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  1. brewjihad
    Actually, he has Mota on his 6x6 fantasy team and he needed a hold really bad.
  2. brewjihad
    But if every team he has rooted for has lost doesn't that mean that he has a negative effect on the team he rooted for? Every team he has ever rooted for has a record of exactly .500. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  3. brewjihad
    Errecart with a home run. This has been really fun to follow Huntsville this year. I bet this lineup could outhit the San Francisco Giants right now, and that's serious.
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    I was watching one of the games against the pirates on fsn piitsburgh when they should clips of Fielder HRs against pittsburgh from last season at PNC. The differnces in his appearance from last yr to this yr are startling. Last year Prince looked like a big athletic guy. This year he looks like a beached whale. I was watching some clips from last year and was surprised to see that he looks quite a bit bigger now. I don't buy for a second that becoming a vegetarian has caused him to lose power, just look at him- he's a big dude. "Power" in baseball is an interesting thing. You'd think the biggest, strongest guys would hit the most home runs and while that's generally true, a slightly off-center hit can be the difference between a flyout to the warning track or a home run. I'm confident Prince will get hot and go on a 10-homer month in one of the next two. In addition to RU Rah Rah's post, here are Prince Fielder's home run totals as a professional: 2003 A: 27 HR 2004 AA: 23 HR 2005 AAA/MLB: 30 HR 2006 MLB: 28 HR 2007 MLB: 50 HR or 27, 23, 30, 28, 50. There's an outlier in there. I don't think last year was a fluke, but we shouldn't be expecting him to hit 50 every year. If he can OBP over .370 with 30-35 home runs, that's not shabby production. And the series against the Braves has enlightened me to the fact that Mark Texiera has 5 homers so far this year. Did he go vegetarian too?
  5. brewjihad
    Here's Yost's reasoning on why he didn't send the runners with the full count last night: "Prince is swinging the bat a lot better, to the point where we had first and second and nobody out and I was afraid to run the runners because I thought he was gonna rip a line drive to one of the infielders and hit into a triple play." I didn't mind the call to not send them, but for that reason? Wow. Here's the press conference video
  6. brewjihad
    Doesn't help having Wave-em-home Sveum at third. Thank goodness the guy isn't a school crossing guard.
  7. brewjihad
    I think I see Ned's twisted thought-process here. He figures that if the team goes on a good run during the homestand, he can point to shifting Kendall up and say- "Look! I made the change that started a good streak! Don't fire me Doug!"
  8. brewjihad
    Is he really better than Franklyn German or Luis Pena, Doug? The good news is that now Ned has a logical candidate to bring in and hit Albert Pujols in a critical late-season game.
  9. brewjihad
    Kendall batting 8th "In a major shift in his lineup strategy, manager Ned Yost has moved catcher Jason Kendall from the No. 9 spot in the lineup to No. 8 for today's game against Washington. Yost hinted yesterday he was thinking about the move in an effort to change up a slumping offense."
  10. brewjihad
    Made my night (sad) That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. It's also very true.
  11. brewjihad
    Hall pink-bat magic Saved for lefties, Russ takes care Of right-handers now
  12. brewjihad
    Though it would be nice to be able to get lots of young pitching for Prince, it's kinda an awkward situation. Good AL teams that are legit contenders are the ones that would want him, but they aren't usually willing to give up the kind of pitching prospects we need in return for him at this point. And a side note: 1 of the Matts Grammar wise, how would you write this correctly when one is Mat and the other is Matt? I would vote for one of the Mat(t)s http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  13. brewjihad
    Fits Melvin's MO Washed up - check A jerk - check Huge ERA - check High walk rate - check Aging - check Waived by someone - check Little left in the tank - check But he's never played for the Rangers or Blue Jays, so that's a definite point against him in Melvin's view.
  14. brewjihad
    a lineup which has Matt LaPorta at first base (let's see if some blogger runs with that -- Prince will surely be traded tomorrow). BadgerBlogger, whatever that is, is reporting that the Brewers will trade Fielder to the Toronto Blue Jays tomorrow for Kevin Mench and Lyle Overbay, after talks with the White Sox fell through because they weren't willing to give up minor league pitcher Joe Winkelsas in a potential deal. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif On a serious note, it's incredible that Gamel is still hitting .370- that's not a small sample anymore. Congrats to Salome as well.
