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  1. DougJones43
    Holy strawman... You think small fixes like that are going to be enough to put the Brewers into playoff contention? I don't.
  2. DougJones43
    They're not winning this year.
  3. DougJones43
    That they aren't happy fielding a 4th place team with a .483 winning percentage? I disagree. Obviously, Ortiz has been a major disappointment this year. He's going to be 34-years-old soon, so the chances of a big comeback are not good. I think if the Bo Sox miss the playoffs, they'll be looking to upgrade, and might very well target Prince.
  4. DougJones43
    I would explore all possibilities to trade Prince after this season. We should be able to get an absolute bounty for him, including starting pitching. Let some of the big boys know he's on the trading block, and let them start competing against each other with packages. I know it will put a huge dent in our offense, but I'm more confident in guys like Gamel (and a returning Weeks) to fill some of the offensive hole than I am of anybody currently in the organization filling the gaping hole in our pitching staff. I'd be willing to take the hit on offense, because there is just no way the team can compete with the pitching it has. The makeup of the roster needs a major overhaul, and Prince is the only tradeable piece we have significant enough to change the complexion of the team.
  5. DougJones43
    Very well put. Between all of those position players you listed, not swapping from a position of strength like that for any pitching talent until it was too late (now) is proving to be a big mistake. And Melvin's obsession (possibly driven by Mark A.) with always getting back "Major League" players has been part of the downfall as well. It's not necessarily that we didn't have talent to move. It's that we moved talent like LaPorta, Carlos Lee, Nelson Cruz, and others for "rental" players like Sabathia, Cordero, Mench, and Linebrink. Granted, two of those players played very well, but they were all with the team for 1.5 years or much less.
  6. DougJones43
    Kind of goes to show that our farm system has not turned out even close to what it was hyped up to be. I pulled up the brewerfan Power 50 from September 2005. We were supposed to have one of the best farm systems (if not THE best) during that time period. Look at the list -- it's depressing how many of our top 20 prospects completely busted in one form or another. I count exactly three players that have become good major leaguers for the Brewers -- Fielder, Braun, and Gallardo. The only other one from that list to have success, Nelson Cruz, was traded for Kevin Mench. Eveland, Hendrickson, Capellan, Sarfate, Krynzel, and Nelson all turned out to be trash. Parra faltered last year and has been awful this year. Corey Hart has turned out to be pretty disappointing overall as well.
  7. DougJones43
    Nobody said anything like that. The biggest problem most people have, is that the way management handled things over the past month with Hall has minimized his trade value rather than maximizing it. With as little room for error as the Brewers have right now and into the immediate future, I would hope they can find a way to be significantly more shrewd with their future dealings, although I'm losing confidence in Melvin by the minute.
  8. DougJones43
    Yeah, last year was great and everything, but overall I'm very disappointed. The club seems to be in a decline again -- after 1 good year which came on the back of a rented mule that was only with the organization for a couple months. With all of the hype surrounding "the kids" starting a few years back, I was hoping for at least a Twins or A's type run of a collection of 90+ win seasons with multiple playoff appearances.
  9. DougJones43
    The Brewers first mistake was bringing Hall back up after only 3 days in AAA, or whatever it was. If he had gone down and hit well there for a couple of weeks, his trade value might have at least gotten to the point where teams would have been willing to take on a little more salary than what Seattle did. Prematurely bringing Hall back up to play RF, and then "making a example of him" during the blood-letting frenzy (effectively putting him in a position to become a free agent in a matter of days) was the nail in the coffin of completely destroying any chance of getting better salary relief or a decent return for Hall.
  10. DougJones43
    Can we convert it now? Clearly, the original premise is not even remotely relevant anymore at this point...
  11. DougJones43
    He would have to "call as good of a game" as Kendall in the eyes of management -- which will be impossible since it's a completely subjective thing (and they love Kendall and want to kiss him).
  12. DougJones43
    Well, they are the most noteworthy he's acquired in 7 years as GM -- which speaks volumes by itself, because it's not as though there hasn't been talent within the organization to shuffle.
