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  1. JohnBriggs12
    What, so Gallardo will have plenty left for his seasons in New York, Boston or Dallas? How do you guys who advocate babying pitchers think guys got to the Hall of Fame? HOF pitchers pitched. A lot. Gallardo's not 19 or 20. He's fully developed physically. Parra's close to 27 which is pretty much right in his prime years.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    Because that's more than the market price for 37 year old outfielders that average around .250 with 70-75 RBI hitting in the middle of the lineup. Ibanez got $10.5 million per year after averaging 112 RBI the 3 previous seasons. Abreu got $5 million. Garrett Anderson is, was, and always has been a better hitter than Cameron. Now when Cameron was stealing 25-30 bases, he might have been nearly as valuable offensively. Anderson got $2.5 million, all for his offense, from Atlanta as a 37 year old. Based on that, I'd peg Cameron's offense to be worth around $2 million. Now his defense is probably worth $2-3 million added to that, but that's still a far cry from $10 million.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    Probably almost none. Right. The 83 Brewers drew 2.4 million. In 84, attendance dropped 800,000. If you think that can't happen, then your in denial.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    You buy tickets months in advance and that's the chance you take. Right now those 3 million are seeing bad baseball. How many of those people are already thinking: "Next year, I'll wait"? It would compound things to ignore the obvious and not take advantage of opportunities to improve your club for next year and beyond.
  5. JohnBriggs12
    Former Brewer farmhand Travis Ezi was released earlier this week by the Schaumburg Flyers of the independent Northern League. I had the distinction of witnessing what may turn out to have been Travis' last pro HR, a shot to the opposite field on the 16th of this month.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    Former Brewer farmhand Travis Ezi was released earlier this week by the Schaumburg Flyers of the independent Northern League. I had the distinction of witnessing what may turn out to have been Travis' last pro HR, a shot to the opposite field on the 16th of this month.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    If you remember Floyd, you obviously remember Cecil Fielder so what's the difference? I saw Stan Musial and Warren Spahn in person. Now that's feeling old.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    Brewer's chances of re-signing Sabathia = 0% Cardinals chances of re-signing Holliday = I'd put them at 25% at least. Holliday is a native of Stillwater, OK, which is not all that far from St. Louis and probably is home to a fair number of Cardinal fans. Cardinal management hasn't spent foolishly. They have the money to keep him. We also know this. He makes the Cards the odds on in this division in 2009 if they weren't already.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    My brother the Sox fan picked this for his first game to see this year. He said it brought him to tears. Does bring to mind being in high school after Braves had left and before Brewers arrived, and I was in my A's fan days listening to crackling radio from WCCO of Catfish Hunter's perfect game against Twins. As I recall Catfish broke up a 0-0 tie with an RBI single.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    A virtual certainty? Neither McGehee or Gamel has played a game in the OF in their professional careers. Neither has Weeks for that matter, and he seemed to be making great strides at 2B this year. Not that I put much into this, but Melvin did say earlier this year that they will not be changing player's positions in the majors anymore. Almost any guy with the skill to play multiple infield positions can handle LF with 15-20 games to get acclimated (spring training). I don't recall Melvin making a blanket statement like that and why would he? Braun to LF has worked out. As for Weeks, Haudricourt has been bringing up that possibility lately and usually that means it's been discussed.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    Having McGehee on the bench is a mistake. Yes it might improve the bench marginally, but it downgrades significantly McGehee's value in the market at a time when it is just being built up. Who knows what's going to happen to this roster for next year. The Brewers benefit greatly from getting a better read on McGehee by giving him as many AB's as possible this year. They also increase his trade value by playing him should they decide to go that route. Remember we're talking about a guy claimed off waivers less than a year ago who's not yet arby eligible. Plus it doesn't appear to be an upgrade with Rolen in the lineup replacing McGehee. Hall may have struggled greatly at the plate, but he plays even more positions than McGehee so he's still a good 25th man to have, albeit an expensive one. Plus to his credit, Hall hasn't been griping about his plight in public this year.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    I think it's a virtual certainty that either McGehee or Gamel will be in LF on opening day next year with the other guy at 3B and if they can re-sign Lopez that means Rickie Weeks stands a good chance to be in CF (I see them sending Rickie to winter ball to play CF). Now that Adam Heether is playing LF in Nashville, he'll get an opportunity to backup. Hall will also be a candidate to at least platoon in CF. That also means Ryan Braun will indeed be in RF. The interesting question is catcher. I hope they get a lefty swinging veteran to platoon with either Salome, Lucroy or Rivera. Maybe that guy will be included in a deal that involves Hart or Hardy. Hart and Hardy will be dealt either together or separately.