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  1. kramnoj
    I think this season has shown that random AAA guys aren't better than Suppan when he's healthy. As far as Kendall, there really isn't an obviously better solution to play everyday.
  2. kramnoj
    How is that comment condescending? Maybe challenging, but hardly condescending. He said that I didn't take the time to think about this and because of this I didn't have a clear perspective. I have taken the time to think about. Agents don't do anything about players losing service time at the beginning of their careers. They aren't going to raise a stink about a player hitting as poorly as Hardy being demoted.
  3. kramnoj
    If you can't come up with a scenario in which that reflects poorly on how an organization treats it's players than there's nothing I can say to help you out there So rather than provide a simple answer, you choose to insult and then leave? FA typically go for the most money. They sometimes will take less money for other reasons like winning, family, geography. When has a FA chosen not to take the best offer available because of how a team handled service time issues with some unrelated player in the past? At this point, it's still too early to know what's happening. If Hardy is performing well and isn't called back up after the 10 day minimum, we will have more information.
  4. kramnoj
    If people would just stop for a moment to think about these things it might aid in having a clearer perspective. This is unbelievably condescending, considering you didn't even take the time to answer the actual question. Why would a FA care about how a team handles service time issues?
  5. kramnoj
    If you can't then you just won't be able to understand why Melvin is not going to do that to a player. Why would this affect the opinion of a FA? Teams delay callups to get the extra year and try to avoid super 2, and agents haven't done anything about that. This is a fairly unique situation. It's not often that a player that is rated as a Type A player is performing as badly as Hardy has this season. If this was being done for the sole purpose of getting an extra year, outrage would be coming. But this demotion has been earned.
  6. kramnoj
    Bringing up Ozzie Smith actually reinforces X's point. Ozzie was at his peak offesively between ages 29 and 34, and was a poor offensive player from ages 24-28. He was probably close to average offensively for his position during that time. Also, service time means a lot more these days then it did 20+ years ago.
  7. kramnoj
    I like the move. I don't think this kills Hardy's trade value any more than this season already has diminished it. Bring Escobar up and let him audition for the 2010 job. If he performs well, he should be the starter and be an asset for the Brewers next year. If he doesn't perform well, then Melvin knows he should make other plans for 2010. Maybe have Heether and Counsell share the job, maybe bring in a veteran SS for a stopgap until Escobar really is ready or passes the service time threshold. Melvin is trying to save the season. It's probably lost anyway, but he owes the fans competitive baseball. It's not unheard of for players to come in and do unexpectedly well. Take a chance on Escobar and see if he can give the team a spark. Today was probably the last day that Melvin could reasonably do this to get that extra year of service time out of Hardy.
  8. kramnoj
    The Yankees would just release a guy like Suppan or Hall while we have to keep them because we have spent so much money on them. This isn't true. The Brewers are keeping Suppan because when he's healthy he's one of the top 5 SP in the system. one has 80 or so million to spend while the other has 250 million. That my friends is not competitive balance in any way. Both of those figures are wrong. I've certainly never said that there is absolute balance, but it's better than it has been, and teams that are smart can make the playoffs. There is certainly room for improvement and I hope the next CBA sees some improvement.
  9. kramnoj
    You said teams are given a huge chunk of money. It's true. The Marlins got $25M last year. Do you really think the Yankees and Red Sox "luxury tax" really amounts to a huge chunk of money for the other 28 teams? No, I don't think that, because that's not the way it works. If you want to call something a joke, you should take the time to understand it first. Now field a 25-man roster. The Brewers have found the money to acquire Lopez and Weathers this year. They weren't tapped out. We don't know for sure what their upper limit was, but if they really thought CC was needed, they could have gone for it.
  10. kramnoj
    I don't think teams are given any money, actually. But since we are talking hypothetical I don't know what to make of this. Are you really unaware of revenue sharing? Or is this some kind of joke? If one team has the option of throwing 20 darts and the other team has the option to throw 3, which team is going to win more often? This analogy really doesn't work. First off, no team in baseball is forced to go into a season with only 3 darts. Secondly, more darts doesn't equal winning. The Mets have plenty of darts and don't get into the playoffs. Or they can do what DM did. I'm not familiar with the specifics of this, but if a team had something in place and it wasn't producing, it makes sense to pull it. The Brewers are in a position right now where they can spend their resources on major league talent and signing draft picks. I would argue that the financial success of the Brewers means that DM is managing his resources well. However most teams that sign a top FA wouldn't be able to field a competitive team if they did without having a very good MiLB system. Value is value. If CC is worth it, it's the same as spending that money on 2 or 3 players. It's riskier, which is certainly a consideration. If we are talking about this year, the Brewers have been better off with Looper and Hoffman, but I don't know that will be true going forward.
  11. kramnoj
    The Rangers are not a small market team. I didn't say they were, but that move was small market mentality. I think this sums up my point. It shouldn't. There aren't that many players that have that huge a salary. Besides, why should competitive balance revolve around the most expensive FA? Teams are given a huge chunk of money. If they just throw it at bad FA, that's their problem, not a problem with the system. Smart teams should focus on better scouting domestically and internationally.
  12. kramnoj
    Smaller market teams simply cannot afford the luxury of paying any player, much less a starting pitcher, $25 million a year. To believe they realistically can is either clearly wrong or gross hyperbole. It would be a huge risk. But it's only one player. There are plenty of other options that small market teams can sign. The Rangers paid Alex Rodriguez to not play for them after trading him away. The problem wasn't Alex. It was the contract they gave to Chan Ho Park. Small market teams can afford to go after good players. It's just that the bad teams choose to sign bad veterans for too much money and then cry poor.
