DougJones43
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But not being able to take on a contract such as that has more to do with the crappy contracts Melvin has given out than the overall payroll ceiling. His mistakes dating back a few years still have a ripple effect on handcuffing the team today, and he is totally responsible for that. He's paid more for Suppan for '09 and '10 than Kazmir would have been owed during his final two years, and obviously Kazmir would have been a much better bet to actually be productive. Kazmir's worst projection will probably beat Suppan's best next year. For some reason though, people seem to be hesitant to hold Melvin accountable and want to act as though he was "dealt" a bad hand entering the last offseason. His bad hand was his own doing. You can't isolate just certain moves or opportunities or offseasons at this point. With how long his tenure has been, the overall result is what counts and fully falls on his shoulders. Considering Melvin has had most of his best players for quite cheap during the past handful of seasons, an $80M payroll should have been plenty to work with to try and fill out a decent rotation -- however he has bungled a majority of that payroll allotment quite badly, leaving us with less options than we should have.
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I'm getting pretty tired of Melvin lately. It's pretty much become strictly whining and excuse-making from him lately. Add that to the spat with Braun (I would seriously hope that most GM's would be above publicly bickering with a frustrated 25-year-old kid), and it's been a pretty sad showing this past year. His complaints about the disparity are starting to remind me of the Selig era. The only problem is we're actually right in the middle of the MLB in terms of payroll so that crap doesn't really fly anymore. Whose fault is it that a majority of our resources have been tied up in the David Riskes, the Bill Halls, the Eric Gagnes, and the Jeff Suppans of the league rather than being used in a more effective manner? We get it -- the Brewers couldn't compete for Sabathia. Neither could 29 other teams. However, a lot of them happened to have better Plan B's than signing Braden Looper (and praying every starter would stay healthy all year). The biggest problem is that Melvin's acting like the earth began to turn this past off-season. It didn't. He's been the GM for seven years, and he needs to assume responsibilty for that and the fact that Mike Burns was our top option in the case of an injury. I expect the palms-in-the-air "what could he have done THIS offseason??" comments on a message board. When that's all you hear from the GM though, it's downright pathetic. I want Melvin gone.
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It might have taken some guts and creativity. In other words, it wasn't gonna happen. We did get Vargas and Weathers though! -
This thread is beginning to display the makings of something that could go in the archives. Only on brewerfan.net could an ill-conceived promotional mustard thread be turned into this...
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How long of a leash would you give Suppan?
DougJones43 replied to DougJones43's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Not Jason Kendall. -
Yo has had a very nice season, but at this point it's a little nerve-wrecking to see him out there making lengthy starts, and possibly comprimising his future, in meaningless games.
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The should leave him down until the Nashville season is completely finished. I think that's like Sept. 7th? It looks less shady than calling him up the day after he reaches 20 days down, and would lend credibility to the notion that he was actually down there because of performance and to get as much non-pressure hitting work as possible.
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I've been on this street a thousand times. It's never looked so strange. The faces, so cold. In the distance, a child is crying -- fatherless, a bastard child perhaps. My back aches. My heart aches...but my mouth...my mouth is resilient! Thank God I stopped at my local Pick n Save, and purchased some Silver Spring Beer n Brat Mustard.
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I just found myself wishing we hadn't "given up" on Justin Lehr. It was a defining moment for how unenjoyable this is.
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Sweep Suits 2.0
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Lame. So, what was the point of this exactly?
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I don't know. He had 2 solid years, and an additional half of a year that was very good as well. When I think of a flash in the pan, I think of one good year out of nowhere followed by a flameout. Hardy was a good player in the minors, and has been pretty good throughout most of his big-league career, so I don't think he can be considered a flash in the pan.
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How long of a leash would you give Suppan?
DougJones43 replied to DougJones43's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Well, as we near the end of the year, Suppan's numbers aren't looking too good. ERA of 5.38. WHIP of 1.75. Almost as many BB as strikeouts. He's also on pace for only about 150 IP, so he hasn't even been able to live up to his billing as an inning-eater. With regard to the original topic, it turns out that the alternatives (McClung, Villanueva, Burns, Dillard, etc) are actually even worse than Suppan, so the posters who said that were pretty much right on the money. However at the same time, I think that the putrid results Suppan has turned in this year has shown that the concerns about him were legitimate -- and the accusations that some of us thought the "sky was falling based on a couple starts" were off the mark. Suppan has completely lost it, and there were signs of it before this year. He's terrible. -
No way. You just know he'd go right back to shutting us down like he used to when we faced him. That was the irony of the contract we gave him. His numbers were artificially inflated from his starts against the Brewers, so by signing him we were basically removing his best handful of starts every year and replacing them with starts against teams he sucks against (every team other than the Brewers). If he goes, it'd have to be an AL team. Or maybe Japan.
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The RW/RR Challenges are probably my biggest guilty pleasure on TV. It's the only reality show I've ever really watched, and I'm not really sure why. Maybe it's more interesting to have seen many of the participants before and know stuff about them, as opposed to most of the other shows where you no idea who the people are. I agree it is scripted and edited a ridiculous amount, but it's still decent fluff entertainment in my book. All of the other stuff MTV puts on the air passed me by long ago...
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Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Jimmie Foxx
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So how much would that make a ball signed by the starting rotation worth? I would imagine once people saw that ball, they would all run away screaming in horror. A team of men in bio-hazard suits would have to come retrieve the ball, and it would need to be disposed of by being shot into deep space.
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Blowing a 7-0 lead = NOT enjoyable Brutal...
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Hooray for more meaningless moves!
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I don't enjoy watching bad pitching and losing baseball, so I'm not enjoying this. Plus, once a team's playoff hopes are shot a lot of the desire to watch goes out the window. What exactly would I be hoping for as I watched? To me, there's not much of a difference between finishing 75-87 vs 73-89 or whatever, so I don't really care. The only reason I might leave a game on now for a few seconds will be to check out one of the young players or maybe watch Braun or Fielder bat.
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When I said major overhaul, I meant to overhaul the starting pitching on the major league club and possibly high minors, by trading Fielder. I thought I made that clear, and I still don't know how you're then making the jump to automatically trading Braun and Gallardo -- especially Gallardo. Why would I be suggesting we trade our only good young pitcher when I've been harping on improving starting pitching depth? It doesn't even make sense, you're putting words into my mouth, and you know it. And again, just because you think trading one player means they HAVE to rebuild doesn't necessarily make it so. It's very possible that trading one player away (even if he is your best player) can result in the team as a whole improving. If you think it's impossible, that's fine -- but I don't and therefore am not suggesting a full-blown rebuilding.
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How good do you really think the Brewers would be if Bush and Suppan had stayed healthy? Maybe a few games better, assuming Bush didn't perform like the first-half of last year and Suppan didn't perform like September/October of last year. We might be hanging right around .500 right now. That's not what I'm looking for. The pitching needs to be better, and I along with others think we should be willing to sacrifice some offense to do it.
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We were all talking about trading Fielder. You began talking about trading Braun and Gallardo, which nobody else was. You were arguing against a stance/opinion that is non-existent, hence the strawman reference. Trading Prince wouldn't necessarily make the team worse or put them into rebuilding mode. Again, with a good return that improved the starting staff now or by 2011 at the latest, the TEAM might be better. The offense would take a hit, but it's very possible that a team with with above-average hitting and average pitching will win more games overall than a team with very-good hitting and terrible pitching.
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That's where he got Suppan and Looper. I have serious doubts that we'll find any real answers in FA.
