That tells me that within scouting circles there were still a lot of people very high on him and I can see why based on his first month. He's not some dime a dozen utility guy with a good glove. He's a guy that still could be a regular in the big leagues. He just turned 24. Time will tell but Brewers certainly should be in position to give him the time once Ramirez is dealt, relegated to full time PH duties, or waived. Of course it's way too early to project him as the answer at 3B for the next 5 seasons, but he's earning the extended look. While this season has been very painful, sometimes having the first shot on waiver claims turns out gems.

"Perez is not a bad guy to look at, but I think he really profiles at 2B or as a utility guy" Completely disagree. He profiles at 3B and should be getting bulk of time there in the 2nd half and he's not a utility guy either. The more he plays, the more he hits. This is a guy with an upside or he wouldn't have been in the majors at 21. He's bigger and stronger than his listed 185 pounds. He looks more like 195. He won't be a big HR guy but he'll hit 12-15 per year, with a ton of doubles and triples to go with good defense at 3B. Keep in mind he had 45 extra base hits in AAA last year. I really like what I've seen so far from him. He had a ringing double off deGrom the other day, the best pitcher in the NL right now not named Scherzer, who was mowing down the rest of the Brewer lineup.

Happy to see Burgos rounding into form. If he gets back to what he showed in the World Baseball Classic a few years ago, Brewers might still have something.

The company I work for has revenues not that far out of the range of the Brewers. Saving $1.5 million in costs is in fact significant to the bottom line to a company the size of the Brewers. We're not talking about a firm that has several billion in revenues.

Lind isn't the kind of guy who's going to bring back any difference makers current or future. His option for 2016 is reasonable and Brewers have no viable alternative at 1B. No Clark and Rogers aren't viable. Brewers may be in a retooling phase but they still have to put a team on the field that is worth paying major league prices to watch. My preference would be to keep him or at least wait until there's two teams desperate for a bat that could bid the price up. Washington's not such a team. Zimmerman's owed a ton of money. They aren't going to relegate him to the right side of a platoon when they are starting to pull away in that division as it is.

Why trade Garza now when his value is way, way down and he's got plenty of time to rebuild it into something? It would be understandable if you wanted to use the salary, but if they are rebuilding they aren't going to be dipping into premium FA pool anytime soon.

Paul Hornung got a year's suspension for betting on pro football while playing. He's now in the HOF. Pete Rose was/is a compulsive gambler. Compulsive gambling is a sickness. Mickey Mantle was an alcoholic, also a sickness. Both ruin lives. Only one keeps you out of the HOF. Pete's 75 years old. This "new" revelation occurred 30 years ago. There's still no evidence he threw games he played in or managed. Let it go.

Parra probably won't bring 2 middling prospects like what the Brewers gave up to get him but a lower level arm like Sam Coonrod or Mark Reyes wouldn't be a bad target nor would 20 year old 3B prospect Jonah Arenado. Parra's skillset isn't the exact mirror of Aoki's but it's not that far off and he's having a solid year.

It's not just bad defense that's helping sabotage the pitching staff. It was mentioned last night that the Brewers lead the majors in wild pitches by a wide margin. Just last night a wild pitch led to a run. Is this the result of Brewer catchers being inept at blocking balls? Perhaps, in particular Maldonado. But I think the issue is deeper than that. Ever notice how many times Schroeder advocates spiking the curveball on 0-2 counts or how he says, "no need to throw a strike here" when a pitcher is ahead? Funny, I don't remember in earlier years him making comments like that so I don't think its a result of his experience as a player 25-30 years ago. I'm convinced he's just repeating what he hears from Rick Kranitz. I think that's one of the problems the Brewer starters have. When they do get ahead 0-2 or 1-2, they waste pitches and let the hitter get back into counts. When Schroeder says that with an 0-2 count its amazing how many times the count gets to 3 and 2. They seem so afraid of giving up a 2 strike hit, that they don't just nibble, they throw breaking pitches that never look like strikes to the hitter. Eventually they put themselves in position where they have to throw very hittable pitches. Kranitz is the anti George Bamberger. Bambi's guys put away hitters quickly and didn't throw waste pitches. Not only does it lead to more favorable counts for hitters and more walks, but it helps run up pitch counts.

How was Fielder leaving the Brewers any different than Pujols leaving the Cardinals? Sure they have the ability to pay more for players, but the fact is they don't waste what they have. Who was the last real bust the Cardinals paid any significant money to? Cards have great farm system? How is that? They aren't drafting high and they aren't trading off assets for other teams gems. The Cardinals are better because their front office is smarter and their player development staff is light years ahead of the Brewers. Brewers tried the build it from the ground up approach in the early 2000's. What did they get from it? A wild card berth in 2008 and a division title in 2011. Whoppee! That's about all we can expect for the next 3-4 years of agony during which a lot of Brewer fans will die off spending their last few years on earth watching a 100 loss team. Doesn't seem worth it to me. Besides all that, a wholesale dumping of players now, most of whom are at their lowest ebb in value, just compounds the error. This team needs to A. Draft better B. Develop players better and C. Stop signing aging FA to their last big contracts and concentrate the limited resources on talent that's in their primes and producing.

They need to fix the greens but the problems with the course run deeper than that. It's not maturity either. The USGA wanted it that way. I'm not fan of watching a ball roll sideways and backwards and around like a pin ball. The finish was entertaining and dramatic but anytime a major comes down to the last few holes there is drama. By the way the Fox coverage, particularly with Joe Buck as lead host was horrible. Brian Anderson would have been a much better choice.

