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  1. Jopal78
    Isn't the more important question; where are the innings going to come from? If you look at the players' usage last year compared with this year it looks like Milwaukee is going to have to ride some of these arms pretty hard, or get some fresh arms in the bullpen: IP in 2016 IP in 2017 Barnes 51.2 41.2 Knebel 49.2 44.1 Drake 74.1 34.1 Hughes 59.1 37.1 Torres 82.1 48.1 Hader pitched over 120 innings last year and would seem to have plenty of room to go before reaching that sort of limit. Outside of that, short starts by the rotation will seemingly lead to Milwaukee leaning on Torres, Scahill, etc. more and more.
  2. Jopal78
    Two points to consider: 1.) When is the last time Billy Beane made a good trade? He just gave away his two best relief pitchers, both of whom were under contract for multiple seasons, and received Trienen (a player he already traded away once before) and two A-ball prospects neither of whom were amongst the National's top tier. The last trade he clearly won would have been trading Ben Zobrist's expiring contract to KC for Sean Manaea back in 2015. Therefore, it is certainly possible Beane will accept a package of lesser players for Sonny Gray, because that's the kind of track record he has. 2.) If the Cubs gave up two prospects who collectively were ranked within the Top 100 in the game in order to acquire Quintana with three years of control. The "price" for Sonny Gray will be considerably less. He has less team control than Quintana, he is physically smaller than Quintana and has injury concerns. While it only takes on team to give up a king's ransom, I believe it would be possible for Milwaukee to acquire him without giving up a combination of: Brinson, Hader, Ortiz, Diaz, etc.
  3. Jopal78
    Sandoval's OBP and SLG% had fallen for three consecutive years as he reached free agency. However, he was a beast in the playoffs in 2014, and apparently that small sample was what Boston assumed they'd be getting, not the declining player his regular season stats suggested he'd be
  4. Jopal78
    In the 1992 amateur draft, the Brewers had only one of their selections from rounds 1-20 make the major leagues: Bobby Hughes. Yet the following players were all drafted by other clubs in rounds 1-20 and ended up playing for Milwaukee at some point:I First Rounders: Jeffrey Hammonds Ron Villone Jim Pittsley Rick Helling Jason Kendall Other Rounds; Mike Matthews Everett Stull Brant Brown Mike Buddie Eric Owens Matt Williams Jeff Liefer Tommy Phelps Steve Falteisek Frank Catalanotto John Snyder Craig Counsell Juan Acevedo Angel Echevarria Frankly, I don't know if its cool or strange that I recognized Pittsley and Falteisek in the first place.
  5. Jopal78
    Glenn Braggs did net the Brewers a nice starting pitcher Ron Robinson. Unfortunately after one good season Robinson hurt his arm and never was the same. Another blast from the past: Brian Banks 2nd Round Pick in 1993, had solid minor league numbers and never could get it going in a regular role with the Brewers.
  6. Jopal78
    Why wouldn't Prince and the Brewers simply do a two year extension at some point this season (2011 and 2012)? It is the most logical scenario that benefits both parties. The Brewers benefit from buying out his last arbitration year and his first year of free agency, and Fielder would gain the benefit of letting Pujols, Berkman, and Adrian Gonzalez drive up the market rate when they sign as free agents after the 2011 season. Why be the 2nd or 3rd best free agent at your position when you can be first? I don't think Prince is going to stick around with the Brewers long term. With a few exceptions, money talks and the Brewers are not in a position to pay 20-25% of their team payroll (20+ million dollars )to one player; which Fielder would probably command from the big time AL teams when he's a free agent.
  7. Jopal78
    I certainly don't think Jorge de la Rosa is one that got away. Since Milwaukee traded him to KC in the '06 season he went 21-24 with a whip each season above 1.46 and an era of over 4.90. He provided only 19 quality starts out of 56. The fact that he has started off the '09 season well is more a testament to the weak lineups he has faced the last five times out than it is him figuring out how to finally pitch at 29 years old. As for ones that got away...the Brewers have been spot on in evaluating talent the last handful of years and there is really nobody they let go (besides the prospects in the Sabathia deal) who is likely to come back to haunt the team. Although Doug Davis has been every bit as good as Suppan and is paid much less by the Diamondbacks.
  8. Jopal78
    There are hundreds of incidents of domestic violence every day, this one is more notable than others because the accused was a fringe major league baseball player? With all the rules about worthless posts, you would figure this would have got caught up in one of them.
