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  1. Thurston Fluff
    I think it makes far more sense to think about traits for guys who can come in mid inning and clean-up someone else's mess vs. guys who do better to start an inning. Good point. Parra seems to be a guy who does better coming in clean. Loe has a good sinker and is s decent guy to get a double play with. Having slots by inning for middle relief guys I think is less important than for closers or even setup men.
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    IF some one could tell me when the highest leverage situation in a game is going to come then I can see the logic in saving the best pitcher for it. Since there may be several and all are of unknown inportance until the game is over I don't how one would go about deciding what pitcher to use when. Is it too early to use yourt best guy in the fifth with two on nobody out and the team down by 2 runs? Or should you wait to see if the team can get ahead by one then use him if someone gets on base later in the game? It's so much easier to look back at a game, do some number crunching and say this pitcher would have bene most effectivly used in that spot. Yet that spot may not have been important at all if your team scored 6 runs in the next inning. You only know which spot is the highest leverage spot after the fact so it's pretty useless.
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    Cool story. If nothing else comes of it you still have an all time great experience to share with family and friends later. I did two days of filming as an extra last year and made about $150 before taxes. You got paid. That makse you a pro. You can now big time local theater people and sell autographs for $15.95 each. Congrats.
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    Marcum has a high effort delivery, Greinke doesn't seem to have one. I heard an interview with him once saying he isn't a max effort guy. He takes some off of most of his pitches to get more movement and better control. Add to that Marcum has proven to be more of a injury risk thus far, and I think it's safe to say Greinke's the safer bet moving forward by a wide margin. He had Tommy John surgery. That does not prove he is more of an injury risk moving forward. If anything it means less chance of having ligament problems in the future. Pitch type has been shown to matter. One of the worst pitches to throw is the slider. That was the stated reason Lincecum didn't throw them in spring or early in the season this year. It is also why Greinke stopped throwing them half way through his final season in KC. Marcum's repetoir is not as taxing on the arm as Greinke's.
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    If he'd take a Wolf type of deal I'd be fine with having him back. I don't think soft throwers are more of a risk as they age. I see those guys as ones who aren't taxing their arms as much. He doesn't throw a slider which is hard on the arm so in that respect he may be a better injury risk than Greinke. I think the idea that he can't lose a mile or two on the fastball and still be effective wrong. He never relied on that so why would losing a little off it hurt? Finally it seems like Marcum is one of the overlooked ones in the league. He may be undervalued for his level of production. If he threw 95+ and put up the numbers ha has for 2+ seasons he'd be one of the hottest pitchers on the market. Since he doesn't he isn't. If we are looking for undervalued players I think he fits that mold very well. Effective soft tossers are to pitching what hitters who take walks are to hitters. Not flashy but they win you games.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    She should pitch. For as often as the Brewers get hit by pitches they need an enforcer on the staff.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    I think it depends on the return. If we got our future short stop I thnk the fans would come to see what we have in him. If memory serves the rules for getting compensatory picks has changed in the new CBA. I don't believe a team can trade for a guy who is in his last year of a contract and get the compensatory draft picks if they don't resign him. If that is the case the return would probably be much smaller than it has been. After all teams used to trade for the player knowing they would get two draft picks as well.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    What exactly would he have been mad enough about to punch something? It's hard to think why it would be personal performance related. I guess it could be team performance. In either of those events one would think that would have happened after the game in the stadium not in a hotel room with his wife. After all punching a wall is something done in the heat of the moment not hours later. So that leaves personal issues. All in all we have never heard of issues of him losing it like Fielder or Morgan did at times. So unless someone has some sort of reason to think he and his wife were fighting or something like that we should just accept it as a freak accident. Why speculate at all when there is no smoke let alone fire? Especially since we didn't see the break, how it happened or even know if the reports on the type of injury are even accurate. What has he ever done to make us question his word?
  9. Thurston Fluff
    I think they'll use McClendon over the weekend and then send him back to AAA on Tuesday, and bring up Fiers to start Tuesday Don't they have to keep him up for a week or something before they send him down again?
