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  1. DoubleSwitch
    I like the combination of depth and high upside in the system. A lot of our top guys have pretty big question marks, but there's so many of them that if only a couple hit you're in pretty good shape.
  2. DoubleSwitch
    you have to assume working out where and how often ohtani would DH and play the field was a big part of the negotiations process
  3. DoubleSwitch
    Not really sure what the term 'true ace' means if Jimmy Nelson's performance this year doesn't fit the bill. If the only aces are Kershaw, Sale and Scherzer, then sure, but Nelson has performed up to the level of that next tier of guys. I'm optimistic about Anderson too if he can keep his fastball up in the mid 90s, but Nelson seems more likely to stay at a high level.
  4. DoubleSwitch
    This is a good point, when Sogard was on top of his game earlier this year I thought he did a great job taking pitches, fouling balls off and just generally being a pain in the side to pitch to. Things like momentum are impossible to quantify but having a few guys like that in your lineup can throw a pitcher off his rhythm and prevent him from getting into a grove. Especially with a high strikeout team like the Brewers you can get into those stretches where the other pitcher is just mowing through you effortlessly and I think Sogard added/adds an important dynamic.
  5. DoubleSwitch
    I'm not a 3TO purist or anything, but I will say that as you go up levels and defenses get better power becomes much more important relative to contact. I know watching a guy like Keon Broxton can be frustrating at times, but his home run power is his one carrying skill as an offensive player. If he's not hitting for power, he's not a major league player at all. As for two strike approaches go, I think fans probably overestimate how easy it is to completely change your focus at the plate situationally. I can find the modern style of selling out for power on both sides of the ball a bit boring sometimes, especially when the Brewers were struggling the past month, but I think it's probably a mistake to see the whole league moving in that direction and think it isn't happening for a pretty good reason.
  6. DoubleSwitch
    Lepay has done a decent job filling in, but Anderson is much much better. He's more knowledgeable and a better speaker. Lepay is good for a big home run call, but Anderson is consistently above average hour after hour, game after game.
  7. DoubleSwitch
    Garza has a 5 million dollar team option for next year. Hard to imagine he won't be back unless something drastic happens.
  8. DoubleSwitch
    After tonight's win the Fangraphs playoff odds calculator has the Brewers with an over 25% chance to make the playoffs and better odds than the Cardinals, both for the first time. http://www.fangraphs.com/coolgraphs.aspx?lg=NL&div=C&stat=poff
  9. DoubleSwitch
    Like others have said, pitchers age even earlier than hitters. If you think of a prototypical front-line starter as someone who throws hard and strikes a lot of guys out, those skills peak in the mid to early 20s. Guys like Woodruff and Hader are probably at their peak velocity levels right now and when they hit the majors that will only trend downwards. Of course other skills like secondary pitches and control peak a bit later, but still well before a guy hits 30. It's only a very special few pitchers who remain above average starters into their mid 30's and that's why we remember them so highly.
  10. DoubleSwitch
    Yeah I had to listen to the Padres broadcast on Thursday and wasn't particularly impressed. Their color guys is especially annoying.
  11. DoubleSwitch
    I remember looking at the radar around this time yesterday and seeing that the rain was supposed to come back hard after a short 1pm break. Either way, not really a big deal.
  12. DoubleSwitch
    official scorer can only award a win to a relief pitcher rule here is a starter needs 5 innings in a game that last 6 innings or more, but only 4 innings in a game that only lasts 5 innings. I was bored so I looked it up. 9.17(b)
  13. DoubleSwitch
    I always find it amusing how people can have a lengthy discussion about a player in which he is nothing more than an asset to be squeezed for maximum value, and then turn around and be offended that a player doesn't put the good of the team above themselves.
  14. DoubleSwitch
    The defense has been much better under Ron than it was previously. For every Yuni B there's a Mark Reynolds, who played great D last year despite a poor reputation.
  15. DoubleSwitch
    What more does Gomez have to do to get people off his back? He even bumped his BB% above 7 last year, turning one of his biggest weaknesses into a league average skill. He adds value in every facet of the game: on the basepaths, in the field and at the plate. I'm just glad he's figured it out and that he's under contract with the Brewers.
