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  1. Darnell Junior
    I'm also pro-freedom but I do think the untucking of the jerseys immediately after the last out is a little bush league. That being said ets send the last game to Sheets in a tie for first
  2. Darnell Junior
    I hate watching Prince swing for the moon. Especially after Braun hits one so Prince tries to outdo him on the very next pitch.
  3. Darnell Junior
    I think people take a casual glance at the .220 BA and say he's still slumping. However, like someone says, all that matters from here on out is how he plays in the future in my opinion. He's been raising that average and OBP for the last couple weeks and he'll continue to do so. The question it comes down to is whether you think he'll be able to come up with another huge second half to help us, and I for one think he will. People who just take a glance at the entire season's stats are missing out on the overall issue. If Weeks is hitting .235 by the end of the Cubs series, I don't think we should be saying "OH look at that BA a change needs to be made". Weeks is still just a kid who is some kind of headcase. I have faith that if we stick with him he'll become a huge contributor. Look at how late Brandon Phillips and to a lesser extent Ryan Howard developed. I'm not saying he's that kind of player, but he's still got a good chance to be a darn good one. I don't think benching him for a 36 year old will help him develop or even make us a better team for the last 60 games of this year.
  4. Darnell Junior
    I always kind of figured we'd just shift JJ over when Alcides was ready. I don't really like trading anyone except maybe Prince, but even then I think we should wait a year or two. We still have a lot of options in the minors to go and get an arm this offseason.
  5. Darnell Junior
    My Confessions: - It's 2:40 a.m. and I'm on Brewerfan.net - I will never give up on Rickie Weeks. Theres no doubt in my mind that he will be an All-Star. - My friends are the drunk jags everyone is complaining about. - I briefly stopped following the Brewers this year when they slipped under .500 because I wasn't at a healthy anger level, and needed to get a grasp on the real world. - I never read the newspaper the morning after a loss. - Uecker is still the man, even if more and more fly balls are starting to "GET UP! GET UP! GET OFF THE WALL!" as he slowly slips into dementia.
  6. Darnell Junior
    I'm on cloud nine right now. A Sheets-Sabathia-Parra rotation in the playoffs will be brutal. Imagine if Yo can come back for October. Best day of my summer thus far. I'm off to north side baseball to read about the chicago panic of 08.
  7. Darnell Junior
    This is a little off topic, but if we end up going through with this I think the Matt Gamel at third charade needs to end. Stick him at first or even left field once LaPorta leaves. There's a noticable hole at third in our system then, but Gamel's glove will never stay there. Slide J.J. over when Alcides is ready, and stick Gamel in as a Fielder replacement.
  8. Darnell Junior
    The thought of buying a ticket to a postseason game is overwhelmingly exciting to me. Let's do this.
  9. Darnell Junior
    I always kind of figured we drafted LaPorta just for a situation like this. I'm more than happy to stick Gamel at 1st once Prince leaves, as he obviously is a pretty awful third baseman. Four first round picks from losing Sheets and Carsten Charles doesn't really make me worry too much about "mortgaging our future". I wasn't on the bandwagon a few days ago, but the more I think about it the more I think we could make a run at not just the postseason, but the whole thing with this trade. Sheets, C.C., and Parra makes for a tough 1, 2, 3 with the way Manny's been pitching, and just imagine if Yovanni can make a miracle comeback for October. It'll be tough when we see LaPorta bashing 35+ a year for the Indians, but my gut feeling is just to go for it now. We'll get a haul when we trade Prince in the next couple years to replenish the system as well.
  10. Darnell Junior
    Gamel will not stay at third in my opinion. Apparently he makes Braun look like a decent fielding third baseman.
  11. Darnell Junior
    I'm not sure it'd take Gamel OR LaPorta to get Carsten Charles for two months. Everyone know's he's leaving after the season's over, and I don't think anyone else will offer TOO much for him. Look what Carlos Lee got when everyone knew he was walking after the season. I'm pretty hesitant to deal one of those two guys, but for a hefty group of Lucroy's, Grindl's and Salome's I'd be more than willing.
