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  1. JoeHova
    Hopefully Hart gets well soon. I also hope that Bill gets to play in RF, otherwise bringing him up was pointless. Very disappointing if he just sits on the bench.
  2. JoeHova
    This season is already enough of a train wreck without adding a guy like Jenkins. I hope they stay far away.
  3. JoeHova
    Don't forget that Looper has also been horrendous. He could easily be replaced too.
  4. JoeHova
    I can't say that I'm pleased by this signing. Hopefully nothing comes of it.
  5. JoeHova
    How do we know he was wrong? The Brewers are at about the same payroll they had last year, perhaps that is their limit. If, for example, the word around the league was that the Brewers needed a team to take a Hall or a Looper in order to offset cash, I think it's fine to infer from that they are at their payroll limit.
  6. JoeHova
    Isn't Alonso a great prospect?
  7. JoeHova
    I enjoy irony. I do not enjoy watching Claudio Vargas however.http://www.waveflux.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/morans.png
  8. JoeHova
    Ladendorf appears to be terrible, so even though Cabrera is not especially good, it's probably a nice move for Minnesota.
  9. JoeHova
    This season is a total failure. Cameron, Hoffman, Counsell, etc. all better be shipped off if the team wants to salvage anything from this year. I bet they'll just hope they can limp to 85 wins though.
  10. JoeHova
    Agreed. Having Hoffman as an A probably hurts the Brewers, it would be better if he was a B. I think (hope?) that there is no chance that the Brewers offer Looper or Kendall arbitration. (After all, why would they want to offer Kendall arbitration when they apparently plan on giving him a lifetime contract to catch here? Seriously though, Melvin has to have realized by now that Kendall is awful and would jump at a chance to accept arbitration.) I think the team will offer arbitration to Lopez and Cameron, but I could be wrong. I think they could happily live with either of those guys on a 1 year deal.
  11. JoeHova
    I wonder if Bill would be willing to be sold to a Japanese team. Perhaps the Brewers could defray some of his salary in that way. A player like Bill would probably be worth more in NPB than he would be to a MLB team, where he's probably a minimum salary player at this point (so I don't think another team would pick up much of his salary). Of course, Bill surely still believes he is a good player, and I suppose that it is possible and he's just in a 3 year slump with the bat. Whatever value he has in MLB is solely with his glove/versatility for now. I'm not sure teams are willing to pay guys like that very much money. OTOH, Willie Bloomquist is on a multi-year deal (albeit for less money per year than Bill).
  12. JoeHova
    Isn't that just a technicality? Anyway, what about the Yankees & Giants vs. the Knicks in the past few years? Or the Lakers vs. the Clippers (that huge disparity is in the same sport! Not just the same city). Lakers/Clippers is like Cards/Browns, except the Clippers never made a Finals because all the good players from other teams were away fighting the Nazis.
  13. JoeHova
    It makes no sense to want to do that, for several reasons. How do you know that the Cardinals or Rockies weren't also using PEDs? I don't understand the holier-than-thou attitude that many fans take about this. Every team has had numerous users. There is no team's fanbase that should really feel smug about these (or similar) revelations.
  14. JoeHova
    This would be an awful move, unless they get him for free, in which case it is only a bad move. The Padres have been blatantly shopping this scrub all season. The stories would always say things like "the Padres could be convinced to part with the veteran righthander but not much interest has developed". Yeah, obviously, because he is terrible.
  15. JoeHova
    Marson is a nice catching prospect, I like him pretty much. He's got great OBP skills but not much power. I know that that sounds suspiciously too much like latter-day Jason Kendall for many people's tastes, but I still think he's a worthwhile prospect.
  16. JoeHova
    This is the first move I don't like by Zduriencik (not counting the Griffey/Sweeney signings, but I figured the Griffey thing was a sop to Mariners fans and I thought Sweeney making the team over Shelton was probably an instance where a GM let the manager make the final call on which marginal bench player to keep). I think the M's gave up too much for guys who aren't especially good or especially cheap. That's not to say that Snell and Wilson won't help the team, because they probably will, but I don't think Z did a great job of buying low here.
