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  1. Oxy
    If this post was written in 2006, I'd agree with you. Suppan, Wolf, (Sabathia, Greinke), Ramirez, Lohse, and Garza mostly disagree with this though. Suppan was bad. Wolf was okay, and Garza is too early to tell. Sabathia and Greinke weren't free agent signings, but Melvin chased short term production in those deals and gave away long term prospects, so it is a similar philosophy to signing free agents. All of this type of thinking was supposed to submarine the future for the Brewers. Instead, we are 20-9, with an incredibly solid young core of up the middle position players and a HOF outfielder under contract for another 5 years. Our pitching staff is solid now, with a future of Peralta, Will Smith, Tyler Thornburg and Jimmy Nelson, not to mention 3-6 more combined years of Gallardo, Lohse, Garza, and Estrada which can be used or traded. Quite frankly, the doom-and-gloomers who keep saying that we mortgage our future every time we sign a free agent or trade a prospect have pretty much been dead wrong. I've been hearing it for 5-6 years. The funny thing is that I generally AGREE with the philosophy of building cheaply through the draft and a strong minor league system. However, when doing something a bit differently works, I'll admit that it worked and enjoy the wins .
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    There really aren't that many blowouts these days. At least not combined with an exhausted bullpen. Usually, there is a guy(s) who is an actual pitcher who needs the work. It happens when it needs to happen, like today.
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    Diplomacy/espionage. Be wary.
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    I love everything about RR, except his use of Kotsay in the playoffs and the whole Yuni thing too. I'm one of the few who loves the aggressive nature on the basepaths--at least when the outs are made at the right time, i.e. when there are 2 outs, DON'T try to take 3rd, yet be super aggressive when heading home. Less than 2 outs, be aggressive in getting to 3rd base, yet conservative when going home. Scouting reports on the defense will vary this a bet too. Love making a weak defense make a play.
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    I think I'd be a lot more "elated" than "concerned" if we keep winning EVERTYHING and everything close. If we start losing everything and everything close, then I'll be concerned. Close games mean out good pitchers pitch. I guess we'll use Thornburg, Henderson and K-Rod a lot more if we are ahead. So that is where you are coming from. Still, The benefits of winning exponentially outweigh any workload issue.
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    Joe Block continues to humor me. Just made a "Clerks" reference, quoting the the main cashier dude in regard to Elian Herrara staying with the club following Overbay returning-- "I'm not even supposed to BE here..."
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    Joe Block is hilarious. He literally called Braun's hit as "There's a swing and a line drive base hit to left....and it's going to get over the wall!" (very slight exclamation point) Does he only have one eye or something? No depth perception whatsoever.
  8. Oxy
    Yeah, Fielder had a very good plate discipline. Rickie, on the other hand, tends to be extremely erratic. While seeing more pitches than most Brewers, he also watches a lot of decent pitches to hit and gets behind. The anti-Gomez. Both are less than ideal.
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    Well, I see 3 Cubs and 2 White Sox on the list, so I'd start there. Although it would help if the Cubs weren't the Cubs. The other way to think about this is to keep plugging holes with veterans on the MLB roster by trading for a vet on a team with a prospect coming up. In that case we'd be taking on a contract which would cheapen the price significantly (veteran contracts SHOULD have near neutral trade value....) In that vein, Adrian Beltre or Joey Gallo should be available--Beltre for expensive short term high production and Gallo for long term cheap risk (Beltre should come "cheaper" in a trade though).
  10. Oxy
    The No-hitter is still intact!
  11. Oxy
    Boy, you know things are going good when the only chatter on the board is about a guy hitting .280 and slugging .400, and wondering if he will ever take a walk. The other threads are about extending players and optimism! and happy videos. What I gather from this is that when real life is good, the internet sure gets boring .
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    Sure, if my prospect is blocked and I need cheap, young arms. I keep hearing how cheap young arms are like gold, and how the corner spots are easier to fill...so...a quantity for quality trade seems to make sense. There are a lot of posters more well versed than I about prospects around the league, so I figured I'd ask the question. Also, if we throw in an Estrada or a Gallardo I bet it could makes things very interesting. Although Gallardo at least is probably off-limits as long as we are in contention. We traded Brett Lawrie for a couple years of Shaun Marcum. I was looking for something like that in reverse--or a couple young arms rather than a couple years of an above average vet.
