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  1. sheethead
    I understand how the options/free agency work, but was asking on this case specifically. JJ is a player with 3 years of major league service time. Again, Hardy had options left. So these rules do not apply.
  2. sheethead
    I stopped pretending Hardy has any real trade value once the non-waiver trade deadline passed. If Melvin can tack on another year of service time, that was the best way for the Brewers to increase his offseason value. Hardy wasn't doing them any favors, so Melvin is doing what's best for the team. I like it, and I like it a lot.
  3. sheethead
    Well, since the news bubble came and gone without a Kendall release, I assume that isn't going to happen today. Hopefully today is like Christmas Eve, where we get to open up a bunch of presents. And tomorrow is Christmas, where Santa leaves us one more to open.
  4. sheethead
    So what does Escobar need to do in AAA to show you he can hit? .330? .380? .850 OPS? I would put money on him hitting better than Hardy has hit this year.
  5. sheethead
    Wow, I am liking it! Kendall PLEASE!
  6. sheethead
    Agreed. I like the move, especially if he is getting traded. He was killing his trade value the longer he played here anyway. This way, if he rakes in AAA, he will actually increase his value vs. continuing his season long slump with the Brewers. If he continues to suck in AAA, I doubt his value will sink any lower than it is now. Poor Castro. Good luck Bosio, you're going to need it.
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    I don't see how there would be a ton of GM's clamoring over JJ Hardy at this point. It would be different if he was having a down year, but he is having an "I fell off the cliff and can't play MLB baseball anymore" type of year. His value now is at an all time low. Maybe some GM's will forget about 2009 when evaluating him in the offseason, but if I were a GM I would be seriously concerned about his slide. Its not like he is even batting .245/.320/.390, which would be considered a significant down year. He is at .229/.300/.367, and from my vantage point is unable to make plays better shortstops normally make. Hardy will net Melvin a soft-tosser and crappy catcher type deal. Thanks for being a Brewer JJ, good job helping us out. Can't wait to see you rake in your contract year for someone else next year. Typical.
  8. sheethead
    At this point, 75 wins looks to be a chore for this team. They are done and done.
  9. sheethead
    Maybe if we keep playing Kendall he will finally break, and then not be a temptation for 2010. If Kendall is brought back for 2010, I may have to take a one season baseball sabbatical. I could never abandon the Brewers for another team, so the only other way to keep my sanity would be to pretend its not happening. Ken Macha is making me realize that being an MLB manager is easier than Ned Yost made it look.
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    As the most significant Brewer posting site there is, this board seems to be unanimous on this (not sure I have ever seen that, but there aren't that many posts here yet). How can this board be unanimous on this subject, while the team leaders (Macha/Melvin) still turn a blind eye? This is what alienates fan bases and leads to attendance declines. Fans don't like to continually beat their heads against walls watching the same players suck (Hardy too) night in and night out. Different players might suck just as much, but at least it will show the fanbase that sucking for as hard and long as someone like Kendall has won't be tolerated. I have almost completely lost interest until the September call-ups, and until I start seeing Hardy and Kendall not in the lineup I will find something else to do during that 3 hours.
  11. sheethead
    How can we possibly tell that given the amount of playing time he gets? I agree with JohnBriggs, cut bait on Kendall and bring up Salome to split time with Rivera. Kendall is borderline useless at this point, and it won't take much cash to just leave him to pasture.
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  13. sheethead
    What highly touted NFL free agents are signed by other teams in general? The NFL system is set up to allow drafting teams to retain their top talent until that said team decides to let them go.
  14. sheethead
    If the Patriots and Lions both offer a guy $5M a year the Patriots will always get the player. This could be seen as the result of good management and consistent winning. The same thing happens in every other sport, it is up to the perception of the athlete to determine where they want to go. Reggie White wanted to build a winner, and chose little old Green Bay as his free agent destination. The Packers did not overpay for Reggie White. This point you bring up is a constant in every sport, and is not an argument for or against competitive balance in MLB or the NFL. The reality is if the Patriots offer a guy $4M a year, some mediocre team offers him $5M a year and the Lions offer him $6M a year he still isn't picking the lions most of the time. I don't think that is reality, that player's agent doesn't think that is reality, and that player's union definitely doesn't think that is reality. Reality is that player taking the $6 million. Hope is that player taking the discount to play for hometown/winner/big market. A bad team in the NFL pays at least 10% more for a free agent if not higher. Prove this, then I will buy it. The Lions aren't any better off in the NFL than the Pirates in MLB. This is not the NFL system's doing. It is the doing of the Ford family and Matt Millen. Management... Discussing revenue driving college athletics is not relevant because it is not apples to apples here.
