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  1. topper09er
    We had Jerry Harry on August 1, yes he played some CF and filled in for Rickie, but when Rickie was back McGehee started at 3B until the end. The only games Harry started at 3B for us were team games 156, 159, 160 and 162.
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    Besides starting Shawn Marcum 3 times that postseason. RRR hates rookies just as much as Macha, RRR has WAY more loyalty to "the guys that got us here" than he should.
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    If by long term answer you mean a Ryan Braun type then the chance you are taking away is about 1%, and if by long term answer you mean maybe another Gallardo this chance is around 10% or less. I would say the chances that the player drafted with that 17th pick equals the value we get from Lohse over his 3 years with us is about 5-10%, but that value would not be seen until Ryan Braun is in his mid 30s
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    Assuming you are a Packer fan, how did you feel when they backed into a SB title as the #6 seed that only made the playoffs because the Giants punter couldnt kick the ball out of bounds? I really, really want to attend a World Series game in Miller Park in my lifetime, I dont care about how many regular season wins we had that season. Actually a world series win as an 83 win team would make for a pretty exciting run, we would likely be in "playoff mode" from late August - late October.
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    And of those 9% (26 players) mentioned above only 10 were taken after the 10th pick, which is a 5% rate.
  6. topper09er
    Starting 1985 when we picked BJ Surhoff over Barry Bonds...Using BJ and his 30.3 WAR as a cutoff, Number of "BJ Surhoffs or better" taken in the first round of the draft: 1985: 5 1986: 3 (including Sheff) 1987: 3 1988: 1 1989: 2 1990: 2 1991: 2 1992: 2 1993: 4 1994: 1 1995: 2 And then we are getting into some active players. So out of those 294 first round picks, 9% gave you BJ Surhoff or better value. Of course at the #17 pick there will almost certainly be at least 1 future HOFer available, but it doesn't mean he will go with that pick, or even the next 500 picks.
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    For the next 3 years, I cannot forsee the Brewers having a total of 5 starting pitchers that are certainly better than Lohse. Therefore he should make our team better. Maybe it is an overpay and I guess we could have spent the money elsewhere, but I dont really where else we could have spent our money better than for the SP position. Right now we have LF - Best player in the league CF - Average RF - Average 3B - Above Average SS - Below with potential to be average 2B - Above Average 1B - Average to above (Hart) C - Above Average SP1 - Above Average SP else below to ???? Bullpen - I rate the bullpen for almost every team every year as ??? I think a big RP investment is a crap shoot. I guess the alternative was just to sit pat and use the pick, but Ill always take a known guy with an MLB track record over a pick.
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    Im all for signing a few studs and filling in the gaps instead of settling for a bunch of average guys, but no matter what we would have offered Greinke the Dodgers would have just offered more. We had no shot at him.
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    Its not that simple, a large factor in winning is being lucky that your picks turn out, because no one has really been able to demonstrate the consistent ability to make good baseball draft picks. The failure rate of the first round picks is huge. So yes in theory you should save up picks and develop a class and bring them up together...but in reality you get Ryan Braun once a generation (or less) so when you have them you have to play for that window. The biggest mistake the Brewers could make would be to not go for it all with future HOFer Ryan Braun in his prime leading the league in dingers. To just assume you should let Braun's prime pass because you will just develop a similar player with enough draft picks in foolish.
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    So for the $20 I can get the at bat app with full audio and listen to audio on my computer as well?
  11. topper09er
    So if I dont want to pay mlb $20 to listen to the radio I am shutout today? At least the Brewers are on the board. Here's to Braunie leading the league in taters again
  12. topper09er
    So the reason Barry Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame is because people dont like that he did something illegal? Well I wonder if Tony La Russa will be denied the HOF because got a DUI, which is illegal.
  13. topper09er
    So now I will wait to see who will be the first to fake to 2nd and then pick someone off with a force at 3rd, full count and 2 outs.
  14. topper09er
    Unfortunetly, its not that simple. We will never have enough money to sign the top players because there is no set price. Its not a TV where you can save up enough money if you make sacrafices in other areas to then go buy the top of line TV. In MLB there is only 1 "TV" that exists (the top free agent), so the richer teams will just pay whatever it takes to get them. If there was only 1 TV in American then Bill Gates would own it just because he can pay the most, Donald Trump would never own it even if he sold all his extra houses and tried to save up for it. Even if we offered CC Sabathia a $170 MM he would have just taken that to the Yankees and they would have offered him $180.
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    So the reason Barry Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame is because people are concerned about his long term health problems?
  16. topper09er
    So just to be clear steroids is cheating but having a surgery to give you a "new arm" is totally fine
  17. topper09er
    Ill take Mike Trout (who the angels picked with the yankee pick they got because mark teixeira was ranked higher than CC) still rediculous to value a 1B over a stud ace
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    Lowest pitching WAR, MLB History -5.4 Kevin Jarvis -5.4 Mike Kekich -5.0 Jerry Stephenson -5.0 Ray Harrell -4.9 Brian Williams -4.8 Randy Lerch -4.8 Vic Frazier -4.5 Dan McGinn -4.4 Jack Hamilton -4.4 Wade Blasingame -4.3 Herman Besse -4.0 Jo-Jo Reyes -3.9 Tom Fisher -3.9 Jim Bullinger -3.9 Frank LaCorte -3.9 John Van Benschoten -3.9 Andy Larkin -3.8 George Boehler -3.8 Manny Parra -3.8 Jimmy Jones But he threw a perfect game in the minors! Lets still hold out hope, maybe give him 100-200 more starts and see what we have with him. I mean Yuni probably walked 3 times in a Cuban game once
  19. topper09er
    Rickie does not have a strong arm at all and he throws sidearm. 3rd is not an option for him at all. He doesnt even have the arm for SS.
  20. topper09er
    McCutchen got 1 hit today, Braun is 4 behind. The Prates were shutout so McCutch finished tied with Braun and Upton for the runs scored lead at 107, so its a 2 horse race to that stat tonight between Braun and Upton. Mike Stanton needs 5 PA to qualify but he has a .612 SLG to Braun's .598. If Stanton goes 0-fer he will finish with a .605 SLG, Braun would need 7 TB in 4 ABs to take that title.
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    That park factors play a role in not only OPS+ but the offensive WAR numbers. And I don't see how Cabrera and Trout are equal on offense. Cabrera has more PAs (which is a good thing towards being the MVP) and more everything else except SBs (H, 2B, HR, AVE, same OBP, SLG).The difference is a 42 net SB lead for Trout and 65 total bases lead for Cabrera, yet WAR say Trout has 53 batting runs and Cabrera has 54. This is because of the Angels Park Factor. I think Cabrera is clearly better on offense but not by that much and the defensive + baserunning difference pushes it towards Trout by a decent margin.
  22. topper09er
    Well we need 9 Ks tomorrow to set the new record, and Brauny needs an RBI.
  23. topper09er
    That K may cost Brauny some black ink
  24. topper09er
    Would be nice for a Gomez BB or infield hit so Braun can get a R3 less than 2 out chance
  25. topper09er
    If Kotsay is going to be a major league manager he should have refused to start in CF in the NLCS and just retired as soon as he saw that penciled into the lineup.
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