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  1. sveumrules
    Lots of really good reverse psychology going on here. Request for Scooter to vacate leadoff, works a huge at bat for a double that runs Latos from the game. Braun's power is questioned, hits two run go ahead bomb. Preemptive comments about K Rod's efficiency are met with a three up three down ninth inning. Keep up the good work, brewerfans!
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    Kind of funny how coming up Lawrie was a guy whose bat was going to carry him and his defense was so bad he'd probably have to move to an outfield corner. Now here we are almost 1,400 plate appearances into his major league career and he's been a below average hitter who's provided most of his value on the defensive side.
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    If you watch football all day Sunday, you are going to work tired on Monday. If you watch Monday and Thursday night, you are going to work tired Tuesday and Friday. That's three compromised work days. If you watch your favorite baseball team play Sunday afternoon you go to work fine on Monday. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night games give you three compromised work days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday is normally a getaway day game and then you're back to the weekend so if you are a fan of both sports you're going into work tired essentially the same number of days.
  4. sveumrules
    Love watching Gomez play but given his all out style of play and the increased injury risk that comes along with it I would not extend him past his current deal. Enjoy having one of the best and most exciting players in baseball on one of the most team friendly deals out there while it lasts.
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    They play once a week. Big difference. Each team plays once a week, sure. Hardcore football fans watch three games Sunday, one Monday night and one Thursday night so the total number of games consumed on a weekly basis isn't all that different. Plus no one ever complains about there just being too many baseball games, they always complain about how long and/or slow they are. My point is football games are longer, slower and more popular. Maybe baseball needs to ramp up the violence?
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    Length of the games is not, or rather should not, be an issue. Football is king, right? Their games averauge 3 hours 12 minutes with only 11 minutes of actual on field action. The rest is standing around and commercials.
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    We are now almost half way through the Lohse contract. He was our best picher last year in a season derailed by injury. He is our best best pitcher this year on what is currently a first place team. Are there any here who still feel the 17th pick in a Bruce Seid helmed draft was too steep a price to pay for his services?
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    Regardless of if you consider a 7th place finish in the mix for a Cy Young or not, I think we can all agree that comparing Thornburg to Gallardo is a stretch. While their K & BB rates were pretty similar in the minors; Yo gave up fewer home runs and had a superior ERA/WHIP while being 2-3 years younger than Thornburg at each level. Not that they are infallible by any means, but prospecters have always pegged Thornburg as a backend starter or bullpen arm whereas Yo was considered one of the best starting pitching prospects in his class with Phil Hughes and Homer Bailey. As for Middlebrooks, unless the Red Sox are willing to give him up for a song, I'll pass. The guy is a product of the Red Sox Prospect Hype Machine all the way. Taylor Green has a better triple slash than the guy.
  9. sveumrules
    For me personally I guess I just don't see what purpose is served by getting distressed by a few blown games in the last week of May. So much can happen in the next four months of baseball. There's no way to know what September holds in May. Regardless of tonight's results we'll go to bed in first place. No one realistically expected that on opening day. How did we get here? By being extremely lucky, winning close games. We all knew that luck was bound to even out at some point and are witnessing that currently. If we win 60 games the rest of the way and the Cardinals win 62 I'm sure people will find plenty of people to blame for us blowing our way to a 90 win season.
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    Brewers are currently 13th in MLB in base running per the fangraphs team leaderboards. So while they are running into some stupid outs on the bases I wouldn't say it is at "Cost Us the Playoffs" level bad considering they are slightly above average when compared to the rest of the league. Then again, many would say the low scoring offense that is currently 5th in the NL in runs scored is "Costing Us the Playoffs" so I could be completely off base.
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    Sure YuniB & McGehee OPSed higher than Bianchi. How was their defense at 2B, 3B and SS though? Yonder Alonso has 160 plate appearances and a 193/238/287 triple slash good for a 47 wRC+ identical to that of Overbay. Joaquin Arias on the first place Giants has a 148/188/148 triple slash in more plate appearances than Bianchi.
  12. sveumrules
    Yes. Every single team in MLB has just as many useless players as the Milwaukee Brewers. No team has 25 players all of whom are comfortably above replacement level. We threw away over 1150 plate appearances on Yuni and McGehee in 2011 and still managed to win 96 games.
