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Link Report for Saturday 8/20 - Helena Gets No-Hit
DHonks replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
starting Burgos instead of Hader. -
We're rebuilding. You don't find games for a 30 year old looking to rebuild his value when you have two younger, cheaper options ahead of him. You see if the younger, cheaper pieces can be part of your core. You aren't going to find that out by sitting them on the bench. And I view things differently. I view a rebuilding club as one that should be looking at every sort of buy low scenario. If you can acquire an asset cheaply, then flip it for a return, do it. There's no guarantee Gomez or Boras would be interested in a reunion with Milwaukee. But given how players generally have ignored Milwaukee throughout my lifetime, I like the idea of buying talented players at a low-point and flipping them later for something. Like we said before, it worked with Jeremy Jeffress, Kevin Seitzer, David Weathers, etc. Would Broxton missing out on 10-20 starts in the 1st half next year ruin his development? Absolutely not. Players are not supposed to play 162 games. They need breaks, and giving 1-2 starts per week to Gomez for the first 3 months would not stunt his development. And just in case Broxton has a season like Santana's '16, it would give us depth.
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I've consistently mentioned Gomez for RF/CF. I've never said we should get Gomez and start him consistently over Broxton. last year I thought Santana looked really exciting, especially given his minor league record compared to Nelson Cruz. As of now, Braun may be a 125-game starter and Santana and Broxton--2 guys I'm very high on and have never said a bad word about--have yet to shown they deserve to start 162 games. Of the first ~80 games next year, it should be quite possible to find 55-60 games for Gomez to start between all 3 OF spots and the DH. He could hopefully show teams he deserves to play everyday and CF again, while refunding his offensive game in the only place he's had success.
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Title IX does not end men's sports programs. Lazy administrations that prefer cutting a men's sport to the more logical solution of increasing the revenue pie are what causes men's programs to die. Not a Wisconsin fan by any means, but would like to see a second D1 program
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clancy, the market may not be good to Carlos. I'd love to sign him to a unique contract like some guys coming off Tommy John get. That is, league minimum for the rest of the year and $6-8 million for next season. We could then swap him at the deadline again. Given our uncertain CF and RF in the near future, adding a veteran with Gomez's talent could be a nice move, especially as a short-term strategy and knowing that he loves Milwaukee
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Sharkey with quite possibly the most unlikely 2-hr game in recent history
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Brent Suter's contract selected, will start tomorrow in Seattle
DHonks replied to And That's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
For National Clancy Day, there's something that the Brewers forgot to mention. Suter will be starting at catcher. -
recte44, I meant a former pitcher that was delivering pizzas. I made no reference to Rushford with football.
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Clancy, they announced several hours ago that he's starting in Seattle tomorrow
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AK, I hear ya. I lost my older brother 2 years ago. In my first 8 years of teaching we had no deaths of current students or recent alums. Then last year a student committed suicide. Last summer we had a student die on a trip to Israel. A few weeks later, 4 recent graduates were driving home late at night from taking a tour of California baseball teams when they had a serious accident. A truck veered off the road, hitting an abandoned vehicle resulting in a massive pile-up. The students (I taught/knew 3 of them last year....all great kids...and the 4th was a true leader, role model, and hero at the school) were in a Honda Civic. They hit the brakes and successfully stopped. Several cars back, another Semi was unable to stop, and their civic was rear-ended and smashed into a flatbed. They were stuck in the car for several hours before being airlifted home to Phoenix. 1 died instantly, the other 3 are recovering before college. Injuries include broken backs, shattered legs/hips/arms, detached muscles, stitches galore. The day of the student's funeral, another '16 grad was getting ready to go and wound up suffering a fatal asthma attack. With all the kids that are foolishly drinking, doing drugs, and acting recklessly in high school, these were all good kids. If They'd asked me, I would have recommended driving home at 2-3 AM just like they did in order to limit the LA traffic. We did that drive in the middle of the night in college several times. So sad
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We got Jim Rushford to the big leagues, so I'd take a chance on Tebow. He was a great college QB and a successful (in limited opportunities) NFL QB. Given his intelligence, I always wanted him to experience McCarthy's QB school, but I'm sure they didn't want the media distraction. We need athletes.
