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  1. 3and2Fastball
    Once Lucroy & Gomez are healthy again, the Brewers could likely get some very good prospects for them This might be tough on the casual fans, but it would very exciting for the real Brewers fans who understand Baseball. I would think it could be conceivable for the Brewers to get 2 Top 100 players for Gomez and 2 or 3 Top 100 players for Lucroy. Follow that up by getting something for Lohse, Ramirez, K-Rod & Garza and you have really retooled your farm system. I think it may be possible to trade Braun too, even just for cap relief With the saving of $60 million or so.... go in huge on the next Cuban or Dominican Republic star or two, in 2017 or so when the prospects plus Clint Coulter & Arcia & Kodi etc come of age....
  2. 3and2Fastball
    Patrick425 - your point is well made, and there are possible exceptions when it makes sense to trade for a rental player, but I would advise against it in general. In a "go for it year", that is when you don't trade away at the deadline your stars who are leaving at the end of the season, and keep your buying to a minimum. The Giants are a good model http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2148035-grading-the-san-francisco-giants-trade-deadline-performance
  3. 3and2Fastball
    Well if we are looking into the future, my hopes are: 1) The Brewers never again sign a free agent over the age of 30-31 (and for the most part completely stay away from MLB free agents) 2) The Brewers never again trade away young controllable pitching 3) The Brewers completely revamp their farm system, bring in new instructors who emphasize a more advanced offensive approach and bring in pitching instructors who have had success with other teams 4) The Brewers completely embrace Advanced Analytics and moneyball 5) When Brewers players are a year away from free agency, they get traded for younger prospects, instead of constantly overpaying for extensions with Brewers 6) By saving money on not signing older free agents and not re-signing current players, the Brewers go in big on spending money on Cuban & Dominican Republic players
  4. 3and2Fastball
    2 and 13 and my dreams of a #1 overall pick continue
  5. 3and2Fastball
    I've never quite figured out how the Owner who fired Yost with a mere week left in the season can be so excruciatingly patient with Roenicke/Melvin.
  6. 3and2Fastball
    ...along with still looking for our first playoff appearance in 30+ years? . Again, trading for Greinke was not in any stretch of the imagination the only way the 2011 Brewers make the playoffs. Greinke was slightly better than average in 2011. The production we got from Greinke could have been attained in a dozen different ways. And they had already made the playoffs in 2008, so I fail to see the point.
  7. 3and2Fastball
    Mark is going to try to talk Doug into trading for Bronson Arroyo or Bartolo Colon. They also are going to talk about how great it will be to sign David Price as a free agent in 2019!
  8. 3and2Fastball
    If the Brewers had never signed Lohse, Ramirez etc, then Jose Abreu would be our 1B right now.
  9. 3and2Fastball
    Exactly! And monty57, it isn't just you and other knowledgeable fans that would have made that trade. Most of the young GM's in the game (A.J. Preller, Theo Epstein etc etc) would have made that trade in a heartbeat. Melvin has consistently been behind on every trend in MLB: emphasis on young controllable pitching, defense, OBP, advanced analytics, exphasis on signing Cuban players etc etc
  10. 3and2Fastball
    Another way to look at it: Odorizzi, considering he was pitching in the AL East, was just about as effective last year as Kyle Lohse. This year (small sample) he is night & day better than Kyle Lohse. He projects to continue to be way better than Kyle Lohse in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 before he becomes a free agent. If you trade Jake Odorizzi at the deadline in 2018 or 2019 you can get a nice return for him. No such option is available in those years for Lohse. By having Odorizzi in the rotation and not Lohse you've saved $10 million per year. By not having Aramis Ramirez on the team, that's another $10-$14 million a year. Aramis Ramirez has played in exactly zero playoff games for the Brewers. That was one of the most pointless/foolhardy signings ever. I understand that many think that the Greinke trade was the only way the Brewers make the playoffs in 2011, and that the particular trade for Greinke was the only way the Brewers could land a pitcher the caliber of Greinke, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Greinke is 2011 was only a slightly better than average pitcher (3.83 ERA, 103 ERA+ i.e. similar to the numbers Odorizzi put up as a 23 year old!) and horrible in the postseason anyways
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    Jake Odorizzi is 25 years old and making $500K this year. He won't be a free agent until 2020. He has been solid but not spectacular so far in his MLB career (3.91 ERA, 97 ERA+) but thus far this year appears to have stepped up to a new level (1.74 ERA/230 ERA+) Jake Odorizzi is the perfect example of why the game of Baseball has passed Doug Melvin by. The best teams very very rarely trade away young cost-controllable pitching. When great teams "go for it" by doing something like the Greinke trade, they don't do it half-way and start Yuni B at SS or have a manager who starts Mark Kotsay in CF in a playoff game.
