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  1. JohnBriggs12
    I would bet the farm it's Kotsay. Melvin is thinking small in all his moves. Kotsay is the epitome of thinking small. Not that he doesn't improve the bench. Heck the lone true backup OF they have right now is Gwynn. Kotsay is at least capable of giving both Cameron and Hart days off vs. righthanders. But as I suggest in the Hart thread, they should be thinking impact lefty bat, and trading Hart for pitching.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    I would bet the farm it's Kotsay. Melvin is thinking small in all his moves. Kotsay is the epitome of thinking small. Not that he doesn't improve the bench. Heck the lone true backup OF they have right now is Gwynn. Kotsay is at least capable of giving both Cameron and Hart days off vs. righthanders. But as I suggest in the Hart thread, they should be thinking impact lefty bat, and trading Hart for pitching.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    I would bet the farm it's Kotsay. Melvin is thinking small in all his moves. Kotsay is the epitome of thinking small. Not that he doesn't improve the bench. Heck the lone true backup OF they have right now is Gwynn. Kotsay is at least capable of giving both Cameron and Hart days off vs. righthanders. But as I suggest in the Hart thread, they should be thinking impact lefty bat, and trading Hart for pitching.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    I would bet the farm it's Kotsay. Melvin is thinking small in all his moves. Kotsay is the epitome of thinking small. Not that he doesn't improve the bench. Heck the lone true backup OF they have right now is Gwynn. Kotsay is at least capable of giving both Cameron and Hart days off vs. righthanders. But as I suggest in the Hart thread, they should be thinking impact lefty bat, and trading Hart for pitching.
  5. JohnBriggs12
    The reason the Brewers led the wild card at the break was largely due to the first half perfomance of Sheets and Parra who were a combined 18-5. While Gallardo is a fine young pitcher, and Parra has the ability, I think it's overly optimistic to assume Gallardo will be the pitcher Sheets was in the first half of 2008 when Sheets became the All Star starter and certainly it's overly optimistic to think Gallardo in his first full season is going to pitch at that level the entire season. It's also way too optimistic to think that Parra can perform like he did the first half of 2008 (when he was 8-2 with a 3.78) over the entire course of 2009. Bottom line, assuming same production out of Bush, Suppan, and McClung they got while forging that first half of 2008 wild card lead for a full 2009, they need Gallardo to go 20-6 and Parra to go 16-4 and do that while carrying a burden of number one and two starters. Ain't gonna happen.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    Lucroy was a 3rd round pick out of college. He's stayed at each of his levels approximately 65 games with no noticeable dropoff in production. It's not unrealistic to envision him ready for the major leagues after 140 games at AA and or AAA in 2009. He'll be within 3 months of his 24th birthday when the 2010 season. That's just about right for a guy you envision as a starter in the major leagues. Sure they could bring back Kendall at age 36 for another year, but I wouldn't want him for anything other than a backup at that point and he'll command too much salary to fill that role.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    Okay. Melvin's plan of picking up Cameron's option then trading him after Sabathia left didn't work. So now what does he do? Well for one thing, he needs to act quickly while there are still 3 impact lefthanded bats out there (Bradley, Abreu, and Dunn) and sign one of them to play RF. I'm not a big Dunn guy, but he makes more sense in this lineup than having both Cameron and Hart. Where does that leave Hart? As the number one option to upgrade the pitching staff. Jonathon Sanchez for Hart is a fair return. We need to be realistic that Hart is not going to get you a Cain, unless of course you add more value to the deal but I don't see that happening. If Hart doesn't get you suitable pitching, maybe you could revisit the Kelly Johnson for Hart deal. Johnson has played some LF. You might have to move Braun with the stronger arm to RF, but Johnson sure would give the lineup something it's lacking and he's cheaper than the FA out there.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    Great, spend $10 million on a guy worth half that thinking you can deal him when you can't. There's no sugar coating that as that was the plan and he failed. Up until this point, this offseason cannot be characterized as anything but utter failure by Melvin. No help in starting rotation. Only help in bullpen are minor leaguers and the very erratic Julio. No new lefty swinging OF bat. Current backup up OF consists of Tony Gwynn and two converted infielders, Nelson and Iribarren. Wow! Same inoffensive catcher who could play another 150 games. This team could lose 90 next year as presently constituted.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    What need? Two of the top 5 prospects in the organization play 3rd (Gamel, Green) and 2 guys are coming off very solid if unspecatular AAA seasons (McGehee and Heether). I don't see a reason for moving him to 3rd. If he can't catch, someone will want his bat. With Lucroy right behind him, he could end up more valuable in a deal.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    Kotsay at 1/3 of Cameron's price would be much better value for Brewers. Melvin gambled big time when he picked up Cameron's option. At $10 million there's just no other suitors for him. If the Brewers are stuck with Cameron, it hurts their ability to get help elsewhere and burdens Macha with a lineup that has the same problem it had last season. If Yanks go elsewhere, only way other teams get interested is if Brewers pick up some of his salary.