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  1. sveumrules
    Maybe the Brewers should look into rehiring Blengino if someone else hasn't already, sounds like he was responsible for at least some of Jack Z's success as his long time SABR right hand man, with the obvious caveat of "according to him".
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    I suggested in the trade forum on 09/27 targeting some of KC's excess bullpen arms as a possible return for Aoki, and it looks like that is what the market ended up being after all.
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    Looks like we got the Fresh Prince, Will Smith. Not even eligible for Arby's yet. Thanks Nori, and let's go Khris.
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    Miguel Cabrera was at 337/434/604 for a 174 wRC+ in 2010 & 2011 before Prince and at 338/417/620 for a 178 wRC+ in 2012 & 2013 with Prince.
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    So out of the 21 players we've had in a BA Top 100 over the last 10 years, I'd rank them as follows... Legit Stars (Braun, Fielder) All Stars (Gallardo, Hardy, Hart, Weeks) All Glove No Hit Shortstop (Escobra) One of the Greatest DIPS Outliers of All Time (Parra) Needs More Time (Peralta, Lawrie, Jungmann, Bradley) BUSTS (Nelson, Jones, Hendrickson, Capellan, Rogers, Inamn, LaPorta, Gamel, Jeffress) So that's 9 out of 21 clear busts with Bradley getting pretty close as well. Depending on your criteria one could argue that Parra hasn't really lived up to his potential/prospect ranking and I wouldn't disagree but I have a hard time calling anybody with 550 career innings and almost 5 million in gross MLB paychecks a bust, especially considering he was a draft and follow to begin with.
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    Was looking up some three year totals (2011-13) on the fangraphs leaderboards today and noticed that despite 134 fewer games & 547 fewer plate appearances Mike Trout has the exact same WAR (21.1) as Miguel Cabrera.
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    I think the writers got it right in the NL. McCutchen and Goldschmidt had very comparable offensive seasons, 44.6 runs produced for Goldy to 41.8 for Cutch. If two guys contribute more or less equally on offense and one plays center field while the other plays first base, I'm taking the center fielder. Would have been interesting to see if the DBacks had made the posteseason if the voters would have went with Goldy and the HR/RBI combo or Cutch's all around game.
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    Detroit needs help in the bullpen, second base and outfield so how about Jim Henderson, Khris Davis and Rickie Weeks for Prince Fielder and 50 million bucks?
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    One of the driving factors in WAR is playing time. Brewers rookies were 4th in plate appearances (4th in fWAR at 3.1) and 1st in innings pitched (12th in fWAR at 2.2). Seid has been alright at finding back end starters, middle relievers and bench players so far. We need him to find a superstar or two.
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    Cincy and Pittsburgh could both come back to the pack somewhat. The Reds are losing Choo, don't really have any money to spend and are probably going to mess around with Chapmn in the roatation for the umpteenth time this spring. Pittsburgh rode a very good bullpen which we all know is subject to heavy yearly fluctuations, as is Lirano's performance. They had Morneau and Marlon Byrd filling run producing lineup spots in the postseason. That's about as optimistic as I can get.
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    Agree with Reilly here. Sure we may not be 30th, but ultimately we're a bottom 5 farm system in all of MLB that as of recently has really only proven adept at developing players fit for the back end of competitive major league rosters. Not good for a team that needs to rely on cost controlled talent to have even the slightest chance at postseason baseball.
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    I agree with you, YoungGuns. There was one angle where it looked pretty definitive that Ross got his hand down before Molina brought the glove up. I think they would have stuck with the original call and said it was inconclusive but will definitely be intersting to see how some of these calls would play out with some sort of replay in effect. And how about David Ortiz? That infield ("short outfield") single was pretty impressive, along with pretty much every other plate appearance this World Series. Batting .733 with a 2.016 OPS at the time of this posting if I'm computing right. Interesting side note, Billy Hatcher hit .750 with a 2.050 OPS in the 1990 World Series and didn't win the Series MVP.