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    Those teams, in general (and for the most part, most of them), have better pitching than the Brewers including a vastly better bullpen. They also play better defense than the Brewers, make less mental errors than the Brewers and take much much better approaches at the plate than the Brewers
  13. 3and2Fastball
    I said joking around in another thread, but I'd love to see Ozzie Guillen manage the Brewers
  14. 3and2Fastball
    Firing Roenicke and hiring Ozzie Guillen would be a fun distraction!
  15. 3and2Fastball
    Once they are healthy, just imagine the plethora of talented prospects the Brewers could get for Lucroy & Gomez. Add in a fire sale of Lohse, Ramirez, Garza, and Lind and they could really have an exciting farm system
  16. 3and2Fastball
    It is actually fairly difficult to score 10 runs in MLB and still lose!
  17. 3and2Fastball
    considering that I never thought the 2015 Brewers would be any good, anyways, I'm excited about the potential to get a Top 5 pick in the 2016 draft
  18. 3and2Fastball
    Not only do the Brewers need a new GM, but they need a new GM who has enough personality/clout etc that he can tell Mark A to stay out of personnel decisions and Mark will listen to him and behave
  19. 3and2Fastball
    Same handbook that has Will Smith pitching in a 6-0 game. And then Will Smith gets a dead arm in July, whose fault is it?
  20. 3and2Fastball
    Unfortunately I think you are correct. And I think Attanasio will hire a new GM, when/if he fires Melvin who will tell him what he wants to hear: that the Brewers can be contenders year in & year out if they just do these few moves or those few moves. The prospective GM's that, in a job interview with Attanasio, tell him "look, the Brewers need to rebuild. Sell off key pieces, build the farm system. Put new minor league instructors in place, change the way we approach free agency etc etc". Those guys won't be hired
  21. 3and2Fastball
    I boo Bud Selig's statue every time I pass it, on the way in & out of Miller Park. Call it a "character flaw" on my part if you want. I don't boo Brewers players. I figure they have a tough enough time as it is without having their own fans boo them I like booing the umps though. They deserve it sometimes.
  22. 3and2Fastball
    I don't think it's good business to consider anyone on your team untouchable, particularly for a rebuilding team. That just shuts out potential opportunities. Peralta is under control for 3 more years after this one. I'm not sure that 3 years is enough time for us to even be competitive again anyway. You don't WANT to sell a guy like Nelson, and obviously even in a fire sale, you're not looking to do so, but like I said, I would never say never and close the door on an option. What if we were being offered 4 top 25 prospects for Gomez and Nelson, and they insisted Nelson be part of the trade? Good point. I suppose I should have said that Peralta & Nelson would be the 2 players I'd least like to see traded.
  23. 3and2Fastball
    Coulter, Gatewood & Monte Harrison will lead us to the promised land
  24. 3and2Fastball
    .200 would be by far the worst winning percentage for a team in the modern era. Do you seriously think the 2015 Brewers are the worst baseball team of all time? Not yet On a serious note, I'd be hesitant to trade Segura too. Great shortstops are hard to find. He has the potential for greatness
  25. 3and2Fastball
    We lack the pitching to do that Peralta could win 8 of his next 10 starts Our bullpen isn't efficient enough or used efficiently enough to get that done, I don't think..... would love to be wrong
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