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  1. kramnoj
    if your boss asks you to work the weekend, you are being asked to sacrifice. You may agree willingly to do it, but you are being asked to sacrifice your time for something which may or may not benefit you directly. Not a good example. The employee is fulfilling their terms of employment. The second part isn't a "questionable political agenda," it is a fact and is the reason the law in question was enacted. If it's a fact, it should be easily cited. Secondly, if it's true, passing a law is a bad way to combat. Kidnappings fall in the jurisdiction of the FBI, which would be heavily involved. It's not a significant story on the FBI's home page.
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    Just do a little math and look at average ticket prices and attendance compared to payroll. So, in other words, no, you can't back it up. It's an assertion based on assumptions and void of facts.
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    Sure he spent the most but he still pocketed way more money than any other owner. Can you back this up? Can you show that he took more money than Loria? Even if this was somehow true, any money he took was because he built up the value of the franchise, as opposed to being a welfare owner like Loria.
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    If athletes should be asked to "sacrifice," First, you don't ask someone to sacrifice, it is done voluntarily. Secondly, putting it in scare quotes is belittling and unneeded. So, should non-Latino players refuse to play in Arizona unless the law is upheld, as the Tucson/Phoenix areas have become 2nd in the world (behind Boguta, Columbia) in kidnapping? This is the kind of questionable political agenda that doesn't belong in a sports forum.
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    Frankly, who cares? Clearly, Gallardo cares. They would be hurting themselves more than anything. It's called sacrifice. It's what leaders do when they believe in something more important than themselves. If people talk about it enough, baseball is going to react at some point. It's too early to know what will happen, and it's probably too early for baseball to change just yet. They presumably want to monitor how the law is enforced and the attention it gets. If it was just a law passed that won't actually change anything, it will blow over. But if there are national stories about this and any problems that occur, baseball will be pressured to move the game. MLB changed the rules of the ASG to avoid the stink that occurred when there was a tie in an exhibition game. I don't think MLB will want to keep the ASG in Arizona next year if it turns into an ongoing national story.
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    The thing that gets continually overlooked is that Gamel did just fine, even with his irregular playing time/non-starting dragging his stat line down It doesn't really get overlooked. If you massage the data to look at his numbers only when he started at 3B, you get that .864 OPS, but in only 94 PA. There is no reason to make anything of that 94 PA when we can look at all of his minor league stats to give us a better idea of projection. Or do you really believe that 94 PAs is representative? Because if you, then Bill Hall is almost a league average hitter this season, in twice the PAs. Shane Spencer once had a .910 slugging percentage in 73 PAs. That's right, slugging percentage, not OPS. His OPS was 1.321. It's just too small a number to look at when we can look at his whole career. As for those projections, ZIPS pegged Gamel to OPS .694 and CHONE .753. It's hard to be productive when striking out 30% of the time without a whole bunch of power as he did in 2009.
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    I don't think that can be said with so much conviction. Tampa's best move could be to trade a major league starter for Hart and put Hellickson in the rotation. They may be better off just putting Hellickson in the rotation right now, but if they can improve their offense as well, all the better for them.
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    If they had that many picks, they probably wouldn't have the money to sign them. That seems to be an unsupportable assertion.
  9. kramnoj
    Attanasio has already said that one bad season isn't going to cost Melvin his job, and he's not counting last season's injuries against Melvin. For me, the more interesting question pertains to Macha. How bad do the Brewers have to get for him to be fired this season, and how well do they have to perform the rest of the way for him to come back. I haven't been early on the Fire Macha campaign, but he hasn't done anything in my eyes to show that he deserves to keep his job. If Attanasio and Melvin believe that the Brewers can be a contender in 2011, one of the things they should be looking at is who can captain the ship, and I don't see much in Macha to indicate that he's the guy.
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    kramnoj replied to mancl's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk

    I don't think that's true. His agent and the Brewers just value Hart differently, and his agent clearly read the arbitration process correctly.
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    Right, but Sabean isn't a complete dolt, like Phillips. Phillips didn't make that trade. Jim Duquette did. Even then, I don't know how much of the blame goes on Duquette and how much should be assigned to Mets ownership.
  12. kramnoj
    X ellence, last year you were telling Doug to get a Weeks deal done. What has changed?
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    Vinny Castilla once led the league in RBI despite hitting .271 and having a 109 OPS+. RBI is mostly tied to slugging with men on base. That's why Hart wasn't really terrible in 2008, which is just useless hyperbole. Sure, he had a .300 OBP, which some people will focus on and assume that the player must have been terrible. But he did have a decent slugging, and he had 502 PA batting 5th that year, so we was going to get opportunities. He also produced in those opprortunities, with an .840 OPS with men in RISP.
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    His first two starts this year showed no indication that anything about that trend was going to change, and he was mercifully removed from the rotation. Suppan's first 2 starts in 2009 were worse than this year. He still managed to get his ERA under 4.5 in July before he had some bad starts and went on the DL. Two starts just isn't enough information. As far as I'm concerned, Suppan was kept around as insurance this year. Once the Brewers had 2 months to see that they had enough pitchers in the majors and in AAA that were better than Suppan and healthy, they let him go. It really wouldn't have made much sense to cut Suppan before Riske was healthy, before Capuano was ready, before having a somewhat decent sample of seeing Axford and Braddock and Loe and feeling comfortable with them on the major league roster.