  13. sveumrules
    That's the thing though, which game has been sacrificed thus far in 2014? In regards to Braddock & Parra and Narveson & Stetter and their respective results in the majors vs. their prospect pedigree, all that does for me is serve to reinforce the notion that you can never have enough pitching prospects (especially lefties) because the flame out rate and unpredictability is so high. I also agree that Smith is the best lefty we've had in awhile, but he wasn't developed by the Brewers and I don't really consider him a prospect at this point. Unless he can pitch for 6-7 innings at a time like he can currently for 1 (I don't think he can) he is pretty much at his ultimate upside.
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    It's funny, Doug Melvin has been blasted around these parts for years for always trying to win now and never trying to play for the future at all. Now he is trying to play for the future by stashing the most talented lefty arm we've had organizationally since Braddock or Parra in the mop up role and people want him to play for right now. Outside of the paycheck and getting a first hand look at the actual inner workings of MLB I do not envy the guy. When Wang came in to the game the Braves win probability was 88%. With Kimbrel in the 9th the game was essentially over. Those runs he allowed were about as meaningless as runs allowed get.
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    I'll throw Chase Headley of SD in the mix as someone to keep an eye on as it relates to ARam's health situation. Headley is a switch hitter who in theory would benefit from a move out of Petco and is also a free agent at year's end so he shouldn't require a huge prospect haul.
  16. sveumrules
    Those 4 innings in 29 games are completely dependent on the context of the season to date. There have not been many more opportunities, if any, to pitch Wang because of the inordinate number of close games we've been involved in. In which specific game did Roenicke use one of our top relievers in a blowout situation because he was afraid to use Wang? If the last man in our bullpen was someone other than Wang to this point in the season how many more appearances/innings would that hypothetical reliever have? How many more victories would the team have?
  17. sveumrules
    If we're talking dynamic I think the pair would have to be Gomez and Peralta. I'd guess since Gomez is unarguably one of the most dynamic players in the game and since Peralta, while dynamic, is still a relative unknown on the national scale they would rank towards the middle of the pack.
  18. sveumrules
    Good thing we called up a legitimate MLB pitcher like Rob Wooten so he was available to pitch in a tight spot like that, things could've gotten out of hand in a hurry there.
  19. sveumrules
    No team has a roster with 25 players, all of whom contribute to the team's success. No team's bullpen has 7 relievers, all of whom are trusted to pitch in close games. RR is using his pen no differently than any other manager would given the number of tight games we've been involved in.
  20. sveumrules
    If the rest of the bullpen is overworked at this point it has way more to do with the inordinate number of close games we've had than it has to do with Wang's presence on the roster. All teams pitch their best relievers in close games and only use their mop up guy in blowouts. I don't think there is a team in MLB that trusts every single reliever in their pen to pitch in close games.
  21. sveumrules
    Can't believe all the anti-Wang sentiment around here. This guy is the best lefty prospect we've had since Zach Braddock and people want to dump him just because he can't get out MLB hitters. Every team needs a mop up guy and none of them are any good. The 2001 Mariners won 116 games with Brett Tomko contributing 34 innings of 5.19 ERA work. People would seriously give up on this guy so that Wooten or Figaro could pitch in blowouts instead?
  22. sveumrules
    Cameron is what he is, #6 org is still one of my favorite baseball jokes of all time. Classic homer overreaction to a fluke season. I love Jeff Sullivan though, his perspective on the game and writing style are right up my alley. The addition of Tony Blengino has also been superb. Love the way he breaks down and presents information. Plus I'm a big fan of the absurdity of the Notgraphs content.
  23. sveumrules
    Here's a link to the Segura season ticket bobble in the current MEARS auction. Looks like it was lotted together with some other items and has a current high bid of $25. http://sports.mearsonlineauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=76781
  24. sveumrules
    Right! His stuff will improve and he'll learn to repeat his delivery through osmosis and progress as a pitcher by not actually pitching, because that theory has worked for whom in the past? Crew, you've constantly bashed the organization for having Lee Tunnell as the bullpen coach at the major league level instead of keeping him on the minor league side to help develop young arms on the farm. But now that Wang is in the bullpen, and presumably working closely with Tunnell during his plentiful off time, he isn't going to develop at all? Those two stances seem to be at the very least somewhat contradictory.
  25. sveumrules
    Thought I'd give this a bump with Jeff Sullivan's article examining Brayan Pena attempting to bunt out of the shift. If you don't feel like clicking I'll break it down for you; bunting succesfully off of major league caliber velocity and movement is really, really hard to do. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lets-watch-brayan-pena-try-to-beat-the-shift/
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