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    We have a glut of youngish decent arms in the system. We have no position players of note coming up in the next few years, with glaring holes at 3B and 1B on the Major League roster. Any chance we can swing a deal for a nice 3B/1B prospect by dangling some of our young arms out there? I would guess we'd want to keep Thornburg and Nelson, but personally I'd be okay with trading away the others if it can net us a top notch or near-top-notch corner IF prospect. What do you all think?
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    I love it. Not because I'm anti-walks or anything, but because there are two sides to every coin. In the last few years I think that pitchers have taken advantage of the over-emphasis on plate discipline by hitters, and are thus more aggressive than they used to be. The only way to counter act that is to become aggressive before the count gets to 0-1 or 1-2. You are correct though in that pitchers will adjust and start to nibble at the corners if our aggressiveness becomes too widespread. Hopefully we are one step ahead of them and start to take pitches at that point. We have good hitters though. If the first pitch is most likely to be the best pitch to hit in the at bat, take a hack.
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    I'm greedier than you guys. I want Peralta to put up #1 stats this year. The only thing this team lacks is a true ace, and Peralta has the raw stuff to actually get there. If he does, this team goes from competitive to possibly dominant (depending on health of course)
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    Perhaps there are maturity/character issues with the young guys that management isn't comfortable with, so they sign older veterans who know how to be professionals in order to mentor some of the younger guys into adulthood. I don't KNOW any of this, but it would be consistent with the character of our manager, anyway. You might not think this is valid, but I'd be okay with it if this is the case.
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    That is probably the best tell that the season is going about as well as possible. Other than Weeks/Overbay .. the only thing we have to be negative about is getting that lefty some work. Always a work in progress! Just trying to get the most out of the club. Oh come on. You all know that if his name was something like "Johnson" instead of.... forget it.
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    Apparently the Relief Man of the Year award is being re-named in honor of Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman. Will they change the name of the MVP award and add a new name to the Cy Young award for one of the Leagues? http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/mlb-names-league-awards-for-relief-pitchers-after-mariano-rivera-trevor-hoffman?ymd=20140409&content_id=71466376&vkey=news_mlb
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    That would outstanding. Especially now that his credibility is completely shot, it doesn't matter what he says anyway, right? Might as well have fun with it and take on a new persona. Unless he goes all Mark Mcgwire and is plays it humble and contrite for the rest of his life. That's no fun though.
  20. Oxy
    Sounds nice but "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -Yogi Berra Have you watched college football lately, this takes forever I watch tons of college football and sure sometimes it takes too long, but more times than not calls are decided pretty quickly. FWIW, if baseball went to something similar to college football, i'd like a rule instituted that the replay official has a strict two minutes at most to make a decision and if at that point he still is unsure, the call on the field then stands no matter what. You can watch a lot of replay angles in two minutes and if it's still inconclusive, it's time to move on. Replay should mainly be about getting the clearly wrong calls right, not so much the ones where it has to be viewed countless times and with multiple freeze frame still images which take much longer to decide and to often can be strongly questioned if overturning the call on the field. Unless UW is playing a team from the PAC 12. Then there will be a review which clearly shows the call on the field to be correct, yet it will be overturned anyway in order to benefit the West Coast team (see UW vs Oregon St, 2012)
  21. Oxy
    If Khris Davis and Scooter Gennett can continue their success from last year, I may officially give up ever looking at MiLB rating stuff again. Of course, the same could have been said last offseason about Mike Fiers' 2012 season, and all the pundits mostly turned out to be right about him.
  22. Oxy
    Travis Hafner? Lance Berkman?
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    His mental state can certainly affect his performance. Tiger Woods is a different golfer now than he was 5 years ago (although he seems to finally be recovering something). If Braun's performance falters from his career norms, people will assume that his former numbers were a result of juicing and blame his fall on that, but I would doubt that the chemicals (or lack thereof) will have nearly the affect on his game that his mental state will have. He was a respected player, leader in the clubhouse, and the 2nd most powerful person in the Brewers organization (yes, 2 years ago I think his word held more weight with Attanasio than Melvin's). Now, he is just a guy who nobody trusts. That will make it far more difficult to come to the ballpark everyday and play with confidence.
  24. Oxy
    The only time it's a questionable play is if the guy at third is the lone runner and there are either no outs, or there is one out and a good hitter on deck. Otherwise I think it should always be on, regardless of where the infield is playing.
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    Wait, do his career numbers listed there (1300+ PAs) INCLUDE those 400 PAs with guys on base? If so, then his split with the bases empty is even greater-- A LOT greater.
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