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  1. JohnBriggs12
    I posted before the season that none of the offseason signings had a bigger potential to blow up than Hoffman. At some point every guy is done. It's early though and he's been stung by the HR. But Macha needs to consider his options occasionally. Last night after facing just one guy in the 8th and up by 3, there was no reason not to just let Hawkins finish the game. It's about winning and not about accumulating saves for Hoffman.
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    Weeks' situation is completely dependent on Fielder's. They won't be able to afford both. Lawrie is being groomed to replace the one they can't keep. That of course is assuming Weeks isn't also determined to test FA. The next young guy that they should be looking at locking up is Escobar.
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    This is the problem. If Hart's status was so tenuous that a bad spring training would mean he'd be replaced by a retread old guy that nobody else wanted by the start of the season, then why did they waste their money tendering him? What was management thinking? You don't budget $4-5 million for a guy you have serious doubts about. Heck, they could have used that money and signed Felipe Lopez and stuck him in RF and then they'd have a true number 2 hitter. Also, where's the consistency? They think nothing of trusting 20% of their starts to washed up Suppan, but aren't willing to give Hart consistent AB's for 6 weeks before pulling the plug? They gave Hall 2 months last year. Why is this situation any different? Edmonds isn't the answer either. In fact, he's part of the problem. He's got a strong persona as a very recognizable figure in the game for nearly 2 decades. It's stronger than many managers including Macha and that's not good. He's going to get basically what he wants. Can he still play and produce? That's a maybe at best. Count me with the guys that think Gerut should be getting more of an opportunity. Gerut is just 2 years removed from posting an .845 OPS playing in San Diego. At 32, I think it's more likely that he'd repeat that than Edmonds being able to duplicate the .822 OPS he did combined for Cubs and Pads in 08.
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    He looks like his uncle, Rick Dempsey.
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    I didn't see it, but Gameday indicated the one that Coffey threw was a fastball. Fastballs in the dirt are almost impossible to stop.
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    "But what are the chances the entire rotation stays healthy?" Better than you think. Except for cancer treatments, Davis hasn't missed a start in 6 seasons. Bush's only missed starts the last 4 years were due to a freakish line drive hitting him in the arm. Suppan's had a couple minor things pop up in the last 2 years, but he's known for durability if nothing else. Neither Wolf or Gallardo missed a start in 2009 either. But really if either of those guys go down for more than a few starts, doesn't the season go down the drain with or without Parra? Given they have around $8.5 million invested in Bush and Davis this year, it will take a lot of bad pitching to set either of those guys down for performance issues.
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    Tom Skilling's long range forecast for Suppan's start in Chicago: Windy and warm, near record high of 84. I would advise anyone strolling on Waveland or Sheffield while Suppan is throwing to wear protective head gear. If that forecast holds true, he may not last 3 innings.
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    With a forecast for 55 and sunny on Friday, I'd assume he'll still go unless that's not enough to melt the snow. Personally, I'd like to see him pushed back to Saturday, so he starts in Chicago on Thursday and not Wednesday when I have tickets. So now, we have Manny Parra and Chris Narveson who somehow are supposed to stay ready to go 6 innings by throwing bullpen sessions presumably, backing up Suppan? If this being his final year coming off a poor 2009, and a poor spring isn't enough to dislodge him from the rotation, I fear it's going to take a fairly dramatic stretch of 4-5 straight starts of really poor results to dislodge him. He's probably still capable of sticking a couple lines in there like 5 2/3, 7 Hits, 3 Runs, 3 BB, 2 K every 3rd start and management will act like that's acceptable, even if he doesn't get past the 3rd inning a couple other times. What of Manny Parra now? If Suppan does just enough to keep a job all year and the other guys stay healthy, doesn't what little value Parra had coming off such a poor year in 09 reallly erode to virtually nothing anyway? Does anyone really think that a year long stint in role of that the immortal Matt Ford once held will do any more for his career than 2003 did for Ford who was nothing after that? Don't we all hope that by next spring, someone will have emerged from the system to challenge for a rotation spot anyway? It seems Macha trusts Narveson enough to use him on a fairly consistent basis, so that's less of a worry but this role for Parra might just derail a career. Maybe the solution is to trade Parra if there's someone out there interested.
