I guess the question is if the team is confident in Taylor Green (or someone else?) to play at 2B for an extended period. I don't think Weeks has any options left, though I could be wrong.
This thread is worth a bump. Really good season so far. I liked this past Sunday's episode a lot. The whole Harikrishna thing was surreal and amusing at the same time.
I fell asleep before the end of this one, and kind of glad I did. Cesar Izturis needs to be replaced by someone who can hit more than popups and weak grounders.
I can't believe we aren't talking more about Lucroy right now. .342/.389/.550/.939 current line. The guy is having an insanely hot season so far, and just might be the NL starting catcher in the All-Star Game. I know he probably won't keep up this torrid pace, but "Catching WOAH SOLVDD?" You bet.
Talk about revisionism...clearly Cordero was the center piece. Turnbow was tanking and we needed a quality closer to stay in any sort of contention at that point. People will always crucify Melvin for trading Nelson Cruz, but at the time no one really blinked an eye when he was included in the deal. Hindsight makes for some really good armchair GMs, though.
Someday we'll see a 32 team MLB, but not for at least a few years. I'm sure they want to make sure the economy is roaring again before doing any expansion.
I could really see a return to Montreal as a viable option for MLB. I read recently a "Bring baseball back to Montreal" sort of group was formed recently, so there is at least some local support.
I agree it was a bit disingenuous to say that, but I had no trouble manipulating things to gain an extra year of team control. It's not like MLB or Hardy were out to help the Brewers at that point.
People forget how terrible Hardy was that season. Escobar's play at the time also seemed to justify Hardy being demoted for Alcides. Didn't work out in the end, but I agreed with the decision at the time.
I don't buy into the "He misses Prince", argument. He's 30, not some wet behind the ears kid, and he's had all off-season to reconcile with the fact that Prince was going to no longer be a Brewer.
To be fair he's ranked #21. Some in that top 20 have me scratching my head a bit. I know Frank Robinson and Eddie Collins were both great hitters in their day, but I never have heard either considered for the greatest of the greatest of all time before.
Jon Heyman has a new piece up about Greinke and the Brewers this morning: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/jon-heyman/19057818/brewers-and-greinke-love-each-other-but-itll-be-tough-to-keep-him-in-milwaukee "It's a good organization,'' Greinke said. "Good owner. Good guys in management. Good guys in the clubhouse. Really good, really good.'' Everyone's good here. The Brewers' people are great. So is Grienke. They're all fine people. I just wouldn't bet too much on all these fine people getting together on a new $100-million-plus contract.
Yeah, I mean, it's just a figurine of a Chorizo. What's really the big attraction of it? It's not like it's game used gear or signed by Ryan Braun or something...
Lee is actually having an OK season, though his power is way down. Only two home runs so far this year. If the Brewers are still interested, I would think something could be worked out. I wouldn't get really excited about him, though.
Conversely, maybe they are trying to encourage more people within the Milwaukee area to attend games? A few years ago I saw attendance ratios of what percentage of fans attend games that live outside the Milwaukee area, and it was pretty high.