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  1. JohnBriggs12
    Agree. Sardinas only has played 60 games in AAA. It's not like he can't benefit by a full or almost full season there.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    Melvin figures he's got the equivalent of those guys in Broxton who's not cheap. "Proven closer" David Robertson got $46 million over 4 years. Papelbon might be a bargain in comparison.
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    Oh boy what a lineup when your cleanup hitter is coming off a year where he hit 15 HR (4 from July 1st on) and drove in 66 runs (26 from July 1 on). That kind of production screams cleanup hitter. Not. I will say Ramirez is getting paid like a cleanup hitter, but I'm not real confident he can produce like one any more.
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    The more money the Phils pick up the better return they get. That's how these go. If the Brewers took his entire contract, they'd send them a bag of balls. Quality prospect doesn't necessarily mean top prospect either. A guy ranked 20th in the system can be categorized as quality.
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    Burgos was lights out in the WBC. Hope he can put together a healthy season in AAA and be a starter option if needed.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    I liked the inclusion of Sardinas in the deal because young SS prospects always have trade value. You really can't have too many. They're gold as trading chips.
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    I like Thornburg starting in AAA to begin the season rather in the role of long man in the pen. Could he be better than Nelson? Sure. But it's not a competition between just those two. When Thornburg is ready to pick up where he left off at the end of 2013, they will need to find a spot for him. That could come from an injury or a trade or through ineffectiveness of any of the starters not just Nelson.
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    I can't see K-Rod signing a minor league deal to preserve depth. Wooten is eminently replaceable from within or without the organization anyway. There's any number of better/similar options out there still looking for minor league deals with a ST invite. Former Brewers Todd Coffey and Carlos Villanueva are two of them. Villanueva comes with the added ability to make spot starts, something no other reliever on their roster appears to have.
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    I have an idea. Stop making a production out of the 7th inning stretch. When I went to Braves games as a kid, there was no singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the stretch. Fans just stood up and stretched. They didn't have to be told or urged on by a sing along. By the way if you were a fan of the road team you stood before YOUR team batted in the top of the 7th. It was kind of a neat thing being in the rivals ballpark and defiantly standing while the other sat. But you never see that anymore. Now you go to a Sunday game and there's like 6-7 minutes to get all the songs in often followed by endless pitching changes over the remaining innings. If you want to fill time during a pitching change sing your hearts out then.
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    Minor league signings start to pick up once we start getting into February. I think DM will continue his trend of adding veterans on minor league contracts. One player I would be interested in signing is Scott Hairston. He plays both corner outfield spots and second base, is a good clubhouse guy like his brother and can provide some righthanded power off the bench (20HR in 2012, 10HR in 2013). Hairston hasn't played 2B since 2004. I'd pass.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    I'm with djoctone on Cotts contract. I'm mildly surprised Herrera was DFA'd but I had posted on another site that I just didn't see him making the team out of spring training mostly because he's not a good defender anywhere you put him. I think they see Gomez as the better defender to backup at SS and they like the pop he can give them off the bench a bit more. Plus they still have 2 other middle infielders on the 40 man in Sardinas and Rivera. Herrera misplayed too many balls in the OF too and he's not a good CF. Schafer struggles offensively with limited AB's but he gives them solid defense. They seem willing to hand the backup 3B/1B platoon on days Lucroy catches to Jimenez. I can't imagine Wooten would survive another pitcher signing though.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    The thinking has to be that Melvin looked at his 2013 numbers which admittedly were off the charts great and figured it was worth the gamble that he would rebound off his 2014 season. But he doesn't fit as a loogy. My guess is they'll take a wait and see and let his results define his role. If he's the 2013 guy or close to it, then he's useful in the late innings. Otherwise, he's an expensive mop up guy basically taking the innings that went to Wang and Gorzo last year. The DFA'ing of Herrera cements my thoughts that Hector Gomez and Luis Jimenez have the inside tracks on the backup infield jobs.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    For all you defending spending $3 million on this guy, this is the same team that let Gorzelanny go to Detroit for $1 million. I thought Chicago overpaid giving Duke $5 million but I'd take Duke for $5 million over Cotts for $3 million. Cotts is a guy that I thought would be fine for a minor league deal. $3 million is full retail and then some. It's ridiculous.