  17. JoeHova
    This is the key. If the team is willing to divest itself of prospects year after year, they have to be ready to pay big money to keep Prince and Rickie and Yovani and so forth. It's a shame, I was so looking forward to this era of Brewers baseball and now it seems like it's pretty much over, with lackluster results. I guess it's too soon to say that, but I have a bad feeling about the next couple days.
  18. JoeHova
    At least he never gave $42 million to Jeff Suppan.
  19. JoeHova
    I somewhat disagree. They still have Wright, Beltran, Reyes, Johan, and K-Rod. The rebuilding shouldn't take too long. They don't have many bad contracts (only Oliver Perez) and they have the ability to field an enormous payroll. Their minor league system is not as good as it could be but it's not barren either (Sickels has it about average).
  20. JoeHova
    Fangraphs has Suppan as below replacement level for the past 2 seasons, and that's before Monday's debacle. They surprisingly have him being worth almost $11 million in the first year of his contract, so at least he earned his money for 1 year. $11 million or so of value in exchange for 4 years and $42 million is not what you want to see though, and he's at work rapidly deducting value from that $11 million he earned in 2007. In fact, Fangraphs has Suppan and Looper as the 2 worst (qualified, which is .3 innings pitched per team game) pitchers in baseball this season. Signing guys who you hope to be average at best to full value contracts does not appear to be smart. Suppan will be paid $14.5 million next season ($12.5 million in salary and a $2 million buyout of his 2011 option). At least Looper's deal is up after this year and he only requires a $750,000 buyout for next year. Hall is on the hook for $8.9 million next year (including 2011 buyout) and Riske is owed $5 million (including 2011 buyout). That is a lot of totally wasted cash, but even the best GM's will end up wasting some money. $30 million in wasted money out of an $80 million payroll is a higher proportion than you would like to see though. Hopefully the team plans on bumping up the payroll a little next year to try to compensate a little for these mistakes. At least all the bad contracts are over after 2010 (actually, all of the team's contracts except Braun's are over after 2010).
  21. JoeHova
    Another way to look at it is that he assembled a team that should have made the playoffs in 3 consecutive seasons.
  22. JoeHova
    It has to do with the fact that Milwaukee is either smallest or the 2nd smallest market in MLB (battling it out with KC). The huge revenue streams to compete on a dollar for dollar basis with the Cubs or Mets will just never be there. The Brewers can't keep sacrificing 6 years of cost control for a couple months of performance now. I don't think it's especially smart of even the big market teams to do that, but it is foolhardy for a team whose payroll ceiling is approximately the median team payroll. If $90 million is the maximum payroll the Brewers can have (they're at about $80 million now) and a replacement level team would win 49 games and cost about $10 million, that leaves $80 million to try to pick up extra wins. Wins cost about $4.5 million on the free agent market last year, which means that a team could expect to pick up about 18 additional wins for that $80 million. That puts the Brewers at 67 wins and 95 losses if they build only with market value players. Contrast that to the Yankees, who can expect to win 91 games if they pay market value, or the Cubs, who can expect to win 77. That means that the Brewers need their young, cheap guys much more than a large market team does.
  23. JoeHova
    Not to mention, Morrow already has almost 2 years of service time.
  24. JoeHova
    If the Brewers trade for this guy, I would think/hope that it would be for a conditional Player To Be Named Later. An OK prospect if he's able to make, say, 6 starts or 10 appearances for the Brewers, a bad prospect if he makes fewer. I would be livid if they traded Green or Salome for 5-6 starts of anybody, much less a guy who hasn't pitched all year and has only been a starter for 1 year. That's not how small market teams should operate.
  25. JoeHova
    The Brewers should try to expand the deal to include Alcides Escobar in exchange for Eric Byrnes too. Byrnes and Davis are just what the Brewers need to turn their season around.
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