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Thank you, Dusty Baker.

Ben Sheets. (He is due)

Ben Sheets. (He is due)

Ben Sheets. (He is due)

Ben Sheets. (He is due)

I like CBS Sportsline, but yahoo is fine as well.. I hated ESPN when I used it last year.

If we presume the theory is true....Is the reason for the higher rate of injuries because of the elevation or the fact that they are on a mound that is graduated... If it is because the mound is graduated, could they solve the issue by throwing off of a mound that is more of a plateau...so the Pitcher has a flat surface as a landing area before they the mound is graduated.

Well, be Glad, Doug didn't give away Vargas or Bush this offseason....The Brewers will need depth this year and I suspect the Brewers will use all 7 starters vying for the rotation and probably will use 3 or 4 more starters during the year as well that aren't being mentioned in the rotation debate. Depth is vital.

1. Brewerfan.net has a new thread each week commenting on the possibility of Ned Yost being Fired. 2. Posters on Brewerfan.net will yearn for the days of 3TO and will mention a potential call up each time Hall is shaken up or makes an error. 3. A journeyman pitcher will be released at some point in the season and a thread will be started asking if Maddux can reclaim the career much like he did with others in the past, specifically Doug Davis.

Thanks for the update. I found it interesting that he was considering the 13 pitchers as yost mentioned earlie this week.

Why? Villanueva's pitched 122.2 and 182 innings in 2007 and 2006, respectively (between the minors and bigs). I'd say he's pretty much good to go for about 190-200 this year. If you give him 34 starts and he averages 6 2/3 innings, he will end up with 220 innings...and that does not count any post season...Add 3 starts in Post season and you are looking at 240 innings.... That would be a huge jump from 122 innings and even 182 innings the year before. 25 starts at 7 innings a start would put him at 175 innings...add 15 innings of relief in April and early May and you are at the 190 innings, you mentioned...If Villy is as good as we think he will be, we don't want to blow out his arm in Early september and have to rely on Vargas to get us through September and October when we could have reversed it and had Vargas take some of the starts in April and May to keep Villy's innings down.

I used to go get my Propane tank refilled until I realized....it is only a propane tank....I then realized that I should not have any strong emotions about a propane tank and exchange it at the local Hy-Vee.

I would rather have Villy in the rotation as well, but I think we need to watch his innings this year, yet, so starting him in the pen for a month and a half and then let him make 25 starts and he should be alright in his innings. Also, if Vargas can start off decent, a team might give us a decnt prospect as he might be coveted as injuries occur during the season. This can he an opportunity to showcase Vargas before we hand over the job to Villy.

Apparently, Capuano left the game early today with soreness in the elbow. With Gallardo starting the year on the disabled list and potentially Capuano having an injury, the Brewers might be happy to have this depth in the rotation to start the year. My guess (if the Capuano situation warrants some time off)is that the Villanueva will start the year in the pen for the month of April to limit his innings and the Rotation will look like this until Gallardo comes back...Sheets, Suppan, Vargas, Bush and Parra...With Parra as a the fifth starter, you can limit his innings somewhat. The decision to keep Parra or Bush in the rotation won't have to be made until Gallardo comes back and Villy will be ready to step in for vargas about May 15th or so. http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080317&content_id=2436595&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil Edit---Added the link Edit--- Amended title with update --1992

I am in with the Fossas Folley's Good Luck all.

I would be very interested in trading Gross for Value... He is an important member of the team, but is not irreplaceable.

I like some of the things that comes with the batter hitting 8th....but there are some negatives as the pitcher and the decision to pull a starting pitcher might come up an inning earlier on some occassions. I do like having the opportunity to have a guy with a better On base percentage ahead of the top of the order, though.

I am starting a in depth Fantasy Dynasty Baseball League. This league will be run on CBS Sportsline and it will have a small fee of $30 to pay for expenses and for winning Payouts. This league will have 40 man rosters with 25 man active rosters....All players you will be able to keep year after year, unless you trade them or release them. The draft for this league will be a little different...It will consist of 7 rounds (The first 5 rounds you choose individual players and the last two rounds, you choose a major league organization)...The Major league teams that you choose will help you round out your 40 man roster and can include minor leaguers or major leaguers (keeping in mind that you have to have a full 25 man roster to compete) Scoring will be head to head points with multiple categories. (details of Roster Configuration and Scoring will come in the e-mail) I am hoping to get about 12-14 interested owners, so if you want a league that Middle relief pitchers are used, and no name players are instrumental in winning the championship, this is the league for you. If anyone is interested in joining, post here (I will come back and check the postings on Sunday)or shoot me an e-mail at robfuhr@cox.net and I will send you an e-mail with the list of rules. I am looking for owners that will stay interested throughout the season and will play to win this year as well as play for the future.

This is how I did it when I was coaching a 3rd and 4th grade team.... We were undermanned to start the season, so we practiced defense/Defense/Defense and used our defense to set up fast breaks on offense... The league that I coached in allowed Full Court Pressing unless you were up 10 points...We did that until the score was usually 10 to 0 and then put the press on if the opponent ever got within 10 points. The benefit is that a full court press or a half court trap will lead to turnovers by the other team and lead to fast break opportunities for your team and also eliminate having to run your half court offense on many trips down the floor. The year we did that we started out 0-2, but finished 8-2 and average over 50 points a game in 3rd and 4th grade league, when other teams sturggled to break 25 a game. I also had another experience with a girls team that I coached on the same grade level and I had absolutely nobody on the team that could dribble the ball when the year started...The emphasis on defense in practice actually helps the offensive skills as the players get better when making the defensive players work in practice. But in the Girls league, no zones, no traps, no junk defenses, so we had to run half court offenses...so we had five basic plays that were run out of a the same set....(I had tried to run a motion offense, but had no luck, because of the lack of skills) By having the players know exactly where to go on each play, it helped keep the guards from dribbling themselves into trouble as the plays were designed to pass the ball and did not involve dribbling other than to get the ball up the court. Overall, the best advice I can give is put in a full court press if allowed, half court trap if allowed...or if only man to man is allowed, use a Run and Jump defense that is a man to man defense where a man jumps the dribble and everyone rotates to a different man.....Getting easy offensive chances will help your team win games and get them confidence to run the offensive sets when you are in a half court set.

Why is fitting that a Mike Birkbeck post be your first? I also liked Mark Knudson....an opening day pitcher for the Brewers one season.

Where is Mike Birkbeck

Put him in Jail....