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    Except this guy's been around for more than a decade and he's had 2 good years. The rest have been pretty bad. $3 million seems like a lot. I'd have rather they hung on to Gorzelanny. True but he had TJ in 2010, didn't play in 2011 and went to AAA in 2012. This article talks about the good and the bad http://nolanwritin.com/2015/01/24/neal-cotts-will-not-be-a-texas-rangers/ He's also had major hip problems. Seems to me he's certainly not worth triple what Detroit is paying Gorzelanny. I live in Chicago area and know a lot of Sox fans. Lets just stay Cotts overstayed his welcome on the south side.
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    Except this guy's been around for more than a decade and he's had 2 good years. The rest have been pretty bad. $3 million seems like a lot. I'd have rather they hung on to Gorzelanny.
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    If Henderson's healthy, I don't see a reason to overspend to bring K-Rod back or deal for Papelbon. I'd rather spend less and bring in Chamberlain as depth and at least see how Henderson looks in Arizona. If it doesn't look like he'll make it back, go back to Philly and reopen talks with them. The problem with this thinking is that we truly do not know how good or if Henderson will be healthy enough to start the season. Then you get into the questions of will he come back effective? Too many questions surround this for Melvin to not go after another "closer" type guys like Soriano, Krod, or Papelbon. If he sat and did nothing, then Henderson stinks and Broxton doesn't get the job done, people will say Melvin did not do enough for this team. The more high leverage guys we have, the better off we will be this season. Where did I advocate doing nothing? Chamberlain had 29 "holds" for the Tigers last year and a considerably better FIP of 3.16 than K-Rod put up last year and I'm assuming he's about $2 million cheaper. We don't know how good a healthy Henderson is? I think we do and I think it will be apparent in spring training if he's healthy and throwing free and easy. Nobody's breaking down Philly's door for Papelbon. There's a good chance he'll still be available in mid March.
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    A guy who intrigues me as a future trade target is Grant Green of the Angels. A natural SS, it would seem it would be an easy transition for him to move full time to 3B. He's not a huge power guy, but he's been a very high average hitter at every level. The Angels have Freese ahead of him at 3B, who's a FA (and possible Brewer target himself maybe as soon as July if Ramirez falters) and they acquired Kyle Kubitza from Atlanta to be his heir apparent, so Green could be expendable.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    Arcia's development is being accelerated by playing. They can rest him when he gets to Arizona.
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    If Henderson's healthy, I don't see a reason to overspend to bring K-Rod back or deal for Papelbon. I'd rather spend less and bring in Chamberlain as depth and at least see how Henderson looks in Arizona. If it doesn't look like he'll make it back, go back to Philly and reopen talks with them.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    I agree with TheCrew07 on Arcia, but he's definitely not the first Brewer prospect to be underrated and probably won't be the last. Brewers have 3 regulars in their lineup who came through their system without ever being on any top 100 list (one an All Star) and 3/5 of their rotation is made up of pitchers they developed, none of which was ever rated higher than 49th. You would think results matter, but they don't apparently.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I don't think anyone's penciled him in for a key role. Certainly not early on. But he's got closer potential it would appear.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    I'd take a healthy Henderson closing over Broxton or KRod. Even hurting last year he K'd 30 hitters in 17 innings combined majors and minors. Besides, it was his job going into 2014 and he really only lost it because he wasn't right physically.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    He should scare you. He scares me too. We have scars from multiple blown leads over his time as a Brewer. We're not talking about a guy like Craig Kimbrel who simply overmatches hitters. That's not to say he's not a quality reliever. Just that when the heats on, those bad memories become fresh in our minds.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    Invader3K, Not all of us have memories that only go back one season. Have you forgotten 2012? My goodness, he had a stretch that year of some of the worst late inning relief pitching I've ever seen. Who can forget that 3 game stretch in late July that year when the K-Rod allowed 9 earned runs in 1 2/3 innings that all led to losses? There's good and bad with K-Rod. But the tipping point that set off last year's collapse was August 27 in San Diego when Rene Rivera took K-Rod deep on a 2-0 pitch wiping out a 2-1 lead. He wasn't totally to blame because if you recall, K-Rod got squeezed on the first two pitches, and Roenicke had what for him was a melt down after the game. They never recovered after that game. Not K-Rod's fault but there's plenty of scars from this guy blowing games too.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Boras annually sets his price tag in the class of premier closers. That limits his market considerably. All the teams that can afford to pay premier closers likely have one that they perceive as better. The small market teams that could use a closer would rather roll the dice on a young, cheap alternative. Brewers will probably get him in that $5-6 million range with an incentive or two for games finished. I would have preferred Joba for around $3.5 million myself. Now they have a quite expensive back end and what do you do with Henderson if he's healthy?
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