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  1. adambr2
    Well, I'd take Votto for free in a heartbeat. Votto would make this lineup sick, maybe the favorites in the NL. But I'm not the one who has to come up with the money for him.
  2. adambr2
    Corey gets a great 2-0 pitch to hit...and grounds out harmlessly.
  3. adambr2
    Didn't affect the Padres very much against Fiers in the 6th.
  4. adambr2
    I'd trade Marcum for Eovaldi straight up in a heartbeat. I don't think the Dodgers would.
  5. adambr2
    1) RF Aoki 2) 1B Hart 3) LF Braun 4) 3B Ramirez 5) C Lucroy 6) 2B Weeks 7) SS Ransom 8) CF Morgan/Gomez At #1/#2, ENOUGH already with the power hitter leading off fetish! Hart is the second best slugger on our team, and he belongs in a spot where he can cash in on more RBI opportunities, even if that means just moving down a spot. He's not a strong OBP guy at all. There is no reason to bat him leadoff other than habit. Meanwhile, Aoki is as much as we can ask for in a leadoff guy. He can get on base at a .360 clip, that's whats most important. He isn't going to steal many bases, but his speed his adequate for leading off. Braun at #3, obviously. I'm okay with leaving Ramirez at cleanup because A) Roenicke isn't going to change it, and B), he looks like he's starting to have his second half run which he is historically known for. Lucroy certainly belongs no further down than 5th. Aoki/Hart/Braun/Ramirez/Lucroy is a very nice #1-#5. I don't know if you can really put Weeks behind the last two, there is nothing left to do with Weeks other than hope he turns it on and becomes a big asset in that 6 spot -- unless you want to spell him a couple days a week with Green, in which case Green also hits 6th. Ransom hasn't been fantastic by any means, but I feel like he's shown enough defensively to feel fairly comfortable leaving him as the everyday starter when Izturis returns, because really, I just can't bear to see "Izzy" back in the starting lineup every day. That leaves Morgan/Gomez.
  6. adambr2
    Why isn't the umpire giving 6 inches off the outside corner? He did it against Aoki.
  7. adambr2
    Not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying it's really never worth selling? Every star was a prospect at one time. I'm certainly not saying trade some of your best players for the sake of doing so, but if you end up out of the race and said player won't be returning next year anyway, you have really no good reason not to try to get value for him.
  8. adambr2
    Random stat question: Player A is up at the plate, in a 1-1 count. On the next pitch, he hits one down the line and sprints to first, but the ball lands just foul for a 1-2 count. Player A, however, pulled his hamstring running to 1st and has to be removed. Player B comes in and inherits player A's 1-2 count. On the first pitch to Player B, he strikes out swinging. Does the strikeout get put on the stat line of Player A, or B? How about if the count had been 3-1 and Player B walked on his first pitch?
  9. adambr2
    Unfortunately, -- and I know this is going to come off as very critical of Doug and Mark A, but I feel like they almost tunnel vision where they are unable to see more and ask more than what they can do to win this NEXT season. The Ramirez signing was a clear indication of that. They rarely look more than 2 years ahead, and it's really going to come back to bite them this offseason.
  10. adambr2
    To answer my own question, I would say no, I would not trade Braun for any one player -- with the understanding that it is not all about total value, but also about perception. Braun is established here, he's a Brewer icon, and even if you're getting a player of his stature in return, you risk infuriating the casual fanbase in Milwaukee that a lot of our attendance has become built around. The hardest player for me to pass on doing it for would be Tulowitzki, I think. Braun is one of the best players in baseball, obviously, but Tulowitzki, though probably a bit less productive offensively, is a gold-glove caliber shortstop. Gold glove shortstops of that offensive caliber are more of a commodity.
  11. adambr2
    Considering everything -- contract situation, service time, stature, etc, is there any one single player in MLB, either currently in the Minors or MLB, that you would trade Ryan Braun straight up for? Anyone is free game -- Kemp, Verlander, Strasburg, Harper, Pedroia, Votto, Tulowitzki, etc, or any one prospect in the minors, -- but only one player. Is there anyone you would do straight up for Braun, or would you stick with Braun?
  12. adambr2
    Well, they aren't doing that. We keep talking about these easy stretches that we have coming up, like we did last month against the Astros and Twins, but every time we do, we perform poorly -- 1-3 so far at home against the Pirates and Cubs.
  13. adambr2
    Because selling is probably the best way we can put ourselves in position to contend the next few years. Our IF is in rough shape and we have no infield prospects on the horizon. As you mentioned, our rotation is being gutted next year. I would rather trade the chips we have for guys that can help us weather the storm over the next couple years rather than "go for it" one more time when frankly the chances are that we probably just are not good enough to do so.
