jerichoholicninja

The Mike Cameron comparison is brought up all the time but as a hitter he's Geoff Jenkins. Because of his streakiness? The stats are a dead ringer for Mike Cameron, hence my frequent comparisons since we acquired him. The streakiness. People always bring up Cameron because of the power/speed/defense combo but what frustrates most people here is the streakiness. Jenkins would end up every year with a decent stat line. But he would get there by putting up some of the most putrid weeks you could imagine followed up by another week of mashing the ball.

Yeah, I don't have much use for Perez. It's too bad because every other part of his game is adequate. He can play anywhere in the field adequately, is an alright hitter with some pop. If he were a .258 hitter with a .328 OBP, he'd be a nice valuable player. 258 with a .286 OBP is just horrible. Maybe it's Dubon next year. He profiles as a utility backup. With Perez being a minimum salary guy I'm not totally opposed to keeping him around as a utility player next year but it doesn't look like he'll ever walk. He's actually showing less patience than last year. Perez has actually reduced his strikeouts as a percentage of PAs from 21.86% in 2016 (94 in 430 PAs) to 16.8% in 2017 (63 in 375 PAs). He's making more contact, the ball's just being fielded and turned into outs. He plays seven positions (all three OF, all four IF). He can steal up to 30 bases, and he has pretty good power. He can fill in if someone gets hurt, he can give anyone a day off, if they need a double-switch, he's there. If the Brewers can get a relatively cheap 5-6 years deal (say, $3-4 million a year) that buys out the arby years and 2-3 free agent years, Perez becomes an immensely valuable asset. The same can go for Villar as well. This year, his BABIP is only .307. In three of his past major league seasons, it's been over .360, and his career BABIP is .338. If he returns to his career average, his versatility (playing SS, 3B, 2B, LF, CF) becomes valuable. He's also able to steal a minimum of 20 bases, and he does flash substantial power and switch-hits. Again it may be worth buying out his arby and a couple free-agent years at $3-4 million per year. Now we have the nucleus of a "Bench Mob." Think of it this way - we have starting talent. So will big-market teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cubs. The Brewers, though, need to think more outside the box. A "Bench Mob" is probably one wya to go. Get very versatile guys who have one or two reasonably plus tools... Contact isn't the problem. The problem is that he has no discipline and swings at everything.

So even though the zone is clearly defined, each umpire should individually decide what they think is a strike or not? That really makes no sense. Then why not the same thing on a force out or fair/foul? Every rule is up to the umpire's discretion on how to enforce it.

And maybe you should also tip your hat to the pitchers IF you get a swing at a pitch 1 inch off the plate, or if you get a called strike because you've been hitting your spots all game. This would be the biggest change in the history of baseball. Integration changed the level of talent in the game....advanced metrics have slightly changed the way the game is played. This would fundamentally change the way the game unlike anything ever before. And if you like offense, I suppose you'd like this because you'd likely never see another season like Kershaw has put up recently. It would no doubt be a big change. The biggest change in the history of baseball, nah, I doubt that. That would be the end of the dead ball era. The last sentence is just not true. In fact, hitting your spots would become even more of a strategy because if you can find that actual bottom outside corner spot and hit it with consistency (not just come close), you'll get the call every time. As pointed out earlier, slow curves that actually cross at the bottom of the strike zone but are always called balls will now be strikes. Batters won't get rewarded anymore for when a catcher gets crossed up and the pitch goes right over the plate and doesn't get called for a strike. I don't see any basis to the theory that pitching will suffer. Plenty of balls in the strike zone are being called incorrectly as well. It's not just the other way around. And even if true, if you're saying that Kershaw has only put up seasons like he has recently because of unfairly getting calls off the plate, that seems like a pretty poor reason to me to keep the current system. Ya, I have no idea what point that guy is trying to make. Teams already have scouting reports on umps. They all know who calls what where.

And replace him with...? Guerra? Jungmann? Espino? Blazek? All seem like options just as bad. ANYBODY, go watch his last 3 games and stop yourself right before you start slashing your wrists. I would rather use the bullpen by committee. Hader should have started in Colorado tonight. I actually have seen his last 3 starts. Apart from today he hasn't been horrible. Certainly better than the 4 I mentioned.

And replace him with...? Guerra? Jungmann? Espino? Blazek? All seem like options just as bad.

What a BS homerun.

As one of the biggest BA haters here, I don't mind that he's gone, but where is he? I know he did NBA playoffs and some golf and does national games but where is it tonight? Has he done even half of the televised Brewer games?

Really Domingo? Take two steps in and you catch that.

Yes, umps. It's pretty funny when you can't even do the simplest part of your job.

The Mike Cameron comparison is brought up all the time but as a hitter he's Geoff Jenkins.

Are you an MLB umpire? Your job is different than that of an MLB umpire. I'm sure you understand that. The very best major league hitters fail at their job over 60% of the time.

I really didn't have a problem with Anderson until he started getting all the national gigs and was talked up as so great. I still don't see it and probably never will. As for the national guys, I hated Buck way before it was popular. I don't understand the hate for Aikmen, which is generally only from Packer fans because they feel he hates the Packers for some reason. I actually really like Collinsworth. I think he does a great job and being fun while providing interesting analysis. He sounds like a guy who's really a fan of the game and gets excited over good football.

I hate to be that guy but maybe batters should swing at pitches 1 inch off the plate with two strikes. Don't let the umps decide your fate.

Something to consider. We just have to know that there is a good chance that Keon is going to be an inconsistent player - and be willing to live with it. On the flip side, Domingo looks like he could be a 30-35 HR guy. He just turned 25 a couple of weeks ago. There's a lot of potential there. Absolutely Santana has the chance to be a really good hitter, but like Khris Davis his defense almost negates all of that offense.

When the shift is on batters are almost certainly worked exclusively inside so going the other way (in theory) isn's as easy.

Make it 6 unanswered homeruns. Jeez.

Nothing like a littke 4 HR inning to get the Cubs back in it. Come on Cinci!

Or trade Santana and move one of those guys to RF. There is little doubt Santana is a horrible defensive OF. Just a quick look a bWAR shows over the past year and a half Broxton has 2x the WAR that Santana has his whole career because his defense is so bad.

No it is the fact there is a pretty large pile of garbage announcers out there so people should stop pleading for Anderson to be fired cause he calls his HRs later than others(among other petty complaints). People want to get rid of Anderson when they don't even know the alternative and being Milwaukee it would probably be someone pretty cruddy. You basically just backed up my point.

At what point do the Dodgers start to dial it back? They've basically clinched the division and half the Nats starting 9 is on the DL. They're almost to the point where they really have nothing to play for and need to keep guys fresh for the playoffs.

So like every time this discussion happens, it comes down to "everyone else sucks, so Brian Anderson is good". I'm not going to say he's horrible but I cannot believe people find him to be good. He's boring, middle of the road, vanilla, blah.

You can't have guys going up there just looking to make contact (ala Yuni B) but our last two series against the Pirates shows that putting the ball in play has its advantages. Especially now with shifts, there are large portions on the field open. More jams shots and dinkers and dunkers are going to fall.

Ya, Uecker is pretty bad at actually calling a game. But if you want a guy who will tell the same "I was bad at baseball" stories over and over again, he's your man.

I'll second that about Packer games. My friends and I generally chat via Facebook messenger during Packer games. Those chats make these in-game threads look tame. Every Packer coach sucks. Every Packer defensive player sucks. Every call against the Packers is crappy reffing.