  13. DougJones43
    You don't think Melvin deserves any blame for all of the noteworthy pitching prospects he obtained contributing absolutely nothing? Like I said, his big acquisitions were supposed to be De la Rosa, Capellan, and Zack Jackson. None even really came close to doing anything. That has to be seen as somewhat of a reflection on his ability to evaluate starting pitching. There's also something to be said for the neglect that comes with only making deals for 3 or so pitching prospects during a long tenure, with none of those deals occurring anytime recently.
  14. DougJones43
    That, and the fact that he hasn't hit on any of the pitching prospects he traded for -- not even close. And again, when I was referencing his inability to get any production out of his free agent signings, I was more referring to adding any production during this timeframe when we have gotten competetive (the last 2-3 years). The fact that we'd have to dig back that far to find any successful production from his signings/trades (without trading LaPorta, the club's best hitting prospect) for 3+ years just isn't a very good sign IMO.
  15. DougJones43
    Outside of Bush, the most recent any of these guys had a respectable season in a Brewers uniform was 2006. That's a long time ago. I'm not even sure I'd consider Vargas to have been a fine #5 starter, and we gave up a much better starter in Doug Davis as part of the deal to acquire him. Citing a collection of barely passable #5 starters and guys from 3+ years ago isn't exactly changing my mind.
  16. DougJones43
    Melvin just doesn't seem to be a good judge of starting pitching talent. The free agents he's signed, and the prospects he's dealt for have almost without fail turned out to be disappointments. If even one above average starter had come from the crop of De la Rosa, Capellan, or Zack Jackson the team would be in much better shape. If Suppan and/or Looper weren't basically below replacement level, that would have helped a lot as well. Other contending teams seem to sign stop-gap type starting pitchers like Suppan and Looper to fill out their rotation as well, but have better success and maybe get a good year or two out of a guy from time to time at least -- so it's not unheard of to at least get some decent production out of marginally talented pitchers. The only guy Melvin really had like that was Doug Davis, and that was several years ago and then he swapped him for bottom-feeder Claudio Vargas. It just seems like Melvin always makes moves that fail miserably (in recent years) with regards to starting pitching, so I have no faith in his ability to judge pitching at this point.
  17. DougJones43
    Well, he's definitely not part of the solution. Going forward (even just looking at the remainder of this season), I would rather have Parra. Wouldn't you?
  18. DougJones43
    Just because they had the lead doesn't mean he pitched well. His W-L record has been hyper-inflated by good run support -- truth is that the team should have a lot better record in games he's pitched in than they do, because the offense has usually put up some decent numbers. He's been pretty awful this year and should be seen as a constant reminder that the pitching still stinks, when people get excited about a 3-game winning streak.
  19. DougJones43
    Is Braden Looper still in the rotation? Then no.
  20. DougJones43
    Why, because they might win 3 in a row? Or because Rivera is fatigued from starting so many games this year?They seem to be extremely fearful of upsetting Kendall. I've never really understood why.
  21. DougJones43
    Glad nobody took me up on this. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif It only took til mid August, but it looks like management might finally be learning what many here have known for quite a while.
  22. DougJones43
    2 homeruns for Mike Rivera today -- doubling Kendall's season total in a matter of a couple hours. I'll bet $20 that Rivera still doesn't start again until Parra's next start. Any takers?
  23. DougJones43
    Branyan would have been great to have as a backup for RF, 1B, and 3B. He's far out-produced Hall, Cat, and Hart. I don't really recall him demanding a starting job. I believe he contacted Melvin about coming back, and Melvin said, "No thanks, call Jack Z."
  24. DougJones43
    Because only certain guys are being held accountable, while others (who are equally as bad or worse) continue to have jobs. If Hardy and Castro are held accountable, then Kendall and Fischer need to be as well.
  25. DougJones43
    That really goes to show how feeble this team was. A couple months without a mediocre-at-best pitcher causes the entire club to start circling the drain.
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