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That's nice... Way to go Roenicke!!!! He told Lucroy to swing at that pitch!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry but no 3 hitter in the major leagues gets the red light, ever. Considering RRR's 'please the players at all times' mentality I would be surprised if the Brewers even had a take sign. I agree. I think you have to be seeking out a reason to bash RR by blaming him for Braun not attacking up there. Broxton made an incredible pitch there. Braun likes the ball out over the plate. The 1st pitch was trailing in, the 2nd was close and the 3rd was on the black and at the bottom of the zone. It's telling how hard people try to blame RR for everything by trying to blame him for Braun taking those pitches.

Sure, if you want to venture even further out onto that ledge to try and blame RR for Braun not swinging at pitches on the corner with 3 balls, we COULD speculate that Weeks missed a call. However I find that pretty unlikely.

Really? So now not only was Braun not given the green light with a man on 1st base IMMEDIATELY following Weeks being given the green light, but he was being told to take on 3-1 AND you're going to attribute him taking on 3-2 on a VERY close pitch on the outside to RR as well? C'mon...

Maybe not if dramatically inferior hitter hadn't JUST been given the green light the previous batter on 3-0. You're basically arguing that RR decided Weeks should have the green light 3-0 and Braun shouldn't.

Fine. But what part of that makes you believe he was given the sign to TAKE immediately after Rickie Weeks swung at a 3-0 pitch? This is merely anecdotal, but Rock said before the 3-0 pitch that Braun seldom swings at them. That "some hitters aren't comfortable swinging 3-0." Which makes a lot more sense than Braun not having the green light.

What good does that really do? As soon as Braun starts arguing he needs to go out there and try to get ejected in place of Braun Ok, if the logic was that we're worried about Braun getting tossed, then that makes sense. I got the sense people wanted him to start an argument in an attempt to "fire up," the team. But I will agree if makes sense if you think there is a chance Braun could have gotten tossed.

Can't have heroics when you're being told to go for the walk. Again, what would make you believe this to be the case? The 3-0 pitch was inside. We know Braun is having trouble with inside pitches so I would assume he decided to take there and it had nothing to do with RR.

I'm just baffled as to how RR can get blamed for some of this stuff. Do you really think he gave Rickie the green light and then told Braun to take? I HIGHLY doubt that's the case. And having him come out of the dugout yelling doesn't do anything.

What good does that really do?

Wow....I thought that was an awful call. Looked much worse in real time than after looking at Fox Tracks.

Now Braun SHOULD have the green light here....

It's great Weeks got a base hit there, but no way should he have had a green light on 3-0 with Braun on deck. But hey, make it pay off.

I don't actually believe that his bat doesn't play up to 1B standards. I find that whole line of thought to be pointless. Does it really matter if he doesn't hit 30 HR's if he can hit .300 and get on base? I think too much emphasis is placed upon offense from position. I don't care where you get it from. There was a suggestion made when Weeks was hitting well and didn't want to move to LF and someone asked why don't we try Gennett out there. The argument was because his bat doesn't play in LF. I understand you have an ideal player in mind, or at least a baseline, but if you can't meet that, you put the best lineup you have out there. All that aside, I like the idea of playing Luc at 1st more and Maldy behind the plate. Maldy is a very good defender, and Lucroy's such a good offensive player, you can keep him a little healthier. If you completely buy into that metric and the value placed upon it. I read one article that argued that Jose Molina in his job as a part time catcher has been more valuable just by framing pitches over the last two years that Stanton. I think the pendulum has swung to the point where I can't really value the "runs saved," from Lucroy from pitch framing. I absolutely think Lucroy's offensive ability is enough that it's worth protecting his body by moving him from catcher as often as possible. I just doubt we'll see it this year.

not sure that childhood epilepsy is high up on conditions MLB staff test for in adults... I agree it's not our staff fault for not diagnosing the illness. I do think the jokes are frankly kinda stupid, but that's just me.

It wouldn't be the least bit surprising to see the Yankees who have wanted Lee for a long time, and at one point announced internally they had a trade for him to do just that in Jeter's last year. I could also see the Angels taking on that salary...if he pitches well in his first few starts back(not a great start today). With aces getting 200 million dollar deals now, this certainly isn't cost prohibitive for either team given the short time period.

7 days or 7 games? It's always measured by days not games.

