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  1. JoeHova
    Not offering to at least Lopez is a terrible move. He wouldn't get that much even if he won in arbitration and he would be easily movable even if his award couldn't be fit comfortably into the budget. Not offering Cameron is almost as bad but his award would be much more than Lopez's so it would have been a little riskier. I still think he could have been moved with little trouble but whatever.
  2. JoeHova
    I don't understand why people act like if Lopez or Cameron accept arbitration, the Brewers would be stuck with them and their budget would be ruined. They could easily move either of those guys on a one-year deal. Not offering arbitration is a blatant and unacceptable cop-out by Doug Melvin, who appears to be running this team into the ground. Time to clear him out and try to lure Jack Zduriencik back (who may be upset at being forced by Seattle's management to re-sign Ken Griffey's dessicated carcass for yet another farewell tour).
  3. JoeHova
    I'm not sure what you are implying. Regardless of what metric or argument you use, I don't think it can be argued that Suppan, Looper, Riske, Gagne, etc. were worth the money they got. I guess Counsell was, but almost anybody can outperform a small contract like he got.
  4. JoeHova
    It would be a big deal for the Brewers, who have failed miserably at paying the "free agent rate" for wins. Among the guys Melvin has signed as a major league free agent only Cameron has been worth his contract (not even Hoffman made it, if you buy fangraphs. He missed out on earning his money by $100,000).
  5. JoeHova
    I thought the MVP's were announced next Monday and Tuesday? Anyway, I'll be shocked if Ryan Howard doesn't come in 2nd. For some reason he seems to get much of the credit for the Phillies being good while the media ignores the far superior player playing right next to him on the diamond. The same thing was happening on Minnesota until this year, when Mauer had a season too good for people to ignore. Utley really should be the Phillie with an MVP, not Howard or Rollins.
  6. JoeHova
    If Kendall played well enough last year that people want to re-sign him, who in baseball history has ever played poorly enough to not be re-signed? How bad does a guy have to be before people are willing to let him go?
  7. JoeHova
    The problem for the offense is that I doubt that the team will go with a Salome/Lucroy timeshare. They'll probably bring back Kendall or sign some other awful hitter and that will cost the team some of the benefits of Prince's and Braun's production, as well as money that could be used on players who aren't terrible.
  8. JoeHova
    It does seem to highlight that JJ should have had more value around the league than he did. It seems like he should have been able to bring back more than a 4th outfielder (who, granted, still might have some potential).
  9. JoeHova
    Lopez (in this scenario) would be the backup SS, his numbers per 150 are kind of irrelevant. He would hopefully play only 10-20 games there. He's not so atrocious that he's going to cost the team wins by playing shortstop in 10% of the games. By the uzr/150 numbers, he'd only cost the team 1-2 runs compared to an average defender if he played 10-25 games at SS. I don't see why that's worth worrying about, especially considering the fact that most of the defense-first backups would cost the team at least that many runs on offense over the same time frame.
  10. JoeHova
    You should have called him out on that. Can't let people like him win. (Although, to be honest, I do have a few worries on the AI front. 7 games is way too early to make such a blanket statement though.)
  11. JoeHova
    Maggette has looked like that for years. He has quite the physique. As for testing, the NBA does do a little PED testing, that's why Rashard Lewis was suspended for the first 10 games of this season.
  12. JoeHova
    Woo hoo! And there was much rejoicing! Signing Looper wasn't a bad move per se but picking up the option would have been. The whole point of having an option is that the player has to play well enough to get it picked up. Looper failed miserably in that effort so I'm glad to see him not be rewarded for failure. Any number of terrible pitchers would be glad to take that $5.5 million and pitch as poorly as Looper so there is no reason for the team to lock themselves into paying a bad player that money this early in the off-season.
  13. JoeHova
    I wonder how many will be offered arbitration. Hopefully yes on Cameron and Lopez and no on the others. edit: I'm not sure they'll offer to anybody though, with the possible exception of Lopez. Being a B could paradoxically help the Brewers because teams may have been reluctant to lose a 1st round pick in order to sign Felipe but now they don't have to worry about it. However, it also lessens the upside of offering arbitration, so who knows?
  14. JoeHova
    Nice, I was a little worried that the Brewers would never bother to see what they had in him.
  15. JoeHova
    God this team is depressing.
  16. JoeHova
    Angels have plenty of cash even with the Matthews Jr. albatross. If they want to keep Lackey they'll have the money to. However, who knows if they want to get into a bidding war with the Yankees over him. In that same vein, I can't see the Brewers winning a bidding war with the Yankees although I suppose it could happen. I'd put the odds of the Yankees signing Lackey at 95% just because there are no other good pitchers out there and the Yankees have a lot of salary room coming free. They just have more money than any other team so even if the Red Sox, Mets, Angels, and Dodgers are all interested, if it comes down to money the Yankees will win.
  17. JoeHova
    Good riddance, getting him was a terrible move all along. I have no idea what Melvin was thinking on that one.
  18. JoeHova
    Since always, or at least the last 80 or so years. CFs hit around league average, SSs hit well below that.
  19. JoeHova
    This the equivalent of the Knicks trading for Darko Milicic (except they didn't have to give up a good player to acquire him). Just because a guy was once highly regarded doesn't mean that he has any intrinsic value. Gomez is awful and there is a 95% chance that he will always be awful. Sure, there is that 5% chance that he'll become acceptable but there had to be a better bet out there to be made, especially when you're a team like the Brewers that can't afford mistakes. Do people realize that the Brewers line-up next year (in Prince's probable final season as a Brewer) will likely include 6 spots with a sub-.330 OBP? The offense is going to be weak even if Prince has another season like he did in 2009. If he has a 2008 type of season, the Brewers will have one of the worst offenses in the league.
  20. JoeHova
    I remember when Hermida was everybody's favorite prospect because of his patience and speed. Injuries have really taken a toll on him though it's also possible that he was never that great. Not a bad move for the Red Sox though. They'll probably be hoping he works out a little better than their previous acquisition of an injury prone Florida-based outfielder (Baldelli, who wasn't awful but wasn't anything special either). The Red Sox can afford $3-4 million on a bench player easily so it's worth taking a chance to see if he can flash some of the skills that made him so beloved back in 2005.
  21. JoeHova
    why would trading a fungible reliever for a good veteran mean that their plan is in doubt? upgrading talent for a minimal price is always smart unless it keeps them from making another, bigger move. I don't see why they can't afford to pay an above average player less than $5 million so I don't see why this would mean that they have given up on the future. It's really a ridiculous sentiment to imply that they have because they acquired a good, cheap player.
  22. JoeHova
    So you don't think that the season ticket holders who sit in the stands for 81 games want to see a few wins now and then? It's only casual fans who care about their favorite team not losing 110 games?
  23. JoeHova
    That's interesting. I remember reading a story about how one of Babe Ruth's bats at the Hall of Fame is corked. The irony is that corking supposedly actually hurts your ability to hit home runs because it makes the bat less rigid.
  24. JoeHova
    The link doesn't work for me, what are Prince and Braun projected to do?
  25. JoeHova
    I think that trying to tie everything in to one number is interesting, especially because that is what teams are basically doing when they offer players contracts. I agree that it tends to value scrubs too highly though. A team that pays $5 million each to a team of 25 Kaplers would be terrible.
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