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I mention this all the time in my Econ class. I discuss how SW wins consistently based on reputation and marketing. They were once a low fare carrier, but not in at least 6-8 years. Bags fly free sounds nice, but airlines have already trained us not to check bags (except I bring golf clubs at times, but I have the Delta credit card so my bags fly free). Southwest was facing competition from a serious rival in AirTran, but instead of competing they opted to buy them. Of course I criticize the entire airline industry as being a series of monopolies and oligopolies. One can't evaluate the industry as a whole to determine competition, but rather individual routes. Many routes have little-to-no competition. When Southwest shares a route, they're almost always more expensive
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Villar has been a young player learning from mistakes this year. But due to his OBP and homers, he's been a very pleasant surprise. He's easily our best middle infielder since Weeks' 2 or 3 best years, and probably since JJ Hardy's peak 2-3 years.
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LouisEly, I fully agree, I'm excited to see Brinson doing well, but he needs more than a good week for me to declare him the starter at any point in '17.
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yuck. It's not Colorado Springs, but still...Lots of nice towns to spend time in for fans and players, but Fresno is not one of them.
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MKE81, I was responding the comment that player-team reunions rarely work out for the Brewers, and I pointed out two times recently where it did. On the one hand, I don't see a need for Gomez. On the other hand, we are not necessarily set in CF or RF, and our LF is a 120 game player. Having a strong 4th OF is key. I've supported Broxton since the trade and I enjoy seeing his recent success, but it's only been a small amount of time so far. Talk of Brinson for next year is pre-mature. He's had a good week, but I'm not ready to hand him a big league job next year. Santana took a major step back before the injury and because of it. Like I said, I'd try to sign him to a 2 year deal, for the minimum in 2016 and about $5-8 million in 2017.
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It worked out well when the Brewers brought back Kevin Seitzer and Jeff Cirillo. I'd like to bring Gomez back on a 2 year contract for the minimum the remainder of the way and $5-6 million for next year. Broxton may deserve a full look next year, and Santana's had a lost year. It wouldn't hurt to let him compete for the job in CF and RF next year to rebuild value
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Just curious if anyone has any insight into his dramatic increase in strikeout rate. For a power arm, he never struck many out until this year. Plus his ground ball rate has skyrocketed. A new pitch? Better command?
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Around the draft, I seem to recall Coulter heating up to around .250. It's just hard to dig out of the hole he dug in the first few months
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First off, Jericho your history is off. JJ was traded before Alcides. Secondly, Danzig, you can revise those numbers. Villarreal may hit the 13-16 homers, but I'd guess nearly 70 steals. Personally I like having these 3 cheap options at 3b, 2b, and Ut. Scooter is still young and cheap, plus he's made great strides with walks, defense, and hitting lefties. His stats are skewed a bit by playing through the oblique injury. I'm enjoying Perez, but hardly sold. His history shows this is likely a fluke, although I hope it isn't.
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Kind of like Jamie Moyer?
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I can almost bet this move is purely hope that moving out of Brevard County will help him(maybe it will). His stats are horrible and last year wasn't all that great either. He is 23 repeating A+ for a second time with quite worse results. Adding insult to injury he can't even play defense right. I know errors aren't everything, but being on pace for a good 15+ if the season was of MLB length as an OFer is pretty brutal. I don't even understand how that is possible. While that's possible, he's still young for his league and learning a new position. I would expect him to move to 1st to let him focus on offense, but then I'm basing that on nothing but speculation. Hopefully he gets back on track in this last month.
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promotions are often about achieving goals, not necessarily performance. Perhaps he's shown things that we can't see in statistics
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I'd like to see Jungmann try the same change that AJ Burnett did. Remember Burnett wasn't happy with his finish and stride, so he decided to try mimicking another pitcher that rotated heavily. The result was he felt more comfortable and added movement/deception.
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I'm with Adam. I have no problem with this. At some point we'll have lots of younger guys. You can't call them all up at once, or you'll suck for several seasons. We'll start by integrating Arcia right now. Let him become familiar with SS in MLB parks. Let Villar have a chance to play and show he belongs in future plans. The difference between Arcia being a free agent in 2022 or 2023 is so far off. Teams have gone away from the arbitration clock fears that fans freak out about online. They realize it's important to let the players develop, but holding them down when they're ready doesn't help anyone.