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  1. anglotiger
    I wasn't born here, I wasn't raised here and didn't see the 1982 team in the World Series - but even I thought it was a brilliant piece of marketing... Well done Brewers...
  2. anglotiger
    To be fair, he probably didn't "want out" when he signed that contract and made this list...
  3. anglotiger
    True, but also remember that Gomez was about to become a free agent, and the Brewers had a day to trade him or be content with a compensatory pick when he left. Lucroy is under contract for the next two years. Gomez had another year left on his contract after 2015. He's still with the Astros this year. Oh drat. You're right... Well, an additional half a year of control counts for something...
  4. anglotiger
    True, but also remember that Gomez was about to become a free agent, and the Brewers had a day to trade him or be content with a compensatory pick when he left. Lucroy is under contract for the next two years.
  5. anglotiger
    That's what I was thinking. The real question is how well it translates to baseball. I would guess he would be a line drive doubles hitter at best, very little in terms of homeruns. I'm not sure if there is an equivalent of balls and strikes in cricket but that could be an issue. Or not since I think in cricket you often times hit the ball off the bounce. He could have a Vlad Guerrero approach at the plate. Defense might be an issue but that hasn't bothered this franchise before. I say go for it. Stearns might have discovered that world class cricket players are the new market inefficiency. It's a very different skill set, but some of those may translate in time. On the plus side, he has a "good eye" for seeing the spin on and hitting the ball, as YoungGeezy1 says, some athleticism and a good arm (which mean that he should probably have little problem in the outfield). Although he's a fine batsman - and you have to be very, very good to be successful at the international level in cricket - I don't think anyone other than his mother considers him the best. As you say, in cricket you usually hit the ball on the bounce but any half-way decent player is usually going to crush a ball that doesn't bounce (a.k.a. a "full toss"). That said, in cricket you have 360 degrees in which you can hit the ball and have it be in play, which makes me wonder if he's going to foul off a lot of balls and be facing two strikes very quickly. It'll be interesting to see, wherever he ends up, how well he makes the transition. I know that I didn't make it terribly well, and I was a great cricket player...
  6. anglotiger
    Got it. Thanks for clarifying. That makes more sense to me now...
  7. anglotiger
    I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, but think about this - if you are correct that his value will never get higher, what makes you think that the GMs around MLB aren't aware of this too and aren't making low-ball offers? Agreed. That's kind of my point though - unless I am misunderstanding you (which, I admit, is always a possibility). You say that "His value will never get higher...never." and then you say the above. My question is based on your original statement. "So if teams consider Lucroy much like his 2014" is fine to say, but what makes you think that GMs will do that, and not have the same view that you express originally? I'm happy to accept that I might be totally misunderstanding your point, and hope that you can clear up that misunderstanding for me.
  8. anglotiger
    I would buy that if his offensive production in 2015 wasn't so much lower in 2015 than it was in 2014. The comment I was responding to said: So my question stands... if his value will never get higher, why wouldn't the GMs out there know this and adjust offers down accordingly?
  9. anglotiger
    I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, but think about this - if you are correct that his value will never get higher, what makes you think that the GMs around MLB aren't aware of this too and aren't making low-ball offers?
  10. anglotiger
    We'll find out tonight that he's been traded to someone else and that's the real reason why they pulled out of the Gomez trade.
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