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Yeah, there's two hall-of-fame caliber players in that list among a few other all-stars (and other all-stars not listed). I don't think anybody can complain about he Brewers drafts from 1997 to 2008, which were among the best in the league at drafting position players. Starting in 2009 however.... -
Ha! I just assumed Melvin brought his guys with him. That doesn't give me confidence for a new hire, however.
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I'll agree with this, and that is on Melvin. At the same time, Melvin did well in hiring Jack Zdurenciek(sp? I butchered that) the previous scouting director. Still, that's not what draws most of the ire around BF.net toward Melvin, who seem like they'd rather stockpile marginal young talent rather than pull of trades like the Sabathia, Greinke, and Marcum deals that brought us to the playoffs. If Lawrie, Escobar, and Odorizzi turn into all-star players, then those deals might turn sour, but right now they are looking like average-ish MLB starters. LaPorta was once in their category as well and what's he doing now?
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We have, and we have won with that approach to the tune of two playoff appearances. Would anybody trade those two playoff appearances (and Segura, Hellweg, and Pena), for Brantley, LaPorta, Lawrie, Escobar, Cain, Odorizzi and Jeffries? Despite all those big-market style trades, we have a very young pitching staff as well as a nice core at very important positions (Lucroy, Segura, maybe Gomez and of course Braun). We have holes in the bullpen and at the corner positions, which are exactly where I want there to be holes if we have to have holes. Cheap, productive players can be found for those positions, not so much for the pitching staff and up the middle positions. Meanwhile, we also have a team that is very competitive (injuries and the start to this season notwithstanding). Had we drafted better the last 4 years things would be looking pretty good. We didn't, and that is on Melvin and company (but mostly on "company"...Melvin is responsible for the MLB roster and making do with what the scouting and development program gives him). In short, if the last couple of draft classes don't make big jumps this year, we need an overhaul of our scouting department, not a change in GM.
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Because we indicates you feel you are a member of the team or organization which you are not. No big deal to me, but that is why. The whole concept of rooting for a team is silly. Why do have an emotional investment in the success of a baseball team? The closest connection most of us have to the Brewers is that we were born and/or live near where they play. Yet here we are. Because society has deemed that being emotional is BAAAAD unless it is about something frivolous, like baseball.
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The goal at this point has to be to be .500 on June 1st, at which point we will hopefully have a healthy roster. Our starting pitching has been solid enough, and the offense will be fine or better once we get Hart and ARam back. Bullpens are always capricious, so if the starters can keep doing what they have been doing recently we only need two guys to step up and lockdown the 8th and 9th innings. Henderson, Kintzler and Badenhop will be those guys for now. Let Ax pitch some clean innings in garbage time and get things rolling again. It can be done.
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Man, how shallow was Holliday playing there? That seemed like a sure single off of Lalli's bat.
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How many innings will Lalli make it before he gets hurt?
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What do Weeks' "clutchness" statistics look like? For some reason it seems like he is always terrible when it counts, but I'm probably misremembering.
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Back into it now.
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I was really into this game when it was a 1 run game. For some reason it seems like a lost cause now.
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Although with our bullpen and the fact that Lohse is a veteran I could see Roenicke stretching it out to 115 or more.
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I'm guessing it's around triple digits. I think he threw 87 last outing.
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It's amazing how we've been able to get Miller's pitch count up despite him POUNDING the strike zone. One the other side, Lohse has thrown 45 pitches or so through 4.
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Wow. Ueck is really going after Greinke. Basically says he antagonized him.
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We could've/should've traded Prince. That's about it. We traded Hardy and Greinke and got very good returns on those trades. We've extended everybody else who would have any trade value at all--and for reasonable amounts (other than Bill Hall). Suppan was obviously a bad signing that likely came from Attanasio. Wolf was a mediocre signing. Ramirez and Lohse are still to be determined, but Ramirez is looking good so far as long as he comes back soon. Hopefully we can trade away at least a couple of the contracts of Weeks, Hart, Ramirez, and Lohse and get some MLB caliber starting players.
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Just remember that everybody's favorite by the numbers manager, Macha, underperformed more than any manager I can remember. Meanwhile, RRR and his crazy aggressive baserunning led the league in runs scored last year, despite all those outs on the bases. I'm sure he was just lucky, though.