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    The negative side of the deal is now being felt as they could have had Hart's replacement in place now and be saving his salary. I don't think that's so huge that the deal should be second guessed though. It was made because the opportunity was there and it did get them to the playoffs. There should be no second guessing dealing Hardy either. Escobar is and was ready to take over that job. It's unfortunate that he lowered his value by having a poor season at the wrong time. That's not saying Hardy's a bad player and not be able to bounce back from his off year. But as good as he is at his best, he's not a "special" player in the sense Braun and Fielder are. Assuming the Brewers can re-sign Prince it will be a priority to keep as many young players as possible to keep a rotation of cheaper but not lesser talent around the two special players. If Prince is signed to a huge contract, they will need to replace average or lesser players as they get into their arby years with homegrown talent.
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    Well put. Only explanation I can think of is that they want to show future potential FA that they will give them all benefit of doubt regarding roster decisions. Doesn't make sense to me either, but oh well. How long is his leash? Probably long enough that the alternatives will no longer be stretched out making it even more difficult to dislodge him.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    Knowing that Bill Veeck had complained about lack of revenue sharing way back when he owned the St. Louis Browns I did a little research. Veeck used to accurately point out that games are played by 2 teams and without 1 of those two teams, there is nothing to show or broadcast. In 1952 Veeck proposed splitting television (then in it's infancy) and radio revenue with each team per game. He was voted down 7-1 by his fellow AL owners. So he refused to authorize any broadcast or telecast of Browns' road games for that year. Apparently, individual teams had to give "expressed written consent" as the old disclaimer says to have it's teams games on the air. That so incensed the other owners, that they didn't schedule any Friday night games in St. Louis. Friday night games were popular in St. Louis and this hurt Veeck in the pocket book. That and the Cardinals being sold to wealthy new owners forced him to sell the Browns so they could be moved to Baltimore as league owners would have stymied Veeck and prevented him from moving the team. The point is that Attanasio seems willing to carry the torch for smaller markets and I applaud him for that. It's too bad that Veeck isn't still around to see this. That idiot Mike Greenburg made the absurd comment that Attanasio's remarks would be better if they came from a fan. Hello Mike, us fans have been screaming about this for decades, but the East Coast media ignores us. In fact Attanasio's remarks were completely ignored until Levine reacted to them.
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    I'm not sure that you could say that Suppan was a 'coveted' free agent at the time. The Cardinals decided to let him walk, and I don't remember reading that he had offers from multiple teams. It seems almost like the Brewers were bidding against themselves. Going further, it can be spun any way you want- Suppan was not signed to be an innings eating back end of the rotation guy. That's not the case, he was clearly signed as a #2 or #3 starter (depending on where you would slot Capuano) to essentially replace Davis a few weeks after he was traded for that steaming pile Estrada. This is one reason that I'm apprehensive about the Wolf signing because it seems very similar. L.A. had no interest, and the only other team that seems to have mild interest was the Mets. Chances are that if Melvin would have waited another 6 weeks he could have gotten him for much less money and possibly only a two year committment. Don't read anything into LA's lack of interest. LA's "no interest" is completely because of the ongoing divorce proceedings of it's owners. In fact they couldn't even offer him arby because they didn't want to have to pay for an extra high draft pick. Wolf was co-ace of that Dodger staff last year. Sure he only won 11, but the team won 65% of Wolf's starts.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    What Attanasio should have said is "look, I can offer Prince an outstanding contract, thanks in part to the limited amount we receive from revenue sharing but primarily due to an outstanding fan base we have in Milwaukee. But the system allows his agent when the time comes to take our outstanding offer and shop it to a team that has virtually no budget and that can top whatever offer we make, no matter how good it is." Why don't the Yankees ever lose a player to free agency? Simple, the agents know that nobody else has the ability to top the offer they make so it's pointless to even shop a Yankee to other teams. The Yankee fans don't understand that the system diminishes their teams accomplishments. It's like a high school with an enrollment of 2,000 playing in a football conference where all the other schools have under 500 students. Sure they may run up a lot of championships but aren't those basically meaningless due to the built in advantages they have?