  16. DoubleSwitch
    Credit is cheap right now and has been for some time. Even when the Fed raises rates sometime this year credit will remain cheap relative the amount of growth baseball has been seeing. Mark has access to the books and he's a finance guy so I'm sure he knows better than anyone when the right time to borrow is. I would never accuse him of being cheap, especially relative to other team owners, but there are few better places to make an investment right now than in baseball, because it has done very well . The Brewers included.
  17. DoubleSwitch
    kiley mcdaniel released his top 200 prospects http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fangraphs-top-200-prospect-list/ arcia at 87, medeiros at 115 and knebel, coulter, taylor, harrison, and lara as honorable mention
  18. DoubleSwitch
    Good luck to him, he was always one of my favorite Brewers, who I felt took a bit more heat than he deserved over the years. The way he bounced back in the second half of 2012 after playing so poorly the first few months was amazing and had me convinced he was going to be a star again. Plus he handled getting put on the short side of a platoon last year very well. It kinda feels like the end of an era.
  19. DoubleSwitch
    WiFi is fine in my opinion. I'm certainly not going to be playing on my phone during the game, but some people have work or other obligations they may have to check in on at some point in a 4 hour game. You could call that a sad statement on the world we live in, or you could call it an improvement over having to work in an office and not go to the game at all.
  20. DoubleSwitch
    Maldonado plays elite defense, and isn't completely awful with the bat. He could start on at least a couple of other teams. I have no problem with him taking a couple weeks of starts or more if something happens. If the team is going to go looking for depth, I think 3b, Cf and SP are much more pressing areas of concern for the roster.
  21. DoubleSwitch
    He's being released. He's right handed and can at least to pretend to play a little outfield. He's still young and he's shown some power, he might be worth a shot to pair with lind. Hes hit .291 .331 .507 against lefties for his career
  22. DoubleSwitch
    It does seem cheap, but I think Strasburg just hasn't put up all that many innings with his injury and innings limits. Last year was the first time he threw over 200 and he only has 649.1 on his 4+ year career. Last year David Price settled for 14 million with about 50 days more service time, but 973 innings pitched. Two other comparables i found using the MLBTR arby tracker was Porcello's 8.2M last year and Fister's 7.2M last year. Both had well over 800 innings. Getting paid in arbitration is more about racking up big amounts of counting stats, than being really good in a shorter amount of time. It might not be a totally fair system, and I'm sure the arbiters have some different ideas about how to gauge player value than most of us, but I can't really think of a better way to do it. Also bumping this thread because it's hilarious.
  23. DoubleSwitch
    coming into last season Arcia was: >a year removed from missing a season due to injury >had only played at low A, while sardinas had played most of a year at high A and a month at AA >hadn't shown much with the bat yet He's a couple years younger than Sardinas, but at that point he hadn't shown enough to be a prospect on the national radar yet. Right now I think he's a better prospect than Sardinas was a year ago, but he did a lot to improve his stock in 2014. A year ago he still had too many question marks.
  24. DoubleSwitch
    Thornburg just needs to get healthy this year I think. I wouldn't push him into a major of minor league rotation until at least next year. I would be comfortable depth wise with Jungmann and a lefty swingman free agent. The available free agent options seem to be Paul Maholm, Joe Saunders, Franklin Morales, Randy Wolf(!), and Bruce Chen. I would have liked to bring Gorzelanny back in that role, but unfortunately he's a Tiger now. If they need to dip beyond that level for any significant amount of time, then most likely it's not a playoff year and Lohse will be on the move as well. In the system you've got Wei Chung Wang, Jed Bradley, Tyler Cravy, Tyler Wagner, Drew Gagnon, Jorge Lopez, and Hobbs Johnson. None of those sound like particularly exciting options in 2015, but in a losing year hopefully a couple of them will have shown enough in the first couple months to earn a cup of coffee.
  25. DoubleSwitch
    Morris' problem is that he's not unique or special in any way. There are plenty of lefty hitting 1B types in the 26-28 age range who have shown power in the minors to varying degrees but aren't good enough to break through to the majors. Heck the Brewer still have 2 of those types on their roster in Clark and Shane Peterson. Cruz was a RH power hitting corner OF. Bautista played 3B, and was already up in the majors for good at age 25. Jose Guillen was a major leaguer at 21. Yeah, imo Morris needs to show he can either walk, hit for more power, or play a corner OF spot before he deserves a roster spot. Worth keeping around for depth, but I would be very surprised if someone plucked him off waivers.
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