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Yeah, the Gonzalez and Betancourt signings weren't "part of the plan" and I should not have said that signing those two along with Lohse "pretty much negated that whole strategy." It was just Lohse. Russ nicely parsed out the difference between "perfomance" and "results" in spring training which was a bit muddy as well. Overall, I like the job Melvin and Attansio are doing. In the last 5 years, we've traded LaPorta, Brantley, Lawrie, Escobar, Jeffries, Odorizzi, Cain, 2 years of JJ Hardy and 2 months of Z Greinke for 2 months of CC Sabathia (and a playoff appearance), 2 years of Marcum and Greinke (and a playoff appearance), Gomez, Segura, Hellweg and Pena. I have a hard time understanding how people can complain about this. If Odorizzi turns into an ace then it might be close, but right now Melvin has a pretty good track record. If he can offload a few of the current veterans before their contracts expire and get a decent return then he is still in the black. I wouldn't mind changing up the scouting director and development program, however. Our draft picks since Lawrie have been uninspiring to say the least, which is why I like the current "big-market" strategy. Until we show that we can draft and develop a player or two I don't trust our ability to build from within even if that is the best long-term plan for a market our size.
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Good post, Monty. This spring has been odd in that regard, with a lot of mixed messages. After the Greinke for Segura deal, Melvin was saying all off-season that we were kind of going to hold tight and see what the young guys could do. Then we signed Gonzalez, Betancourt, and Lohse, which pretty much negated that whole strategy. Still, if this team was healthy they would be pretty good, so I don't mind. If we continue to tank the season through July, then I hope we see some big trades, as only Braun and Gallardo would be untouchable--and dare I say that even those guys could be had for the right monster deal. We have A LOT of very tradable talent on the roster, so I think this is always in the back of Melvin's mind whenever he makes a signing or an extension. The Greinke deal proves that it can be done, and that was for only 2 months of Zack.
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There is a lot of talk about how horribly mismanaged our roster was, and I just disagree. There's never an "always" (never a "never" either--ha). I think that all of the problems we have had this year are due to unforeseeable injuries and poor performance rather than a serious issue with planning. I will say that my stance changed slightly after Hart was put on the 60-day DL. That surprised me. I was under the impression that he would be back in early to mid-May, in which case a stop-gap 1B solution like AGonz would be fine with me. The fact that it will be longer than that makes the way the have done things a little more questionable, but still not the primary reason for our poor start (which is what the OP and Jonah Keri said)
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Or we understand exactly what its like to be a human in your low 20s. Young pitchers need a chance, especially when building up arm strength for the season. They shouldn't be looking over their shoulders or trying to over pitch for a few meaningless innings. But yes, guys should also get a chance to show the club what they can do. Two different scenarios though and again, not really what we are talking about here. You are assuming that the decisions are made because of of performance. It might have nothing to do with performance. Basically, Kranitz should be telling a guy what to work on and what he needs to do in order to be considered for a roster spot. Maybe the guy needs to relax and NOT over pitch, yet they don't listen and continually try to strike guys out. So they get sent down, etc. We don't know what goes into these decisions, so speculating about it and assuming that it is purely based on performance isn't right either.
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Sounds like a closer to me. Pick him up, Doug.
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It's not like they make sweeping evaluations of a player in spring training. It's more like "he's not quite ready and needs to tighten up a few things in the minors before we are ready to throw him in the mix as a part of a playoff caliber team" Plus, those who don't believe that players should be rewarded for playing well (Khris Davis) or the opposite just don't really get what it is like to be human. If guys go in to Spring Training with the mentality that everything has already been decided and that there is nothing they can do good or bad that will change how the organization views them and their ability to contribute to the team, then you aren't exactly going to inspire guys to focus and play their best. Get real, here. Also, I don't even think that Hunter Morris is a better hitter than Alex Gonzalez. Probably about the same in my mind.
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No, he just has a rotation that hasn't been able to go deep into games and the 13th pitcher is injured so can't pitch. This is normal for April which is why the article was so dumb. Teams carry 12 pitchers in April for a reason, we have a 13th because of an injury and not wanting to lose a player and the late signing of Lohse putting extra stress on the roster. So basically you are saying all teams do this...then we went a step further due to poor planning and then another step further due to more poor planning. But thats not anyone's fault and its normal and the article was dumb for pointing that out. How do you plan for injuries to 5 IF players? The plan was to have Bianchi and Green available. They got hurt, so we signed Yuni B. Before any decisions were made about the pitching staff, RR and Melvin probably wanted to see how guys looked in Spring Training. That didn't go so well, so we signed Lohse, then Narveson got hurt. It's absolutely absurd to "plan" to need to be 5 deep at every position on the field. Sheesh.
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Because the difference between Alex Gonzalez/Martin Maldonado and a replacement level first basemen for 4 weeks is awfully close to nil. The value that Gonzalez would provide throughout the rest of the year would easily offset whatever difference might possibly exist (and pretty much only exists on paper).
