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  1. Funketown
    Oh dear. Not as good as the Fielder song but still some good moments.
  2. Funketown
    ^I put Estrada in the pen because he's a decent bullpen arm and the team desperately needs another decent arm in the pen. Fiers has looked really good and I'm fairly optimistic about him going forward so long as he can keep the ball in the yard.
  3. Funketown
    I like ball go far.
  4. Funketown
    Dunn's HR/FB % this season is 36.5. That's absurd!
  5. Funketown
    I wonder if a hitter has ever finished the season with enough PA's to qualify for the batting title, <.170 average, and >.300 OBP. Gotta keep Weeks in the lineup or else we risk him not accomplishing this incredible feat.
  6. Funketown
    Maybe they should dress as the 2002 Brew Crew for some reverse mojo.
  7. Funketown
    Does anybody have Green's MiLB splits against LHP? Maysonet is pretty much a bad hitter against everybody so it wouldn't surprise me if Green L vs. L is a better offensive option than Maysonet R vs. L.
  8. Funketown
    Green's bat has too much pop to hit 9th. That must be why he isn't playing 2nd instead of Maysonet?
  9. Funketown
    Thought some people on here might be interested. I'm betting you can just fill in your own email and gift it to yourself. $49.99 sounds like a pretty good deal for ~100 games of baseball. I'm slightly annoyed that I paid $125 at the start of the season!
  10. Funketown
    I think you're seriously overestimating what can be done with $10M a year. Andre Ethier just got $17 mil over 5 years. Michael Cuddyer got $10.5 mil for 3 seasons.
  11. Funketown
    I was also surprised to see both how unimpressive Vuckovich was that season and how unimpressive the top pitching performers in the AL were that season. If I had to cast a ballot as a 1982 baseball writer, I would have gone: 1. Dave Stieb (288 IP, 3.25 ERA), 2. Rick Sutcliffe (216 IP, 2.96 ERA), 3. Dan Petry (246 IP, 3.22 ERA), 4. Jim Palmer (227 IP, 3.13 ERA), 5. Pete Vuckovich (223 IP, 3.34 ERA) This list just goes to show how brutal the dark ages were for the Brewers. I can't imagine almost any other team in existence since 1970 would have an all-time greats list littered with so many guys who probably wouldn't even qualify for my distinguished "Hall of Very Good". Oh well. As for the list, here's what I've got: C - Surhoff 1B - Cooper 2B - Weeks SS - Yount 3B - Molitor LF - Braun CF - Thomas RF - Oglivie DH - Fielder SP1 - SP5: Sheets, Higuera, Bosio, Gallardo, Haas RP: Fingers (CL), Axford (SU), Turnbow (Comic) It would be cool to see what would happen if somebody made teams of the all time greats of all 30 teams and then simulated a season. Obviously the older teams would clean up, and with the Reds, Cardinals, Pirates, and Cubs in the 5 team 2013 NL Central I imagine the Brewers would struggle to crack 65 wins.
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    Edit: Wait, my post doesn't make any sense. I thought we were talking depleted talent pool between the 60's and now. It's time for me to hang my head in shame. Yeah but the population in the U.S. is now twice as large as it was 50 years ago. The Dominican Republic is a massive talent pool that was largely untapped until the 1980's or so, perhaps later. Venezuela's another pretty good talent pool that wasn't around too long ago. Throw in a few players from Japan, Cuba, and a couple from South Korea, Panama, Colombia, Curacao, etc. and I'd say the talent pool today is probably deep enough to handle having twice as many teams. Edit: Oh, and how can I forget Canada! Actually to be honest I don't know if there are more Canadian players today than 30+ years ago. Morneau, Lawrie, Axford, Dempster, Bay, Martin, Votto are all pretty big names (or were).
  13. Funketown
    Hochevar's career ERA is more than a run higher than his career FIP in ~650 innings. That's an abnormally high difference. I wish Taylor Green could play RF. Green has been pretty much league average at the dish so far and projects to be about league average (Zips). It's a good thing this team is good enough that we struggle to get a solid player into the lineup...
  14. Funketown
    Why do I keep hearing that Hardy was so terrible in 2010? He posted a .268/.320/.394 clip and played solid SS defense. He was probably one of the top 15 SS's in the majors that season.
  15. Funketown
    R.A. Dickey last night: 9 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 12 K, 0 BB. The one hit was an infield single in the 1st inning that Wright couldn't come up with. And it wasn't even the best pitching performance of the night.
  16. Funketown
    Crew, I don't think either of us is calling out owners. Just that they have a very clear incentive to make their financial situation look more dire than it is. My point is that we should be taking A with a grain of salt.
  17. Funketown
    Make it four infield hits. I'm as staunch a big ball guy as there is but I had to smile after the twp bunt singles.
  18. Funketown
    That makes even a staunch station to station big ball guy like me smile. I cant even post in the right thread. Now that I finally understand thr expression, smh.
  19. Funketown
    Yeah, sports franchises are very good at crying poor when they're making money. Hasn't the value of the franchise also pretty much doubled in the past 8 seasons as well?
  20. Funketown
    Mendoza's peripherals are pretty brutal. Zips actually projects him to have a K/BB ratio <1. So, we should probably expect 6 IP, 5 K, 1 BB, 2 H, 1 ER out of Mendoza.
  21. Funketown
    Yeah, only time will tell whether deals like Ethier's are due to a new economic environment in MLB or simply an overpay from an ownership group with too much cash on their hands. As Brewers fans, we better hope it's the latter. Looking over the list of this season's FA contracts, I think these contracts might be the new norm. A few of the bigger OF bat signings this offseason/season: Michael Cuddyer 3/$31.5 Andrew Ethier 5/$85 David Dejesus 2/$10 Jason Kubel 2/$15 Josh Willingham 3/$30 Outside of Willingham and Dejesus those all seem pretty darn steep. Kubel has a slightly above average bat and he's a bad defensive corner outfielder. Average players really do seem to command $10 million per season these days. These all make the Aoki deal look like a great signing. Clubs like the Brewers are just going to have to be smarter going forward.
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    That's an absurd chunk of change for Ethier. He's hardly any better than Corey Hart; Zips projects a .350 wOBA for Hart and a .348 wOBA for Ethier. Hart got $9MM and $10MM for two FA years, while Ethier gets $17MM for five seasons. The Cubs scare me way more than the Dodgers as a potentially dominant NL franchise.
  23. Funketown
    I'll also nominate Mike Rivera for backup catcher, although an argument could probably also be made for Kottaras.
  24. Funketown
    Invader, Farris is putting up a .251/.300/.276 line in AAA this season. He was also far below league average last season at the plate in AAA as well. Green would be a reasonable replacement though if he can't get this figured out. $10 million for a league average guy isn't ideal, but it's at worst a few million too much. Suppan was getting $10 million over his market value. If he continues to hit .160/.300/.300 then yes, $10 million is about $12 million too much for him. I just don't expect him to hit .160/.300/.300 going forward.
  25. Funketown
    With the way the option is set up it can basically be viewed as 3 years if Weeks recovers and 2 years if he continues to flounder. So really it's only about half as much as Suppan, even in nominal dollars. Weeks doesn't need to be great to be worth his contract. $10 million isn't terrible for an average to slightly above average player these days, so as long as Weeks can put up a line of about .220/.320/.400 or so he should be fine.
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