Bombers

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

1. I am sick of Counsell getting any At-bats. He is brutal. 2. McGehee has rendered himself a RH option for LHP for the remainder of the year 3. Taylor is hitting at a tune of .313 AVG, .390 OBP, .541 SLG in 281 AAA at bats this year. Come on Doug - get it done! Put Counsell on the 15 day DL and leave him there until you want him back up in Sept.

I pass on betemit too ... As others have said our focus should be a good defensive SS ... And only that. We have an internal option for 3rd.

Check out the salary page on brewerfan ... http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewTeamSalary.do?teamId=1 We have him through 2014. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

His last 7 appearances are: 2.6 IP, 34.6 ERA, 4.2 WHIP, 1.0 K/BB ... that is a horrendous stretch. At what point do they make a move with their LOOGY?

Hahaha - I needed that

I think Melvin has done a great job of the trades he has made. In all honesty I believe trades should be made often. Especially by teams like the Brewers. Trade 2 prospects for K-Rod, offer him arby, which he will decline. (If anyone disagree's he will decline ... He is 29 years old and has aspirations to pass Rivera & Hoffmann on the all times saves list. His agent is Scott Boras. He will be someone elses closer next year.) Then we get 2 draft picks. So the 2 guys we got rid of are basically back next June. Look at our outfield. Braun is locked for an eternity. Morgan is a FA after the 2014 season. Hart is a free agent after the 2013 season. Any outfielder who is "ready" before 2014 is expendible. For the right guy, I make that trade every day of the week. Trade, trade, trade and trade again. We get a bizillion picks every year and I have confidence in our scouting and ability to raise our positional players. So we stink at drafting pitching. Whatever. Keep doing what your good at and trade positional picks for pitching. I am fine with it. Take a look at the Rays. They had a huge opportunity the last few years to make a splash and didn't. They could have traded a Helickson lead package for Fielder. But they held tight and what did they get? Lost the World Series. I don't want to lose the World Series. I want to win it. Hind sight is always 20-20 but we should have traded Escobar when his value was at the highest, not lowest. Maybe signed Hardy to a 4 year deal in 2009. That contact would look especially good now as I am sure it would have been cheap. I agree with you that we cannot have multi-million dollar players at every position, but you can have some. Look at the starting 8, Lucroy, Morgan, McGehee are all minimum salary players. Braun, Hart, Weeks have decent deals and Fielder gets a lot. Yuni sucks and should be collecting unemployment. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif All in all, I like the trades and I trust in Melvin. If he moves some outfielders, and a pitcher for Hardy. Fine with me. I trust he has done his homework.

Whatever they do (with only 70 games left) we better see the top of our rotation going every 5 days.

Welcome Back Braunie!!!

KRod to be on a SportsNet New York (SNY) in 25 Min http://www.metsblog.com/2011/07/13/k-rod-conference-call-with-sandy-at-330-pm-on-sny/ Not sure if there is a webcast of it, but I would be curious what he says about the trade

I just don't see why Josh Wilson hasn't been given the starting duty. Yuni sucks and until we make a trade he is our best current option. I guess I just don't get why a guy hitting .273 with a .859 OPS for the crew gets 1 start a week with the almighty Yuni B getting the bulk of playing time. Take a look at the available shortstops Not many of these guys are on the trading table. (Min 25 PA, sorted by OPS) ... I guess Clint Barmes is our best option without giving up Thornburg, Rivas or Peralta. But until then, why not start Josh Wilson every day?

I don't see them offering arby in this case, so Type A/Type B won't matter. There's a chance, no matter how small, that he accepts the arby offer, and there's no way Melvin and co. want to be on the hook for a 10 mil + salary for K-Rod next year.I haven't watch K-Rod much in NY but do you think his days of receiving a multi year deal are done? If so, then ya no way we offer arby but i just think there are too many teams who are always looking for a closer or bullpen help, that will offer up a 2-3 year deal.

I like the trade. And The two players we give up will be pretty meaningless if K-Rod becomes Type A or Type B free agent at year end. Since it is a vesting option, that we all hope doesn't vest, do we get Type A / Type B? Or since we still have to buy him out, do we sacrafice getting the extra picks? Edit - I found my answer on page 8 of this thread. Looks like we can still offer him arbitration to get the picks. I would be shocked if he accepted arbitration at 12 Mil for 1 year when he could easily still get a 2 or 3 year deal for $20+. Heck, Gagne got $10 mil for 1 year.

lol .... took you to July 12th and you are only now getting 2nd thoughts http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif HA!

why take prince out, just move him to DH for 1 at-bat?

Way to go Prince!!!! Hit em when it counts bud