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  1. topper09er
    This shouldn't be a question where you refer back to stats, you should be able to watch Yuni bunt and know that he is terrible at it. He basically screwed up every aspect of bunting in that AB. He held the bat wrong, he did not bend his knees (which he never does at any time) and put the bat at the top of the strike zone. He did not let any pitch go that was above his bat. He did not have the barrel closer to the pitcher than the handle, thus angling the ball towards 3rd instead of right at the pitcher. Only conclusions, 1) RRR does not pay attention when the guys are bunting during BP 2) He does and doesn't understand baseball enough to recognize Yuni can't bunt And the other annoying aspect of this entire thing is that someone on the brewers throws BP and must see him bunt while getting everything wrong, yet nothing is done about it. Either the coaches 1) don't care 2) don't recognize he has anything to correct 3) Yuni is too stubborn to take any direction/criticism. I remember reading some stories about Yuni getting mad when the Mariners tried to get him to take some pitches.
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    I didn't say it meant anything, just showing the stats. There may have been more, this only found players who made their first career start as their first career game. I just caught Wells because I remember that one, anyone else remember any 1st career starts against us that I didn't list? If so those guys must have had a few relief appearances before their first start.
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    We can still trade for someone, going into this year if you looked at free agent SPs you would have seen Cliff Lee and a bunch of bad players and thought there is no clear realistic upgrade. How many people would have thought we'd land Marcum and Greinke. I could see us trading for Hardy, I know the Os just signed him but they have some serious SS stud prospects they may want to throw in there since they aren't going to compete anyways.
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    The point is not for McGehee to score more runs, it is for the team to score more runs. By McGehee walking he will push the runner on first into scoring position, and he had a runner on first 38% of his PAs.
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    The hand is part of the bat ONLY if you are offering at a pitch, which may be a bunt attempt or a swing/check swing. If you are hit in the hand without a swing you get first base.
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    If you cant judge a player based on their numbers you should not be an authority on a serious baseball discussion forum. Who do you think is the best player of all-time? Albert Pujols because you have never seen Babe Ruth play? I guess you cant make any decision on Ruth since all you have is his numbers. Green at least deserves a shot, maybe he will be terrible and you can go back to McGehee who is also terrible.
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    If sports are not real life, why get so upset about it? Are you kidding, YOU are the one getting so upset about everything, if you go back and read some of my comments from the 9th inning you will see (well you would have seen since I assume the People's Republic of Brewerfan deemed my comments not worthy) that I made one comment hoping Yuni broke his hand because I want the Brewers to win the World Series and then quickly moved on to talk about other aspects of the game. All the soccer mom PC types who turned this into a multiple page discussion on how shameful and classless I am and what a horrible person I am are the ones who got upset, including you your holiness. The Brewers front office isn't reading your posts. Just a bunch of other guys in front of their computers watching the games. They aren't reading your posts either, so I guess you should not post here probably Not to throw out insults to players (they aren't reading the forum either). They wont read it if you say they did a great job so what exactly is the point of doing that, since your point is that insulting them doesn't matter since they wont read it. Part of being a sports fan is to get upset about your guys screwing things up, I mean what do you do when you watch games, just sit there are say nice try and then get happy when they hit dingers?
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    This has absolutely NOTHING to do with how I live my life. I'm not sure if you read everything you quoted above, but I said sports does not equal real life, which means they are separate and different.
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    We're just not going to accept negativity towards Brewers players. There are plenty of negative threads around here because our management still has the 1950s baseball philosophy. If I just wanted to talk about all the lovely rainbows and unicorns on the Brewers I would talk to my mom about them. I've been a Brewers fan for 16 years. Who cares, what does that make you some authority? Get off your high horse If Betancourt was released tomorrow, you guys would find someone else to harp on. Well if you think McGehee should continue to play over Green then you must not have been watching any games this year. Just let it go. No, its called being a sports fan It doesn't mean anyone is an idiot. There is no explanation as to why Betancourt starts every day except that the manager has no baseball intelligence, AT ALL. If you cant watch Yuni play and know he is bad then you are an idiot. PERIOD. This is a fact.
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    Wait...was this all just a big level. You're just trolling right now, right?No, why is everyone around here acting like a mom??? In real life you should be nice and respectful to people, and in sports you win. If a player isn't cutting it he is gone. Is Doug Melvin a being a meanie butt by cutting Felipe Lopez, even though he loves to play baseball? How about those people begging for Sean Green to get sent down, what a bunch of jerk faces
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    Thank you
  12. topper09er
    100% serious, sports does not equal real life. How do you not understand that, if you have ever played football youd know the point of tackling is to hit people so hard they are < 100% by the 4th quarter. If you are some big strong guy and you have to tackle someone 100 pounds less than you you pound them into ground as hard as you possibly can.
