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Yup........that's what I was thinking. I was also thinking that my wife is due that day. Could be a pretty busy one. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif You should name your kid #3 Priority

But he's still a better option than Counsell which is who you suggested would help us beat Philly more than Yuni would I have no doubt Counsell is a better option against Roy Halladay Counsell or Yuni will not be the reason we win or lose. Completely false, a 5 game playoff is such a small sample even 1 game makes or breaks you. Its a team game. There have been several games this season when our stars have hit Hrs but Yuni's defense has cost the team the game. Yuni turning a routine DP into a reached on error can easily cause the Brewers to go from winning the series to losing it. If in game 1 in 2008 Mike Cameron catches a ball that hit his glove we would have forced a game 5 with Sabathia on the mound. As far as it being very smart to trot out an all defense team against a good pitcher just don't agree. I only mean if the offense is even then go with the better defender, I believe vs Roy Halladay Counsell's offense = Yuni's offense. I think this season so many of us are so focused on our weak defense we seem to forget it hasn't hurt us from being in first place three games up. But it has hurt us from being 5 or 7 or 9 games up which may end up costing us the playoffs or home-field advantage in the 1st or even 2nd round of the playoffs. There is a reason poor fielding hitters find jobs in the majors when the minors are littered with good fielding guys who can't hit. And they play 1B/LF/RF/DH Offense is necessary defense is nice. Ozzie Smith would like to disagree, actaully the only thing that is necesary is overall positive value.

Why not go all in and remove everybody we shouldn't expect to hit well against them in favor of defense? That would be very smart GoGo in center Plush in right So you need to debate what is the bigger gap, CarGo in CF over Plush in CF and Plush in RF over Hart in RF, OR Hart offense over Gomez offense. It is pretty close and I think worth talking about, I would lean to leaving Hart in however, which also allows for Gomez to be used as a pinch runner to get a possibly crucial SB. and maybe Harriston JR at third. Obviously this would be a smart move, not that it will happen. Pity Carrol is gone his cannon for an arm would have allowed him to play right and we could replace Braun with Plush. I know this is a joke, but obvioulsy not worth the trade. Kotsay might be better at first and Prince will struggle against Lee so remove him as well. I dont see any reason to think Kotsay would be more than a marginal 1B replacement over Prince, and Prince doesnt struggle against anyone. Against LHP this season: .298/.376/.452 Yuni isn't a very good overall player. He does have the ability to hit some No, he doesnt, he is a horrible hitter, currently he has an 80 wRC+, which is WORST in all MLB for qualifying SS http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=ss&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=2011&ind=0 he is our best option there this season. He will give us the best chance to beat any team not just the bad ones. Again, no he isnt. Right now Hairston is a better option, he can get on base more often AND play better defense.

Cincy (7-6 loss), Yuni was 0 for 4.. This was Axford's loss. YUNI WPA = -.04Atlanta (2-1 loss), Yuni was 2 for 4 (.041) Washington (4-3 loss), Yuni was 0 for 4... error on throw (-.173 + -.15 for the error, at least) Philly (5-4 loss), Yuni was 1 for 4 (.004) Houston (3-2 loss), Yuni was 0 for 4 (-.171) May Atlanta (2-1 loss), Yuni was 2 for 4. (-.082, Yuni was 0-4 this game, not 2-4) SF (5-4 loss ) Yuni was 0 for 4. (-.149) San Diego (1-0 loss) Yuni was 0 for 1 pinch hitting. (-.097) I really don't see how you can blame Yuni for most of these losses offensively or defensively. I really can't. The Washington game for the error ended up being decisive though. Obviously there are other games to consider, but a lot of the other losses were relative blowouts. The point is that you cant assign blame for a loss to any 1 player ever, this is why the average fan will look at these games and say Yuni should get 0 blame for the losses but when he is hot he should somehow get 100% credit for the wins. Even on opening day McGehee thought to long about where to throw the ball in the 9th and ended up getting 0 outs on a ball hit directly at him. In these games Yuni went 3 for 29, how can you not give him some blame for some of those losses. His aggregate WPA in these games was -.817, almost an entire loss attributed to his lack of getting on base, not counting all the easy grounders he let by that any other SS in the league gets to. In fact, in his last magical 80 ABs covering 22 games where he is hitting .388/.405/.575, his WPA is only .703. So this super hot month has not even counteracted all the negative value he added to our 8 1 run losses in the first half of the season. Again this is not counting his negative defense.