K-Rod is having a fine season but if you think he's going to bring you a prospect with a high ceiling you are dreaming. Your choice is a prospect who's ceiling is that of a marginal major leaguer or a bottom of the rotation starter or to take a guy who's useful for a year or two as your actual prospects are developing and can be moved later on. Gomez (likely) and Segura (possibly) are the trade chips that will return prospects of quality. If there's a deal for them in the next month that makes sense, fine. If not, wait until the winter when there should be even more suitors. I really don't think the Jays are interested in expanding a deal beyond K-Rod right now. Their best positional prospect, Pompey is a CF, and they are getting decent production from Kevin Pillar in CF. They also have Michael Saunders who is expected back from the DL in July. That being said I wouldn't be interested in Valencia. Not that he wouldn't fit as a stop gap at 3B for a rebuilding team. But they've picked up Perez and Dominguez in recent weeks so why not just let those two battle it out?

You guys are missing the point. K-Rod has value, but not "top prospect" value. So going for a position of need makes sense when dealing him. That guy is Gomez who if not traded during the season, most likely will be this winter. When Gomez is dealt, you go for best player regardless of position.

Yes, bring Arcia or Rivera (or apparently Sardinas) up before they are ready and watch their confidence be absolutely shattered. Makes total sense to me. How'd that work out for the Twins with Aaron Hicks? Kid is a shell of what he could have been after he was forced up. I would like to see Hernan Perez at 3b the rest of this year. He's another guy that came up way too soon. But I like what I've seen from him. That might end up being a shrewd buy low move by Melvin. He's not a little guy either and I think he can hit 12-15 HR per year.

Difference is that contenders would be scouting Chacin knowing he could be available. True those contenders could add him now, but might want to see him against major league lineups before taking him on. Ideal situation is Chacin looks pretty good over 6 or so starts and somebody offers something of value. You then could get something back and still have the option of bringing up Cravy later. If Chacin struggles and doesn't look like he can help next year either, just let him go. It's really a low risk type move much like they did picking up Dominguez and Perez before him. Right now they are stuck in the mud with an aging and expensive Lohse who frankly looks like he doesn't have it anymore.

I'm just tired of seeing Kyle Lohse get hammered start after start. Chacin isn't a long term (beyond 2016) option certainly, but they can't rely solely on untested guys from their system to fill out their rotation for the next year and a half. The other option is buy low guys and Chacin's just 27. If Chacin put together 5-6 solid starts between now and July 31st, there's still time to generate trade interest this year.

Chacin opted out of his minor league deal with Indians. His numbers in AAA were decent. Why not pick him up and audition him either for a spot in 2016 or see if a few decent starts can generate some interest from a contender? He's 3 years younger than Fiers, and just a couple years removed from a successful season. Seems to me that make more sense to me than continuing to run Lohse out there every 5 days.

I would rather see Segura traded while he seems to have some decent trade value. Then we could put two guys with upside potential (Dominguez and Sardinas) on the left side of the infield during our down years to see if either or both of them live up to their potential. If so, well, that's great. If not, Arcia is probably the answer at SS in a year or so and will be around when (hopefully) the Brewers are once again ready to compete. Giving him more "seasoning" in the minors and holding him for another year of his prime seems like a better idea than rushing him to the majors now when it's meaningless. We suck this year and are not likely to be good next year. Why not take a flier on a high upside guy like Dominguez? As far as Ramirez, he's a known quantity, so if we're not getting anything in trade offers now, his value probably won't go up with a hot streak. Therefore, I'd use him as a bench bat and make Dominguez the starter. It won't happen because Ramirez is making $14M more than he's worth, but I'd play the guy who has some upside potential and could help the team in the future. Segura's trade value is more likely to rise in the next 1-2 years than it is to fall. He's still only 25. That's why he's not going to be traded anytime soon. Exposing Sardinas on the other hand actually hurts his trade value. He's simply not physically ready. I'd release Ramirez rather than make him a bench bat. Rotate Dominguez and Perez at 3B and see who takes advantage. At least they'd be better defensively. Some team will pick Ramirez up for the minimum and hope he can get a big hit or two, but he's essentially done both offensively and defensively where he's got no range anymore. In the same vein, a good start or two isn't going to restore value for Lohse. Release him too and bring Cravy back up. Brewers have made some boneheaded moves, but forking out the extra $10 million to bring Ramirez back was the worst in recent years. It was clear at the end of last year that he was done.

I want Rogers to get a chance... at first base. Hopefully we can get someone to overpay for Lind and we slide Rogers right in there and maybe call up Matt Clark as well. Let Dominguez start at 3B after hopefully someone is dumb enough to take Aram. Nobody is going to overpay for Lind and nobody is dumb enough to take Aram. Lind's value is not significantly greater than what the Brewers used to get Parra last year. He's worth about 2 B level prospects. I'd be curious to see what Rodgers could do playing every day for couple months though. I did notice Clark was in LF yesterday, which I thought was curious and leads me to believe maybe Parra is getting more interest than Lind. As for Dominguez, he's not a prolific strikeout guy like a lot of young guys with power. He fanned 125 times in over 600 PA last year. That's not bad in this age. His career BABIP is a very low .255. With a little better idea at the plate and learning to use the entire field, if he can increase that to a more respectable .280 something, he'd be a decent offensive player.

It's Atlanta. They got a full roster including several HOFers from Milwaukee once for nothing in return.

The Biloxi Sun-Herald reports that Burgos is expected to be on the Colorado Springs roster after his Temp Inactive stint. So the starter with the highest era gets promoted? I'm confused. Burgos' level of experience is in line with AAA assignment. He's really been on a unofficial rehab at the lower levels. Makes sense. I'm sure they don't want to destroy confidence in the guys doing well at AA but putting them in that hitters environment. Still Burgos is an upgrade over the likes of Roenicke and Dillard who have been forced into starters' roles there.