  15. kramnoj
    I do believe that all of the players are assets for the organization, I've never been shy about that opinion. I do however believe LaPorta is a first class douche That's fine and all, but why then did you reject the idea that he was treated like property because he was traded? Let's say it is true that Milwaukee has a bad reputation for the way it treats its players. Couldn't that partially explain why LaPorta reacted the way he did when asked to sign something for free? Why hold that fully against him, if the organization treated him badly? Of course, signing the stuff would have been the right thing to do, it wouldn't have cost him anything. But Rogers bringing that up wasn't classy either, which of course goes back to how the Brewers organization treats players.
  16. kramnoj
    Potential could have different meanings. When I say potential, I don't mean that I would hope for Weeks to get better in any one category, except for health. Weeks' potential could be a guy who plays 150 games with average defense and an OPS over 800 and is a plus on the bases. That has a certain amount of value. For the right price, it would be a decent gamble to extend him for a few years. The Brewers have talent at 2B in minors, but it doesn't look to be ready by 2012.
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    Can the Brewers really afford to be that cold with any player regardless of talent? It is interesting to see you take this position. When I said that LaPorta was treated like property because he was traded, you seemed to scoff at the idea. Has your opinion changed? I do wonder how much players personal feelings affect their FA decisions. Most players will sign for whichever team gives them the most money. At least one poster hear fervently said that the Brewers treatment of Hardy would have repercussions. I'm not aware of such obstacles the Brewers had to face this offseason. The Brewers paid more money to get Wolf and Hawkins, but again, that is true of most FA, so I don't see any particular Milwaukee Tax there.
  18. kramnoj
    The motivation that Weeks would have to sign an extension is the same motivation that the Brewers have to be reticent to offer him a deal. It doesn't make sense for the Brewers to offer Weeks a deal based on his potential when there have been injury issues. The Brewers can let him go to free agency and go with stopgaps until a minor leaguer is ready to take the job. If it wouldn't take much to sign Weeks, I would be surprised that he isn't already signed. The Brewers do have an interesting choice. If they have no chance to sign Fielder, then the Brewers could have lots of money to spend. They may decide that Week's potential is worth the injury risk, and pay more than may be prudent The Brewers could find themselves with money to spend and not being able to do so efficiently.
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    Zaun in 2010 has already provided more value than most 42nd picks will ever provide. I don't see how that is an absolute joke.
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    Most 42nd picks are't going to provide any value. 8 such picks since 1965 have provided a positive WAR, per bref, and most of those have been worth less than 5 WAR over their career. Obviously the careers of Bucholtz and recent picks are far from over, but the odds are that a team is going to spend money developing a player and getting nothing for it. How does Tampa gaining this pick indicate there is anything wrong with the draft?
  21. kramnoj
    I don't see a strong motivation for Weeks to sign an extension at this point. Any money the Brewers will offer as an extension will probably be available to him once he becomes a FA, plus he will have teams like the Mets that may want him and he's already made millions.
  22. kramnoj
    I'm eager to have Suppan be replaced by a better pitcher, but so far pitchers have been brought up to do so, and some have not succeeded. There's no reason to think that Attanasio or Melvin have any ties to Suppan when there haven't been enough pitchers that have taken on the task of showing they are clearly better than Suppan. On June 17, 2009, the Brewers were in 1st place, and Suppan had a winning record with an ERA under 4.5 Suppan was able to lower his ERA to that level even though he had two awful games at the beginning of the year last year. Suppan has been basically inconsequential to the Brewers this year. In his one loss as a starter, the offense scored one run. The Brewers are going to lose the vast majority of the games in which they score one run. In the loss yesterday, Suppan gave up the same number of runs as Braddock and pitched longer. Other than those games, Suppan has either done his job coming in to pitch an inning in a win, or has pitched in a loss, sometimes ok, sometimes not. My guess is that if Loe continues to do well in the starts he has left with Nashville, and if Braddock pitches like he usually does, than Loe will come to the Brewers by his callup date, and Suppan gets cut.
  23. kramnoj
    3 games is a small sample size, especially if any conclusions that could be reached from those games support any preconceptions one may have. Sabathia had a 13.50 ERA through 4 games in 2008, didn't make it through the 6th in any of them, and his best game score was 40 in those 4. His performance in those games didn't have anything to do with his performance later in the year, when he was dominant for the Crew. Being patient isn't any fun, but sometimes a player has to play enough to show that he's bad before we really know it. And 3-4 games for a SP isn't enough time.
  24. kramnoj
    6 - 1 in spring? That was a response to a previous comment that Suppan can't string together 4-5 decent starts. If Suppan had any value it would be that he limits damage and eats innings, he doesn't do either any more. Are your expectations that pitchers should routinely pitch more than 6 IP? If a pitcher has 34 GS and averages 6 IP, he will have 204 IP at the end of the season. There aren't many that make that number, and few that exceed it.
  25. kramnoj
    One could argue the Marlins have higher profit margins. Their revs are much lower, but so are expenses so they may indeed pocket the rev share money. However the absolute dollar amounts are much lower. What is the basis for this? Do you have a link demonstrating that?
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