  10. Thurston Fluff
    Sweet potatoes originated in Central or South America as well so I guess Indian food is kind of multicultural.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    To me the question isn't whether he will he get out of it or not but how long it will take. One thing I noticed with Weeks is his bad streaks seem to last an awful long time. Look at 2008 for instance. He had virtually the entire season to get right and never did. No idea why or if it's just my imagination but it appears to me he can lose it for a whole season then come around the next. If it takes 2/3 of the season to get going are the Brewers going to be able to stay in the race until he does come around? Will he repeat 2008 and never come around? If so do we need to replace him or just give up on the season? It's a tough situation to figure out.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    I made sweet potato curry with spinach and chickpeas last night. It was really good. Not just good for a vegetable dish but actually good. India really know how to do veggies.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    How long do we have to live with a GM that views every decision regarding a young pitcher in the context of Jorge De la Rosa? I think what happened to De la Rosa is a prime example of why you don't waste an option for what might turn out to be a couple starts. I think a lot of people are getting ahead of themselves with the prospects. Hell a month ago Peralta was being looked at as major league ready now. That was based on mostly AA numbers with 5 AAA starts last season. Trying to judge players on one season of play above A level is a really bad idea IMHO. Especially if that came mostly at AA. I like seeing players get at least a full season of AAA and am not opposed to them going back and playing again until needed.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    One would think the Brewers are the ones in most danger of injury not the opponents. After all they play a lot more games there than anyone else. I find it hard to believe they would continue to do it if it was a real injury issue. They paid way too much for Ramirez to let him take one off the dome.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    First of all: I don't get why they think Izturis is better than Maysonet Defense?
  16. Thurston Fluff
    How good was he? Good enough to be remembered fondly a decade after he played here. Good enough that those fond memories came when there were few reasons to have fond memories. Good enough to be a "Brewer" for life in this fans opinion. He and Jenkins have a place in my heart because they were one of very few real players we had back then. If you want to know how he compares to others I couldn't tell you. I am too much of fan of his to be objective.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    Blaming Backer only goes so far. Wood was known to have flawed mechanics for a long time. Some in the Cubs own organization thought he would never last pitching the way he did.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    I honestly don't think it was the Mets who did. I think it was a frustrated Mets pitcher who lost his cool and threw at him.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    Bud will be 78 in July. Of what year?
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    It's their right to do but the next one has to be approved by both sides? I see no reason the union would allow anyone who more management friendly than Das was. If I was MLB I'd be more worried about the next one than the last.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    I just read the letter Axford wrote for reporters last night. Cliche, cliche another cliche may be the funniest thing I've read from a baseball player ever. He is awesome.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I heard the lets go Brewers chant as well. Luckily I happened to be next to a Cub fan and made a comment about how I didn't understand why everyone went to Miller park south when the northern one was so much nicer.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    If I remember correctly one league counts tickets sold and the other the number who actually go to the game but can never remember which is which. If the AL counts tickets sold it would explain a lot. They are a traditionally good team combined with a newer park. I could see how that would lead to a lot of season tickets sales.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    Melvin had very little to do with building the farm system with the exception of being smart enough to retain Jack Z when he was hired, Z was actually Taylor's hire and was already doing his thing when Melvin arrived. While he deserves his share of the credit I think you give Jack too much credit. It was Melvin who hired the scouts and the coaches. Jack managed to get some nice positional talent but no pitching to speak of. It is no coincidence that the pitching prospects got better once he left. It also should mentioned there is more to building a winning team than just drafting well. If there wasn't Taylor would still be here. Two of Jack's three years in Seattle so far ended with a worse record than any team Melvin ever had here. Not even Melvin's first year was as bad as Jack's last two seasons. There is something to be said for finishing the product.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    This is not meant to mean I want Ishikawa to play more but it is nice to see a first baseman who can not only be counted on to make routine plays but the occasional great play. It is kind of nice not to hold my breath every time a ball in put in play on the infield.
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