  14. adambr2
    Good point on not really knowing what the highest leverage situation will be, and to expand on that a bit, it certainly isn't as simple as having the bases loaded in the 7th and trotting your best reliever out there. Having a runner on first and 2 out in the 7th in a 3-3 game does not appear to be a high leverage situation, but then if the next guy singles and then your pitcher hits a batter, all of the sudden it's the highest leverage situation of the game and you've got the bases loaded and the game potentially on the line. Well, you weren't going to start getting your closer hot 2 minutes ago, and you can't just let him start warming up every time the other team gets more than 1 runner on. If the next guy singles to plate 2 runs and you lose 5-3, you might look back and think that Axford should have been the guy to face the next batter, but the reality of it is that it's just not that easy.
  15. adambr2
    Yeah, this is something I've gone back and forth on too. When you consider straight statistics, it makes a lot more sense to use closers in high leverage situations. I especially hate that teams always "save" their closer in extra inning games for the lead under the pretense "if I used him already, who would I have save the game once we got a lead?" I also think it's a ridiculous concept that you need to use your best reliever to protect a 3 run lead with 3 outs to go. Any reliever worth having on the team should be able to retire 3 batters before allowing 3 runs the vast majority of the time. That said, some relievers just do seem to have the makeup and mental mindsight to excel in "save situations". Maybe it's just a coincidence, but Axford has been very good in save situations this year -- not good in non-save situations.
  16. adambr2
    We may exercise Wolf's option Please, please no. $10M option with $1.5M buyout, which really makes it an $8.5M dollar option. I like to look at possible options this way. If Randy Wolf was a free agent, could he get a 1 year, $8.5M deal right now? No chance. After last year? Probably.
  17. adambr2
    I agree, I don't see any reason to move Lucroy. He has a lot more value with his offensive output as a catcher. Move him to RF, for example, and he's just Corey Hart with bad defense. (No disrespect to Corey, I'm just saying a lot of Lucroy's value is the rare offense he gives from a catcher.) I feel like we have almost been conditioned from the 90's/00's era of bad Brewer catchers to believe that defense is the only thing that matters from a catcher, and anything else is just gravy. Lucroy is only about average defensively but he still can improve. Maldanado profiles as a prototypical defense/little offense backup catcher. Now assuming Lucroy is going to get 1 out of 5 days off catching, if you want to have him starting at 1st every other one of those games so he's playing 140 games instead of 125, I'd be fine with that.
  18. adambr2
    Ransom is fine. I never expected him to be a hero, but he seems adequate enough defensively post-Betancourt. And I don't cringe when he's at the plate like with Izturis. When Izturis returns I would like to see something like 75/25, the 75 going to Ransom.
  19. adambr2
    4/60? No thanks if that's what it takes. That's $15M a year and it's debatable whether he's worth that right now at his peak level. (Probably right around that, I would say). So I don't see any way he'll be worth that in 4 years. We do need good pitching but I think we could see what options are available in free agency to better and more safely invest that $15M a year. I wouldn't be mad about 3/$36, but I would be pretty discouraged about a 4/60 investment.
  20. adambr2
    With Maldanado getting some starts behind the plate now and looking very strong defensively as he's known for, but offering little with the bat, I'm curious as to what people prefer in a starting catcher and how much one really offsets the other. Would you rather have a starting catcher who is in the top 5 in MLB defensively, with all-around skills in ball blocking, throwing out runners, etc, but with a weak .225 batting average and probably a .650 OPS ceiling? Or would you prefer the strong bat catcher who will give you an .800+ OPS but be among the bottom 5 in the MLB defensively? Fortunately this is really nothing more than hypothetical for us, as our starting catcher of the present and future Lucroy offers us a little of both -- he's an .800 OPS guy but also offers respectable, though not elite, defense.
  21. adambr2
    I know this probably isn't going to be a very popular opinion, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing them cut down the season to 140 games or so -- start in mid to late April and have more days off sprinkled in throughout the season. They won't, that would be a big hit to revenue, but it's just becoming increasingly rare for guys to make it through an entire season without injury anymore, and you see so many bullpens/rotations just really show the wear and tear in September/October. I think they could use more in-season days off and maybe a little later start to the year.
  22. adambr2
    It's a question I've struggled to answer myself. I'm tempted to say yes of course he is, he is a mid 3's ERA starting pitcher who had a full healthy season last year and is very effective. Plus it would make me feel better about the Lawrie trade to at least keep Marcum for a few more years. Then there's the part of me that says no, their money would be better invested in a true ace, I don't trust that he has the stuff to remain effective as he ages, etc. What does everyone here think? I'm not totally against it, but the longer this season goes, the less chance I think we have of re-signing Greinke, and I hate the thought of a panic overpay to Marcum and calling him and Yo our new "aces" and calling it an offseason.
  23. adambr2
    Or ground out weakly to third on the first pitch of the AB.
  24. adambr2
    Remember a week ago when we were hearing about how Conrad had made some sort of "adjustment" and that that was going to make all the difference in the world? Kind of reminds me about when Bill Hall proclaimed that he was a completely new man after getting lasik.
  25. adambr2
    Wish that someone who has an actual hit this season was up.
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