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So at the moment, it's looking like upper 30's on Opening Day with a 20% chance of rain. That's not horrible, though if it does rain, it's going to be awfully cold. Still way below normal and not what many of us were hoping for.

Khris Davis has to come into the mix here at some point too, either on this roster, or trading for something we can use.

Since I got season tickets about 8 years ago, every single year I've made a suggestion to my ticket rep that my experience would be greatly improved if they added more bathrooms in the Bluemound lot. And every year nothing has changed. There are about 1/2 as many bathrooms in that lot as to what I would expect and it leads to people climbing up into the woods and peeing, which is funny to watch, but still gross. That being said, I do like it because it's smaller, not too bad from a party standpoint and if you come from the east, very, very easy to get into.

As much as people here despise Yuni, I'm in the group that would much rather have him than Donnie Murphy on the roster. He can play multiple positions (below average, but he's no Braun on the infield), he still does have some power and I think people tend to hate him a lot more than they should have. I'm not overly happy to have him back, but he's better than Donnie Murphy IMO.

I usually park in the lot just off of Bluemound, I'm pretty postive those are the "Molitor" ones. It's a tad smaller, and I don't think it realy gets too wild, other than right up front by the giant groups. One thing I will add though is the lack of bathrooms. Waiting lines for them can easily be 30 minutes. We always bring our own bathroom and we usually let other people use it. Sometimes we charge them a buck or two, other times we just let them use it, depends on who is near and how they approach us, but most people will let you...just ask first.

You think Melvin is TOO aggressive with prospects? I think almost the exact opposite is true.

So who gets knocked out of the rotation here?

He is not the same pitcher he was those previous 8 years. In 2010 he added a sinker and now he throws that 40% of the time. He used to throw 60% fastballs and it wasn't a very good FB, now he relies almost completely on the sinker. He is a lot like Tim Hudson in his pitching profile. I find that encouraging since Hudson always beats his ERA indicators as well so maybe that is a function of the sinker doing such a good job at suppressing HR. I hope you're right...I really do. It's just that most pitchers that go from league average to dominating in their early thirties just scream fluke to me. But I really, really hope I'm proven wrong.

I guess what it really boils down to is how much of a fluke the last two seasons were for him compared to the previous 8 or so. What are the odds that he can come close to what he did the last two years? If he gets even remotely close, even with some age regression, it's a steal of a deal. Unfortunately, for me personally, I think he's about to explode.

So nobody wants him, it's almost time for the season to start and the best we can do is 3 years/33 million? Really? What was the asking price two months ago? He's already 34, awesome deal Doug, Awesome. /blue

I realize that you can't count on young pitchers and many of them will flame out...but why block all the young guys? We spent all this time drafting all these pitchers, and assuming this contract is for at least 2-3 years, you've essentially blocked at least 2, if not 3 spots in the rotation for the foreseeable future (Yo, Lohse, Estrada?). Where are guys like Fiers, Rogers, Burgos, Thornburg, etc going to pitch?

I agree 100% that I won't miss the guys leaving. I really grew tired of watching this team play and how they played "offense". They just seemed so unskilled an unathletic at times and as many of us on here talked about, the scoring droughts were ultimately going to be their demise. Just can't score in the 40's with 25% shooting and expect to win. Great coaching job by Bo, as this team vastly over achieved IMO, but sitll disappointing to get bounced in the first round.

Gomez or Segura batting in front of the pitcher is dumb. Both of them have great speed and have the ability to steal bases. You aren't going to steal many bases with the pitcher up. If they reach first, the pitcher will be bunting most of the time, or if there is two outs, you can't risk getting caught stealing and having the pitcher leadoff the next inning. You're taking away the strengths of those guys by handcuffing them from stealing when they reach base. Gomez best offensive weapon is his legs and they need to put him in a position to utilize that, not take it away from him by having the pitchers spot due up after him. It makes no sense at all. Until Hart comes back, whoever is playing 1b should be batting 8th, plain and simple. Not only that, if you're trying to develop Segura, I don't think the 8 spot is the place. Batting 8th can be tricky. When to expand the zone, when to look for walks, etc. He should be placed in a spot where he can just go up there and hit, and not worry about who is hitting behind him. Gonzalez needs to hit 8th if they insist on being dumb enough to start him at 1b.

Not sure which forum this goes in, so feel free to move it. Just saw this come across. Anyone know anything about the guy? Doesn't seem like much of a trade but here it is. MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired third baseman Stephen Parker from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for right-handed pitcher Darren Byrd. Parker, 25, was selected by Oakland in the fifth round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Brigham Young University. Over four minor league seasons, he is a career .277 hitter with 43 HR and 262 RBI in 448 games. His best season came in 2010, when he batted.296 with 21 HRand 98 RBI in 139 games at Class-A Stockton and was a midseason and postseason California League All-Star. Byrd, 26, spent three seasons in the Brewers’ farm system (2010-12) after signing as a minor-league free agent on June 28, 2010. He appeared in one game this spring before he was returned to minor-league camp on March 7. http://fox6now.com/2013/03/20/brewers-trade-right-handed-pitcher-darren-byrd-to-oakland/

We can't afford to have him starting and being ineffective. Put him in the pen, use him in low intensity situations and see what happens.

