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They were announced on June 21 last year. So I imagine we still have a couple of weeks.

That's just gigantism brought on by too much nerve tonic.

I'm projected to hit .475 in the majors base on my little league stats.

I would think that sacrifice flys are counted because the batter is still trying to get a hit, while not being charged with an at bat. With a sacrifice hit, the batter is actively trying to make an out.

If we make a move for a pitcher, it will probably be for a starter.

Not counting the last game of the Astro series and the first game of the D-Back series (I like to predict series not individual games), I have us going 13-11 in June. The most important stretch will be the series at Houston, followed by the three home series against the AL teams. We HAVE to go a minimum of 8-4 in that stretch.

I would feel more comfortable about trading Prince after this season is LaPorta was performing the way he is at AAA instead of AA. Maybe a mid-season promotion will help clarify this. On the other hand, if Prince is traded this off-season, that might free up enough payroll room to be able to resign Sheets. Assuming Prince will get $9-10 million in arbitration, that's not far from what it would probably take to sign Sheets (I'm guessing $12-14 million per). I don't think the Brewers have the finances to be able to keep both. If we were able to resign Sheets, the top-flight pitching prospect(s) wouldn't have to be as major league ready.

The situation that always gets me is the "reconstructing the inning without the error" thing. Say with two outs, Weeks singles. He then steals second (getting credit for a stolen base) and takes third on the catcher's throwing error. Cameron than singles, driving in Weeks. Without the error, Weeks would be on second and with two outs on a single to the outfield, Weeks would likely have scored anyway. Should that run be counted as unearned? I've always been under the impression that that run would be earned. Or does the official scorer assumes runners advance one base on a single?

Tejada stats are just slightly higher than his career averages (32 points higher in avg, 42 points higher in OPS). Berkman is just unreal. 77 points higher in avg, and incredible 230 points higher in OPS.

Sure pitchers get charged for errors. Say a slow running batter hits a dribbler right to the pitcher and the pitcher ends up winging the ball into the third deck. There has to be a scoring decision on how the runner reaches base. As far as why pitcher's errors don't count as earned runs, the only thing I can come up with that all runners that reach base due to error are unearned. (zzz came up with the reason perfectly.) Also, the "anything after 2 outs with an error in the inning is unearned" isn't quite accurate. It's the case if a batter reaches on an error, not just any error. For example, if the first two batters make outs, the next walks and on a steal attempt the catcher's throw sails into center field, allowing the runner to go to third. Most of the time the runner would get credited with a stolen base and the catcher gets an error on the throw, allowing the runner to advance to third. If the next batter hits a home run, both runs would be earned. Because the runner would have scored whether the error had occured or not.

There's one reason the Astros are above .500: Lance Berkman.

Getting the Rays to give up some of their pitching prospects for Sheets would be a dream scenario. The real dream scenario? The Brewers start winning and the discussions about trading Sheets end.

He was in the last guaranteed year, with an option that was picked up by Montreal. They then traded him that off-season to the White Sox for Rocky Biddle, Orlando Hernandez and Jeff Liefer. So basically they traded Phillips, Lee and Sizemore for Biddle, Hernandez and Liefer. Talk about your bad trades. I don't think Sheets should be expecting $20 mil a season, even if he were to win the Cy Young. If he has a normal, healthy year, he will probably get in the $14-16 million range. Someone might be willing to go four years, but I would think he would get a three-year deal. Three years, $42 million might be enough to resign him.

I did some checking, and the last starting pitcher that was close to the level of Sheets that was traded at/near the deadline was Bartolo Colon in 2002. The Indians got Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee and Brandon Phillips from Montreal. In 2003, the Red Sox gave up Freddy Sanchez and Mike Gonzalez for Jeff Suppan. Most of the starters traded are on the level of the names that have been tossed about for this season (Randy Wolf, Tim Redding, etc.). Unless someone is thrown out there that we're not expecting, Sheets would be THE big name starter available.