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  1. Funketown
    Cameron only played in 269 games in two years, and drove in 140. That's about 85 in a healthy season. But I think you're right Briggs that these discussions generally don't go anywhere, so probably not much use in hashing this one out again. I agree with your general point on Francisco. He's an abysmally bad defensive 1B. Even if he puts up a .270/.330/.500 line, he won't be that valuable. Also, I doubt he can put up that type of line without a strict platoon (or even with a strict platoon). He has 101 career PA's against LHP and a .199 wOBA...He probably isn't quite that bad against LHP, but I think there's a good reason the Brewers have only let him accumulate 34 of his ~320 PA's against LHP. So keep in mind that his batting line this year already includes a sizable platoon advantage. At best, Juan Francisco is a terrible defensive 1B who might be able to hit something like .270/.330/.520 in a strict platoon. I imagine that any time he's up after the 6th inning in an important position, he'll get the LOOGY treatment and need to be PH for. In short, I see no reason for Juan Francisco to be penciled in as even a platooned 1B for the Brewers next season. He's just not a particularly useful player.
  2. Funketown
    For that price I'm sure they can find a trading partner, even though it would probably be a C grade prospect. What has happened to his gap power? His ISO is down from .144 last year to just .080 this year. I also feel like he's looked a bit slow out there defensively this season, not sure if others feel the same way. At this point I would expect better production from Gindl or Davis than Aoki next season.
  3. Funketown
    Yea, they turn orange way faster out of the fridge, and I think they also turn orange faster in the brown paper bag, though I can't really corroborate that. Had she put them in the fridge, I would have had five green tomatoes, but I only had three because of her unfortunate error. This might be considered irreconcilable now. I mean, that's forty cents I will never get back...
  4. Funketown
    No, but if I were offered 475,000 I might sell it. Given that I think the PED discount package would be worth less to the Brewers than Braun, I will be shocked if they trade him in the next year or so.
  5. Funketown
    What's the bluebook on a 2005 Bugatti? If it's $500,000 and I'm offered a puke-wreaking Bugatti for $300,000, I'll most definitely buy it. I am curious to know what the market would look like for Ryan Braun. I kind of suspect that some GM's wouldn't touch him but others would see a guy who is owed an average of $17 million per year for 7 years and take him on. I really have no clue though. Dave Cameron didn't even know what to do with Braun in his 2013 trade values, and that was before the suspension. I'd love to hear what GM's have to say about the potential of acquiring a guy like Braun in the future.
  6. Funketown
    With 43 games left, I'm hoping they let Gennett get at least 150 PA's, which would give us a better idea of what he can do against MLB pitching, as well as watch him defensively a bit more.
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    I've upped my expectations a little bit with his success in 70 PA's this season. If all goes well, maybe he can be a .280/.320/.380 type of player. If he grades out decently defensively, that's a nice guy to have under team control for the next several years. I haven't been watching him defensively though. I remember grumblings that he's a bit below average at 2B. Anybody have thoughts on this?
  8. Funketown
    I bought five green tomatoes on Saturday to make fried green tomato BLT's. My wife left them in a brown paper bag in the pantry. Now I have three green tomatoes and two orange tomatoes.
  9. Funketown
    I bet Yuni couldn't. Oh wait, he probably could if he hit 3rd or 4th. Clearly, this means Yuni is a good player because RBIs are representative of his exceptional abilities.
  10. Funketown
    I'd rather one of the, get ABs in the big leagues and the other in AAA than see both split time in the big leagues. Let Davis get 50-75 PAs over the next few weeks, and then bring Gindl up and let them split time, and play some for Aoki down the stretch.
  11. Funketown
    I think it's a legitimate concern at this point that Gamel hasn't seen live action in what will be nearly two years next April.
  12. Funketown
    With the bat, Cabrera is way ahead, but whether you like defensive metrics or scouts, or both, Cabrera is a bad defender at 3B while Trout is a very good defender in CF. add in Trout's exceptional base running and I do think it is closer than some are saying, at least in terms of who should win rather than who will win (Cabrera will win in a landslide). Throw in the fact that Trout has gotten about 10% more Plate appearances, and I think it warrants some debate. Now, I'm going with Cabrera because I think the huge difference in his offensive production vs. Trout is not offset by the fairly large benefit Trout gives on the field and on the bases. But if I had a ballot, I'd definitely give it some serious thought.
  13. Funketown
    Well it looks like our old AL MVP debate will be resurfacing this year: Mike Trout vs. Miguel Cabrera. Figured it was about time for us to have this thread up. Miguel Cabrera: - .365/.459/.686 (208 wRC+, 7.3 WAR) in 486 PA's - Metrics and eyes generally agree that he's a significantly below-average defender at 3B - Slow Mike Trout: - .330/.425/.572 (176 wRC+, 7.8 WAR) in 530 PA's - Metrics and eyes generally agree that he's average to above-average in CF - Great baserunner I'd be happy with either, but at this point...this is tough. Last season, I would have voted for Trout without flinching. This season, Trout has slightly improved his batting line while Cabrera is posting a Bondsian 1.145 OPS and 208 wRC+. Trout makes up ground with his defense, baserunning, and the fact that Cabrera has taken a handful of days off this season. At the moment...I'm going with Cabrera by a nose. They've unquestionably been the two best players in MLB this season. Players since 1994 to post a >200 OPS+ are Bonds (a few times), Sosa (2001), McGwire (1998), Thomas (1994), and Bagwell (1994). So he's pretty much the first guy to do so since 1994 who doesn't look like Popeye after an all you can eat spinach buffet. While the Brewers aren't much fun these days, hopefully we can all enjoy watching these two guys battle it out for AL supremacy over the next couple of months. Who do you have?