Rogers could excel in the bullpen. It allows him to throw that high velocity heater without holding back. Also with his injury history, it could make a lot of sense.

So what options do we realistically have here? We certainly aren't moving Braun. I'm guessing Braun could handle RF, he has the arm for it certainly, but we have Aoki for the immediate future. Davis could maybe play 1b, but we have Morris there as well. What can we do? We certainly can't trade him. Aoki can play CF, but we didn't pay Gomez all that money to platoon. I think I'd send him down this year and have him play RF/LF/1B and go from there. We have to figure something out though, him and Morris are the only impact bats we have, and Davis has looked great here.

Another great WI win. Wow. Evans has played very very good the last couple games. Need that going forward. Should be locked in to no worse than a 4 seed now.

Not sure what thread to put this in, but this doesn't sound good. I still don't see what they could possibly find to suspend him, especially with the Times not helping, but as we suspected, MLB hates Braun. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-baseball/21891936/report-mlb-targeting-alex-rodriguez-ryan-braun-for-biogenesis-links

We all clicked the link, didn't we? Agreed. But...they didn't release anything that definitively clears Braun. Which is what makes it odd. They didn't publish him for a reason...what was the reason? What other proof do they have?

While we can't say for sure, there had to be SOMETHING in those records for them to not include Braun. Braun would have arguably been the biggest name on that list, and his name is there clear as day, yet they didn't include it, are blocking it out on their website, etc. While it doesn't clear him, they very clearly stat that at least in the writer and editor's opinions, Braun wasn't receiving any PED's.

I'm fine with 7, 8 I think is way too many, especially considering we have 4 off days in April. 13 pitchers is an awful lot. They brought it up on the telecast today, how RR says 12 is likely but that he would prefer 8 relievers. I just think that's way too many.

So Roenicke is saying he wants to carry 7 relief pitchers or maybe even EIGHT. That's just ridiculous to me. That is just way, way too many pitchers and leaves you way too thin on the bench.

I agree that Gasser isn't great, but he's not terrible. Nobody is calling him the best player on the roster, but he is a useful player. And he is much, much better than Jarmusz ever was. But you're taking games against good teams and saying he played bad. And maybe he did, I'm not going to refute that, but to simply look at his scoring totals doesn't tell the whole story. For starters, he's very secure with the basketball, only 43 turnovers in 36 games (in over 1200 minutes), thats just over one turnover a game from a guy on the floor a majority of games. In comparison, Jackson this year I believe has 62 turnovers in roughly the same amount of minutes. Granted, Jackson is handling the ball more than Gasser probably did, but thats still a lot of turnovers. Roughly two a game. And you're right, his scoring totals weren't great, especially in those games you pointed out, but it's not like he's ever been asked to score. Last year there were 5 guys on the roster that shot more than he did - Taylor, Bergerron, Evans, Bruiser and Brust. However, Gasser shot the highest percentage on both FG attempts (46.4%) and 3 point FG attempts (45.2%). He's also an almost 80 percent FT shooter. I'm not going to take the time to look it up, but he probably shot even less the year before with Leuer and Nankivil on the roster as well. I think people are thinking that when he is finally asked to take on a bigger scoring role as a senior, that he will be more than capable based on his percentages and the fact that he's more or less taken a backseat to other players based upon the system and how the team was setup. When he did shoot last year, he was very effective based on the numbers. Again, I don't think he's great, but I do think he'll be more than capable of being a solid player that can contribute on the offensive end much more than he has in the past.

Jarmusz was flat out terrible. The fact that he got all those minutes infuriated me and made me throw up in my mouth a little bit just thinking about it right now. Gasser isn't an all conference player, but he DOES have talent and can be effective on the court, both from a scoring and a passing standpoint. Jarmusz provided absolutely nothing. The only thing those two have in common is being from Wisconsin. These are Jarmusz career stats: 122 games played, 48 starts (averaged 17.6 min), 2.8 ppg, 39% shooting, 2.1 rebounds, .6 assists That's just awful. It's not like he was a lockdown defender. He was terrible. Bani, you probably hit the starting lineup, or close to it. We'll just have to see how the freshman pan out, especially the bigs. That lineup would be awfull small and force Dekker to play inside, which I don't think makes much sense. They'll almost have to let a freshman play, because our current backup big men are terrible outside of Kaminsky.