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  1. brewerinvegas
    They were announced on June 21 last year. So I imagine we still have a couple of weeks.
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    That's just gigantism brought on by too much nerve tonic.
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    I'm projected to hit .475 in the majors base on my little league stats.
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    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.
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    If we make a move for a pitcher, it will probably be for a starter.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    There's one reason the Astros are above .500: Lance Berkman.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    The first 9 of those 18 are against Atlanta, Houston and Arizona Atlanta is 6-16 on the road, Arizona is 10-11 and playing struggling recently, and Houston is, well, Houston.
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    And I feel Maddux would be a huge help for our other starters. Bush, Villanueva and Parra are all similar in terms of stuff, meaning that they aren't overpowering guys with the 97 MPH fastball. Seeing how a future hall-of-famer prepares and executes with having to overpower the batters would show them how it's done.
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    Looking at the rosters of the teams with the worst records and at pitchers on those teams that will be free agents after the season, there really isn't. Washington has Odalis Perez and Tim Redding that they probably will move, but whether they have a need for a centerfielder is unclear. On Seattle, Miguel Batista and Jarrod Washburn each have 1 more season (at $9 million and $10.35 million respectively). The Giants don't have any pitching beyond Cain, Lincecum and Sanchez. The Rockies gave Aaron cook a three-year extension before the season. The Royals would probably be willing to move Brett Tomko, but again, would they need a centerfielder. That makes it Odalis Perez, Tim Redding, Brett Tomko, Randy Wolf and Greg Maddux as the pitchers that could probably be traded for. San Diego just makes the most sense if Gwynn is traded. They have a need for a speedy outfielder. Then there's the name factor.
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    Hey, another Brewer fan living in Vegas!!!!!!
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    I think we've pretty much been discussing just Gwynn for Maddux. Anything more than that and I start to have a problem, since this will most likely be Maddux's last season. I'm a big Gwynn fan, and think he can be a quality major leaguer. But it just appears that he has no future with the Brewers. And it's not like the Brewers are short on outfield prospects.
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    I think the reason for the Bush/Suppan swap is to get the starters that can't seem to go more than 5 innings (Bush/Newhouse/Parra) split up to not put such a strain on the bullpen. Right now, you have three games in a row that 3-6 relievers are going to be used per game. By that third game, everyone is going to need a break. And if Sheets doesn't go 7 or 8, you got one tired, overworked bullpen.
  22. brewerinvegas
    So what player couldn't? Not to mention he can demand all he wants, but that doesn't mean he's going to get it. The possibility for a player demanding a trade is an bad reason to pass on a player. In fact, I think the logic that he's in a multi-year deal means that he's got more leverage would actually be just the opposite. He'd have less leverage as he'd have no recourse. Anyway, I really don't why we should take that into consideration either way. (combined consecutive posts -1992) If a player has signed a multi-year contract, and is traded in the middle of that contract, he has a right to demand a trade from his new team after the season. And the team HAS to trade him by March 15. Not just explore possible trades. If he's not traded, he becomes a free agent. Again, that's how he ended up with the White Sox. He was in the middle of a contract when the Yankees traded him the the D-Backs as part of the Randy Johnson deal before the 2005 season. After the 2005 season, he demanded a trade. The D-Backs traded him to the White Sox. There's some lesser restriction (the player has to have 5 years of service and some others), but the bottom line is if we trade for Vazquez this season, we could be forced to trade him after the season is over.
  23. brewerinvegas
    I'm not saying Nelson will be an All-Star, but I think there is the potential that he could be an everyday player in the bigs. I really don't think it will be in Milwaukee, but I think he deserves a shot at some point. I do find it pretty impressive that he's struck out as much as he's walked up to this point (20 and 20). He may actually be a pretty good fit later in the year for the Brewers as a player that puts the ball in play, works the count, and limits his strike outs to a certain extent -- and he's a left handed bat off the bench. Everything you are saying there is about his hitting ability, which I agree with. Nelson will hit enough to be a Major leaguer. But it will have to be as a first baseman. Or a DH. Nelson has been the odd ball during his time in the Brewers organization and has moved around to make room for other prospects. He was moved around to try to find a position he could possibly play defensively to try to get his bat in the lineup, since he's basically been blocked at first. But there's a reason why those experiments haven't worked. I could say almost the exact same thing about Rickie Weeks. Should we just simply write him off? That's like comparing apples to squid. Second is a position that Weeks does have talent for. If Weeks was still in AAA and being switched to, say, catcher, just to get his bat in the lineup, then it would be an apt comparison. I like Brad Nelson. He is going to be a decent hitter. But he just doesn't have the ability to play any position other than first.
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    And I think you need to be realistic. Yes, he has the ability to improve. But we're talking a couple hundred fly balls a day for at least a couple of years for him to get to the point of being regarded as below average. If he was 19, then I would be much more optimistic. But he's 25. The time to improve at a position to the point where he can play it in the majors is just about over.
  25. brewerinvegas
    I watched him the entire game on Saturday when he was playing right field. On EVERY fly ball, he broke the wrong direction. There were at least two hits that should have been caught, but fell in when he didn't get there in time. If you take three steps back, then have to run in and the ball bounces five feet in front of you, that's a ball that should have been caught. He has no instincts for the outfield.
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