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  1. istanbultaye
    Money might not equal happiness, but having money certainly doesn't mean a person will be unhappy either. They're not mutually exclusive.
  2. istanbultaye
    Those early 2000's Brewers never had players the caliber of Manny Machado, Trey Mancini, or Adam Jones. With all due respect to Trey Mancini and Adam Jones, Richie Sexson and Geoff Jenkins in the early 2000s match up with them pretty well. The dark times of the Brewers generally had some decent offense from what I recall, but pitching was terrible outside of Sheets, and defense was suspect.
  3. istanbultaye
    Perez is a nice reserve infielder, but not a nice 5th outfielder. This team needs Santana. This team should be looking to add offense, not trade it. The only way you trade Santana is in a package for an even better OF. I agree with you that Perez is a mediocre at best 5th OF, but that doesn't mean that any trade of Santana would need to be for OF. The team would clearly welcome an upgrade at 2b, C or SP if such a player came available in a Santana deal.
  4. istanbultaye
    Don't delete page 5, that's where I got the link to the macarena band!
  5. istanbultaye
    Robin Yount got called up 5 or 6 age years earlier than Braun and had several poor offensive years when most teams would have still had him in the minors, which definitely gives him a boost in the counting stats as well. In regards to Yount's defense, certainly his ability to play the premium positions also gives him a value boost compared to Braun, but he was average at best at CF, and only a bit above average at SS. Definitely more value than below average LF, and a half season of abysmal 3b, but I think the biggest argument in value is the differences in offense between eras they have played in.
  6. istanbultaye
    I would advocate that you don't need a reverse-split lefty specialist when you have actual lefty specialists who are more effective. Once Logan is back, and Suter is shipped to the pen, Drake has no use anymore. I agree. We'll see if the Brewers agree as time goes on.
  7. istanbultaye
    It might have been tongue-in-cheek, but it wasn't Onion-esque...
  8. istanbultaye
    I can understand a couple of the points in the article, but the fact is, Drake is one of the bottom arms in the pen, and he has rightfully been used in that fashion this year. He has some function in medium leverage situations as a lefty specialist, and mopping up some innings when behind or having a significant lead like last night. Considering his low salary, that's a-ok with me. We don't really need a young guy to fill a mop up role. Last year, he saw a few too many high leverage situations for all of our comfort levels, but the bullpen overall was not as strong as it is this year, so it seems like he isn't being miscast to a significant degree this year.
  9. istanbultaye
    A day off or 2 might help, but it's a little too early for the Broxton treatment yet, given how he has done over the course of the past 2 years.
  10. istanbultaye
    Oh, additional point, if you do those double headers only with divisional matchups as well, that makes things a little easier to make up if disaster struck and both were cancelled, would also give a bonus to the marketing of the double headers.
  11. istanbultaye
    If they only did sunday double headers from June - August the risk of rainouts wiping out both games would be pretty minimal I would think. If you do 2 per month, 1 home, 1 away, that would be 6 games and could get opening day back into April and still have the off days they added this year.
  12. istanbultaye
    I guess they shouldn't have changed from 140 to 154 back in the day either then, eh? I don't really think they need to reduce (and definitely don't need to increase) the number of games, but change is a fact of life. If somehow, the calculations of the powers that be within baseball decided that reducing the number of games back to 154 was a wise move, it wouldn't bother me a bit.
  13. istanbultaye
    Hmm... traditionally, there were less than 162 games per year. If we go by the AL which has been most consistent, they started off with 140 games a year.
  14. istanbultaye
    Didn't Braun get pinch ran for after his double yesterday? I didn't see if there was anything to that, but maybe his back is still a little sore?
  15. istanbultaye
    Calling Gallardo a "former Orioles pitcher" in this context is somewhat misleading.
  16. istanbultaye
    Fixed it!
  17. istanbultaye
    I thought the only base you were allowed to fake to now was 2b.
  18. istanbultaye
    brewers.com must've copied their last preview for Davies and changed the team name to Cubs... wow
  19. istanbultaye
    If baseball can hold on another 100 years, we should have force fields by then... right?
  20. istanbultaye
    It would take 3 pitchers rotating through the spot to truly be able to get an advantage of being able to use the spot for an extra reliever/bench bat on the non-start dates, due to the 10 day minimum after being sent down. But, certainly if they have a blow up start and the pen gets overworked, whoever is in that 5th spot probably gets sent down and a fresh BP arm comes up a few days to help cover until the next time the 5th starter is needed, and they swap to whoever isn't on cooldown.
  21. istanbultaye
    In regards to the 2 pitches, he does seem to be getting a little more comfortable with his changeup in the early going this year, not that he's using it much. Arguably the best home grown starting pitcher since the turn of the millenia was Ben Sheets, and he was pretty much a 2 pitch pitcher. That said, I think that they should cycle through other options before trying Hader, this year at least for sure. Why mess with something that is working for the guy, and where he is contributing greatly to the most successful group on the team?
  22. istanbultaye
    I know it was in blue, but... that's 20 days total, not consecutively, right?
  23. istanbultaye
    In regards to Eddie, I agree that there are too many out by a mile, but there is some exaggeration going on with the "several times a week" comment that was made earlier. If his performance outside of that is enough for this organization to overlook that weakness, then that is why he still has the job. Sending guys home isn't the only thing a 3B coach does I assume, just the most visible to us watching from bleachers/couch. In regards to the mistakes, Counsell specifically said in the post game that Villar should have been at 3rd. Don't see how he's not calling him out for that with that comment. The only other major "mental" mistake I can remember is Arcia thinking there was 2 outs, and he didn't start the next game after that, so it seems like there are consequences potentially in play to me.
  24. istanbultaye
    When I saw this thread title, I thought it was a joke thread in response to the thread wanting to fire Counsell because the team had a really bad week defensively.
  25. istanbultaye
    Going back to 2000, the most number of errors I've found committed by a team for a season was 145, in 2001. So, the Brewers can only get better (in error rate) from here!
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