PeaveyFury

Perhaps lost in all the excitement of the 1st/2nd place duel between us and the Cubs is that the Cardinals have quietly slipped to 10.5 back.....

I think a lot of people thought we could get more than a A+ reliever. He's a starter, actually.

Let me clarify Peavey, I'm all for trading prospects but not the ones that have alot of upside: Parra, Jeffress, Inman, Laporta (when they can trade him) and probably a few other guys. Fair enough, but I don't think anyone is really talking about trading Jeffress or Inman, and LaPorta can't be traded until next year. Parra is the one that is possible. I'd say parting with one of the 'top' guys is no big deal, especially since he's riding with high value from the Perfecto and has a significant injury history. Yes, it'd stink to see him win 15 with say Texas in 2009, but if it gets us to the WS this year, I think I can deal with it.

Yeah, right around early may when they were 24-10. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Current season stats: web.minorleaguebaseball.c...pid=501866 The guy dominated low A-ball. He gets to stick in the FSL, so he should be with Brevard pretty quickly.

Well, there's the move to get Cappy 1 back from the DL. Stats: www.thebaseballcube.com/p...Cody.shtml Great Junior and Senior years in college, very nice 2006 in low A-ball.

No, not piling on at all Hawing. But it's nice to know that if they play .500 ball the rest of the way, they'll finish with 88 wins.

Despite having a group that has many waiving about half the team, or trading them for nothing, they are on a 94/96 win pace. How do you figure that, Al? They're 14 games above .500, hence a pace for 88-74 at the moment.

The problem though, KCbrewerfan, is that a lot of the prospects we have in the upper minors have no place to go. What do we do with guys like Sarfate or Jackson? There's simply no place in the rotation for them in the near future. How does Gwynn fit into a very crowded OF? Guys like that are all spare parts. Parra could potentially fit in somewhere, but it's not necessary that he does so. If they resign Sheets, I don't see where Parra would fit into the rotation plans. We're in a position to compete, it's time to use some of the spare parts to improve the team.

I think whizkid has it pegged. Three Brewers in, one in the final vote (likely JJ).

I find the notion that the Pirates don't have a plan foolish at best. Every business has a plan, sometimes they just don't work out. You really think the people running the franchise are trying to lose, ensuring they'll be out of a job? I strongly doubt that anyone is claiming their trying to lose. But I do think its fair to say that some teams/GM's don't actually have a laid-out plan. The Devil Rays don't seem to have a clue what they want to do, and the Steve Phillips-led Mets were another great example. Dean Taylor's Brewers were a pretty good example of doing one thing to fit a plan on one day, then doing something totally different the next. There are people up here in GB that complain about the funding for the stadium every time the Packers lose. As if somehow because they voted no and have to pay the tax anyway it entitles them to be garunteed of a winning team. The Packers are a completely different monster in such an argument, because the fan involvement probably goes passed just being fans, considering that a chunk of them actually own the franchise. They have taken the exact same approach as the Brewers they just haven't been fortunate to get the same results, and for a long time the selling thing wasn't working for the Brewers either. No, they really haven't had the same approach. The Pirates have had high draft picks, but they never seemed to actually commit the resources to scout and develop those guys. Melvin was shrewd in picking up guys off the waiver wire/scrap heap like Pods, Davis, Kolb, etc and giving them a chance to shine, the Pirates signed washed up guys like Derek Bell, Matt Lawton, Benito Santiago, and Jose Mesa to multi-year contracts. The Brewers locked up their good young-ish players like Sheets/Jenkins to nice long-term deals, the Pirates locked up Jack Wilson. The Brewers made shrewd trades when they traded away their big time players like Sexson, Overbay, Pods, Lee, etc in getting unproven yet major-league ready players, or players that no longer fit into their roles with their current team. The Pirates got a horrible Arthur Rhodes and incredibly mediocre Mark Redman for Jason Kendall, ie, established Major Leaguers that were never that great to begin with. The Giles trade was of a completely different approach, thus again leading people to wonder what their plan actually is/was. So I'm really not seeing how the Pirates' approach was anything like the Brewers at all.

I get the same 'google analytics' thing. The message board as a whole has been quite slow and occasionally (1-3 times a day) takes a good 30 seconds before it finally loads. It's been that way since ezboard did their upgrades a few months back.

I don't know if I could give up that much for Otsuka Texas isn't going to give him away. You have to be willing to give in order to get. Getting Otsuka would really help the pen going forward as well, considering that Cordero is very likely gone next year.

The playoffs are way too long as it is, and that's being reflected by the fact that people could care less about the MLB playoffs at this point, despite baseball's incredible success everywhere else. A best of 9 series would be an absolute joke.

I don't recall anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights where it garunteed the right to a winning sports franchise. No, but there is the Right to Peaceably Assemble/Protest, which is what these people were doing, and why they have every right to do what they did, not just "Support their team and shut up."

Was Sheets throwing quite a few change-ups yesterday? If he can incorporate that pitch into his game he we'll be even more fun watch. He was throwing a lot of changes early before his curveball was working. I know he struck Lee out on a great change in the first inning. Sheets actually had poor overall stuff yesterday until his curve started working in the 4th or 5th inning.

Braun already has more walks in a month and a half less worth of AB's..... I think that's saying something right there.

Per Jim Powell's game recap, Sheets has taken the mound 8 times after a Brewer loss. His record? 6-1. The 1 loss came April 7th. Ace and stopper.

Pitching Sheets here in the 8th over 110 pitches in a blowout seems like an incredibly stupid move.

Why why why why why why why why is Sheets still pitching in a huge blowout and over 110 pitches?

Jenkins catches that ball.

Matty blathers for 3 minutes about how the Brewers best player is from Louisiana in Sheets and the Packers best player in Favre is also from Louisiana...... Fact checkers apparently aren't big with the fox broadcasts.

Nope, it was a legit triple. Slid, but without a throw.

This game is a great example of why when people say Pinella is a better manager than Yost, I think it's hilarious.

Boy, these games remind me of just how good we have it for announcers. Bill Schroeder is much maligned here, but that's mainly for repeating cliches and such. Grace apparently doesn't care if he's blatantly wrong with half the stuff he says.