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He's still hitting pretty consistently. .775 ops is pretty solid.

I agree. Lately he's been pretty fun to watch. Goes the opposite way with it and all. It would be nice to dump Aram and let these guys have a few month try out.

If in the end the Brewers don't give ARam away (if they have to by paying whatever of his salary) then someone needs to be slapped around. I don't care if they think ARam will OPS .900 the rest of the season, actually that is the opposite of what I would want (need to keep draft position). Get the guy they just picked up and get him in the roster for July, August, September. If he swims, maybe he gets 2016, if he sinks you know you need to go another direction. That is the great thing about being out of the playoff race, find out what you have from the young guys that are of an age you don't care about starting their arby clock. If he's not traded, I wonder how much of it will be because he doesn't want to play anywhere else. He cited a reason for signing with Milwaukee originally was that it is close to home. Sure, he might want to win a World Series but does he want to go live on another end of the country for a few months? I know he doesn't have a no trade clause and therefore has no real say in what happens but maybe he has told Doug or his agent he really doesn't want to go anywhere else. If he wouldn't sacrifice a couple months living away from family for a last shot at a World Series ring than I do not feel bad for him at all for how this season has played out and we should call up Dominguez right now and play him.

I'd pay some of Garza's money if it means getting higher prospects in return. It would be worth it in the long run.

I don't like the trade because I don't feel we are getting enough for two all-star type players who have pretty friendly contracts. Maybe add in Marcus Stroman (I know ACL) to add to the rotation next year? I don't know, none of the Jays prospects really jump out at me. (Doesn't mean they aren't good)

I'm with you, he was called countless names by usually level headed people here. Good job Doug knowing that nobody else would put him on the 40 man roster. Congrats Wang on being able to develop at your own pace now. Plus adding a possible stop gap for 3B while we either trade Ramirez or his playing time starts dwindling.

NICE JOB DOUG MELVIN!!!! WOOOOHOOO!!!!!!! (we need a little enthusiasm around here!)

I want Rogers to get a chance... at first base. Hopefully we can get someone to overpay for Lind and we slide Rogers right in there and maybe call up Matt Clark as well. Let Dominguez start at 3B after hopefully someone is dumb enough to take Aram.

This team has quit. They've quit on Counsell. This is just horrific.

Maybe Melvin is just admitting he made a mistake on Wang. Maybe he thinks that if he clears waivers, he'll still have him as a project and if he doesn't, oh well because he didn't see a future anyways. I agree on some of the other 40 man guys possibly having less value but if DM starts trading away guys he needs to have players ready to step in. I like the move. A chance, a small one, that we solve our 3B hole. We are in a better situation at 3B than we were three days ago.

So much for winning another series. lol damn this team...

Amazing how many say this isn't really even a debatable topic, yet here we are.

And we haven't won the series yet. 4 game series. Only secured a split so far. Sure would be nice to get to 30 wins before 40 loses.

Shane Peterson doing everything in his power to be a AAAA player for life.

Ramirez doing everything he can to get us a nice trade piece back! Love it!

I just don't get leading off Luc. Until he starts hitting, put somewhere else in the top of the lineup.

Oh really? You mean it wasn't such a crazy idea to think we'd be a fit with the Twins? Lol If it was such a crazy idea I don't think I'd be talking about it. I took your name off the quote because I wasn't calling you out. It was this: that I was talking about.

Oh really? You mean it wasn't such a crazy idea to think we'd be a fit with the Twins? Lol

Never been a part of a winning or losing program or what? It's very simple. Losing breeds losing. Winnings inspires winning. Anyone who's played athletics in their lifetime will tell you that. This organization needs to consistently win. Not make the playoffs every thirty years and rebuild. Screw that formula.

Perfect. Let's do it!

That's what the game has become? Where "fans" want utter failure to enhance draft position? That's what I hate about the NBA. You'd think that in baseball where the draft is still a big crapshoot, and summers watching complete ineptitude are so depressing that fans wouldn't be like that. The Brewers no longer have the worst record in baseball, because news flash, they aren't the worst team in baseball. The longer the season goes, the more a team's record is reflective of a team's strength. It's become fashionable around the game to say "Brewers suck". Just heard Gordon Wittenmeyer of the Chicago Tribune say that on Chicago radio this morning. He's wrong. I've seen a lot of worse Brewer teams in my day. A lot. A lot of people were saying the "Brewers suck" in 1991 too when that team was 43-60 in early August. But they still had a very good roster. They could have easily traded off a lot of talent that year but they held on to it, and finished incredibly strong, winning 40 of their last 59 games and that was followed up by an exciting 1992 season. This team's roster is still decent. Maybe not on the level of the 91 team, but for a variety of reasons, most notably a 2-13 start and a rash of injuries, they haven't played anywhere near the level they are capable of, yet. I said pretty much the same thing in another thread but it got shrugged off as "well they're still in last place so they're the worst team". Brewers have been 18 - 21 since May 1st, but because they lost 17 games in April, no one cares about how they've been since then (which is much better than their April record "shows"). If the Brewers end up with a top 10 pick thats still great. I want the team to win games, I dont want them to lay down, and im certainly not going to be upset if we end up getting closer to .500 because they win games. I want them to win 10-12 games in a row and then continue to win series to get their arses back in this thing. To heck what people think about them. I want them to win and win as much as possible.

I'm okay with them using him as a defensive replacement because he's got amazing skills defensively. Now if he figures out how to hit? Well now we have something.

Might as well go back to starting Maldonado. Lucroy is baaaaad.

He does? His jam shot that happened to go down the line doesn't get me too excited. But I am happy that the Brewers have the lead.