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  1. JohnBriggs12
    The system is seriously flawed if we do not get any first round picks for Prince. This just ruined my day. Keep in mind that while losing a player like Fielder is an awful blow, it does give them payroll flexibility to spend elsewhere. That's why there is discussion about Reyes.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    It's not just stupid reasoning. If he believes that, then it's his fault for not being prepared for just such a situation. There's always the possibility you are going to need a different starter than you had planned to go with. Who decided to skip Narveson in September anyway? The reasoning though is completely bogus. Narveson is stretched out enough for 80 pitches at least. He's got all offseason to recover. In fact, he's fresher than any guy on the staff.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    He's had 5 "rough ones" in his last 6 starts and even that's sugar coating it. On Sept. 9, he allowed 5 ER on 9 hits in 6 2/3. In his next start he allowed 6 runs (5 earned) on 8 hits in 5 innings. He followed that with his one good start in the bunch in Chicago, then finished the regular season getting blasted by the Pirates for 7 runs, all earned, and 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings. He's been horrific. He's not their 3rd best pitcher right now and that's all that counts. Keep throwing him out there and you are basically conceding game 6. Hard to win a series that way.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    It's doom and gloom (some would call it being realistic) because at least one of the starting pitchers has allowed 30 runs in his last 33 innings yet Roenicke plans to use him again and another got rocked in his last start and we have no idea what we'll get from him. We've seen this before (2008) and that didn't end well either.
  5. JohnBriggs12
    Prior to last year when he logged 195 innings, Marcum's peak year for innings was 2008 with 168 that included 17 in the minors. This year he's over 200. He's not a particularly big guy and I noticed while watching him in his last effective start, on Sept. 20th in Chicago, he actually puts a lot of physical effort into his pitches even to get to the 88-89 mph level. He does not have a real fluid delivery. It's obvious he's hit the wall physically. Over his last 6 starts (4 in reg season and 2 postseason): 33 1/3 IP, 46 Hits, 30 ER, 7 HR, 8.11 ERA. Roenicke would be nuts to send him out there again.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    The pitch that Pujols hit out in the first would have been hit hard by any decent high school hitter. It was that bad. That he'd miss that badly to Pujols shows he has zero command. Zero command is a sign of arm trouble.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    Spot on. We saw what Greinke looked like on 3 days rest...fairly pedestrian. I'd go: Gallardo Wolf Greinke Narv/Wholestaff Gallardo If RR would take a look at what TLR does and bring a solid reliever into a high leverage situation earlier in the game, he could get through a game with 5 innings and the pen. If Pujols, Holliday & Berkman are coming up in the 5th don't bring in Estrada...use Saito or K Rod. Marcum is toast...he's not Suppan, he's just gassed. I'd go one step further. I'd take Marcum off the roster with a "tired arm" and replace him with Frankie De la Cruz. We know Narveson has a fresh arm and for the most part he showed the ability to get through the order twice against virtually everybody. That's all they really need. I totally agree with having Saito available much earlier if the game situation calls for it.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    Not really Marcum is still a strong #3 which many teams would want to get for next season the Yankees and Red Sox being the ones who would really want Marcum. Who would you rather have as your #3 Marcum or Burnett? How about Marcum or Beckett/Lackey? I bet the Yankees would take Marcum over Burnett every day of the week. I don't see the Yankees being idle this off season the same can be said about the Red Sox as they will be looking for pitching. The White Sox will be looking for pitching along with the Mets and even the Rangers will be looking for pitching. The Twins will also be looking for pitching and Marcum would be someone they would like to get but I don't think they have any pieces that would fit for the Brewers. The Orioles could be another team looking for a starter. That is a lot of teams looking for pitching this off season. With Marcum not costing all that much next season I am going to assume he will get around $10m in arbitration that makes a lot of teams available to him. Marcum's value will not be that low. I would definitely go with a Escobar for Marcum trade with the White Sox or a Xander Bogarts and another prospect for Marcum from the Red Sox. Maybe the Yankees get desperate and offer Banuelos for Marcum which would bring the best value to the Brewers. The White Sox won't be interested in Marcum. They really need to cut payroll, but if they want guys nearing FA that will command a decent amount, they'll hold on to Danks and Floyd. Hiring of Robin Ventura is a sign they don't expect to contend for a few years. Marcum for a year makes no sense for them.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    Why isn't Narveson in the discussion? He has a 1.20 ERA against the Cards this year. Most of the troubles he's had this year came after the 5th. You need 5 solid innings from your starter then hand it over to the pen. I think he's fully capable of keeping them in the game for 5 innings. I'd trust Narveson over Marcum (and Wolf frankly) at this point. Marcum is fried, mentally and physically.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    Hmmm. I didn't know Fielder could play SS. How good would a team of eight Lucroys? Or can he play SS too? That's apples to oranges my friend. He'd be better or at least as good as a team of 8 Orlando Cabreras, Ronny Cedenos. Jack Wilsons, Edgar Renterias, Clint Barmeses, Paul Janishes, Craig Counsells, Josh Wilsons, and on and on. How far down is a 96 win team pulled anyway? Every other Brewer team in history been pulled down farther.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    But none of those 10 is performing to the level Yuni is in this playoff run.