The point is do you expect Yuni to hit .380/.390/.500 against the Phillies? If the answer is no, then we would be better off starting Counsell at SS every game because his defense upgrade over Yuni is more important than his hitting downgrade from the average Yuni. People are acting like this week Yuni is finally silencing all his critics and now he is justified to continue starting at SS for the remainder of the season, when actually if you expect him to come back down to earth by the playoffs he should not be playing. What we really need out of Yuni is above average defense to counteract his sub .290 OBP, but we are not getting it and he should not play

It is very difficult as a fan to truely take into account an entire season when evaluating a player, especailly in the context of WAR. Yuni has hit very well for a month, and horribly for 3 months. However, it is difficult to assign blame to him for losses because in the fans mind the hitter is always expected to get out and pitcher is always expected to get the out, the league OBP is around .320 so it heavily favors the pitcher. Because of this Yuni can string together many 0-4 and 1-4 games and in your mind you never think, Yuni cost us that game, whereas when Kam Loe gives up the lead in the 8th in your mind you assign 100% of the blame for the loss to Loe because you expect him to get the outs. Yuni can slide under the radar for 3 months without people having vivd memories of games where they assign 100% of the blame for a loss to him, but in reality his continual terrible OBP costs the teams games compared to a player who would have gotten on more often, just like people tend to forget Loe appeared in 42 games where he allowed no runs which adds up to some wins for us. It is easy to look at the past few weeks and say there is no way Yuni can be at replacement because you give 100% of the win credit because he knocked in a few go ahead runs, yet you arent penalizing him for the games when he went 0-4 and the guy after him hit 2 doubles etc. If you are comparing him against some replacement level player, they are not going to hit .000, so if Yuni had 10 clutch hits you can assume the replacement guy would have hit at least 2-3 of them, and if he got on base at a .200 clip for an entire month you can assume the replacement guy would have reached base more often and scored more runs. From April 30-June 1 the Brewers lost 5 1 run games, where Yuni went a combined 2-17 with 1 RBI, yet in the average fans head he gets 0% of the blame for those losses, but according to WAR those build up enough to counteract his recent hot streak. And now none of this factors in his horrible defense. Plus at the end of the day, how to you think he is going to fare against Roy Halladay or Tim Lincecum in the playoffs? They will make sure to pitch him outside and he will ground into tons of 6-3s.

1st career dinger

Plush with only walk #6 on the season

7 pitches, 7 strikes, 3 outs

So dumb to pitch to Fielder there, La Russa may be a drunken idiot but he seems to be the only manager in the league who will walk Prince with our scrubs coming up

Obvious IBB here

1) No it is not, the game is clearly more boring if the game play is replaced by the umps huddled under a camera or waiting for a guy in the booth to tell them what to do, have you ever watched a college football game. No matter what you do you will not make the game fair, if you want fair watch Track. 2) After 10 minutes 3) You could just say broken bat doubles down the line are now counted as outs, thats a way to fix that. In that case I think the ump may have thought the runner may have been safe, but since the throw beat him and he was already picked off the defense gets the benefit of the doubt there.

Lopez's K costs us a run

It sure seems that way. I won't complain when the calls go our way, but I don't see how anyone can argue against expanded replay in baseball. That play wasn't even close in regular speed. 1) Because it makes the game more boring2) Often times you cant tell on the replay anyways 3) You cant remove luck from sports no matter how much you try, bad calls are part of luck. I dont see how doing everything right but getting a bad call is any different than making a great pitch but having the batter serve up a cheap double down the line. Both cases bad luck, the best teams are always the most lucky. If you want a sport with no luck watch track.

Obviously safe but he was picked off so he deserves to be out. Talk about lolly-gagging the throw by Prince. Somehow Brad Mills lives on in this game

If the contact play was on there Lopez should be at third, if the SS makes any effort to get him at all Yuni is safe at home

Agreed. Ill have to say the opposite, Yuni's was fair but Prince was out

Brad Mills was arguing, not ejected though, I guess he kept his several minute tirade G rated

I will say Prince was out, Quintero was blocking the plate enough to prevent Prince's lead leg from touching the plate

Casey looks like hes reverted back to his Yuni copycat swing, flying open and finishing off balance with one hand on the bat

Next time take another step Yuni

Houston is the only stadium where that is an out, everywhere else you have to play deeper because the fence isnt within Jason Kendall HR range

His Eminence Albert Cardinal Pujols just hit a 2-run dinger, Birds 2 - Fish 0 top 1

Brett Myers hasn't seen anything beaten as badly as Prince did to that baseball since his wife last overcooked the meatloaf

Are the Astros too embarrassed to release their lineup?