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  1. Roderick
    Santana is probably the better pitcher though. I know it doesn't always work that way, but it's something to consider.Old timer's disease. Did Santana sign his contract as a free agent or when he had one year left on his contract? If he signed when he had a year left on his old contract, then I think we should assume CC, as a free agent, will get more than Santana did.
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    I don't agree. If there was a salary cap it would probably be put at $150M or something like that. The Brewers (and many teams) would have been under that and would have the room to trade for a CC. The key is how high would the salary floor be. The NFL sold a salary cap because there was also a floor/minimum that teams had to spend. Otherwise the Cincy Bengals would never have spent the money.
  3. Roderick
    I think there are a three reasons that combine to make Hardy a hot topic. Hardy is the one young player that isn't signed long-term that had a good season and the Brewers would be selling high (versus low for Fielder, Hart, etc) plus he is the one player that we have a legitimate prospect with a known position in the minors to replace him in the near future (2010 imo) plus we have a limited budget and Hardy is into his 2nd year of arbitration ($5M? for 2009) whereas Escobar would be making the $400K salary for three years and that $4.5M+ would go a long way towards pitching. I agree with Robin19 in seeing what the value is. I doubt I would trade Hardy for one more year, but it's nice to play hot stove GM and if you were bowled over for what you could get for him .................
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    I would think you would need to have incriminating pictures of the Blue Jay GM for them to go for this. But Billy hasn't been injured and would play the full season.
  5. Roderick
    The Brewers were at least $77M this year before picking up the contracts of Durham and CC for half a year. $90M is the number most thrown out as next year's payroll budget. I think the Brewers would have to be able to dump Suppan (or Hall if they trade for a cheap 3B) to sign CC. Assuming the limited no-trade is not an issue and assuming Suppan has no positive value to anyone at a $12M pricetag - we'd have to kick in to get rid of him. Instead of paying part of Suppan's salary (the norm in MLB), why not trade a prospect with Suppan to get a return of a token minor leaguer? What level prospect would you have to give up? Downsides (other than emptying the cupboard)? It seems to me you would have to trade with someone that has a strong enough GM that he can deal with the fans ripping on him for trading for a $12M bullpen guy, when the guy that made the trade worthwhile is in the minors for a year or two.
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    I am curious as to how MLB works on merchandise. Does the MLB get a percentage of the licensing and then split that equally over all the teams? Is it every team gets there own sales for themselves?
  7. Roderick
    If they have a healthy Yo, they probably trade for a relief pitcher at the deadline instead of trading for CC early. Which probably would have meant that Mota would have been DFAd right before he "turned it around".
  8. Roderick
    Lloyds of London. I've seen lots of articles in the past that would imply to me that quite a few professional sports teams insure their players. My guess would be the policy would only cover a career-endind injury and not cover an injury that puts him out for a season.
  9. Roderick
    Why do we have an old Minnesota Twin on the team and wouldn't he be paid in 1980s money? Or maybe Doug has Verne's son as a bodyguard?
  10. Roderick
    I don't think we should assume the Brewers will allocate the cash to not be a net negative at a position or two. So it may be a case of which scenario will be the least net negative per dollar. I don't want to rush Gamel, but he has to be on the possibilities list, especially if the Brewers go hard for a pricey pitcher and retain Cameron.
  11. Roderick
    I thought Yost was conspriring with Melvin to keep Shouse's pricetag down for 2009. Seriously, I don't recall too many high-leverage situations that Yost has kept Shouse when multiple righties are up.
  12. Roderick
    Not to rain on the silver lining parade, but the Big Ten Network doesn't carry WCHA games, if you were assuming you would find some hockey on the BTN. There really is no reason they aren't on the BTN other than that would cost Fox and the Big10 some more money on the rights and the cost of televising the games.
  13. Roderick
    That will probably be the case, but I blame missing the playoffs on Melvin. I don't have a problem with putting together a retread bullpen during the summer and seeing what floats to the top. But if he is going to do that, he also has to realize that he has to replace the retreads that aren't any good (and in-season bullpen help is a premium). He hasn't. Once we traded for Sabathia, his next move should have been to add bullpen help. Right now Yost has no one in the pen that he can trust (assuming Shouse lefty only), and it hasn't been how he has used them - the relievers have all taken their turn at sucking.
  14. Roderick
    Is there a reason in regards to keeping other paws out of the revenue that clubs charge the high convenience fee and processing charge? In other words, does the team gets 100% of that revenue, but if it is built into the ticket price, they have to share with the road team, the players, the league, etc?
  15. Roderick
    Hall is signed through 2010. These are just my uneducated (on arbitration history) guesses on the others. Hardy=$4.75M, Hart=$2.5M, Fielder=$7.75M. http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewTeamSalary.do?teamId=1
  16. Roderick
    So what has been the norm for players that have a limited no-trade clause? Do they block small market teams or the large market teams? Seems to me, players might block the large market teams because they will have leverage to negotiate a longer/larger contract to go there and there is a limited chance of actually being traded to a Kansas City. Or do they play it straight and block the teams/cities they really don't want to play for? I'm all for trading Suppan away for nothing (kick in fringe minor leaguers if you have to) if it means we can spend that money to retain CC or Sheets. A rotation of Sheets, Yo, Parra, Bush, McClung with Villy in reserve works for me. If two of that group get hurt or are terrible, you should always be able to find a Zach Jackson emergency type of player to pitch that won't give up too much more than Suppan would have given up anyways.
  17. Roderick
    Just my opinion. I value the defense and the homers, but I would look for better ways to spend $10M. Now if the Brewers strike out on other free agent or trade scenarios, and they are within the budget, then I would defintely reup the option. When is the option due? I haven't looked at the Suppan thread lately, but doesn't he have some sort of limited no-trade clause. He may not be movable regardless of his play.
  18. Roderick
    I have no problem with Cameron coming back next year, but definitely not for the $10M option. How about $5.5M? However, even this hinges on whether the Brewers seriously pursue CC or Sheets. If they do sign one, I'm not sure they can afford a half-priced Cameron.
  19. Roderick
    Put me down for the Cubs winning at least 2 out of 3. With each of the three games going at least 14 innings.
  20. Roderick
    My fuzzy math would be that is a two year extension for $32.5 M. So in my opinion it isn't a great DBack signing, but the usual cost of doing business. I would take the total of his new contract (plus buyout) less his current contract - since they had him signed for two more years anyways.
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