  12. Darnell Junior
    Just read all five pages. Summing up my thoughts, Braun's .330 OBP isn't nearly good enough to be considered elite. However, at 24 years old and always talking about looking for way's to improve, I'm confident he'll get that up a significant amount in the next few years. A team of Prince's beats a team of Brauns. A team of Johnny Damons THIS YEAR beats a team of Brauns. Take all this with a grain of salt if you don't agree, as I'm a man who views OBP very highly. Not making an out is the surest way to score runs in baseball, and OBP is just a measure of how often a batter doesn't make an out, obviously. I think the part about regression values being higher in slugging than OBP is very interesting. The same goes with K's vs. SB's and Doubles vs. Triples. It just goes to show that as reliable as they can be sometimes, statistics can also be misleading. K's usually correlate to higher Slugging. Many stolen bases come from one man on two out situations, in my experience. This is an instance where the SB helps the situation most definately, but since the situation isn't a very prosperous one to begin with in terms of runs, it will most likely bring down the correlation between stolen bases and runs. Basically all I'm trying to say in that wordy second part is, you can't really measure a players performance by one statistic. They can be a bit misleading, especially with a game as variable as baseball. Thats why you can't just look at Marky Mark's HR in the 1998 season and say that was the best season ever. It's usually not as obvious as that mediocre example but hopefully you all get what I'm trying to say.
  13. Darnell Junior
    I know he won't continue slugging .800, but i do feel like hitting 260-290 for a season *might* be a possibility for him. He just looks like he has a completely different swing than what I remember. It's not the violent swing it was and he's still hitting for power. I don't really know what to make of it honestly.
  14. Darnell Junior
    To me this just looks a lot like a guy playing way over his head, but do you think it's possible that the change in Branyan's stance really could have made this much of a difference? It seems like a bit of a stretch to me, but if we could get a .260/.370/.480 type of line from a lefty for the next couple of years, that would be huge. I'm saying there's about a 25% chance that this isn't just an obscene hot streak. What do you all think? (unambigufied thread title --1992)
  15. Darnell Junior
    5-1. I'm feeling good about the Brewers again. Weeks and Cameron start to get it going on this trip. Sheets gets 2 hits on the roadtrip. Bill Hall gets none.
  16. Darnell Junior
    Sheets Jimenez is one of those matchups that looks so good we might lose by 7... Hopefully I'm very, very wrong. Go Brewers.
  17. Darnell Junior
    I feel like the Brewers could very well be more flexible with money than they've been letting on. I read somewhere (sorry I can't recall where) that last year the Brewers were the 2nd most profitable franchise in the majors, behind only the Yankees. This was with a team that barely played above .500. Milwaukee is a great baseball town, and if we get into the 90 win area I think we'd have enough revenue where we could bump up the payroll to around 100 million range. I think its a pipedream that we'll resign Sheets, however. I'd be very tempted to move him at the deadline for a high end pitching prospect or two, but I'm not ready to throw away our postseason dreams for this year. Two compensatory picks for an A level free agent is nothing to be scoffed at. I think we need all the money we can come up with to sign basically an entire new bullpen next year, and lock up a few of our guys heading into arbitration. Even with a payroll that's increasing every year I think we should start thinking of creative ways to get another top end starter, or start praying that Parra or Villanueva develop, because thinking we'll be a NL Central Powerhouse with our rotation sans Sheets is ludicrous in my opinion.
  18. Darnell Junior
    I don't think we can assume that the Cubs will play 88 win ball the rest of the way. That projection is based on a 162 game season, filled with peaks and valleys. Who's to say they havent just been playing hot this entire season, and have nowhere to go but down? It sure looks a lot like that, the way they're pitching over their heads right now. If they hit that 5 or 6 game losing streak that most teams seem to go through in a season a 6 game lead will turn into a 2 or 3 game lead pretty quickly. I'm more worried about how we're playing anyways. We have gained a game in the last 15 if i remember correctly, but I feel so much better about our chances at the division. I'll be the first to admit that the wildcard is a more attainable goal at this point, but to cash in the chips for the division with 100 games to play seems a little premature to me, especially with so many against the Cubs to be played.
  19. Darnell Junior
    Whats the record for most games in a row with multiple homers?
  20. Darnell Junior
    nice little inning we have goin here...
  21. Darnell Junior
    Baseball reference may just be my favorite website of all time.
  22. Darnell Junior
    with nobody on I don't really like Prince swinging on 3-0
  23. Darnell Junior
    In play, run(s)..... I hate missing games to study
  24. Darnell Junior
    We were scoring first in almost every game early in the year, and that seems to have done a complete 180.
  25. Darnell Junior
    Yes. Every single player is hitting worse than they will be by the end of the year. Even Hart, who has a great average and OBP, really isn't showing power. All this and we're only 4 games back. With three fourths of the year left I'm still holding out. This team can hit a hot streak that will change the way you view the world.
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