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Aside from special days the starting pitcher decides which jersey they wear. I remember they wore the retro uni's a couple times during the week last year or the year before and I think it was Lohse that chose them.

That's the one. It just came to me and I went to BREF to look it up and then came here to post it but you beat me to it. For some reason I kept thinking he was an older prospect or Cuban and I was right on both accounts.

Who was the SS the Brewers signed 5 or 6 years ago that everyone was excited about and then dropped off the face of the earth or maybe he didn't? Maybe it was Arcia but I don't think so. I just remember it being a big deal and then never hearing about it again. Lara. He is still young, but promising. Lara signed last year. I know who he is.

Hmm...he's still listed as 41 on Brewers.com.

Please no. I'm done with snow and I have no where else to put it. Not sure where you're at, but the Milwaukee area will see a lot of melting over the weekend, with highs above 40. Same here. If it's going to melt then it needs to go away completely and not come back. I hate that it's going to tease me.

Who was the SS the Brewers signed 5 or 6 years ago that everyone was excited about and then dropped off the face of the earth or maybe he didn't? Maybe it was Arcia but I don't think so. I just remember it being a big deal and then never hearing about it again.

Former 1st rounder for the Rays. Apparently he's becoming the odd man out in Tampa. He's only 24 and was initially a 3B and then moved to 1B/OF I would assume because of Longoria. Made his MLB debut last year and wasn't great - .699 OPS in 88 PA but had a great year in the minors where put up a .897 OPS between AA and AAA. He was never a top 100 anything. MLB.com lists him as Tampa's #11 prospect and just named him the #8 3B prospect in baseball. He's blocked by Longoria at 3B and Tampa seems more interested in Loney/Pearce at 1B. Tampa's not known for trading prospects so maybe they'd be interested in an OF prospect. He could fill the organizational black hole at 1B or 3B.

Brewers.com has numbers for the new players. As I'm weird, that's one of the moments I look forward to every year to see what numbers guys are getting and if anyone changed numbers. I didn't see anyone changed numbers but it looks like the new veterans go a choice and the new youngsters were pretty much just assigned numbers starting with Broxton at #60.

Please no. I'm done with snow and I have no where else to put it.

That would be more offensive to baseball purists than the DH. Maybe they should ban pitchers from throwing faster than 96 mph (anything over 96 would be a ball). What's killing the game are all these relievers who can come in for an inning and throw upper 90's heat. Maybe teams could designate one "hard throwing" reliever who would be exempt. Think of the strategy involved with deciding when to use your designated hard thrower? I can't see something along this line being offensive to purists. LOOGY/ROOGY garbage is a modern invention, and is less enjoyable to watch than Ben Sheets batting. End of inning or 3 batters minimum (whichever comes first) would be a very welcome change. Just having pitchers stay in the game until an out happens would be best. It's not a totally radical change and it doesn't eliminate the ROOGY/LOOGY strategy but will limit pitching changes because that ROOGY/LOOGY doesn't always get an out and if he doesn't he's probably going to face a batter he shouldn't be and will make managers think twice about bringing in the specialist in the first place.

Couldn't disagree less. I see people say this way too much and it makes no sense. Zack Greinke was garbage(for his standards) with Lucroy catching him in Milwaukee. Last year with a catcher that had little MLB experience and catching Greinke for the first time had one of the best seasons in recent memory by a starter. If anything Lucroy's track record of catching Greinke is a negative. In my opinion it means nothing though. Greinke's numbers with Lucroy catching are 3.47 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 10.0 K/9, 2.4 BB/9. Greinke's career numbers are 3.35 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 8.1 K/9, 2.2 BB/9. Seem pretty similar to me. In fact, Greinke's best season in terms of K/9 was with Lucroy catching. I don't put a whole lot of stock into who's catching making a big difference but he was not "garbage" (even by his standards) with Lucroy behind the plate.

Didn't some poster here design these very same jerseys a few years ago when we were discussing changing the uniforms? Unfortunately, there's still not enough use of the Milwaukee Braves "M" in Brewers colors for me.