  13. sveumrules
    In Craig's defense he is an uncoordinted buffoon. He was one of the worst baserunners in the league when he was healthy and now he's running on one foot. These aren't athletes, they're baseball players. People saying there is nothing Middlebrooks could have done to avoid obstructing are also incorrect. He could have caught the ball. The throw never should have been made so it is a bad throw in that regard but it didn't skip in the dirt, it didn't sail high or wide. Were I a Red Sox fan I would rank the targets of my ire thusly; Salty for the throw, WMB for not catching it, Farrell for letting a pitcher hit in the top of the 9th in a tied World Series game and, if I had one too many Sam Adams, the umpires.
  14. sveumrules
    Gomez was clearly the better fielder, but McCutchen had a higher batting average on a playoff team so I'm guessing Andrew gets the gold.
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    In his "down year" Prince produced the 33rd most runs in baseball, with Jose Bautista & Justin Upton immediately above him and Carlos Gomez & Giancarlo Stanton immediately below him. Sure his defense and baserunning were terrible but if you expected any different that is on you. If Detroit fans are looking for a proven postseason performer maybe they'd like YuniB, I mean he does have a career .310 postseason average.
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    Does this make my dream of a Rickie Weeks for Adam Dunn bad contract swap even 1% more likely than it was previous to the Abreu signing? Yes? Excellent.
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    David Price is a super two, so he has two years of Arbitration remaining. He will be a free agent after the 2015 season. We have no shot. Odorizzi was considered a superior prospect to Peralta by most sources when both were in the Brewers system. Peralta spent all year in our rotation while Odorizzi spent pretty much the whole year in AAA for the Rays.
  18. sveumrules
    Watching Scherzer and Jamey Wright, yes that Jamey Wright, work out of bases loaded no out jams. Baseball.
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    Anybody giving Theo heat is apparently unaware of his stated plan to tear it down and build it back up again from the ground up. A plan which has yielded a ripe farm system that is set to bear fruit shortly. As much as it pains me to type I believe the Cubs will win a playoff game and likely a World Series before the Milwaukee Brewers given the state of each respective franchise on October 8, 2013.
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    I don't know Monty, I think I'd rather have Yuni than McGehee if only because he can play 4 positions terribly with deplorable hitting as opposed to Casey who can only play 2 positions terribly with deplorable hitting.
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    Earlier this season I checked the OBP that each of the other 29 teams got out of their 1 and 2 spot hitters. At the time I recorded the data there were only 7 out of those 58 lineup spots which sported a higher OBP than the .354 Aoki ended with, so I would say that combined with his lack of power, league best contact rate, non-existent platoon split and above average speed make him an ideal top of the order hitter. Now I only hope DMGM can sell it the same way.
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    http://tinyurl.com/kytdzmh Not sure if that is exactly what you're looking for, CHZWZHD, but it is the best RBI calculator I've come across. Looks like among Brewers who batted with at least 100 base runners Rickie drove in the lowest % at 6.67 (8th worst in MLB) while Lucroy drove in the highest % at 17.83 (25th best in MLB).
  23. sveumrules
    I'm suggesting trading Aoki for a reliever because that's what I think his market will be. I'd love to get a prospect with some upside, even if it's only an A ball guy, but I just don't see that offer materializing. Who are some specific teams/players you would target?
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    Even coming off of TJ there is no package we could put together that gets Dylan Bundy. While Aoki lacks the power typically associated with "corner outfielders" he has the perfect mix of OBP and high contact rate that teams look for in a "top of the order hitter", so he fits that role well at least. Combine that with one year at a cheap salary and I think he should bring something back. I'd target KC and ask for one of their many arby eligible relievers as they need a 3rd outfielder to go with Cain/Gordon and got poor OBP out of their top two lineup spots this year.
  25. sveumrules
    Look at the 2007 season, at the end of the year we had 2 relievers who posted what I would consider to be good seasons, Cordero and Shouse. Turnbow's complete implosion is Yost's fault? Look at the pitchers who pitched out of the bullpen that year, which ones had success prior to or following their time under Yost's "mismanagement"? It is impossible to manage a bullpen with 2 good options, no matter what option you choose. The last two years under Yost KC has had one of the elite bullpens in all of baseball. Has Ned Yost finally learned how to manage a bullpen? I would wager the answer is no, he hasn't, it's just a lot harder to get bad results when you have 5 or 6 capable bullpen arms at your disposal than when you have 2 or 3.
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