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  1. adambr2
    Crap Braun...would have been really nice to get at least one more there.
  2. adambr2
    It sure looked like it. Wonder if we will see retaliation.
  3. adambr2
    I sure am glad that Aramis is the guy to get all these RBI opportunities batting cleanup.
  4. adambr2
    I actually read that last part, "Certainly an innocent athelte would want that opportunity", as a dig at Braun. As in, ok MLB is asking Das to hold off the report, but why is the players union? If Braun is innocent shouldn't they be fighting to get the details of that report released (even though it's not a report that would be made public...although I have a feeling somehow it would be). I don't agree with the quote at all. Why do people "deserve to know what the basis for the case being overturned is" on a process that was supposed to be 100% confidential? We aren't even supposed to know that there was anything to overturn. So I think people are saying, "people deserve to know", when what they really mean is, "people want to know".
  5. adambr2
    I think that anytime the offense struggles, we tend to chalk it up to "we miss Prince" because it's the easiest way to explain any of it. We had games when we had Prince where we got nothing going offensively and got shut out. It happens, and it'll happen again with or without Prince. Now I'm not saying that we don't miss Prince. I think we miss Prince in the same way that you miss any .928 career OPS player once he's gone. I just think we tend to look for things that relate to him that aren't really there. Braun is OPS'ing right around his career average. He is still slugging near the top of the NL. Yet every time he has a bad AB, some people tend to chalk it up to Prince no longer offering him protection in the lineup. While I won't disagree that he probably doesn't see as many good pitches this year, I think we can see from his statistics that Braun is still a great player and the affect on his bat from Prince's absence is overblown. Same goes with the rest of the offense. While we are actually 5th in the NL in runs scored right now and 7th in OPS, there are a few guys really struggling. Weeks, Morgan, and Ramirez are all hitting well below the Mendoza line -- these are our every day #1, #2, and #4 hitters so there's certainly an impact on the offense has a whole, but do any of their individual struggles relate to Prince at all? No.
  6. adambr2
    Right. To put things in perspective, even in these days of razor thin interest rates, you can pretty much get a 1.5% or so annual return with no interest. For someone who has $20M dollars, that's $300,000 a year to sit back and do nothing without spending a dime of your own money. That is more than 10 times the annual median wage for 2011 in the United States. There is no excuse. $300,000 dollars a year is enough to making a living, enjoy your life, and be charitable.
  7. adambr2
    I don't think the lack of getting every red cent is why those athletes go bankrupt. $50M in the hands of a wise individual who knows how to manage money will probably buy indefinite financial security for his entire family for generations. $100M in the hands of someone who has no clue how to manage money will result in bankruptcy.
  8. adambr2
    Again, small sample size, but so far this season, we are 5th in runs scored in the NL and 6th in OPS. I would think that everyone figured/hoped that that is about right where we would be. I think having the dead last ranked pitching staff in the NL has a lot more to do with where we are right now. Not saying we don't miss Prince, but this isn't the first year that we've been inconsistent offensively and sometimes get shut down by mediocre starting pitching. It happened when we had Prince, too.
  9. adambr2
    I'm trying not to blame the offense by looking at the larger body of work and seeing that we are 5th in the NL in runs scored and 6th in OPS. Given the loss of Prince, I think that's about right where we should expect to be. The fact that we're 7-9 has a lot more to do with being dead last in almost every statistical pitching category.
  10. adambr2
    I just constantly wonder how many people even bothered to listen to Morgan and RR last year when they consistently said that Morgan's early bunts weren't called from the bench? That it was Morgan doing that on his own? Christ, Roenicke had a whole interview in which he talks about not "necessarily always liking a sac bunt early on," because it can take you out of a big inning, and how those calls don't always come from the bench(to sac bunt). While that is the case, it happened so frequently that shouldn't it have been the job of Roenicke to rein him in and tell him he doesn't have the green light to bunt every AB?
  11. adambr2
    Corey has no case. That pitch had plenty of the plate.
  12. adambr2
    Consistency please, RR. If you're willing to empty out your bench in one game and pinch-hit for position players with no one on the bench available if the game ends up tied, and then a few days later, presented with the exact same situation except you have players on your bench left, and you play it completely differently, it really looks like you're just winging it out there.
  13. adambr2
    Gotcha, my bad, that makes a lot of sense. If you're going to PH George for Lucroy last week, it doesn't make a lot of sense not to do it for Gonzalez. I'm sure he was probably concerned if the pitchers spot came up and they still hadn't scored, but they still had Ishikawa available if it came to that.
  14. adambr2
    Are you advocating a Izturis pinch-hit opportunity with the game on the line? I would've much rather seen George, hell even Gomez. I can't see RR pinch-hitting Gonzalez for Izturis in the 9th in the 1 run game without being rightfully grilled for it.