It was more curious to me when they didn't do this sooner. As soon as it became apparent that Henderson wasn't going to be back within the 60 days, and that Jeffress was throwing darts for Nashville. Not to mention our need for a RH'er in the back of our pen due to Kintzler's inability to return to last years form. This also gives us a couple weeks to look at Jeffress and see if the improved control is legit and will translate to the big leagues. He's clearly got the stuff to be a closer if he can keep the walks down.

I don't know how Seattle could do the trade due to supposedly being near their max in payroll. Another thing is they're 8games back of Oakland, 6.5 back of Anaheim. Acquiring Price just to get a wildcard and then watch Felix pitch the Wildcard game, only to lose and get zero use from Price in the Playoffs? How could Jack Z, maintain his job as GM after that fiasco? First of all, clearly they aren't near their max payroll if they're attempting to make such a trade. I'm sure like most organizations, their payroll is fluid and not written in stone. Second, you're not sure how Jack Z keeps his job after a scenario YOU came up with doesn't work out this year? Haven't you suggested that his job was in danger after several moves he's made? Perhaps...he's got more job security than you are affording him. Not to mention, Price would be under team control for next year with a LOT of talent. As for Milwaukee and TB, if Zobrist would play 1b, then he's a great bat to target. He bats from both sides. The problem is, we have to package prospects to get him or part with Nelson(if Tampa even has use for him) "if Tampa even has use for him?" Is this supposed to be a serious post? If Tampa has any use for a pitcher like Nelson? Like they've just got 12 pitchers on their big league staff that throw in the mid 90's and are GB pitchers whom they would have 6 years of team control over? I'm not sure what's more off the wall, that suggestion, or that the Brewers don't have " a prospect that ranks as above Avg future ML." I don't think there is a team in baseball that wouldn't be able "to find a use," for Jimmy Nelson.

He has 5 HR's this year. How big of an impact is that 4.9 pct difference going to have on his .833 OPS? Doesn't look like much of his power is coming from HR's. It's not like his BABIP is out of line. It's actually lower this year(by an insignificant amount) than over his career. I think sometimes we look a little too hard. He'd be a 4th OF'er and a LH'ed bat and likely wouldn't cost much. Seems like he checks a lot of boxes we could use. Because his ISO this year is .201 when for his career its .128 means soemthing is driving this. And much has to do with him killing LH pitching (OPS of 1.139). That will not be liekyl to continue as he gets more the 30 ABs against them. His .750 OPS vs RHers is in line with his career and really what one should expect. He'd be decent but his defense is really bad. Sure, something is driving that. But it's got little to do with his HR/FB% Why can't it be an improved LD% and BB rate? It's not like he doesn't have a history of playing well. He was ROY. He played in a pitchers park, now he's back in a hitters park. And maybe it's as simple as he just got better. It's not like he's 34, and it's not like we're talking about a starting OF'er. We're talking about someone to backup our OF'ers who wouldn't cost much. For every player we're going to mention as a trade target, you're going to be able to poke holes in his game. You can find SOMETHING if you look hard enough to argue against picking up anyone. The questions should be; Does he make our team better? How much would it take to acquire him? In this case, yes, and very little most likely. So even if his HR rate returns to 7 percent from 11.9, he's still a nice guy to have backing up Braun and Davis.

Well, I'm a dreamer, so I'm going to do 2019. 2019 C -Clint Coulter(I think he's improving behind the plate and can be a VERY good all around catcher) 1B-Ryan Braun/David Denson 2B-Scooter Gennett 3B-Jacob Gatewood SS-Orlando Arcia LF-Khris Davis/Yirver Lara(He's 16, I really don't know where to project him) CF-Tyrone Taylor RF-Mitch Hanniger SP1-Wily Peralta SP2-Jimmy Nelson SP3-Devin Williams SP4-Kodi Medeiros SP5-Taylor Williams CL-Jeremy Jeffress/Magnifico Of course our starting rotation is supposed to be Cody Scarpetta, Zack Braddock, Jeremy Jeffress, Evan Anundsen and Jake Odorizzi 4 years ago...so I am thinking that I might get 1 or 2 of these right.