  13. kramnoj
    Is it poor management for drafting the best available player that they cannot sign, or poor management because they don't give an unproven commodity $40 million? There is no player that can't be signed. If you are talking about Strasburg, if the Nationals don't sign him, they get another pick next year. It's a worthwhile risk to pick him and see if the team can sign him to a deal that the team considers reasonable. At the end of the day, I guess good management takes a pass on the best perceived player in the draft, knowing they cannot afford to sign him. Doesn't pass the competitive balance smell test for me. Again, which player has existed that a team couldn't afford to sign? Teams have either chosen to pass on amateurs, while throwing away more money on bad veterans, or refused to sign a deal that the player wanted. Sometimes that works out for the team, sometimes it doesn't.
  14. kramnoj
    Also, if teams are passing on the best players in the draft because they won't be able to sign them, is that poor management, or is it the system? It's poor management. What baseball player has existed that couldn't have been signed? When 2/3 of the teams in the league don't even have a chance to sign someone like CC Sabathia, how can you claim there is competitive balance? Any team has a chance to sign CC, if they structure their budget properly. It's certainly a bigger risk for many teams, but there's no reason to act like they couldn't spend the money that way if they chose to. To look at it another way, I would guess that many teams spend the money that CC makes and get's less return than he has usually provided. Poor management certainly part of it, but how you can say the Yankees and Red Sox don't have an advantage over the Pirates and Royals then you aren't thinking straight. Nothing like a good insult to start a post. The good thing for the Pirates is they aren't competing at all for a playoff spot against the Yankees and Red Sox. The Royals aren't either, as their goal should be to win their division. The Twins can get into the playoffs in this league that supposedly has no competitive balance.
  15. kramnoj
    My eyes were first opened to this difference in 96 or 97 when Peter Gammons was talking about the advancement of Vladimir Guerrerro. He said that the Expos probabably wouldn't move him up to AAA, because it was filled with bitter has-beens and never-would-bes (he was speaking about that particular team, not AAA in general). I just looked him up and Vlad has never been at AAA according to b-ref.
  16. kramnoj
    in baseball, amateurs threaten to hold out a season if they feel that the signing bonus isn't enough to buy a jet, The signing bonuses for the top picks in football are quite a bit more than what baseball teams spend on their entire draft in a year. and large market teams pay more than Ryan Braun's total contract extension just to get the rights to negotiate with a Japanese league pitcher. Teams? This hasn't happened more than once, has it? Revenue sharing has helped small market teams' bottom lines, but there is no competitive balance at all It's either clearly wrong or gross hyperbole to say there is no competitive balance. There are certainly improvements that should be made, but teams that fail do so because of poor management, not because they don't have the ability to compete within the system.
  17. kramnoj
    Small market teams can't acquire Top Tier FA due to the deep pockets of others. You don't have to have top tier FA to win. So no, there is no competitive balance. How is that the definition, other than because you say so? The goal of a baseball team is to put a good team in front of the fans that will watch it and have a chance of making the playoffs. How have the Brewers been able to do that, if there wasn't competitive balance?
  18. kramnoj
    It's a figure of speech. You've never heard it before? Of course it's preposterous. But the point stands. If someone is ready to say the Brewers are out of it, that they have no chance of making the playoffs, how much are they willing to pony up? Otherwise they are allowing that the Brewers have a chance to make the playoffs.
  19. kramnoj
    You misunderstand. If you are confident the Brewers the will miss the playoffs, put your house up. If you win, you get to say you are right. If you lose, you lose your house. It's not a fair bet, but that's not the point. How confident are you that there is no chance the Brewers can make the playoffs? You willing to lose your house over it?
  20. kramnoj
    There's no harm in trying it and seeing what happens. Try to work out a deal with whoever claims him. If you don't like it, pull back. If the team is desperate enough, they may trade more in the heat of a playoff race with a 2 day deadline than over the course of the offseason. At this point the Red Sox are closer to losing their WC status than they are to regaining the division lead. Theo may feel pressure to overpay to get the Sox into the playoffs.
  21. kramnoj
    8 out of 30 is 26.7%. If the Brewers made the playoffs 2-3 years out of 10, that would be in line with that percentage. How often should the Brewers make the playoffs if there is competitive balance?
  22. kramnoj
    Maybe we just have to accept as Brewers fans that once in a while we'll get somewhat lucky and go on a two or three year run at the playoffs, at best, and just be somewhat competitive and hover around .500 the rest of the time, if things work out. That seems pretty close to a description of competitive balance in a sport where 8 of 30 teams make the playoffs. I don't think a salary floor would make bad teams significantly more competitive. It would most likely lead to overpaying of name veterans who aren't worth what they would be paid over a replacement level player.
  23. kramnoj
    There's speculation that Christian Guzman has been claimed by the Red Sox. That was one of the teams that had been talked about in the Rumors forum as a possible target for Hardy.
  24. kramnoj
    The Brewers are currently 15th out of 16 teams in total pitching, If the Brewers come back, it will be because their pitching isn't 15th out of 16th. Bush should be back within 2 weeks, Suppan will hopefully come back relatively soon, and as bad as he has been, he's better than the replacement starters when he's healthy. I doubt anyone would bet their house on the Brewers not making the playoffs, but it's definitely a long shot.
  25. kramnoj
    I stand by opinion that anyone who thinks the NFL doesn't have competitive balance doesn't understand the game very well. How many how are saying that the NFL doesn't have competitive balance, as compared to saying that it isn't any better than MLB? There's simply no way the Fox Valley would generate the same revenue as any other team in the league if the NFL played under MLB's rules. Talking about the Packers success and not mentioning Milwaukee and other parts of Wisconsin doesn't make much sense. It's not like the Packers could succeed as well as they do if they were in Montana.
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