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    Can't you Yuni haters get over it? My goodness he played a key defensive position on a 96 win team, was 2nd among NL SS in RBI, and so far he has a .984 OPS in the postseason got one of 3 rbi in the biggest game in nearly 30 years for the franchise while handling every ball hit to him flawlessly. You and your "brigade (which at this point might be what a dozen?)" should be thanking Melvin for getting Yuni as part of the deal. You would rather have had Counsell at SS this year? Reyes would be just as big an upgrade over half the SS in baseball. Why use that against Betancourt, especially now? $6 million would be a lot for Betancourt, but not by all that much. With a $2 million buyout to Yuni, you'd have to get an equal or better replacement for $4 million or less. I'm not sure that guy is out there either.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    With the off days in these series, the entire bullpen has been rested going into every game. Saito is still good enough to close for a lot of teams and his arm is in June shape and he's been extremely sharp. That's what they got him for.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    I think many are missing the point. The point is nobody is pushing Prince out the door. He's choosing to leave. We can't compare Prince's situations to our own. Of course most people would never turn down a 40% raise. That's because 40% more can significantly improve most people's quality of life. Prince's quality of life or his children's wouldn't be one iota different if his annual salary was $20 million instead of $25 million over the next 6 years. So if playing with these guys is so meaningful, take the offer from the Brewers.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    Yuni was a man out there. Handled every ball hit to him flawlessly in the ultimate pressure cooker of a game. Stopped momentum from Young's catch with huge hit. Yes that's the same Yuni everyone was trying to run out of town from the day he arrived.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    If Ted Simmons who has 800 more hits and 300 more RBI isn't in, then you can't put in Posada. Posada's HR totals and slugging are skewed by playing in Yankee Stadium. Simmons would have hit 300 if he played there. Yes he has a lot of postseason stats, but that's a function of the economics of the game more than anything.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    Which is why there's a reasonable chance Betancourt will be back, likely at a lower rate after his option is declined.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    I get the concerns really I do but this is another Hanley Ramirez like player. Hanley was only 3-years older than Bogarts is and was in his 2nd year at AA. Would you have traded someone like Marcum for Hanley Ramirez when he was playing in A ball? http://www.baseball-refer...n#standard_batting::none It's easy to bring up examples of the class A player that turned into a great player. It's harder to name the countless guys MNBrew is talking about because they never made it.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Win if for the baby boomers whose team that they loved as youths was taken away and who's cherished memories of family outings to games were forever tarnished by a bunch of greedy, lying, 30 year old scumbags from Chicago. Those of us in late 50's to late 60's grew up with Aaron and Mathews, Spahn and Burdette, Adcock and Crandall. Even as those guys were replaced by the Joe Torre's, Tony Cloninger's and Denis Menke's, us kids still loved the Braves. It was our parent's generation that grew up as Cub or White Sox fans that stopped going to Braves games after it wasn't as fashionable. It was us Braves kids that took the brunt emotionally when they left and when the Brewers came it was the baby boomers that embraced them. But it's still not quite been made right. No, not till the Brewers are hoisting the trophy.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    Heyward got hyped as the second coming a week into his rookie year. That happens with toolsy guys. But you can't get caught up in the hype and over pay for a guy like that. Some turn out to be Corey Patterson. Atlanta fans are down on him because they watched him all year hit .218 with RISP. Yeah he was just 21 and that needs to be kept in mind, but he's obviously got things to work on. He's clearly not a middle of the order bat that can be counted on right now. He's also used up 2 of his pre-arby years, and he'd be eligible for FA at age 26. By the time he puts it all together, he may be gone.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    Maybe Roenicke will wake up and finally start to manage like it's a playoff game instead of a game in the middle of May. Any sign that Yo is having one of those bad starts that he has a few times a season, and he needs to get Greinke up. They cannot afford to fall 4 or more runs down.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    I think it says a lot about Peralta that he was ahead of Nathan Eovaldi who's younger and was pretty effective as a Dodger call up.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    You're right RCC, Briggs ended up in law enforcement, if memory serves it might have been back in his hometown of Patterson, NJ. I remember back when he was traded, Briggs wasn't happy leaving the Brewers (and he retired at just 31 soon after that half season with the Twins). He had come up as a very young player for the Phils and he never quite got past being a platoon player there and of course in that town it can be rough. He had a string of solid years as a Brewer and although that team with Scott, May, and Briggs in the middle of the order never finished with a winning record, they did win over skeptical fans that had yet to embrace this new team especially in 73 when they went on a 10 game winning streak and made noise in the first half of 74 and 75 as well.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    More forgotten then Scott, was the guy who's name I stole for a monicker. Do you realize on the day Briggsie was traded away for the awful (as a Brewer) Bobby Darwin, he had a .447 OBP, the Brewers were 28-28 and only 3.5 games out of first. Without Briggs they went 40-66 the rest of that year. Briggs was also the first Brewer to go 6 for 6 in a game, and he once hit two home runs (including a GS) in a game off of Nolan Ryan in 1972, which was no small feat, considering that was a year that Ryan fanned 329 and only allowed a total of 14 HR all year in 284 innings. Having been at that game, it cemented Briggs as my first ever favorite Brewer.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Arizona's team BA is 21 points lower vs. left handed pitching (.235 vs .256). Wolf has good career numbers in Chase Field, 7-2 with a 3.43 ERA. I have no issue having a rested Gallardo ready for a game 5. It should be a good matchup for the Brewers tonight. The downside is Kottaras is getting his start against their lone lefty and left handed hitters have significantly more trouble against Saunders than right handed hitters.
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