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  1. JohnBriggs12
    "To be fair he's not starting against lefthanders." But, also to be fair, he's had some big hits off lefthanders including the 3 run blast off of Mike Stanton just last Saturday (how quickly people forget when it comes to Jenkins!). His 12 RBI in 57 AB's vs. lefties is pretty good as is his .472 slugging percentage.
  2. JohnBriggs12
    Jenkins goes 0 for 4 in one game and somebody starts complaining? News alert, Fielder and Braun didn't get any hits last night either. Jenkins has been clutch all year. In extra innings he's 7 for 11 and has a 2.056 OPS. With RISP, he's hitting .286/.367/.591. He's having a fine year by his and most players standards.
  3. JohnBriggs12
    Nobody is going to sign Graffanino at any price. He's going to need a 2nd surgery in 3 months and 8 months after that to recover. He probably won't play at all in 2008. Besides, they have the utility guy to replace him already on the team in Joe Dillon. Forget Crawford. He's going nowhere especially for that package. Tampa Bay is not going to trade him and if they did, 2 dozen other teams would be bidding on him. Posada, a lifetime Yankee would sign with Brewers? Dream on. Barrett? No thanks. Estrada will be the starter. Rottino will be his backup. Miller will retire. Jenkins at one year $9 million is still the best option in LF or if not Jenkins, then Gross. Mench hopefully will be replaced perhaps even by Dillon. Of course that would require backup IF help, but hey Callix Crabbe is ready to play in the major leagues and he'd make the minimum.
  4. JohnBriggs12
    If Vargas puts together two more seasons like his last two, double figure wins, winning record, ERA under 5, you can bet get he'll get a real nice multi year deal too. A lot of what Suppan got was based on consistency and durability (which to smaller markets is worth a lot).
  5. JohnBriggs12
    Having a ballpark with a deep CF, coupled with a very speedy OF, is over the course of a season going to prevent pitchers from wearing down mentally and they perform better. Brewer pitchers in Miller Park and other cozy parks like Great American coupled with shaky defense, really can't ever relax. The Brewers also handicapped themselves when they went with 13 pitchers so long. That caused Counsell to become a primary PH, and prevented his use as a late inning defender.
  6. JohnBriggs12
    They will have a real hard time making the playoffs without Yo. How will shutting him down for 3 weeks affect him when he comes back? Parra's been sitting so much does anyone think he will be effective when used now? He certainly is no longer stretched out. I think the process of using a guy, then sitting him down, then using him again does more strain on the arm then just letting him pitch, monitoring how he's throwing and only sitting him down if he's showing signs of fatigue. Just for fun, I looked up the innings racked up by some all time great pitchers at young ages: Tom Seaver at age 22 threw 251 innings Catfish Hunter at age 21 threw 259 innings Don Sutton at age 21 threw 225 innings Vida Blue at age 21/22 threw 312 innings (that's right, 312) Bert Blyleven at age 20 threw 278 innings All of those guys went on to have very long major league careers without serious arm troubles. Keep in mind that all those innings were at the major league level. The notion that limiting a guy to a specific amount of innings will prevent injury or that exceeding that amount will lead to injury is faulty thinking. Every guy is different as those listed above illustrate.
  7. JohnBriggs12
    I'm amazed at the people that "feel for Capuano". Capuano knows the deal. You go 16 straight starts without your team winning, you know your job isn't safe anymore. He's probably relieved. I understand when a guys been around for a few years there is some attachment, but geez players come and go in this game. Capuano is still getting paid handsomely. He still has a major league job, and if he shows he's successful out of the pen that might benefit the Brewers a lot more than his "ok" starts that he never seems to win.
  8. JohnBriggs12
    Hall with a 3 run bomb tonight to silence his critics.
  9. JohnBriggs12
    "Spurling was promised a Sept 1 callup" Are you kidding? Wasting a roster spot again on that guy? The deserving callups would be: Rottino: Gives them the flexibilty of a 3rd catcher. Crabbe: Reward for fine season. Another guy who can play defense. Gwynn: Obvious Aquino: Another pen arm and is already on 40 man Mclung: Why not take a look Dickey: Since June 1st this veteran has been solid as can be in AAA and earned a token look. Nobody should be held back for playoffs. They mean nothing.
  10. JohnBriggs12
    It was not ridiculous to sit Hart. He was going through a bad stretch that had lasted since late June. He wasn't getting on base and he looked fatigued. Remember Hart has never played full time over a major league season. Hall has never really gotten hot this year, and it's not been a real good year for him, but he hasn't fallen off the earth. He does have 31 doubles, so he's on pace for close to 40 and he's hitting just below his career averages. Guys don't have career years every year. That's why they call them "career" years. If Hall gets to 15-17 HR, 40 2B, and hits .265-.270 and drives in a few more runs the rest of the way, that's not all that bad.