  14. JohnBriggs12
    RyDogg66 was giving him the benefit of the doubt when he said he's below average speed wise. He's not just below average, he's very slow. He's strictly a station to station guy. On a positive, he generally knows his limitations so he'll almost never try going form first to third on a hit and he'll usually hold up at third on line drive hits instead of trying to score from second.
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    I don't sell but I buy and I'd go with EBAY any day over Stubhub. I haven't bought anything on Stubhub for 3 years. Usually you can find EBAY sellers that need to sell tickets from a particular day, rather than many on Stubhub like bani1717 who are selling lots of tickets (usually to finance their ticket package) and thus want to insure a minimum profit. Bottom line is with EBAY, you end up paying the true market price more often. Sometimes even ticket brokers that overbought for a particular game will unload them on EBAY for nice discounts.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    "middling core numbers"? Other than not being a high strikeout guy, his core numbers look pretty good to me especially for a guy pitching in Texas. His numbers suggest he's got pretty good sink on his fastball as he's induced 45 double plays the last 2 years. As to his numbers prior to last year, well he was converting from reliever (which he was exclusively in the minors) to a starter, so some adjustment period was to be expected.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    Any resemblance between the Mike Jones the Brewers drafted in round one back in 2001 and the Mike Jones that's hanging on in AA now is likely to be purely coincidental. You don't go through the injuries he's had without losing a lot of the liveliness in your arm that made you a number one pick out of high school. That being said, he's certainly needs to be commended for perseverance. Who knows, maybe he can finesse his way into a big league job at some point if he can stay healthy over a period of time.
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    I just caught that myself and edited it.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Not since the 2007 when Ryan Braun debuted on Memorial Day weekend have the Brewers had a young player so obviously deserving of a roster spot out of spring training held back for "arby clock" issues. Does anyone expect Braddock to still be in Nashville on June 1st?
  20. JohnBriggs12
    Rivera had 374 plate appearences over 4 seasons with the Brewers and hit .260/.333/.423 with 11 HR and 55 RBI. That's certainly worthy of a modicum of respect as a decent major league backup catcher, not just in comparison to Kendall but certainly to Moeller (and virtually every Brewer backup over the last decade) who as a Brewer took 669 plate appearences to drive in 55 runs and hit .204/.257/.319. So why continue to trash him? Because he's not the most athletic looking guy?
  21. JohnBriggs12
    It's a pretty standard undistiguished type AAA rotation at Nashville, but the bullpen there is a cut above most AAA bullpens. Any number of those guys could step into a major league pen and be pretty decent. I'm glad Farris gets a chance to test himself at AAA. I think he'll do fine.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Saw that the Reds are planning on DFA'ing Wladimier Balentin if they can't trade him in the next couple days. Now if I'm the Nationals, I might prefer the cheaper Balentien over Hart. Balentien is still only 25 and has some ability. He's also had a much stronger spring.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Watching Escobar both in the field and at the plate where he's going to prove his doubters wrong.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    There's no defense that would have stopped any of the 207 HR the Brewer staff allowed last year.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Dye played 133 games in RF last year and 151 the year before. He had more put outs per game than Hart, more assists, and the White Sox pitchers had a much lower ERA (4.14) in the AL where the pitcher doesn't bat than the Brewers (4.83) did in the NL. He's never been a full time DH. He's still not a bad fielder. He's just very limited in range because he doesn't run well any more. He can still throw and catch balls he can get to. With the speed of Gomez flanking him to run balls down in the gap and the option to use defensive replacements late in games, they could get by. You would sit him in Petco and Coors because of their big outfields but otherwise I don't think he's as big a liability as he's being made out to be. Heck, the Rockies were a playoff team with Brad Hawpe patrolling RF in Coors. Hawpe certainly has no more range than Dye.
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