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  1. danzig6767
    Broxton wishes he had a .560 OPS. I wasn't trying to say that Flores shouldn't get to play given i'd rather he get at bats over a 30 year old nobody like Presley. My frustration is he continues getting a chance to play fairly often even though he hasn't shown any above average skill, but Broxton doesn't get the same chance to try working through his struggles at the plate. Instead, we get to see Nieuwenhuis play nearly everyday in CF even though he's in his 6th MLB season where he shown to be a 5th outfielder type of player at best. For all of Broxton's struggles, Nieuwenhuis has only 3 hits in his last 33 at bats and that includes 18 K's. If this team was legitimately competing for a wild card berth, i'd also play Nieuwenhuis over Broxton. That isn't the case though. So why play Nieuwenhuis nearly everyday vs giving Broxton those starts instead? If after a few hundred consistent at bats Broxton continued to struggle so badly against big league pitching, then at least the team gets a likely answer on his ability to hit here vs only giving him random at bats here and there.
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    Yes, this is very frustrating. I get that very often Broxton has looked over-matched at the plate, but this was supposed to be a year where guys like him were going to be given a long leash to see if they can handle big league pitching. Yet, instead of letting Broxton get say five starts a week, we get career spare part Nieuwenhuis getting the bulk of the starts in CF and 30 year old scrap heap Presley getting nearly three times more at bats. Maybe Broxton simply won't ever be able to be productive vs big league pitching, but the team won't ever find that out by only giving him a handful of sporadic at bats a week. Flores has gotten significantly more at bats and while he hasn't looked as over-matched as Broxton, he only has four extra base hits in 113 at bats to go along with his mediocre speed and .560 OPS. Flores doesn't look to possess a single skill which sticks out and makes you think, at least he can do X and then maybe other areas he can grow into.
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    He only has four extra base hits in 105 at bats. I like the patience he shows with 14 walks drawn, but i don't see him having much of a future as an outfielder in the big leagues as basically a singles hitter with mediocre speed. If he was a guy who could at least hit a bunch of doubles, it would be easier to stomach his severe lack of home run power. Granted, 105 at bats is a very small sample, but he hasn't impressed me much because nothing about him stands out, defensively or at the plate.
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    Goforth sucks, i don't care if he has an option left. As for Broxton, yea he strikes out way to much. That said, this is exactly the type of season to let him get consistent playing time, even if he struggles so the team can make a more informed opinion as to whether Broxton can hit big league pitching. Why bother playing guys like Presley and Nieuwenhuis so often instead of Broxton given we already know that those two are fringe veterans with no long term upside? Broxton should be getting at least five starts a week in CF and let him sink or swim. Same for Perez at thirdbase. Let both show what they can do with near everyday playing time. If either or both prove that they can't be productive with that many at bats, so be it. Then at least the team will have that answer with both vs giving them only sporadic starts.
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    I simply want to see Perez get an extended amount of playing time to see what he can do. Granted, he'll have to walk at a better rate if he wants to ever be an everyday player, but he has an ideal frame, has hit well so far when given at bats, and seems like he'd be a plus defender at thirdbase. Now if Counsell wants to keep Hill in the lineup, then i'd rather it be mainly at second and take away some of Scooter's at bats. Something like giving Perez 5 starts a week at third and then giving Hill the other two, along with a few at second would be fine with me so long as Perez gets consistent playing time. Plus, i'm not high on Gennett being the long term solution at second. With as well as Villar is playing and if Arcia gets the shortstop job next year, i'd rather see Villar be given the everyday job at secondbase. He'd be an upgrade defensively from Scooter and doesn't come with extreme batting splits.
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    Perez and Broxton should be getting at least 4-5 starts a week to see what they can do with fairly regular playing time, even if they were to struggle. This is exactly the type of year where younger players like them should be given a long leash to show something or fail. As for Hill, no team will give up anything of substance to where it's worth giving him more starts than Perez.
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    I'd rather see him get regular at bats instead of Flores who has a fly swatter bat.
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    Wasn't bad baserunning by a Brewers team supposed to be because Ron Roenicke was such a bad manager? Baserunning instincts are a skill just like other aspects of the game are. Some players just never are able to grasp well when trying to take an extra base makes sense and being able to judge well their speed compared to distance of a likely incoming throw. Robin Yount for example was a fabulous baserunner even though he didn't steal a lot of bases. It was an innate skill which couldn't be taught.