  13. topper09er
    I disagree. He's a below replacement player, and with SS replacements like Hairston, the Brewers would almost certainly be a better ballclub.Then who's going to play second base? Taylor Green, Josh Wilson, Craig Counsell and soon Rickie Weeks
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    Guess what, sports does not equal real life. If Jesus Christ was a middle linebacker he would fill the A gap and knock every running back on the other team right on their butt every time until they wanted to take themselves out of the game. I would only sound awful if I wished injury on anyone in real life, not professional sports.
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    Wrong, he does make us worse, especially since he starts everyday. He is very, very detrimental to the team.
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    Are you serious??? No one wanted him to die, just be out for the season. Clearly this would make the team better, cheering for your favorite team to get better is fine. He is getting paid $6 MM this year, he will still earn it with a cast on his hand. This isn't little league So let me get this straight. You wanted a Brewer and who, from all reports, is a really nice guy, to lose the ability to do what he loves during a potential championship run? Nice. That's nice.Um yes obviously, who cares what he loves to do. Again, THIS ISN'T LITTLE LEAGUE. Your argument is that I am being a meanie if I want the Brewers to have the best roster possible? "Take a look at them. They're all nice guys, but they'll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last." - Leo Durocher
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    So you prefer Yuni to be the starting SS for the rest of the season including the playoffs? Please answer this question, yes or no. Stop acting like a soccer mom and start acting like a sports fan, and please stop acting like this is some horrible, horrible thing like me saying Hitler had some good ideas.
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    Are you serious??? No one wanted him to die, just be out for the season. Clearly this would make the team better, cheering for your favorite team to get better is fine. He is getting paid $6 MM this year, he will still earn it with a cast on his hand. This isn't little league
  19. topper09er
    It was not a good bunt, but with the infield playing where it was it would have been damn near impossible to drop down a sac bunt. If you get the bunt down the 3rd baseline so the 3B has to field it will work since there is no one to cover 3rd. Yuni bunted it right back to the pitcher off his hand on a pitch at his head.
  20. topper09er
    "a base hit should tie it up" um that is Casey McGehee out there, Im not sure he would score on a triple
  21. topper09er
    Now PH with Counsell and bunt, easy
  22. topper09er
    Green is the obvious choice to hit here, hopefully McGehee strikes out, if he puts it in play GIDP
  23. topper09er
    I seem to remember a 2 out 9th inning go ahead HR in the pinch. I dont think this will be a big factor for the voters. Right now the only thing Prince has above Braun is the NL RBI lead, which is huge to voters, but Braun has the OPS lead and a chance at the batting title and a 30/30 year.
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    Do you honestly think the teams' run numbers would be much higher if he walked more? He was in the 5-hole....I fail to see how wrong it was for McGehee to lead the team in RBIs instead of drawing walks so Escobar and Gomez could drive him in. Brewers 2010: Split PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB Batting 1st 771 667 114 176 32 4 28 81 77 181 .264 .361 .450 .810 300 Batting 2nd 752 698 105 187 44 5 19 83 41 161 .268 .314 .427 .741 298 Batting 3rd 732 646 110 201 43 1 34 106 75 130 .311 .389 .539 .928 348 Batting 4th 717 597 91 152 30 0 25 86 100 130 .255 .377 .430 .807 257 Batting 5th 701 636 74 178 38 1 24 107 55 112 .280 .335 .456 .791 290 Batting 6th 682 626 86 170 34 4 27 87 43 131 .272 .323 .468 .791 293 Batting 7th 668 592 53 146 30 9 7 60 59 111 .247 .318 .363 .681 215 Batting 8th 653 588 58 136 19 5 11 58 55 99 .231 .297 .337 .634 198 Batting 9th 627 556 59 125 23 4 7 42 41 161 .225 .283 .318 .601 177So the 6 spot had the same OPS as the 5 spot, but with a higher SLG which is better for driving in runs, to go along with more HRs as well. So yes, the Brewers would have scored more runs if McGehee would have walked more. It looks like the 6 spot was the spot where is was worth it to sacrifice some walks for RBI chances since the 7-8 spots really dropped off.
  25. topper09er
    Prince Fielder's 2010 actual runners on base: 474 (237-168-69) (1st, 2nd, 3rd) With men on: 71 walks Total RISP: 405 PAs w/ R3 < 2 outs: 42, 5 IBB Casey McGehee's 2010 actual runners on base: 492 (255-156-81) With men on: 22 walks Total RISP: 411 PAs w/ R3 < 2 outs: 39, 2 IBB I really think the main thing is that Prince just came off of a season leading the NL in RBI with 46 HRs and McGehee was essentially an unknown, unproven player, thus teams decided they were not going to pitch to Fielder and make McGehee beat them. Especially with men on, Prince was not going to see many pitches he could drive. This year, at least for the majority of the first half, McGehee was treated as a decent player and Prince was pitched to, even in high leverage situations, and he has produced. For example in June I think he had like 8-9 HRs that either tied the game or took the lead. In 2010 he probably would have been walked in most of those ABs but for some reason this year teams pitched to him.
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