  9. Jopal78
    Yes, Eveland has a great K:BB ratio in the minor leagues, but so did Allen Levrault and Wayne Franklin. Both of whom had nearly a 1:1 K:BB ratio in the major leagues. I once heard Wayne Franklin in an interview attempt to explain the difference in his K:BB ratio between the minor and major leagues. He stated that in the majors, hitters don't swing at as many of his pitchers as minor leaguers did. To this point in time I think the same holds true for Eveland. I suppose you could look up the play by play and see if he truly falls behind on most hitters, but judging from a nearly 1:1 k:bb ratio in the majors and a 4:1 ratio in the minors, I would tend to think the same is true for Eveland as was for Franklin. Long story short, the Brewers are playing to win now, and Eveland is not likely to have helped the Brewers win now.
  10. Jopal78
    Eveland is a finesse lefty with command issues. He is the same pitcher now that he was with the Brewers. Admittedly, finesse lefties often take a few extra years to master their craft (Doug Davis, for example, didn't put it all together until he was 27 and with his 3rd organization). However, Eveland has yet to demonstrate that he can consistently get his pitches over for strikes. At 23 he still has plenty of time to develop, but with the Brewers contending for a playoff spot the last two seasons, Eveland wouldn't have been on the major league club with his command issues anyways. With respect to Manny Parra, is a strike out pitcher who throws hard enough that he can get outs without having perfect command. The difference in physical talent between Parra and Eveland is vast.
  11. Jopal78
    Jeromy Burnitz, Jeff D'Amico, and Mark Sweeney for Glendon Rusch, Lenny Harris and Alex Ochoa. That salary dump, didn't even bring back young low ceiling players, it brought back merely some worthless veterans. Fetters, Villone and Ben McDonald to the Indians for Grissom and Jeff Juden. This one was pretty bad from the perspective that both Fetters and Villone went on to have lengthy careers after leaving Milwaukee, yet Juden didn't even last one season, and Grissom turned in the worst string of seasons in his 17 year career while playing for the Brewers. One final thought, Dante Bichette was a product of Coors Field his career OPS on the road is under .740, had he stayed in Milwaukee he would have wound up a nobody.
  12. Jopal78
    Avg. Run Support for Cubs starters Dempster 6.46 Zambrano 6.18 Marquis 6.17 Lilly 5.40 Frankly, Lilly, Marquis, Gallagher/Marshall/Hill haven't pitched well at all this year. I would surmise as the average run support for those starters erodes, so will the Cubs win percentage.
  13. Jopal78
    Sidney Ponson hasn't been good in ages. He is noteworthy now only for his behavioral issues, not his abilities on a baseball diamond. The Brewers already dumped Jeff Weaver their would be no point in adding a Weaver clone with behavioral issues.
  14. Jopal78
    Soriano is on the DL and is expected to be out 6 weeks, so he probably will be ineligible to play in the All-Star game. Thus if current voting holds Braun should be a starter in the OF for the NL
  15. Jopal78
    Don't forget Bavasi traded Freddy Garcia for 3 prospects who never have amounted to anything with Seattle, while Garcia won 40 games in the 2.5 years since he left the Mariners. Also, Bavasi traded Carlos Guilled to Detroit for Ramon Santiago and an unknown farmhand. It was certainly strange to see the GM of a big market team pull of quality for quantity trades.
  16. Jopal78
    I know that Suppan was a Brewer killer before signing with Milwaukee, but even in the Brewer rotation he has been a bear at Miller Park. To date this year at MP.... GS:5, W-L: 2-0, IP: 36, ERA: 1.50, WHIP: 1.25, K:21, BB:17 In his career at Miller Park Suppan has pitched like this: GS:29, W-L:16-3, IP:191.2, ERA: 2.86, WHIP: 1.32, K:111, BB:64 For a pitcher with a career era of 4.58 and a career whip of 1.42 I am simply amazed at how Suppan pitches so well at Miller Park and yet is the definition of mediocrity on the road. <span style=""></span>
  17. Jopal78
    C'mon, Fielder is worth millions of dollars to the Brewers organization, do you really think they would let his vegetarian lifestyle affect his performance on the field? I am sure the Brewers already have a dietician/nutritionist on the payroll, and if Prince's diet choice resulted in any loss of muscle mass, etc. I am fairly certain they may hire him his very own nutritionist.