  14. Funketown
    If the team stays remotely healthy with Corey Hart on a 1-year/$7 million deal, how about a lineup (with Zips slash and wRC+) Segura .291/.333/.426/108 Lucroy .276/.328/.445/112 Braun .301/.371/.531/147 Ramirez .278/.343/.477/126 Hart .276.334/.491/117 (career line, too lazy to look up Zips) Gomez .266/.317/.463/113 Aoki .285/.342/.383/102 Weeks? .238/.331/.415/108 (This obviously seems way too optimistic, sadly I think the injuries have done him in) P That lineup can score some runs. Obviously 2B will be a weak spot; a Gennett/Weeks soft platoon is probably the answer there if they don't sign a FA and Weeks doesn't magically start hitting next season. Either way it won't be a strong defensive platoon. There are a lot of injury concerns there with Ramirez and Hart, potentially Braun as well. But if they stay healthy, that team will score a lot of runs. Pitching...not so good.
  15. Funketown
    I'd just have my 25th man/Yuni lob balls to hitters until the game was over. Basically batting practice. He'd throw about 300 innings in blowouts and give up about 600 homers, but it wouldn't matter. No more need for a long reliever!
  16. Funketown
    It will be amusing to see his chase of -2.4 WAR. Not blue.
  17. Funketown
    Career wise it is surprising how Ichiro and Weeks stack up in terms of OBP and SLG. Of course when considering how good Of a player Ichiro was/is, we need to remember that he only came over at age 27, and was one of the best players in NPB around age 20. Had Ichiro been signed to a MLB deal at age 20, and played seven more seasons in MLB, he probably would have bested Rose's 4256 career hits by the end of his career. That would have been a fun record chase over the next few years, but oh well. Maybe it's right that Weeks just aged really quickly with how beat up he has been in his career.
  18. Funketown
    Keep in mind that Ichiro has really seen his career line drop over his last 2000 PA's. He's 40 years old now. That's interesting to me that singles are weighted 1.25 times more than walks. It makes sense that they should be a bit higher, but I would have thought it to be around 1.10 or 1.15 times as high. I wonder how much the value of singles, relative to walks, has maybe increased due to the lower run environment.
  19. Funketown
    Moving Braun to 1B makes a ton of sense to me. I don't love the idea of Aoki being moved there just because I think his offensive production could be pretty easily replaced by a FA 1B for a pretty reasonable sum with somebody like Morneau or Loney (if you haven't looked at his line recently, he's actually fallen off a bit this season -- something I was unaware of). But if Hart can be had at 1 year + club option for $5-7 million, I think that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how healthy Mat Gamel will be, but the odds that both of those guys are lost to season-ending injuries in the same season once again are low. If the team docs think Hart has a good chance of staying healthy over the course of an MLB season, I think that's the route to go.
  20. Funketown
    Gwynn got on base almost 40% of the time he went to the plate in his career. He was a great hitter, though I probably wouldn't put him in my top 50 all time. By wRC+ or OPS+, Gwynn has a pretty sizable lead on Dunn (something like 132 to 125 career). There's not a big difference between a player who hits .230/.400/.450 and one that hits .350/.400/.450. That's the point people are making here with batting average. It is important insofar as it determines how often an individual gets on base, but in isolation isn't particularly meaningful or valuable.
  21. Funketown
    100 is average, so he has been significantly better than average over the course of his career. Getting on base and hitting for power are far more important than a high K-rate and a mediocre batting average. He has been very good at hitting with power and taking walks. That's pretty much a sufficient condition to being an above average hitter, regardless of K-rate, BA, etc.
  22. Funketown
    I don't know how anybody can say Weeks was never a good hitter, that's pretty clear hyperbole. Weeks' career batting line is .247/.346/.423, for a career wRC+ of 108. That's 9th out of the 35 second baseman who have compiled 2500 PAs since 2005. So yes, he was a good hitter.
  23. Funketown
    Richard Sherman won an appeal in the NFL last season. I'm not sure why MLB and its fans seem to care so much more than the NFL. One does have to wonder if the league would be better off these days keeping this stuff a bit closer to the chest...
  24. Funketown
    With the Yunibomber still on the forty man, it shouldn't be too tough to find a spot for Chris Narveson. Or a slightly worn pair of trousers, for that matter.
  25. Funketown
    How many of these Biogenesis players failed an MLB drug test? Something like 4 of them? Assuming these guys have been using for the last 4-5 years of drug testing at least on-and-off, this would seem to indicate that the odds of a PED user failing one of MLB's tests are still really low. I seriously doubt Bosch is the only guy running this type of clinic. I have no clue how many players are using, but I now believe that the game has far more drug users than I did before the Biogenesis scandal. Selig can spin this any way he likes, but it's pretty clear his drug program has not caught very many of the users.
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