First of all, he was good enough to play in Minnesota. The Twins clearly just didn't realize that. Tom Kelly didn't like him. From what I remember, not only did the Twins place an emphasis on bunting and hitting grounders to the right side, they didn't want their players to be big pull hitters. And I don't know if Ortiz is or isn't a good guy, or a great man, but I DO know that him supposedly showing up positive in a test that was supposed to remain quiet doesn't NOT automatically make him a bad guy. I also am not going to just pick the best players from an era and condemn them all. Damon and Nomar? I personally like Ortiz a lot. I think he's a good guy...from what I can see. Now you never really know...I thought Arod was a good guy 10 years ago. But I did like him having the guts to get up there after the bombing and scream, "this is our *^% city!" That was pretty unifying.

Well now you're just picking and choosing which players we'd trade from the team. If we went with your original idea of possibly trading Braun, Gomez, Lohse, K-Rod, Gallardo, as well as several other key players. THAT is when someone said they didn't want to be a 60 win team while waiting for prospects. So your response in which you take two players who won't be around next year and ONE of the star players is a little disingenuous. Second, you don't believe that a rotation like Garza, Lohse, Peralta, Gallardo has a chance to win? All you need to do is watch the post-season every year. There are multiple examples of inferior rotations winning. Didn't we just beat Washington 9-2 with Strausburg on the mound? In fact, haven't we beaten several aces this year that we shouldn't have on paper? Did we not beat the defending WS Champs ace Lester earlier this year? Who wouldn't rather have Kershaw/Greinke atop their rotation. But didn't we lose with Sabathia to Myers? And isn't it just as likely that Peralta or Nelson will become aces as these "top 10 prospects," that have yet to be named?

Well, not that they know he's going to be back with the team, I guess it's a moot point, but perhaps I didn't really relay the message properly. On 1250 they simply said that the Brewers were planning on contacting Segura in the following day or 2 to try and get an idea of when he might return. I didn't get the feeling they were pressuring him, and I certainly hope they weren't. I didn't take the report or the Brewers asking as being insensitive. But the fact is the Brewers needed to know if they were going to need someone to play SS for the next X number of days/weeks. I also assume had he been placed on the restricted list the Brewers would have chosen to pay him. At that point I believe it's up to the team if you pay the salary. But either way, he's back. Hopefully it can get his mind off what happened and it can be something the team rally's around.

I'm sure the Reds realized at the time of the deal that they weren't going to get good value the last year or 3 of the deal. And Votto is having a bad year by his measure and has been playing hurt. Yet he still has been pretty damn good. As of 2 weeks ago his line was .273/.410/.443 with a OPS of .853. He was obviously hurting as of late, but even now he's still got a .390 OBP and a .800 OPS. 25 million for a 40 year old is almost never going to work out great, but in 9-10 years, the top AAV for players will likely start with a 4. So unless you believe Votto is going to never come back and be the guy he was last year or his entire career, I doubt it's going to cripple the Reds to this degree. Votto is nowhere near the player he was 2 years ago. Once umpires actually start enforcing the strike zone when he's batting, his OB skills will decline too. He's getting the kind of injuries that occur to players as they age. In short, he's an old 30. You think the fact that his BABIP has dropped .372, .361, .349, .404, .360 to .299 this year might have a little something to do with that despite the fact LD% is actually higher than his career numbers? That and the fact that he has been injured? Sometimes...players just have bad years. As for being an "old 30," I'm not really sure how to respond to that, so I won't. I don't think anyone here's qualified to make such a statement. I do of course think the suggestion that his walks are the result of umps "not enforcing the strike zone," is outlandish. Votto is dealing with injuries that players deal with at any point in their career. He's hardly getting old. He's got a quad injury that put him on the DL earlier in the year and the Reds hinted at the fact that he would deal with it for the rest of the season before he came back at the beginning of June. He's a 1st basemen who is the best OB guy in the game. That ages well. He's also been exceptionally unlucky this year. He didn't have microfracture surgery, he's not a SS, CF or C who derives his value from his defense. He's a star player who's struggling. Lets not start writing the obituary and claiming conspiracy theories just yet(umps who have a different strike zone for him). I'd be willing to bet that he'll be back healthy next year and again leading the league or near the league in OBP, hitting .300 and one of the premier hitters in the game. I just think this is a classic overreaction. The guy has been great every year, he gets a quad injury, his BABIP drops and now he's an "old 30," and his salary is going to cripple the Reds for years because of it. Don't you think that's a bit premature? Aside from his already burdensome contract, I don't think there is nearly as much to take away from this nagging injury as you seem to.