  15. sheethead
    Key points from good read (pertaining to this topic) at http://www.bnet.com/2403-13502_23-210897.html I admit I was wrong about implying I know anything about the revenue sharing structure in MLB. "...in effect through 2011, all teams pay in 31 percent of their local revenues and that pot is split evenly among all 30 teams." What counts as local revues is still a mystery to me, but I am reluctant to believe revenue generated from YES is included. I have been educated, but maybe part of my baseball mind is still living in the 90's, where the following took place. "Revenues: Because of faster growth rates on already larger revenues, by 1999 the top seven teams averaged more than double the revenues of the bottom 14 teams. Payrolls: The ratio of payroll spending by the top seven revenue teams versus the bottom seven went from less than 2-to-1 in the 1980s to 3.5-to-1 in the 1990s. Competitive Balance: During those five seasons in the late 1990s, none of the 14 teams in the bottom half of payroll spending won even one of the 158 postseason games played. Every World Series was won by a team with one of the top seven payrolls."
  16. sheethead
    I don't know what to make of this. Are you really unaware of revenue sharing? Or is this some kind of joke? You said teams are given a huge chunk of money. Do you really think the Yankees and Red Sox "luxury tax" really amounts to a huge chunk of money for the other 28 teams? Revenue sharing in MLB is a joke, not the notion of the receiving clubs not actually being able to do anything with it. If CC is worth it, it's the same as spending that money on 2 or 3 players. It's riskier, which is certainly a consideration. If we are talking about this year, the Brewers have been better off with Looper and Hoffman, but I don't know that will be true going forward. Okay, with Looper and Hoff you are 1/2 way to getting to CC's figure. Throw in Counsell, Kendall, and Cameron and you are closer to CC's paycheck. Now field a 25-man roster without those 5 players, and without spending any more money.
  17. sheethead
    Poor management is easily reflected in the NFL, as all teams are basically given even standing ground from a financial aspect. In baseball, a GM like Cashman wouldn't last five minutes outside of NY. He basically is handed signed blank checks to dish out. Must be rough.
  18. sheethead
    Teams are given a huge chunk of money. I don't think teams are given any money, actually. But since we are talking hypothetical, let's play monopoly. You start with $800 and I will start with $2,300. Who has the better chance of winning?
  19. sheethead
    I'd put up a month's worth of paychecks that this team doesn't make the playoffs. If I have this right, if you win you get to say you win, if you lose you lose your paychecks. That is how betting works now.
  20. sheethead
    GJ has no business getting consistent AB's in the majors. Tell the Brewers and his 6-13, 4 R against them that.
  21. sheethead
    The Rangers are not a small market team. There are plenty of other options that small market teams can sign. I think this sums up my point. "Hey small market, you can't possibly think of signing that guy. There are plenty of other players to sign, but don't think about signing this one, or this one, or this one, or..."
  22. sheethead
    OK, fair enough. I hadn't read any of those viewpoints coming into the season. Its obvious he is toward the end of a great career, but I didn't see the dramatic falloff. I too do not look much into served HRs as an indicator, unless it is Braden Looper or Jeff Suppan.
  23. sheethead
    There is no player that can't be signed. If you are talking about Strasburg, if the Nationals don't sign him, they get another pick next year. It's a worthwhile risk to pick him and see if the team can sign him to a deal that the team considers reasonable. I can see already I shouldn't have started to argue here. Of course every player "can" be signed, theoretically. How does management rate when they blow 1/3 of a teams budgeted payroll on one player (sometimes even a pitcher that plays every 5 games), and then fail to field a competitive team because they have nothing left to spread around, are unable to sign their own farmed players due to one hefty contract, or God forbid that player gets hurt and cripples that franchise for 5-7 years? Smaller market teams simply cannot afford the luxury of paying any player, much less a starting pitcher, $25 million a year. To believe they realistically can is either clearly wrong or gross hyperbole. Its what makes Melvin's job tougher than 90% of the GMs in baseball. He is playing in an uneven field, against loaded decks, with a blindfold on.
  24. sheethead
    I don't understand where this is coming from. Is this your opinion, and is it based on his 3.77 ERA / 1.04 WHIP in 45.1 IP? Or is it based on how bad the Padres were? Or was it his 5.11 K/BB ratio? I am looking for the indications that he was done, and I don't see them.
  25. sheethead
    It's poor management. What baseball player has existed that couldn't have been signed? Is it poor management for drafting the best available player that they cannot sign, or poor management because they don't give an unproven commodity $40 million? Teams are often held hostage by draft picks in MLB and in the NFL. The NFL signings are much more slotted than MLB. At the end of the day, I guess good management takes a pass on the best perceived player in the draft, knowing they cannot afford to sign him. Doesn't pass the competitive balance smell test for me.
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