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  1. Ennder
    If Broxton makes a small improvement in his K rate there is no reason he can't be a Mike Cameron type player. If he stays up around 38% he probably won't stick though, it does need to come down a little bit. I think a player can live in the low 30s in the current game where as that same player would never be allowed the chance in the past. So if he can drop it even 5% I think he will be fine. 10% he could be a star.
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    Also what popped out to me is that in 2014 we were only 11th in strike outs yet we were still 24th in this category. I don't think it is just about striking out, there is probably more to it.
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    http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/ For what it is worth they have the top 24 players by WAR for the team. Jenkins was #11 on that list, tied with Gantner, Sheets and Scott. Really depends on how you want to rate guys.
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    By WAR here is a list from baseball reference. I assume this only includes seasons with the team. 1. Teddy Higuera - 30 2. Ben Sheets - 22 3. Chris Bosio - 18 4. Yovanni Gallardo - 18 5. Bill Wegman - 18 6. Mike Caldwell - 17 7. Moose Haas - 15
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    It will come as no surprise that the announcers are wrong. Most of the proposed changes from February went into effect this season but the strike zone changes did not. Now that doesn't mean the umps weren't told to be very careful of calling the existing strike zone better. It just hasn't been an official rule change.
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    Good move bringing in Knebel here. Let him clean up and pitch another inning and if it is still tied at that point hope your bad RP out pitch theirs. Too many times the visitor refuses to use the closer and loses the game without ever using their best guy.
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    Yeah that was terrible. Collins makes a really dumb move by leaving Gsellman to hit and you let him off the hook by walking the pitcher. Just awful.
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    One unfortunate thing about all these bumps and bruises is if we want to trade him later this summer it will not be easy. What team - even an AL team with the DH - is going to want an injury prone 33 year old player? I have a feeling we are stuck with him. Yankees or Astros if their older than 36 year old injury prone guys happen to get hurt at some point.
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    Color it whatever way you want, 2012 to 2014 had a lot of excitement in them. It was not bad baseball to watch. We have had a 2 year rebuild which is nothing at all to complain about. This season has been good baseball to watch and I expect we see some youth mixed in soon which will be more exciting. I think you are being way too results oriented. If we had actually won a World Series in there I feel you would think completely different about this subject and the results shouldn't be what matters. The process of what they did was fine, it just didn't work.
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    And by half a decade you mean 2 seasons. The Brewers haven't had half a decade of bad baseball since before Melvin. They were in playoff contention late into the season just 3 years ago. The team this year doesn't look like bad baseball either and I doubt next year will.
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    Very few teams are projected to win 96 games on paper, so yes you usually have some luck in sequencing or health or breakouts when it happens. It doesn't mean the team was just lucky. The 2007-2012 Brewers were all teams with legit playoff chances entering the year. You could make a case that the 2013 and 2014 were as well. Not all playoff teams look like juggernauts on opening day. That is most likely the franchises best 8 year stretch of teams.
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    I would assume the team trusts Santana over Broxton since Santana has been batting higher in the order even while Broxton has been raking. Broxton is worth so much more than Santana in the field though it probably still makes him the better player right this second.
  13. Ennder
    Over the past 14 days he is now hitting .295 with an .812 OPS. In May he has a 25.3 K% and a 10.8 BB%, both slightly better than his career average.
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    Yeah I can't see any way that Brinson is coming up until someone is traded. All you do is kill everyone's growth just to start his clock. There is no hurry to get him up.
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    These are two very different stretches of history for the Brewers. Melvin's job was to try to get the team to the playoffs and get a solid fan base built up in the new stadium. That is why all of the young players that came up for him were put into the majors at least half a season before they should have been. It is why they made the go for it type deals. It was an attempt to build the fanbase. Selling off guys right after you finally make the playoffs just isn't a good thing for that. I believe under Melvin we were taking a short term, maximize what you can do while Fielder is on the team type stance. Remember Melvin started with an awful team with very few trade chips and a below average minor league system. He had a lot farther to go to build a team. Stearns is likely tasked to go for a more long term winner type of team. He had tons of major league trade chips to start it with. That makes building up a lot of depth much easier and the length of a reasonable rebuild much shorter.