  11. JohnBriggs12
    I don't want to turn yet another thread into a bash Yost one but I would like to point out that Yost probably figured he'd play Gross in RF more against right handers than he has, but then spring training came and we had Mench and Jenkins both whining about platooning while Gabe kept his mouth shut. Ned tried to appease Mench by giving him starts in RF against right handed pitching. By doing that he further buried Gross on the bench and rusted his bat to the extent he needed 80-90 plate appearences in AAA to get himself straight. I think I posted back in spring advising Gross to also whine about playing time, because if he didn't, Yost would do just as he did. He would ignore the guy with the class not to complain. All while this played out, it was taken in by young players who learned, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
  12. JohnBriggs12
    The time to trade Capuano was last winter. In order to trade him this offseason, the Brewers would need to offer him arbitration. Despite his woeful season, the arbitration system still will reward him with a decent contract and make him that much harder to trade. Last year you could have packaged Capuano and Mench or Jenkins and got a real nice return. Now they are better off in my opinion keeping Capuano and turning him into a Terry Mulholland type. Have him eat innings out of the pen, be available for spot start or emergency option.
  13. JohnBriggs12
    Yost put his neck out starting Capuano. Unless Melvin weilds the ax, I'd bet he'll do it again.
  14. JohnBriggs12
    Gross was a number one pick. Hart was not. Gross has never played below AA. There were and perhaps still are scouts out there that are very high on Gabe Gross. So it's not just fans. Because Gross started out at AA, he never really put up eye popping minor league numbers and so far he's not ever been given an every day major league job wo we don't really know how he'd do. The Blue Jays didn't really give up on Gross. They just decided to go with Alex Rios, who is a budding superstar. Gross got the short end of the stick when Hall moved to the OF. I don't think we'll ever know what he can do unless he plays regularly for 2-3 months.
  15. JohnBriggs12
    Wow, now some are blaming the fans for this mess? It's a top down problem, not the other way around.
  16. JohnBriggs12
    "Kyles did a nice job with Grant Balfour too...he forget everything when he got to majors..." Apparently it started coming back to him in a Devil Ray uniform Homer, because he's fanned 9 and allowed just one run this month.
  17. JohnBriggs12
    I already did my part. Generally during baseball season, I use Brewers names as passwords. Invariably, I'll use a guy who is hot and he cools off when he's my password. For example, I used JJ Hardy starting in June. When JJ expired (as a password), I decided to take Zambrano as my new password to see if hex worked on opponents. The Cubs have lost every start he's made since.
  18. JohnBriggs12
    Zambrano is 3 years younger than Sheets. That is pretty significant. Like it or not, he has outperformed Ben too, and fair or not, has been much more durable. Sheets injury history could be ignored, but why? It is what it is and that's not real good. What about the dizziness episodes. Those could recur at any time. Yes Zito got $17 million but his performance so far to date will discourage teams, not encourage teams to spend on that level. Look if Ben is determined to test the market, he will and if certain teams get involved, he could price himself out of Milwaukee. But if the Brewers offer him $65-70 million over 5 (my gut tells me they'd offer more like $56 million over 4), maybe he'll take it. Who knows.
  19. JohnBriggs12
    Drew Anderson has quietly been having a real nice stretch. And how about the job Stan Kyles is doing with the AAA vet pitchers like DiFelice, Pettyjohn, and Dickey, and earlier Oxspring? Wonder what he could do with the struggling staff in Milwaukee.
  20. JohnBriggs12
    If Attanasio had any stones, not only would Ned be coaching third base in Atlanta next year and Chris Capuano's agent would be begging for a contract somewhere, but Doug Melvin will be back in Canada driving a truck on the ice roads.
  21. JohnBriggs12
    I think calling for this manager to be fired is a substitute for the mirror under the nose test to see if you are still breathing. It doesn't make you a bad fan, just a live one.
  22. JohnBriggs12
    Ned Yost, Tony LaRussa, Lou Piniella. Which name doesn't belong? There's your answer. Right now I don't see them getting beyond 78 wins and that would require them to play better than they are now.
  23. JohnBriggs12
    Hart and Hardy have combined for 1 walk this entire month. That's right, our 1 and 2 hitters, who's job it is to get on base have one walk in a combined 110 AB's. Now obviously pitchers are coming right after them because they are followed by Fielder and Braun, so they should be getting plenty of pitches to hit , right? Yes, but neither is doing much hitting either. Hart is batting .241 this month and Hardy is hitting .250 And we wonder why we can't score runs consistently? Obviously both are not used to playing everyday over the course of a major league season. Hart was a backup for most of last year, Hardy sat out most of the season. Hardy has no viable backup, only the weak hitting Counsell. Hart on the other hand has a fresh backup in Gross, who has always shown the ability to draw a walk here and there. Actually if you think about it, this team could use the 05 version of Brady Clark. Though he didn't walk much, he got a lot of hits and with pitchers pounding the zone at the top of the lineup, he would have a field day.
  24. JohnBriggs12
    Hart's walk totals have dropped to Estrada and Mench levels since the All Star Break (5 in 125 AB's). His OBP in July was .261 and so far in August it's .259. He needs a break. Gross, coming off a nice stint at Nashville, needs to play. He's always been able to get on at a decent clip.
  25. JohnBriggs12
    Interesting side note in the West Virginia game last night. Two of the 7 hits surrendered by Chris Toneguzzi were to his Purdue classmate, Charleston SS Mitch Hillegoss. Hillegoss has had a much better go of it in the pros so far. Interesting that Toneguzzi has been converted to a starter, after being strictly a closer at Purdue and a reliever last year at Helena.
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