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I believe the Bucks wanted Ellis as their option A and will go with Josh Smith as option B and if no one else is left will go with Redick as option C. I don't like it but it is what is going to happen. I would rather see the Bucks just tear everything down and trade Jennings for a draft pick or two. I still like the idea of trading with Dallas and getting a pick this year and possibly one next year.

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Entertainment the last time I looked is a real job. You live in a city that is mostly entertainment are those not real jobs in Las Vegas also? I don't believe baseball players are grossly overpaid they are paid what the market dictates that they are to be paid. I don't see how it is undeserved as he has worked rather hard to get the salary he is making.

Not sure why but I completely forgot about one of my other favorite albums this year Stone Sour's "House of Gold & Bones – Part 2".

Why would the Brewers need a 4th player who can cover all 3 OF spots? Doesn't really make any sense. Schafer and Aoki can both play CF along with Gomez. Not sure why this would even be needed. If they wanted someone who can play all 3 OF spots they could just call up Josh Prince again as he can also play all of the INF positions also.

Sorting them will be easier if people don't put an explanation. I believe someone did this last season and that is what they requested for people to post the list without comments and then comment in another post or after your list why they are there if you wanted to. My list: 1. Tyrone Taylor, OF 2. Orlando Arcia, SS 3. Devin Williams, SP 4. Ariel Pena, SP/RP 5. Jimmy Nelson, SP 6. Johnny Hellweg, SP 7. Hunter Morris, 1B 8. Tucker Neuhaus, 3B 9. Mitch Haniger, OF 10. Victor Roache, OF 11. Taylor Jungmann, SP 12. Clint Coulter, C 13. Jed Bradley, SP 14. Drew Gagnon, SP/RP 15. Tyler Thornburg, RP 16. Ke. Davis, OF 17. Kh. Davis, OF 18. Michael Reed, OF 19. Chris McFarland, 2B 20. Zach Quintana, SP 21. Jorge Lopez, SP 22. Jose Pena, OF 23. Yadiel Rivera, SS 24. Damien Magnifico, RP 25. Michael Olmsted, RP Players that are close to my top 25 include: Nick Ramirez, Cameron Garfield, Nick Bucci, Caleb Gindl, Edgardo Rivera, and Cody Scarpetta.

There is no way Segura is going to catch Tulo but Braun is possible. It would be bad if Segura and Gomez do not make the all star team. I am not even sure how anyone could vote Kozma as an all star he isn't even in the discussion as a top 5 SS in the NL he ranks near the bottom in nearly every single category offensively. Kozma ranks 9th in qualified SS for OPS, 10th in slugging, 7th in OBP, and 8th in average. Again why has Kozma gotten almost 600,000 votes? The 4th best SS in the NL isn't even in the top 5 and there is a player who is just barely a top 10 player in qualified SS in the top 5 in voting? [sarcasm]Wait we are talking about the smartest, classiest, greatest fan base don't question us Cardinals fans so they can't be wrong right?[/sarcasm] SHORTSTOP 1. Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies: 1,691,262 2. Brandon Crawford, Giants: 1,015,633 3. Jean Segura, Brewers: 835,329 4. Pete Kozma, Cardinals: 595,416 5. Andrelton Simmons, Braves: 592,286 I am not even going to start on the OF voting with BJ Upton who is hitting just about as well as Weeks is getting 582,401 votes so far. Seriously BJ Upton getting that many votes? Top ten qualified OF's in OPS Carlos Gonzalez Carlos Gomez Shin-Soo Choo Domonic Brown Dexter Fowler Gerardo Parra Justin Upton Carlos Beltran Hunter Pence Top 15 in NL OF votes: OUTFIELD 1. Justin Upton, Braves: 1,666,026 2. Bryce Harper, Nationals: 1,616,784 3. Carlos Beltran, Cardinals: 1,550,844 4. Ryan Braun, Brewers: 1,283,103 5. Shin-Soo Choo, Reds: 1,043,839 6. Hunter Pence, Giants: 984,734 7. Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies: 955,568 8. Andrew McCutchen, Pirates: 952,618 9. Angel Pagan, Giants: 871,143 10. Matt Holliday, Cardinals: 868,829 11. Gregor Blanco, Giants: 722,441 12. Carlos Gomez, Brewers: 704,106 13. B.J. Upton, Braves: 582,401 14. Jon Jay, Cardinals: 577,251 15. Jay Bruce, Reds: 556,894 B.J. Upton has an OPS of .539 and Weeks has an OPS of .648. Rant over.