  18. Jopal78
    I freely admit that if someone wants to work in construction you more than likely do not need college. However, while 48K-55K may seem like a lot of money, in reality it is not. The people who are really making the dough are the ones who own the general or sub contractor. Further, if you took a survey of those individuals who own a contractor business the heads of those businesses have, at the very least, taken some business courses. It is a certainty that if you want to work in a white collar industry college is a necessity, you may be the most driven hardworking individual on earth but if you don't have "a piece of paper" from a reputable college you won't get in the door at the vast majority of places.
  19. Jopal78
    It is not condescending at all, the fact of the matter is that your Dad is the exception not the rule. Its not 1985 anymore where you can walk into anice job with no academic credentials but a high school diploma. The point is if you want to be able to compete with others for good jobs you have to make sure your education is the absolute best it can be. If you cannot get into the elite private schools, go to Madison, if you cannot get into Madison than go to the next largest state University you can...so on and so forth. Some people do succeed without higher education, but most who bypass college end up punching a time clock every Monday through Friday for forty plus years.
  20. Jopal78
    If you want to max out in life at $15.00/hour and 10 days of vacation a year, this is the attitude to have.... However, you have to consider where you reasonably see yourself five or six years down the road. If you really want to work for the CIA or some similar government agency, you need to look at bigger schools that have a national presence. Otherwise, when you walk into interviews in larger cities where your resume says UWEC and the others say Northwestern, UW-Madison, Michigan you will quickly learn that having alumni status is often the first foot in the door. (BTW I am a UWEC alum). Additionally, if you want to work for a professional sports team it helps to go to school in a city where one happens to be located, so you can make contacts that might lead you to a job down the road. Not many professional sports franchises would be looking to hire some hayseed from the boonies to do much more than get coffee or sweep out the men's room at night. They are going to hire individuals that someone they trust/respect can vouch for. In any event, with your academic stats you should be able to get into some nice schools. I would make sure you go to the most elite school you can get into, then find a way to beg, borrow, or steal the money for tuition. Make absolutely sure to make connections with the faculty in your school of study, as well as with any alumni that may be in the position to help you in the future. That way when you graduate you won't have to scramble as hard as the others (like myself) who believed he was doing things the easy way at first, only to find out that it was actually the hard way.
  21. Jopal78
    I doubt Berkman is going to continue to hit at the .393/.470/.800 rate he has currently. When he ultimately cools off the shortcomings of the Astros pitchers will be magnified because they will have to win without the benefit of a crooked number on the scoreboard in their favor. After all the Astros pitching staff has allowed more hits and homeruns than Milwaukee's. If Prince got hot like Berkman I am sure the Brewers could rip off 9 wins out of 10 too.
  22. Jopal78
    I won't say it is impossible for DeFelice to be an adequate major league pitcher, but there is probably a reason that he has been in the minors for ten years and has bounced around four organizations and the independent leagues. The odds that a 31 year old career minor leaguer suddenly puts it together to become a decent major leaguer are between slim and none. This isn't 2003-2004 where the Brewers can afford to play overmatched bush leaguers because the team isn't going to compete. It is only six weeks into the season and from a talent perspective the Brewers have a chance to compete, so it is not really the time to waste innings for purposes of seeing if "the Rookie" has it.
  23. Jopal78
    Are we really discussing Tim Dillard, DeFelice, Hammond, and Jeff Weaver?? If that is really the case, are we all also assuming that the season is over from a competitive standpoint? Really all of those pitchers are #5 starters at best and we are talking about plugging at least two of them into the rotation. Unless the bats get red hot overnight(and stay that way for the next 50 games or so), the Brewers may as well raise the white flag at Miller Park if they call any of those rummys up.
  24. Jopal78
    Jeff Weaver is just one man, at this point it is 30 games and counting since a Brewer starter not named Sheets has picked up a win. Weaver could replace any one of the other 4 starters and pitch like he did early in his career, it won't matter since the other three arms in the Brewer rotation have essentially pitched like crap this year with no signs of being effective.
  25. Jopal78
    I won't defend Suppan as being anything but mediocre, but look at the lack of even mediocre pitching in the major leagues and you will see that Suppan has substantial worth. The Cardinals rotation had such luminaries as Kip Wells, Mike Maroth, and Brad Thompson start 25% of their games, and Suppan outpitched them all. The Astros used Woody Williams, Matt Albers, and Jason Jennings for 40% of their starts. The Pirates started Tony Armas, Matt Morris, J. Van Benschoten, and Shane Youman for 27% of their games. I won't even bring up the other division in baseball Suppan may be a bit of a disappointment based on what he did with the Cards, but I would still rather watch him get lit up once in awhile, than the alternative of watching some other joker go out every 5th day and hand the Brewers and automatic loss.
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