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    I've been critical of Melvin from time to time. He has strengths and weaknesses. Overall he's average to slightly above average. His weakness from my perspective is that he's not very creative. He tends to deal only for immediate need and not from strength or to upgrade where they might be okay on paper but there's an opportunity to really upgrade. I'd have been all over Ibanez (you'll look back and find posts last year where I said he should be targeted) last off-season and later Abreu after Ibanez signed with Philly when Abreu's price was in free fall. Either Ibanez or Abreu would have significantly upgraded the offense, and allowed them to deal Hart for some arms, but they might have caused them to move Braun to RF, which to me would have been worth the risk. In that case, it would have meant more work for Melvin and I think he'd rather sit back. Melvin was content with a team that was 5th in runs scored last year that barely scraped into the postseason. I would have tried to improve on that. They needed to be in the top 2 in runs scored with this pitching staff that was tough to upgrade on their budget. The bottom line as far as Melvin's future, it rests with the success of Macha. GM's typically don't get the chance to name a 3rd manager. Melvin's had a relatively long tenure and if Macha can't get it done by 2011, both he and Melvin will be gone.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    Melvin liked Juan Cruz in the offseason but didn't want to surrender draft picks. He's had a disappointing year in KC but he might welcome a return to the NL where he's had success.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    Some of us felt the same way about the 82 team being without Sixto Lezcano who was an enormous part of the 78 and 79 teams that captured the hearts of Brewer fans. But it usually happens that way that some guys who helped in the building aren't there for the finished product. The bottom line was Sixto was the key piece to get Fingers, Vukovich and Simmons, so he played a huge part in the AL championship even though he himself was gone.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    He's not eligible for FA until 2012 which makes him a very nice target considering how he'd boost the pen now and give them a closer for the next 2 seasons. Hardy's name keeps coming up, but O's have a need as SS.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    The Brewers are not going to stake their postseason hopes on Chris Cody. You might give him a look after you've dropped out of contention, but not in the midst of trying to stay in a race. Rolling the dice on a 2 time 16 game winner seems the better option if the price is reasonable.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    Reports are that Gord Ash was in attendance to see Halladay beat the Red Sox yesterday. Now granted I'm sure Ash has plenty of ties in Toronto so he probably tries to get back there occasionally, but the fact that the Brewers assistant GM and not just any scout was there sure lends credence to the Brewer interest.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    One need look no further than Gamel's K rate (1 K for every 2.46 AB) for proof he wasn't ready. That's 244 K's over 600 AB's which would shatter the major league record. I don't think the Brewers expected him to strike out so much. His worst year in the minors, he fanned once every 4.92 AB's. I'm thinking they want to see him work on protecting the plate with 2 strikes.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    So move Heether to the OF.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I wonder if this might have something to with the Hardy to Seattle buzz.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    People who like Escobar don't think Luis Castillo or even Ozzie Smith. They think Jose Reyes. If the Brewers thought he was Castillo, he wouldn't be untouchable. Luis Castillo was and is a little guy who was strictly a slap and run offensive player that played 2B. Not a bad player but not someone to build a team around. Reyes went from slugging .373 and .386 his first two full seasons, to slugging .487. Escobar isn't little. He's 6'1" with a frame that could easily fill out to 190 pounds. I think the Brewers see him hitting 12-17 HR per season and stealing 50 bases ala Jose Reyes.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Hardy is certainly a better hitter than he's showed this year, but his struggles are indicators that his "mean" is not as good as it appeared to be after his 07 and 08 seasons which instead of being indicators of something even better as he matured, are likely at the very upper end of his capabilities. I don't think the speed edge Escobar has over the slower than slow Hardy can be underestimated. Not only should Escobar steal 40 bases (to Hardy's 0 or 1), he can also go first to third on hits that Hardy can't, stretch singles into doubles, doubles into triples, beat out infield hits, etc. It all adds up. Speed and contact is a combo that is sorely lacking on the Brewer roster. The guys with speed, Hart and Cameron, aren't contact hitters. The contact hitters, Kendall and Counsell, can't run. Speed/contact combo is the antidote to streakiness.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    Probably because it really doesn't matter much. I doubt Rivera would make our pitching staff any better. Of course he wouldn't make it any worse either. Oh it mattered. Early in that game Parra was throwing almost exclusively fastballs. Now that may have been the plan going in but in most of Parra's other starts, he was using his all his pitches from the get go. I even recall back in April some announcer (I think it was on a national game) quoting Kendall on how he liked having Parra use all his pitches early so he knows which one he's got working that night.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Funny that nobody has pointed out that in the start last week where Parra pitched 7 shutout innings and finally established his fastball early in a game (for really the first time all year) the guy putting down fingers was Mike Rivera, who caught his perfect game in 2007. Coincidence? I think not.
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