I would definitely take Hamilton on any team really. Who wouldn't want someone that is going to have an OBP around .400? Even if he only had an OBP of .350 that is still very valuable and you could always platoon him.

Nope older than him.

I believe they are wrong with Devin Williams as he will easily become the Brewers best pitching prospect and the only other prospects on the Brewers that would rival him in potential would be Orlando Arcia and Tyrone Taylor.

OK I have one, this is a past player and he did play for the Brewers. [pre]Age Level AVG OBP SLG OPS 21 RK .391 .495 .488 .983 22 A .328 .417 .435 .852 23 AAA .325 .404 .394 .798[/pre]

Not really my kind of music but to each their own. So far I have been enjoying Killswitch Engage's new album "Disarm the Descent" and Rob Zombie's "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor"

Peralta has been rather unlucky and the majority of his hits that he has been giving up are of the ground ball variety. He has a babip of .333 which is incredibly high. The two things that he is not doing very well in is walking batters and the other is striking out batters. His ERA will go down once he starts to figure out exactly how to pitch in the majors right now he is pitching way to much to contact. With the stuff that he has he really shouldn't be doing that as he should be going for the strike out more instead he is pitching to contact. I don't see him as being overmatched as he is clearly not overmatched as his GB% indicates. If you look at his SwStr% you will see that he is not being overmatched and is actually as good as David Price is this year. Now I am not saying Peralta is as good as Price or his stuff is as good but batters are swinging and missing at the same rate against Peralta as they are against Price. To put it in perspective Kyle Lohse is the next Brewers starter who has a SwStr% that is even close to Peralta's. Peralta has a SwStr% of 7.9, Lohse with a 7.6, and Gallardo with a 6.6%. I don't see Peralta as being overmatched he is more along the lines of he hasn't figured out how his stuff translates in the majors yet. He needs to figure this out and the only way he is going to figure this out is to keep on putting him out there every time his spot is up in the rotation. So far including this start by Peralta he has 6 good starts and 5 bad starts with 3 starts being neutral. The Brewers need Peralta to continue on developing at the major league level as sending him down to AAA really doesn't help all that much for him or the team. Narveson would be the one to take over Peralta's spot and you would feel more comfortable with him to get the team back into the race? I am sorry but there really isn't anyone in the minors that is going to pitch any better than what Peralta is doing every other player down in the minors will have the same problems that Peralta is having or would be worse.

Actually it is rather knee jerk. Peralta has one bad inning and it is when should he be removed from the rotation and then all is quiet after he doesn't give up a run in the next 4 innings. So he gives up 3 runs in 6 IP that right there is keeping your team in the game and not letting it get beyond where your team can not come back. I think peoples expectations of Peralta are way to high and when they see him giving up 3 early runs it is like he is kicking their dog. Peralta isn't perfect right now but his results are rather deceiving also. If he starts K'g batters more he is going to look really good and once he starts lowering the number of walks he has been giving up he will become the best pitcher on the team right now.

Actually Peralta has pitched rather well it is his walks that are killing him and not the hits. He is currently just below league average in terms of LD% and above league average for GB%. So no he really hasn't given up all that many hard hit balls he is actually just about league average for hard hit balls (LD%). League average for 2012 for GB/FB was 1.33 and currently sits at 1.31 while Peralta this year is currently at 2.47. Peralta is a young pitcher and needs to be starting every game and I could care less about the results he is putting up as long as he is showing improvements. This team is not going to make the playoffs so it is less about results and more about potential and seeing what we have in Peralta. Unless you really want to see another Suppan pitching for the Brewers then that is fine also but it doesn't really help the Brewers in the future. Allowing Peralta to pitch through the whole season regardless of his numbers right now is the correct thing to do. These knee jerk reactions by fans is the perfect way to ruin a franchise.