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    Rebuilds today will come do what they almost always have, does the GM and those underneath him have an eye for talent. Sure, many GM's today will use analytics in ways others in the past didn't use, but in the end it's still overall scouting whether in trading veterans for prospects, the draft, and finding potential underrated MLB players. Take Theo with the Cubs. For as much credit as he's gotten for the overall process of his rebuild, what was far more important is that he and his scouting staff has very often traded for the right players, drafted the right players, and had a little luck sprinkled in. For all of the credit Beane got for his process of building teams, he had the eye to draft Hudson, Mulder, and Zito over three drafts. Stearns has traded for a lot of players in a short time, ranging from guys in AAA to kids still in their teens playing A ball. It's nearly impossible to say this early on just how well this smorgasbord of traded for players will develop and thus in retrospect the trades will layer be judged. This and drafting skills will impact how fast and well the rebuild. I thought most of the trades which Stearns made did seem good from an average fan's perspective, but i never scouted any of those prospects. Hopefully Stearns and his staff end up proving to have an above average eye for talent because that will dictate whether this rebuild is a success, more so that the process he uses to rebuid.
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    Davis is hard to figure out when it comes to his walk rate. In the minors he had a career .389 OBP. Then in his time with the Brewers, how often he took walks was so up and down. In 2014 he only took 32 walks in 500 at bats, yet last year he drew 44 walks in 392 at bats. So far this year he only has 5 walks in 150 at bats. Davis is proving to have elite power, but to be a more productive overall hitter, he just needs to walk more like he did last year. As for Santana, my only disappointment so far is the lack of power. I expected more home runs.
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    I'm still very surprised at just how much patience so many of the hitters are showing. Even Herman Perez walked three times tonight. I would have thought that to be impossible. He only took four walks in 230 at bats last year. In general i question how much impact batting coaches have, but even guys who used to hack at everything are often working the count. The team so far at least is 5th in walks drawn compared to 25th last year.
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    I'd never trade a player like Trout with four years still left on his deal. The Angels could wait say two more years to see where things are and still get a ton for him.
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    This would be my ideal option. Scooter has very mediocre range and arm. I think Villar would be a better choice at 2nd than 3rd.
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    I think Thornburg was moved to the bullpen more so because the team feels it's the best chance for him to stay healthy.
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    Exactly. Melvin was hardly a bad GM. He was given orders to keep the team a float, compete and draw as close to 3M people as possible. Stearns was given the latitude to tank, Melvin wasnt. My guess is that both Attanasio and Melvin pretty much shared similar ideas on what to do during that 4-5 year stretch. Attanasio was super competitive and thus was in a win now mode, along with he loved seeing 3 million fans pouring in Miller Park year after year. Liked that free agents were picking Milwaukee. Melvin i think was fine with this objective by Attanasio and thus operated under what his owner wanted. This is likely why Melvin kept his job as long as he did. The one thing i wonder if it bothered Melvin was how often Attanasio did the negotiations with agents of free agent players? There were articles about Attanasio negotiating with the agents of Suppan, Garza, Ramirez, Loshe, and K-Rod. I still remember Melvin saying he wasn't interested in signing Loshe because of the draft pick compensation, but then Attanasio got a deal done. In another instance when the Brewers were thinking of signing K-Rod the second time, Melvin was asked by a reporter if K-Rod would be back. His response was, ask Mark.
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    Given the Brewers are in an obvious rebuilding mode, the better question should be how often have other teams in a similar rebuilding mode ended up trading a player at the deadline that they signed on the cheap during the offseason? In most cases, i don't think the GM's of rebuilding teams go about signing a few veterans with the main intention of trying to trade that player later on for prospects. Instead, i think those rebuilding GM's see holes on their roster in a given year which lack a suitable young player to plug in, so they look for veterans on the cheap who they think will be good value. Gotta field a 25 man roster. Then though, if one of those cheap veterans produces better than expected, it does open the door for a potential trade as an added bonus. Take Carter. I don't think Stearns signed Carter with the main intent of hoping to trade him in July. Instead, i think Stearns signed Carter mainly because there was no firstbaseman in the minors ready to play in the majors, he knew Carter from Houston, and he signed for cheap. That said, Stearns clearly knows that the Brewers still need time before realistically being able to at least compete for a playoff berth. So if Carter were to be still hitting well come July, Stearns without question will listen to offers..
