Two Fisted Slobber

When CC was leading off the eight inning I told my wife Mark would write him a check for $200 million right then and there if he hit a home run.

6/3/07 - 6/2/08 vs. RHP Hall .211/.267/.387 Hardy .240/.285/.352 vs. LHP Hall .313/.390/.507 Hardy .321/.414/.470

Number of times an 82+ win team has brought in their closer in with a tied game on the road in 2007: cle 0 bos 2 LAA 1 nyy 3 ari 1 nym 0 sdp 0 det 0 col 3 sea 0 While I would have preferred Cordero over Wise, it may have been foolish to expect ANY major league manager to actually do so.

Glavine may be the last guy to hit 300 wins for a long time Well, the prince of darkness along plenty of other writers have published stories over the last 24 hours suggesting that Glavine may be the last guy to hit 300 wins EVER. Seems to me they've been saying that about quite a few pitchers over the years. A quick Google search reveals that they've been trying to knight the last 300 game winner as early as 1963, when Early Wynn hit the milestone.

Not to single you out, but minor league championships are NOT what the 30 MLB franchises are all about. You either use your farm system to depth to play for the parent club, or you use it to trade for help for the major league club. I could care less whether these potential championships in the bush leagues are won or not. All we should care, is that these A, AA & AAA clubs are feeding us the proper talent. Wow, Geno. I know he didn't use the magic blue font, but I don't see how the sarcasm could be any more obvious. It was definitely one of the best posts of the day.

How's Jose Capellan doing? Why he's led the Tigers to the best record in baseball with a dazzling 3.00 ERA out of the bullpen (nevermind his 6.00 RA).

I'm having a real hard time getting excited about acquiring a reliever who's given up at least one run in 8 of his last 17 games to the tune of a 7.16 ERA and a .925 OPS allowed. I'll just be over in the corner muttering, "In Doug we trust. In Doug we trust. In Doug we trust..."

I'll also grant that despite early career struggles, Weathers and Kolb both turned out to be decent pitchers, but that doesn't mean it's the rule. Of course it's not the rule. Just pointing out that, with very little effort, I was able to find two former Brewers with similar numbers at the start of their career who later became major league closers. Balfour is 29, has been injured, and wasn't very good when he WAS in the majors. The same could be said about Weathers at age 29 and Kolb at age 28.

He's got 70 ML innings in his career and he's got a 5.128 ERA. I think that's enough of a sample size to say he can't get it done in the bigs. David Weathers' first 3 seasons: 63.2 IP, 5.23 ERA Dan Kolb's first 4 season: 79 IP, 5.01 ERA I'd say there's still some hope for Grant to turn it around.

The guys with "1" along with their names (Gwynn, for example), have an option next year. It looks like Gross was updated to "0" today. At any rate, it's the players with zeros that we should be concerned about. OK, so my initial mistake appears to be assuming that all players listed with one option left are in the same boat. Correct me if I'm wrong here: Rottino, Jackson and Gwynn all have one option left, but they've already used one this year, so they'll have one option for 2008. Bush, Hart and Hall all have one option left, but they haven't used one this year. If they were sent down to the minors yet this year, they would have no options left for 2008. How long do options last? Until the player is a free agent? Since J.J. Hardy has three options left, does that mean that the Brewers could send him down to Nashville from 2008-2010 and bring him back up for the 2011 season?

I believe Manny is out of options unless one of those obscure extra option rules would kick in. Am I reading the Brewerfan.net 40-man Roster page correctly in that the Brewers need to find room on the 2008 opening day roster for Gwynn, ZachJack, Parra, Sarfate, Nix, Rottino, Gross, Aquino, and Balfour or risk losing them? Yikes! Well, it's been nice knowing ya... [dropped link back into Slobber's quote --1992casey http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif ]

With only 58 starts since 2005, Sheets is tied for 87th in MLB. He's tied with Roger Clemens (among others) and behind 3 pitchers who have not taken the mound this year. We'll be facing #2 on that list on Wednesday.

Despite being no-hit Tuesday, the Brewers have the 4th best OPS in the National League in June.

Or the Kevin Barker game? Can't say that I do. Care to refresh my memory?

Woogie Would asking for Plate Apperances be too much?