First there is no real metric for defense there are only opinions of what is a good metric to measure defense. Secondly well I forgot what I was going to say I am sure it would have been really smart so just trust me on this.

because its wrong. i hate when braun and aramis hack away on bad pitches. i dont care how good a player is. hacking at a bad pitch is stupid. how many times have we seen braun swing away on 3-0 only to ground out? yeah i get that he's ryan braun and he deserves some slack but its still annoying. its completely unacceptable when a AAA quality player like juan francisco does it. if francisco doesn't swing at that high pitch it's a 3-1 count. the next pitch that nolasco threw would have been ball 4 if francisco hadn't swung at it. francisco would have walked and the brewers score another run. it might not comeback to haunt them because they're playing their marlins, but if it was a good team..... yuni b is selfish. he constantly hacks away at garbage and refuses to run hard on grounders. I still don't see a problem here of a player being selfish. If the player gets a good hit on the ball that means they are selfish? Your reference to yuni b is not what I would call selfish that is just being lazy. Being lazy is something completely different than being selfish. How do you know that next pitch would have been a ball just because one pitch is thrown in a 2-2 count doesn't mean it would be thrown in a 3-1 count. The next pitch could have went right down the middle and he could have grounded out, popped out, lined out, flied out, struck out on the next pitch after that one, walked on the next pitch, hit a home run, hit a single, hit a double, hit a triple, reached on an error, etc.... Would that then be selfish? or is that ok now?

Why is it bad to be selfish as a baseball player? Please explain.

No.

I wonder if Magnifico would benefit in picking up the 2-seamer and throw that instead of his slider or at least a cut fastball instead.

MLB allows for the trading of the compensatory draft picks but not of the regular draft picks or compensation draft picks for the loss of a free agent that was offered a qualifying offer. I would love to see MLB allow the trading of all draft picks and it should be coming when will it be coming is when the large market teams will allow it. The only picks that a team would not be able to trade would be the compensation picks because they are tied to a player and the players association would have to agree to allow those to be traded. There are a few hurdles that will need to be jumped over before you will see any of this. Also with the current structure of the draft you would have to trade the allotted money and the picks to the team since the acquiring team wouldn't be able to sign an extra first round pick if they do not have the allotted funds to do so. With the current CBA it is way to complicated to do it now but I could see it happening in the future but it probably will not happen at all.

Fielding percentage is such a poor metric to use to grade a teams defense. It is nearly useless and doesn't really tell anything about how good or bad the teams defense is. While the Brewers are not all that great defensively their fielding percentage is rather deceptive this would be true if they were at the top of the league also in fielding percentage.

Kind of a let down on the finale. Not as good as the last episode was rather blah and bland for a finale.

What about Tyrone Taylor who is only a half year older than Arcia who is also putting up similar numbers that Arcia is doing. I believe by next year the Brewers are going to have 3 players in the top 50-100 in Taylor, Arcia, and Haniger with a possible 4th in Jimmy Nelson depending on if he makes it to the majors this year or not. Depending on how well Roache plays this year you could see him in the top 100 or just sitting on the outside looking in. When the lists are updated at some point this year I wouldn't be surprised to see Nelson, Haniger, Taylor, and Arcia in the top 100. Maybe not all of them but I can definitely see Haniger and Taylor getting put on that list when they get updated. What about Nick Ramirez his average is not all that great nor is his OBP all that great but he is taking more walks this year than last year in Wisconsin and it looks like his power is back with 13 HR's so far this year he is only 3 off from what he hit last year. He is still striking out a lot but he is also walking more he has 5 less walks than he did all of last year but he looks to be on pace to be at or above where he finished last year in strike outs. Final player I have some questions about where do you put Garfield now? It doesn't seem like he has become any more patient at the plate and his defense still looks to be rather bad.

That sounds like below slot value? Haven't looked at anything for 2nd round picks and their slot values but that looks a little bit low? That was the exact slot value. Hmmm I was thinking it was over 800k this year for 2nd round picks.