  17. danzig6767
    I wonder if he got too big/strong? When we played Houston, Gomez looked like he could step in and play linebacker for a football team. The guy has always been so driven, but this is baseball not football, and for a guy with his skillset, adding too much muscle could be to his detriment. Carlos never was the skinny slap hitting leadoff hitter type which Minnesota and the Brewers initially tried turning him into. He was more of a strong explosive athlete with blazing speed. Over his time as Brewer though, i could see him getting stronger and thicker each year after clearly hitting the weights. Given Gomez wasn't some plodding firstbaseman type, i just wonder if he crossed a line where getting stronger initially helped him, but he pushed it to far and thus he lost some flexibility and speed? Or maybe the Mets were on to something on the hip issue?
  18. danzig6767
    So you would like to see Attanasio eat 80-90 million dollars for a still productive player? This is Ryan Braun, not Ryan Howard after he tore his Achilles and still owed over 100 million. With baseball revenues soaring via local and national TV rights, 20 million per for a productive hitter in a league lacking them isn't some hideous amount which would make his contract like it came with a bout of herpes. Sure, in any type of trade involving a veteran owed a lot of money, if a team eats some or a lot of the contract, that often will increase the talent coming back in return. Asking Attanasio though to eat 80-90 million for what is still a productive player, the return should be enormous. That's a huge amount of cash.
  19. danzig6767
    He does only have two walks so far. Hard to see him ever improving significantly in regards to taking walks. That said, i did read an article about Segura lowering his hands during winter ball and him hitting the ball harder since. We'll see if he can continue hitting more doubles, triples, and homers like he did over the first half of the 2013 season. That's what was so exciting when he first arrived here. http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/arizona-diamondbacks-jean-segura-getting-rave-reviews-041916
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    No way would the two NY teams allow for a third one.
  21. danzig6767
    There's always the commercial break... With a DVR, a break is at your fingertips at all times. Hard for me to imagine life without a DVR. Besides the convenience they allow for, on the rare instances when i do watch anything live/in the moment and thus have to sit through commercials, it's torture and sometimes i'll pick up the remote to hit fast forward, only to remember that's right, i actually can't zoom right past all of these commercials. So i DVR every Brewers game and watch something else for at least an hour, then don't have to wait through any commercials. This is especially nice during an inning with multiple pitching changes.
  22. danzig6767
    I'm trying to think of another pitcher who throws as hard as Peralta and gets as few K's, but i'm coming up blank.
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    What other position though would the Cubs want to play Schwarber at besides LF? They had determined long ago that he wasn't good enough at catcher to remain there. That pretty much just left firstbase and LF. Given he had never played infield and would be short for a firstbaseman which is problematic on high throws, the Cubs chose to make him a leftfielder and that was likely a wise decision. Some fans seem to believe you can just throw any defensive liability at firstbase and that player will be fine. I'd rather have a really bad leftfielder than a really bad firstbaseman. At firstbase, they can allow a bunch of extra hits via poor range and errors, some turning into doubles or triples down the line. If someone there also struggles at digging poor throws out of the dirt, that's even more extra baserunners and often they advance to secondbase. Being short leads to high throws over a firstbasemans glove. A bad leftfielder in most games has less chances to butcher a play. So if hypothetically instead of Schwarber suffering the ACL tear, it was Rizzo, do you think the Cubs would have moved Schwarber to firstbase? I really doubt it and if they wouldn't, then what about Schwarber would make him versatile?
  25. danzig6767
    Schwarber isn't versatile defensively. He'd be a below average defender regardless of where the Cubs played him, but he has such a big bat, they have to put him out on the field somewhere. His ideal position would be DH in the AL. A real versatile defender is someone who can play multiple positions without being a liability at any. Not instead, hey you have a monster bat and we know you aren't good defensively at any position, so let's find a place where your defense would do the least amount of damage.
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