  15. adambr2
    Obviously very early in the season, and thus if you were talking about a perennial stud player, you wouldn't be too concerned. But I think with Morgan, most people felt that he played a bit over his head in 2011 compared with his typical career averages and might be due for a bit of a letdown. He's going to get some leash because he did have a very nice 2011, but the fact that he has two players, not just one, vying for his playing time, poses a little bigger threat to him IMO. It doesn't help that those two players are not just depth/5th OF'er guys, but a batting champion from Japan, and a tremendous defensive CF'er with still a good deal of offensive upside who doesn't really have career splits that suggest he's strictly a platoon player. All that said, if it keeps up, will the strict platoon eventually evolve into more of a loose platoon between all three?
  16. adambr2
    I thought that the type of waivers that Kottaras was put on last year was the revocable type that almost everyone clears just because of the fact that they're revocable. Regardless, the same could have been said of Nelson Cruz before his breakout season -- not comparing the two, just saying values can and do fluctuate and the premise of this is more of what he would be worth at the deadline if he continued to be a nice contributor.
  17. adambr2
    Agreed, that is one area where I greatly prefer RR over Macha. RR plays to win games and I admire that he isn't "overthinking ahead" and trying to figure out how he's going to get through the 11th and 12th innings when he could be trying to win it in the 10th. Under Macha, Kottaras could have been the last guy on the bench in a tie Game 7 World Series and he wouldn't have dared make a move in case of a later catcher injury. Nothing drives me nuts more than seeing a manager not take a chance to win the game because he's worried about next inning, only to lose the game the next inning, and when asked about it after the game, look at the reporter dumbly and exclaim something along the lines of , "Well, who was I going to have (insert: pitch, play right field, play 3rd base, play 1st base, etc) next inning if I did that??"
  18. adambr2
    When have I suggested trading a fringe player who was doing well before? I'm not really advocating for trading George, I like George a lot, and I certainly don't deny that he may have more value to us than to anyone else, that was the whole point of this thread, really, to present that question -- is Kottaras more value to us, or would someone else value him more as a potential starter? I certainly wouldn't trade him for an A-ball fringe prospect as you suggested, as I indicated in my original post. I think that's a fair question, when you have a backup catcher who may turn out to be starter quality to another team, and you also have a backup quality catcher in AAA. It is just more to give us another angle to discuss in here, and I don't see anything wrong with that. Isn't stuff like this the whole point of the Transaction Rumors/Proposals forum?
  19. adambr2
    Do MLB players get chewed out for anything anymore? In this era it seems that managers are more "buddy" than "boss". I doubt anything gets said to Nyjer.
  20. adambr2
    It's not a huge deal, but at this point, I would definitely swap Hart and Ramirez in the order, to a) try to just shake things up for Ramirez a little bit, and b) give Hart some additional RBI opportunities that Ramirez isn't converting.
  21. adambr2
    Yeah, I think his defense is just as awful as it's always been, and that it's his hitting explosion that's the small sample size fluke. Which again, ignores his .747 career OPS in 500+ big league AB's. .747 is a very good major league hitting catcher. If you want a better comparison, Kottaras career OBP, SLG, and OPS lines are nearly identical to A.J. Pierzynski, who is known himself as a poor defensive catcher and has yet made quite a long successful career for himself.
  22. adambr2
    Going into Tuesday, Ramirez was hitting just .114 with five runs batted in. He was 3 for 24 on the Brewers' just-completed seven-game trip and is in the midst of his longest homerless streak to start a season since 2003. "It's a slow start for him," Roenicke said. "He's not happy where he is. He came in and talked to me today. He wants to do something to help contribute to this team winning, and he feels that he isn't doing that right now. "But I still like where he is as far as in the lineup. I think he's a guy that we're going to need to do this thing this year. If we don't have him, we don't have a good, solid fourth hitter, it's hard to get things done offensively." Aramis to Ron: "Skip, there's no good reason for me to be batting cleanup. Let's move me down somewhere else, at least until I start heating up." Ron to Aramis: "No."
  23. adambr2
    He has a career .747 OPS, and I put a lot more stock into whats he's done lately offensively than what he did as a rookie in Boston. That's a good OPS for any catcher, starter or backup. Its certainly much better than slightly above average backup. And I still think his defensive deficiencies are overblown. He's below average, but is the difference in catching D when Wolf is on the mound really even that noticeable?
  24. adambr2
    Let me first say that I'm a big Kottaras fan and think he's one of the more underrated players on the team. That said, there are a couple of things to consider. #1, as a starter, Kottaras is blocked by Lucroy. #2, it's no secret that as a backup, the Brewers seem to prefer a more defensive-focused catcher. Since Maldonado fits the bill for that, I've got to wonder if Kottaras keeps up a nice pace...say he's hitting .300 with 8-10 HR in July. Would the Brewers in that case possibly see if they can shop him to a contending team with a major deficiency at catcher? I'd have to think they'd be looking for a solid bullpen arm in return. Could Kottaras bring that?
  25. adambr2
    I kind of feel the same about Izturis as I felt about Wil Nieves last year, except at least Nieves only backed up one infield position, not three.
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