  15. brewjihad
    Who else would rather have Branyan than Counsell give Hall a day off against RH pitchers a couple times a week? Me! And really, it shouldn't be much of a debate, especially considering that Branyan is dominating AAA and Counsell isn't really hitting much. Branyan, last year OPS: .743, Career: .805 Counsell, last year OPS: .684, Career: .689
  16. brewjihad
    It certainly occurred to me. I thought for awhile that he was going to get and OK from Kremblas to either become the manager or bench coach and then fire Ned, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Still, they might talk about it- even if Melvin isn't planning to make a move until later this week. Edit: Yeah, not trying to start a big conspiracy/secret meeting theory here: he often goes to watch all of the minor league affiliates play just to see some players in person.
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    How about these numbers: 7-1 record, 39 saves, 64 strikeouts/24 walks, 1.71 ERA. That, of course, is Derrick Turnbow in 2005. If the Brewers could have gotten a guy who projects as about a .270-.280 average with 40 homers per year, that would have been a pretty good deal, huh? I like Soria and I don't think he'll implode like Turnbow has, but relief pitching is so volatile it would be overpaying quite a bit. Now if they could get Grienke or Hochevar invovled, I'd be willing to talk.
  18. brewjihad
    Since the recount, I see 8 for bringing him up and 0 against, to recap. I'll echo the line written by BrewCrewIn2004- We don't need two slap-hitting lefties off of the bench. It is time.
  19. brewjihad
    It's tough to have 2 lefty bench players who are pretty much incapable of hitting a home run. I know that their Gwynn's defense is good, but it's hard to justify carrying Kapler and Gwynn when Branyan is just mashing AAA pitching right now. Remember back in that series against the Astros, when the bases were loaded, down 4, late in the game, pitcher's spot up... and Tony Gwynn is the pinch-hitter. Now would be a nice to time to have Branyan DH, as well.
  20. brewjihad
    I still don't get how there is always a reason as to how "HE" lost the game. I don't think anyone here is arguing that, they're saying that once again, he did not put his players in position to succeed. Yet we have it being a "terrible" call and Gagne coming in a bad decision. Not many people are blaming Ned for bringing in Gagne, most of the blame has been put on Gagne for not getting it done. The loss really hinges on bad offense again. We need to score some runs and the offense continues to be simply awful. Yes. And had Ned not tried to get tricky and put the squeeze on in the eighth, they might just have scored more runs. With runners on 2nd and 3rd, 2 out, the run expectancy is 0.634. With the bases loaded and 1 out, it's 1.65- that's if Kendall gets on. Even if he doesn't, with bases loaded and 2 outs the run expectancy is 0.815: still a higher likelihood of scoring a run than using the squeeze, which isn't always successful anyway. And that's assuming he doesn't hit a sacrifice fly or drive in the run some other way. But from the looks of things, Yost is still the focus. This is the Designated Ned Yost thread... There are plenty of others that focus on the lack of offense and poor pitching.
  21. brewjihad
    This year, Hall is OPSing 1.088 against lefties and .553 against righties. In his career, it's .849 vs .757. If anything, he's a candidate to get platooned, but since Dillon is a right-hander, it isn't a good fit.
  22. brewjihad
    The squeeze was a typical Yost move, trying to prove that he can out-manage his opponent when it's obvious he's out-thinking himself.
  23. brewjihad
    Unfortunately, the numbers indicate that he is due to come back to earth pretty soon. Sorry to rain on the parade. A WHIP of 1.533 and 10 walks are not good indicators, but I've still been pleasantly surprised.
  24. brewjihad
    The Brewers are going nowhere with 83 wins this year. Right now we're further back from 1st than we ever were at any point last year. If you read my previous post, the comparison was not necessarily saying that the Brewers can do anything with 83 wins, but that the St. Louis rotation wasn't very good that year and that that type of rotation can still win a World Series.
  25. brewjihad
    but I don't expect this 2008 division to be Comedy Central, and I don't expect the Wild Card to be available for a mid 80's win team. Very true. The point was more that some people are saying that the Brewers present rotation isn't good enough to win, and the Cards won it with a guy who is comparable to Sheets in Carpenter, Reyes who that year was a lot like Villanueva or Parra is now, and we already have Weaver and Suppan http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif.
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