Jump to content
Brewer Fanatic

BillScottCanRake

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,292

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Blogs

Events

News

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospects Ranking

Milwaukee Brewers Videos

2022 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

Milwaukee Brewers Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

2024 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks

The Milwaukee Brewers Players Project

2025 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by BillScottCanRake

  1. BillScottCanRake
    I know it is early, but could Eveland see AAA sometime late this season if he keeps dealing like this? OR will he stay in Huntsville the whole year?
  2. BillScottCanRake
    I'd say Khalid's stuff has always been better than the results we've seen to date. He's the classic "If he can put it all together..." player, who's got a lot of that "p" word. If most of the high-profile pitching prospects turn out as hoped, I'd say Khalid doesn't have much of a future in Milwaukee. On the other hand, if he developes, chances are he's got good enough stuff to make the show someday.
  3. BillScottCanRake
    Predictions, shot-gun approach: Sheets: 7 2/3, 3H, 1B, 12K, 2R, 1ER, plus 1-1 with to SAC Clark: 0-1, 3R, 3BB, 1HBP Spivey: 2-5, 2R, 2RBI, 2 triples Lee: 2-4, 2R, 2HR, 3RBI Jenkins: 0-4, 3K JJ Hardy: 1-3, 1R, 1BB, 1HR
  4. BillScottCanRake
    Nothing like a battle for first place between two titans of the National League's Central Division. Hopefully Sheets can rebound after a bit of a sub-par start and give Milwaukee a commanding lead over the Red Birds. Whoever wins this series will have have the inside track towards leading the division on May 1.
  5. BillScottCanRake
    Predictions, huh? Jenkins 2-2, 2B, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 SF, 4 RBI JJ Hardy 2-3, 2B, BB, 3 Runs Jenkins will do his work from the leadoff spot, of course. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  6. BillScottCanRake
    So we could see the 3TO logo on the Classic Thong? That could make for some rather interesting coversations...
  7. BillScottCanRake
    Something isn't right when J.J. Hardy has a better batting average then Jeff Jenkins. Or Tike Redman having the only home run in the Pirates starting lineup
  8. BillScottCanRake
    Because I typed it like this: Appleton (except I used the ezboard code). Just sees Apple, then open and closed Italic tags, and the ton.
  9. BillScottCanRake
    Do you mean Appleton? I think a-p-p-l-e-t is a key word that EZBoard filters out.
  10. BillScottCanRake
    40+ pitches and the first pitch hasn't been thrown yet? This is going to be a heard thread to read from the beginning! And, no, I'm not complaining... except play ball already
  11. BillScottCanRake
    Does someone in the Milwaukee area want to pick up a copy for me? Thanks
  12. BillScottCanRake
    Could this person actually be Nick Neugebauer? No, he used to post on ESPN (and possibly here?) during his Minor League days. That's not Nick.
  13. BillScottCanRake
    My all time favorite Brewerfan.net feature is back! NOW it's spring! And what a great lineup of pitchers on night one- Capellan, Eveland, Pena and Rogers! Thank you Mass!
  14. BillScottCanRake
    hitting Rickie Weeks I see Rickie's picked up where he left off last year... Please stay healthy Rickie... and every once in a while, duck!
  15. BillScottCanRake
    Can you post the URL you are trying to us? I'll see if I can set it up on my profile.
  16. BillScottCanRake
    There are all sorts of non-baseball stuff that happens at games... there are political things (National Anthem, GBA), cultural things (kiss-cam, marriage proposals), the honoring of our military (fly-overs, color guards), etc. The Pope transcended religion, and was a figure beyond the head of the Catholic Church. Honoring him would be no different than honoring any other head of state or world leader. That, and Milwaukee's Catholic heritage, means that no one should have been surprised it happened. If you don't feel like standing, the answer is simple- don't. One more day....
  17. BillScottCanRake
    Some boards have an FAQ forum that only the staff/admins can post in. They use it as an FAQ and a place to achive FAQ or excellent threads. I wonder if something like that would be useful here. And, lets not forget about this BF FAQ: BF.net FAQ
  18. BillScottCanRake
    Becoming an EZSupporter simply means any posts you make in the forum don't count against the post total used to calculate the renewal price BF pays for the forum. Whether you make 1 post or 1000 posts won't matter.
  19. BillScottCanRake
    We actually WERE brewerfan.com for much of our existance. Let's keep this thread positive and remember JP and not that other day.
  20. BillScottCanRake
    Maybe we need to take up a collection for a BF.net radar gun and have it shiped to DHonks. It sure would be nice to know if he's added some velocity over the off season.
  21. BillScottCanRake
    If Ben H is really working in the 90-92 range as DHonks has reported (instead of 86-88), I think thats enough velocity given the movement on his pitches. That doesn't guarantee anything, but I think it helps his cause and should give him a bit longer look.
  22. BillScottCanRake
    This might be the wrong thread, so I apologize a bit for hijacking it. But... How many teams draft for "need" as opposed to taking the "best player available?" Or maybe a better question, is do teams out there draft for need? I know that the best players aren't always drafted in order (due to signability issues, differences of opinion, etc), but do teams still take lesser talent to fill needs early in the draft? The reason I ask is that Ryan said in his post that Milwaukee "need(s) to fill out (their) infield for the foreseeable future" and he suggests doing so via the draft. Given the difficulty projecting players, doesn't it just increase the risk when you take a player to fill a need? I can understand using it as a tie-breaker of sorts, but not as any other criteria for making a selection. Needs can come and go and come back again in the time it takes a player to make his way thru the system, and taking the best player available seems to make the most sense. And, just as a disclaimer, I'm not suggesting Ryan is saying Milwaukee should reach to fill a need... just that one sentence made me wonder how most teams operate.
  23. BillScottCanRake
    Yeah... it amazes me that any of the runs were counted as earned. I think that a player needs to touch the ball or wiff to be charged with an error. I suppose this lessens the amount of judgement the official scorer needs to use on such plays. So, running four or five steps in the wrong direction prevented him from getting near enough the ball to be charged with an error... even tho it's a pretty obvious screw-up by the fielder. Just one more reason to love baseball.
  24. BillScottCanRake
    For example, who would you start: Player A who hit .178 with 1 home run in spring training. Or Player B who hit .356 who hit 5 home runs with 14 rbi's. What if Player A is Carlos Lee and Player B is Chris Magruder? Should that situation be any different than what we see from Helms and Branyan? And, by the way, I'm not anti-Helms or pro-Branyan. I'm for making this sort of decision based opon a meaningful body of work, rather than a limited amount of work against mixed competition where the sample is so small that nothing is proven. If anyone here is "rooting against Helms", it's not because they don't want him to be sucessful. I can't imagine that anyone here wants Helms to perform poorly, especially if he's gonna play a significant amount this year. The reason people want him to fail this spring is for fear that Yost will overlook a .200 April and May because of his spring training performance when he should be playing someone else. As for forgetting Helms and his 2003 season, I remember it well. It's been his sole sucessful season to-date, and I'm concerned that it was a outlier rather than an a typical Wes Helms season. I think that's a legitimate opinion/concern.
  25. BillScottCanRake
    Why would someone not go with the hot bat? Because you might have to send Helms to AAA or AA so he can face the same level of pitchers off which this "hot" streak has started. Any player can do anything in 60-80 ABs- good or bad. And it is because of that that using Spring Training stats over recent MLB performance is at best a curious decision. It certainly can (and occasionally does) work out, but its not playing the odds.
×
×
  • Create New...