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Overbay DFA'd...will we show interest?
adambr2 replied to Hate those Rodents's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
I'd bring him back just for nostalgic purposes, but we have absolutely no need for a 1B only player with Corey's emergence. -
I believe that the Brewers could re-sign Greinke in free agency, and I think they could afford the offer that it would take to do so (whether or not this would be wise is another story). And I believe that Greinke has told Lucroy that he would prefer not to play in Boston or New York and I also believe that Greinke may indeed feel that way himself. I also believe that when the offers start coming in, those things matter less and less. Remember, CC also didn't "want" to play in New York, he wanted to play on the West Coast, and he preferred to stay in the NL. Neither of those things happened. I would like to see some examples in the last ten years or so where the biggest FA's in MLB passed up the highest offer to take a supposed better situation. Yes, I understand that he has dealt with anxiety in the past, but every assumption that this would prevent him from playing in a big market or succeeding in one has always been nothing more than that -- an assumption. And I don't think you're going to find anything documented regarding the MLBPA frowning on its biggest free agents taking less money in free agency. I'm sure this isn't an "official" policy, but it was mentioned when CC was considering turning down the Yankees offer as a free agent. Of course, there's not much they can do about it if the player is dead set, but most players don't want to stir the pot in their union -- and it does make economical sense, the top FA sets the market, and if he takes a substantially low offer, it's going to affect the market for others.
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Why is this a standard belief of Zack? He just got traded to LA, which was one of his preferred destinations. Do we really have any reason other than wishful thinking to believe that Greinke will not accept the highest bid if it comes from New York, Boston, etc? IMO, Greinke is no different than any other free agent. He is going into free agency to get the best possible offer he can get, and he will take it. If he had any other agenda, I believe he would have happily accepted 5 years and $112M from us. As an aside, the MLBPA doesn't look very favorably on top tier FA's accepting much less than the highest offer.
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Not sure when Hart actually gained control of that ball. The fact that they won this game doesn't dismiss the completely disgraceful performance once again by this bullpen.
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Agreed...the season is over anyway, you're just going to keep trying what isn't working?
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This isn't distressing, or bothersome anymore. It's almost like watching a carnival of freaks.
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You could put "DFA" before just about any reliever in the bullpen and it wouldn't really be a questioned move.
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Swung at Ball 4....wow...
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Tying run to the plate...this could be epic...
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They blow this one in the 9th, and Roenicke is going to start experimenting with some pretty heavy drugs.
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They call that a CC Sabathia non-error.
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Guess Livian for one more. Funny how we went into this season excited about having two closers. Now at the end of July, with the same two guys still on the team, we have zero closers.
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I fully expect Lucroy to be retired momentarily on a botched squeeze, missed sign, etc.
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It's great that we're playing for one run, when I think we all damn well know that's not going to be enough.
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Anyone have even a slight sliver of confidence that the bullpen can actually throw a scoreless 8th and 9th?
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The Bullpen - Would You Make Henderson the Closer
adambr2 replied to slappzilla's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
So who actually gets their job back next year? Axford simply because he was too good prior to this to give up on this quickly. K-Rod will be long, long gone, and he can take Veras with him. Loe is going to be a free agent, and while he's better than the previous two mentioned, he isn't good enough to make me want to invest $3-$4M a year in him. I really wouldn't care to see Parra back, but he would be about the only other one I could think of that might be. -
The best case scenario I can hope for K-Rod right now, is that he performs lights out in the next two weeks, enough to find somebody to go ahead and claim him off waivers in mid-August and therefore buy Mark A. $2M in salary relief.
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I do think it's probably impossible to know how good of a job that Kranitz does or does not do -- we really don't have anything to judge him by other than on-field results. That said, I can't fault anyone who wants to put some blame on his shoulders just because of how far-reached this problem is. I don't blame Narron for Weeks' first half slump, I blame Weeks' first half slump on the fact that sometimes even prolonged slumps happen. But this isn't one guy. This isn't a K-Rod problem, or an Axford problem. It's the ENTIRE bullpen. It's hard for me to fathom that every single pitcher in the bullpen is just having a terrible year by some crazy coincidence.
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The Bullpen - Would You Make Henderson the Closer
adambr2 replied to slappzilla's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
In 2006 we actually had a worse bullpen ERA at 5.03. That's just hard to believe. Of course, the season isn't over yet. -
Not disagreeing with you, but that just seems kind of ridiculous to me. There is so much to watch for in pitching -- mechanics, bio-mechanics, delivery, monitoring to see if a pitcher may be tipping their pitches, changes in velocity, possible signs of injury, scouting opposing hitters, etc. You would think that a true bullpen coach would be more useful to his pitching coach in this regard than just answering a bullpen phone. I would assume that if Kranitz goes, Kyles probably goes with him anyway.
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I've asked that same question plenty of times and been told that the bullpen coach really has no involvement with actually coaching the relief pitchers on pitching, weirdly enough.
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Thornburg sent to Nashville, McClendon recalled
adambr2 replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Yeah Brewers, Thornburg was the problem. I hope this is strictly for the reason of continuing to stretch him back out as a starter. -
The Bullpen - Would You Make Henderson the Closer
adambr2 replied to slappzilla's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I've never seen anything like this. It amazes me that we are actually NOT the worst bullpen in baseball this year, statistically. It hardly seems possible. -
I don't like Roenicke at all, but I agree -- there really aren't any "good" options for him. Our most reliable reliever is probably Kameron Loe, and that's saying something.