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    There is no way the 2011 Brewers should have rebuilt, they still had a strong core that could make the playoffs. Same with the 2012 team who won 83 games and easily could have won more. That was part of the first good stretch the team had had in a long time and they wanted to maximize the window, there really is nothing wrong with that. About the only complaint I can really see is that they signed Lohse. It isn't like we made any major trades in that time frame. The rebuild really started in 2015 when they got rid of Gallardo. So there is maybe a 2 year window in there where you can make an argument they should have been selling harder than they did but it is really just nitpicking. They still had an 82 win season in there and it wasn't due to a lot of overperformers, it was an 80+ win roster. Whatever problems I have with how they handled the team in that timeframe doesn't offset the huge bonus that they didn't sign Fielder. That is a mistake that would have really hurt the team. Going for it another 2 years that didn't work out isn't a huge deal. They still ended up selling off most of the 2013+ players that have any value, a bunch of guys didn't walk because they insisted on trying for 2 more years or anything. They didn't make any huge midseason deals just to try to get an extra win or two.
  17. Ennder
    We could target a Quintana or Cole type and it wouldn't be the end of the world. Those guys are around 2 or 3 more years. They would also require a very strong package to get. I would only do it if we were sitting in the wild card spot at the trade deadline, not if we were a few games back.
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    Most pitchers peak somewhere between 26 and 28 and the peak lasts some random number of years. It is very rare for a pitchers peak year to be age 30 or 31 though. They might stay good through that age range, but it isn't their peak. Signing pitchers over 30 to any type of long contract is very risky. It paid off for the Cubs last season but just as often it doesn't work. But again their is no one way to win a World Series. Some teams like the Royals do it with bad starting pitching but a good bullpen. Some like the most recent Giants team just leans heavily on one super ace. There isn't a script to this though having a decent bullpen seems to be a pretty important piece of the pie.
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    I disagree with your first two points. I do agree that there is no one right path. However, given the state of the Brewers current MLB team and farm system, I believe it is the path they are on. 2016 Top SP with Ages 1. Clayton Kershaw, 29 2. Max Scherzer, 32 3. Madison Bumgarner, 27 4. Noah Syndergard, 24 5. Corey Kluber, 30 6. Chris Sale, 27 7. Jon Lester, 33 8. Johnny Cueto, 31 9. Yu Darvish, 30 10. Jake Arrieta, 31 11. Jacob deGrom, 28 12. Justin Verlander, 34 13. Cole Hamels, 33 That's an average age of 29.9 years old, with Noah Syndergaard the only player younger than 27. Yes and that group as a whole were way more valuable 2 years ago. That group of pitchers peaked at around age 26 or 27. I couldn't find a single pitcher on that list who had his best season last year. All of their best years were 2 or 3 years ago. Verlander was the best example since it is a good 4+ years since he had a better year than last year though last year wasn't his best. Pitchers peak in their mid 20s. But the truth is only I'd say 2 of the past 6 season world series teams were won because of great starting pitching, it just ins't that important when it comes to winning it all.
  20. Ennder
    Your opening premise is wrong. Most pitchers peak before 30. You also don't need to elite starters to win a World Series. There is no one right path.
  21. Ennder
    I don't think you can lump Davies in with Anderson here. Davies is only 24 years old (same age as Woodruff and Lopez) and has shown the ability to pitch well for long stretches at a time in the majors already. Davies could see his way back to AAA for a stint but he is likely still in the teams long term plan. Chase Anderson is just filler until younger guys are ready.
  22. Ennder
    There is almost no way he is a sub 3 ERA guy. I'm just hoping he can be a sub 4 ERA guy.
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    That plays into my cold weather thoughts. His slump heavily coincides with the 2 road series we played where it was very cold. He has been fine the rest of the year including on the road in Cin and in Tor.
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    I'd wait until after the next homestand to look at him. He was good at home so far. It really seems like he doesn't like playing in the cold. A large number of his bad games were in cold games.
  25. Ennder
    Brewer fans will say this because it is Villar. I have defended Villar more than most, so no it isn't because it is Villar. I hate errors, they should just be removed from the game. The error calls are so inconsistent that the stat just has no meaning. The other day I saw an OF fielding a routine ball(I think it was Pence), he slipped and fell right before the ball got to him and the ball bounced past him. He was slightly injured so it took him a bit to stand up and chase it down and the CF didn't come help for some reason. End of the play was an inside the park HR. That either has to be an error somewhere or you just don't call anything an error.
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