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  1. JohnBriggs12
    How much is an all-star game appearance worth in arby hearings? Anything?All Star games mean nothing when you follow it up by going .239/.263/.396 with just 5 HR in 255 AB's the rest of the way.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    How much is an all-star game appearance worth in arby hearings? Anything?All Star games mean nothing when you follow it up by going .239/.263/.396 with just 5 HR in 255 AB's the rest of the way.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    Hart isn't going to get more than $3.5 million if that. Bush will get more like $4 million if not a little more. Fielder will be in the $7 million range. McClung and Weeks look about right.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    Hart isn't going to get more than $3.5 million if that. Bush will get more like $4 million if not a little more. Fielder will be in the $7 million range. McClung and Weeks look about right.
  5. JohnBriggs12
    Hart isn't going to get more than $3.5 million if that. Bush will get more like $4 million if not a little more. Fielder will be in the $7 million range. McClung and Weeks look about right.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    Hart isn't going to get more than $3.5 million if that. Bush will get more like $4 million if not a little more. Fielder will be in the $7 million range. McClung and Weeks look about right.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    Hart isn't going to get more than $3.5 million if that. Bush will get more like $4 million if not a little more. Fielder will be in the $7 million range. McClung and Weeks look about right.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    fondybrewfan, I don't thing the big market teams bat an eye at giving up draft picks. They don't build through the draft. They build by buying up FA.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    Everyone should stop panicking about Gamel's defense. Baseball history is full of guys who came up as bad fielding 3rd baseman and turned into pretty decent defenders over time. The Brewers own Mike Lamb is a perfect example. His first 4 seasons in the majors his fielding percentages (at 3rd) were: .913, .914, .914, .919. His last 4 seasons they were: .980, .940, .936, .963. Aramis Ramirez was thought to be a butcher when he was a Pirate and he's turned into a solid major league 3rd baseman. Gamel had a .918 FP at Huntville last year. That figure was better than any Braun put up in the minors.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    Looks like Braves are zeroing in on Lowe. How long before the Cubs come calling on Sheets?
  11. JohnBriggs12
    I don't think 2008 looks like an outlier at all. Escobar hit .281 in advanced rookie ball at age 17. At 18, playing against mostly 22 year olds, he hit .271 for West Virginia. The outlier year was 2006 when at 19 he struggled a bit in the Florida State league, a notorious pitchers league. He came back and hit .307 between High A and AA at age 20 the next year. He doesn't take a lot of walks, but he does put the bat on the ball. I think some have Enrique Cruz in the back of their heads, but this kid is not Enrique Cruz. Cruz was a 100+ strikeout guy in the low minors who was overwhelmed in the majors. Escobar's power is improving because his body is filling out somewhat. He probably never will be a guy who's OBP will exceed his BA by more than 50 points, but because he makes contact and can run, he should hit for a decent average in the major leagues with more power than he showed as a teenager playing against older competition. Will he have an adjustment period? No doubt. The question is how long will it last. I think if the Brewers drop out of contention in 09, it will be a good time for Escobar to get time for that adjustment.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    OldSchoolSnapper, Once Cameron was brought back, Kapler was gone. He wanted a situation with more playing time. He wasn't going to get it in the Brewer OF. If you're going to get upset you should either be upset that Melvin spent $10 million on Cameron when he could have re-signed Kapler or that he settled for cheap options in Nixon and Duffy when much better lefthanded bats were out there. By the way, balanced lineups go back decades. Casey Stengl platooned with the 50's Yankees. As for Shouse, you don't give journeymen 40 year old relievers 2 year deals when you have a younger, cheaper replacement who outpitched him down the stretch last year in Stetter.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    I think Gillespie has a shot if Braun or Hart goes down with an injury. It depends on how he's producing at AAA but I don't think Nelson is seen as anything more than a major league backup/AAAA player so in case of injury, I'd expect Gillespie to leap frog him on the depth chart.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    I live in Chicago area and my perspective is different than most of yours. The Chicago media and every Sox fan I know is thrilled the Sox are out from under Swisher's contract. Good riddance is the overwhelming sentiment. Not only was he bad last year, he pouted when benched for his poor play. It was very telling that even after Carlos Quentin got hurt, Guillen often played career minor leaguer Dwayne Wise instead of Swisher. Of course that doesn't preclude him from rebounding into a productive player. But at $21 million in this market it's a risk I don't think the Brewers should take on. Especially when they have so many players moving into big contract years. While I think Cameron is certainly not worth $10 million to the Brewers, I will certainly acknowledge he's a much better teammate than Swisher.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    The problem with Pedro is that even at this stage, you probably have to pay a premium for his name when you could get say an Odalis Perez (who had a better year than Pedro) for close to minimum or on a minor league deal and not bat an eye if you end up releasing him.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    Those guys all slumped in large part because the lineup was overloaded with righthanded hitters. The only time the offense took off last year was when Branyan was hot for a month. That helped everybody, especially Fielder. If they throw that all righthanded lineup out there day in and day out again, they'll get the same result, roughly 750 runs which isn't going to be enough without CC and Sheets.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    It would take a major reversal of form for Swisher to return just to his career norms. He was terrible in the 2nd half for the White Sox last year. After the break, he hit .191/.298/.427. He did hit some home runs, but of his 24 hit in 08, 19 were in the launching pad that is U.S. Cellular field. He was so bad, he was benched often down the stretch. Put Fielder in U.S. Cellular, and he'd average 50 per year. Swisher is an ideal 4th OF, not an everyday 1st baseman.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    Wow, they must really like Mat Gamel. They have the Brewers scoring 62 more runs than last year with essentially the same lineup other than of course Gamel if he makes the team.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Taking on Swisher's contract is pretty risky. As much as he has power and takes walks, he did hit just .219 last season.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    Those are significant differences logan3825. Dunn's low BA and high K rate are indicative of a guy who does the vast majority of his damage off of pitcher's mistakes. The best hitters are able to fight off good pitches and get some hits off pitcher's pitches.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I totally agree with Teatoe99. Why not go after Hinske? He can spell Hart. He could also spell Cameron with Hart moving over to CF. He gives you protection against Gamel needing more ML time too.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Garland is 106-89 and hasn't reached his 30th birthday. He has never been on the DL and has pitched at least 190 innings since 2002. He's won 18 games twice. He's never had an ERA over 5 in a full seasons, all in the AL where pitchers don't hit. He's 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA in 2 postseason starts. Now I understand he's coming off a year where he gave up a lot of hits, and had his worst WHIP since 2001. Now he's no Ben Sheets, but he is younger, has more wins (in the same amount of ML time), has more starts, more innings, a better winning percentage, and 2 more postseason wins than Ben Sheets has postseason starts. That's the fascination with Jon Garland.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Fielder is a better all around hitter than Dunn. He hits for higher average, strikes out less, has a higher slugging percentage hits more doubles. and his biggest HR and RBI year (accomplished in 3 full seasons) is better than any of Dunn's 7 full seasons.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    monty57, I couldn't agree with you more on the pitching situation. My gut is telling me the Brewers will go through a lot of pitchers this season.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    So the Red Sox got both Kotsay ($1.5 million) and Baldelli ($1.75 million plus incentives) for anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 what the Brewers are paying Cameron and now the alternatives to Cameron are disappearing.
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