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    Moyer's no fool. Any pitcher would love to have that lineup for run support.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    Capuano needs to become a reliever if he wants a major league career.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    Igawa is better than anything the Brewers had in AAA last year. He could easily turn out to be a very adequate 4th or 5th starter. If he does that, his $4 million per year will seem cheap. Some guys just need to be out of NY.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    I love Aaron Miles, but if he's to expensive, Hall can fill in there in any emergency. You don't need to keep Escobar as a backup. If Hardy goes down for any time at all, you just call Escobar up.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    I think they'd like then 5th OF to be a minimum wage guy. The 3 likely candidates are all lefthanded, Nelson, Iribarren and Gwynn. Assuming Cabrera is the CF, it would make sense for the 4th OF be righthanded as Cabrera is a stronger hitter from the left side and you may want to do platooning with him. piccione88 hit many key points. If Baldelli ever returns to complete health, he has tremendous ability.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    That's quite the overstatement to say he can never get on base. In 2007 he had a .371 OBP and having done that one year, he's certainly capable of doing it again. Melvin is known to believe that speed guys develop later as hitters. You wouldn't grab him and hand him the starting CF job obviously but I see no reason not to have competition for that job. It worked for the Brewers in 03 when Melvin brought in Pods to compete with Sanchez.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    They have guys that replace him defensively late in games. The Cubs could win the Central by a dozen.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    He's played 107 major league games at SS so he could fill in there occasionally. Any long term health issue for Hardy and you'd bring up Escobar anyway. He's got more versatility than Durham. If you listened to Uecker every time the Brewers played the Cards, Uecker loves Miles and couldn't figure why the Cardinals platooned him with Kennedy.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    What about Aaron Miles? He'd be a monumental upgrade over Craig Counsell and could even be a decent stopgap if you wanted to deal Weeks for some pitching. Mark me down for wanting Aaron Miles.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    "I'll give you that the young offensive core wasn't nearly as talented as the current one" I don't think that's necessarily true. Certainly not in the perspective of 1993. Jaha's best years he hit .313/.389/.579, .300/.398/.543 and .276/.414/.556. He also had years were he hit 34 and 35 HR and drove in 111 and 118 runs. Listach was coming off ROY season. There was no reason to believe it was to be his high water mark. Vaughn was a 4 time All Star who once hit 50 HR and twice more was over 40. Hamilton had a long productive career with a career BA of .291 and a career OBP of .360. Nilsson was dogged by ailments but had one of the prettiest swings I've ever seen and he ended with a career .817 OPS, including an incredible 1996 where he hit .331/.407/.525. That was by any standard a very fine core of young talent. They just never put it together at the same time due to injuries (which happen) mostly. The one season they were putting it together, 1996, the pitching staff was in total collapse and Vaughn got traded at the deadline. That year they scored 894 runs. This current group has never come close to scoring that many runs. The basic point RockCoCougers makes is a good one. You can have a nice core of players but you can't lose big time talent and expect it to stay competitive. Your going to lose players but you have to keep adding talent around your core.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I would agree with that but he was charged with only 6 errors in 82 games last season. Nevertheless, with Hall still around, I don't see Wigginton as a Brewer. I do like his bat though.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Daniel Cabrera is just 27 and has allowed fewer hits than innings pitched in his career in the AL East. His WHIP is high because he walks a lot of guy and he's the worst hitter possibly of all time: 14 AB's, 14 K's. But come February, if guys like Cabrera and Redding are still out there and you can get them cheap, you might want to bring one in as insurance and to compete for the 5th starter spot.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    .210/.285/.336 in 396 ABs. Who's stats are those? Mike Cameron's at age 25. This is one deal (like most deals) where the jury is out until we actually see what happens.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    I definitely think the Brewers need a guy to be able to stick out there when Hart's in the middle of one of his slumps. Whether Gross is the best option for that I don't know. It would depend on who else might be available.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    There are a lot of pitchers over the years who have had injury problems but very few that have had so many instances where they've had to be removed in the middle of games often in the heat of a race. Honestly I think the instance where Sheets "tweaked" his hamstring while warming up in a key September 07 start was the final straw. Right then I think Melvin decided he wasn't going to extend Sheets. He as much said so just after Gallardo got hurt when he said "it's too bad because this was the year we were going to have both Gallardo and Sheets".
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