If Melvin and Ron were still running things you could pencil Cappy in as the #5 starter because they always need to have one crappy veteran make the team out of camp. I doubt that happens now. Smith is the only lefty in the pen and he's not really a LOOGY. I don't think Jimenez is either. I could see Chris being the LOOGY on opening day and if he proves successful that is a very flippable guy at the deadline for at least cash.

Let the Cappy to the rotation threads begin!

Is this sort of thing always this lighthearted or was the judge just on a hot streak? I can't imagine such joking if Correa was accused of multiple murders.

The Nats think they need an OF. They tried to sign Heyward and Cespedes (maybe Upton too, can't remember).

Ron hit him second 44 times in 2014. I don't think ego would be an issue. I don't think ego would even be an issue hitting him leadoff but more so the criticism from doing something "crazy" like that would be the problem. However, there is no "leadoff" hitter on this team. Braun's probably the best option but it will most likely be Scooter or Segura or some other punchless middle infielder.

I was actually thinking about Braun and Lucroy to Washington. If you're the Nationals and you just blew the division and have Strasburg and Harper for only a couple more seasons you need to go big or go home.

When ever they go that way I hope they give at least two or three full seasons and offseasons lead time before making the change. NL teams are going to have to make adjustments to their whole organizations. Imagine being Theo Epstein and trading Schwarber this current offseason or regular season and then MLB says the NL has the DH next year. I'd be pretty upset if I were him.

I would really be surprised if the Pirates make a move for Lucroy. They love Cervelli and just signed Stewart to an extension. I suppose they could spit him between 1B and C but hasn't Luc said he really doesn't like 1B? Maybe he will if he's playing for a winning club.

I never thought Carter was a Stearns guy so maybe he still has interest in Alvarez who's just a left handed hitting Carter. It would be dumb to have both on the roster since they can only play one position, and barely at that. Although that could be one heck of a platoon. I was pushing for Jackson during the regular season. At this point he's only getting a one year deal where ever he goes. I think his floor is pretty much the ceiling for Broxton, Young, or Neuwenheis. I'd still take a chance on Austin for a year.

I'd let Block go to Pittsburgh but we better get a PTBNL or cash in return.

This is really irrelevant to the conversation but I see the DH and high school mentioned all the time. In high school you can DH for whoever you want. And many times it isn't the pitcher. Same in College, D3 at least.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with what he had said. His issue and why the jsonline comment section type irrational, knee jerk, over reactive fans blew up is solely because he gets asked questions and tells the truth. We live in a world where truth is highly devalued. People need everything so sugar coated in order to make themselves feel good. A Brewer fan cannot handle a Brewer player simply saying that we are most likely not going to be competing for a playoff spot.... we all now that it true but it is not okay for a player to say so publicly. There prefer (actually NEED) the David Stearns, loop around the question, we are acquiring best talent to have sustained success in the future type answer. Only thing Lucroy is allowed to say, is "no matter the moves we make, we are going to go out and try to win the world series this season." Those fans can now sleep at night and the world is good. A GM doesn't need to go search to hard to find out Lucroy is a class act, blue collar, hard working, great guy, great teammate who is competitive and has a fire to win. They can ask anyone in the Brewers locker room or front office. Rangers can walk down and talk to Prince. His issue is he doesn't believe in lying or sugar coating the truth. Highly doubt a GM of a contending team is going to back away from Lucroy because he said he wants to compete, win, and get to a World Series. "Oh No! He may poison our locker room with that attitude!" "We can't get him! He is a cancer! He wants to win and will say it publicly!" For me the issue isn't that he said the Brewers aren't very good right now. It's that he said that and then said he doesn't want to play on a losing team twice in the last few months. It's one thing to be honest and realistic, it's another to publicly say you don't want to be here two times. And as some others have brought up before, it probably has something to do with the Brewers rejecting his wanting an extension.

Are you sure you aren't talking about Uecker? I was going to post the same thing. If you want to listen to a bunch of stories and a guy talk about how bad he was at baseball, then Bob is your man. If you want to actually know what's going on, then Bob not so much.