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  1. MNBrew
    Are you referring to the offense's output being reversed, or simply the order in which they played the 2 teams? The output is correct. I wouldn't fault them much for flipping the order. Dick & Bert are actually quite good. They're all I get to listen to these days, but I've heard plenty of teams' TV guys over the years. But the Twins' radio folks have always been bland. Folks up here hold Herb Carneal in high esteem, God rest his soul. But all he really had was longevity -- annoying voice, boring delivery, etc., etc., etc. I thought no one could ever beat Ueck & Pat Hughes, but the Uecker/Powell combo proved me quite wrong. I've driven all over the country and listened to tons of teams' radio broadcasts. The Brewers' gents simply are the best. But on the TV side, Dick & Bert up here in The Cities sure do a solid job.
  2. MNBrew
    A pitcher's performance in the minors isn't always a great predictor of major league success, due in no small part of the fact that minor league hitters are a total different ballgame than big leaguers. That said, Capuano has pitched pretty darn well in the minors this season. Jeff Suppan, both in ST (major & minor league camps) and in the minors last year rehabbing after the DL stint, has been pretty much crushed by anyone..... So ...... With how shoddy some of the Brewers' pitching has been, and with how long the Brewers have been investing in Capuano's comeback, I don't see the Brewers being able to afford giving him a chance to go elsewhere. Hopefully either Suppan's or Vargas' 40-man spot and their respective salary is all it'd cost.
  3. MNBrew
    Junk from Houston for an All-Star LF? Lee went from Texas to Houston as a FA. We got an All-Star closer from Texas for Lee.
  4. MNBrew
    In-the-moment musing...... I wonder if I wouldn't just trade Fielder for Oswalt + some salary relief. Oswalt's owed so much over the next couple years compared to what Prince is owed that you could probably get Houston to take Suppan or something comparably crappy just so the dollars aren't quite so lopsided. Of course, there are a thousand holes you could shoot in that idea for various reasons. But Oswalt's a hard-throwing ace-type, and that's what this rotation needs. It does make me wonder what Oswalt would require (maybe guaranteeing his final year) to negate his opt-out potential for being traded in the middle of a multi-year contract.
  5. MNBrew
    I'm liking Colby's scoop here, but there's nothing official anywhere yet about this.
  6. MNBrew
    Inglett's also an emergency catcher. Going to tomorrow night's game in Mpls. Should be fun. And should be more fun if the team rediscovers how to play sound baseball again. The 4-3 win at Pitt tonight is a start.
  7. MNBrew
    Maybe a silly question, but if Crawford were willing to extend here, would you try to get him in a Fielder trade? It'd be a totally different slant to trading Fielder. And I'd still want to get a good pitcher in return, too, which probably means including Parra or some others. Somewhere (mlbtraderumors.com?) I read that if the Brewers were to dump Parra, the line of suitors trying to snatch him up would be a mile long. Sounds like Parra's really not the guy we want to get rid of yet. At least this year, he's clearly shown he's hardly a major culprit in the pitching crimes that keep being committed.
  8. MNBrew
    Katin/Gerut/Edmonds platoon would work. The Brewers think so much of Brendan Katin that they never once brought him in to play in a big-league game in Spring Training -- a time when they brought 8 zillion guys over from the minor league camp. Not that I don't like some of his skills, but short of a load of injuries, Katin in RF for the Brewers seems a notion that's extremely unrealistic.
  9. MNBrew
    Wolf still has characteristics that make him worth keeping -- otherwise why would they have signed him to a 3-year deal? Better idea: Suppan for Vazquez! Doesn't Vazquez tend to pitch better in the NL and in smaller markets?
  10. MNBrew
    I've never been a Macha apologist, but I haven't thought up to now that he's the problem. Macha had good teams in Oakland. Being in the middle of reading Moneyball right now, it seems pretty evident that Macha didn't really have to do so much of the managing in Oakland. I think the team's floundering under him and he's again seem to get away from utilizing much of the team speed this present roster has. He doesn't throw the pitches, nor did he even put those guys on the roster. But he's leading a ship & the ship again surely seems to be sinking fast. At some point the team reflects how the manager carries out his job (and how they carry out their own job even more so, of course). This present nonsense just can't continue. Randolph was a decent manager for the Mets. Didn't he take 'em to the Series? But the Mets organization has a proven track record for dysfunctionality, and eventually the consistently crappy enough teams Minaya & Co. assembled cost Randolph his job. Sveum has had the support of the players and is no-nonsense but real with the players. I could see either of them potentially having a much better chance to get a more consistent & optimal performance out of this current squad. That's an armchair opinion, but it's how I've really been starting to feel lately.
  11. MNBrew
    Couple reactions: - The "retro crap" & the '82 look can go away anytime now. Please!!! Those times were great (well, partly; '82 was but '84 wasn't, etc.), but they're long gone. - Cannot take the royal & yellow combo. Disliked it 25-30 years ago & even more so now. Was overjoyed when navy & gold became official in '94. - Current look is simple, clean, strong, and classy. It's the kind of look that could well last 50 years -- and should. Maybe a little conservative, but that increases its timeless character. ("Flavor of the day" trends AREN'T worth chasing, and no one can possibly suggest the Yankees' uni's (hate the team, uninspired by the duds) as being anything other than simple and boring -- yet they're considered the ultimate timeless look.) - I dig the current logo much more than the old (which I still love), but would like the old one used as a R sleeve patch in a heartbeat. Keep the M/barley/WI logo on the L sleeve. Sorry, paul253, but I think white caps look ridiculous. On a minor note, the "Milwaukee" on the road alts is vertically shorter than the old "Brewers." Looks too scrunched. More narrow was inevitable. But shorter = scrunched = not so clear = not such a strong statement. The Dalton-era "Milwaukee" was comparably wide but sure seemed much taller. I'm okay w/ the script, but the sizing seems wrong. Ultimately, though, I don't care one lick whether the road uni's said "Brewers" or "Milwaukee."
  12. MNBrew
    So often on this site, statements like TLB's come across as though such projections are a total certainty, and therefore a prospect's got the same or greater value as a proven MLBer. True, TLB wasn't making that assertion, but you hear that sort of thing often enough that instinct takes the leap for you. To me, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if the OF in Brew Town someday were Braun, Ellsbury, & Cain. Several things would have to happen for that to be possible, of course, and the power traditionally associated w/ RF would have to come from elsewhere. But between 1B (Gamel?), Weeks, Braun, & McGehee, there'd still be plenty of certifiable power around the lineup. Anyway....
  13. MNBrew
    I agree w/ TLB on Gamel, but not on Cain. While Cain could come close to Ellsbury's numbers, there's no guarantee that he would. Ellsbury's basically a .300 hitter w/ a .350 OBP, great speed that's good for 50-60 SBs or more, 25 2B's, and 5-10 3B's. Ellsbury's proven those numbers legit over a couple-plus MLB seasons. Cain still needs to prove himself healthy & productive enough to earn a big-league callup before you can really start to project matching MLB numbers in that stratosphere. I hope all of it happens, but it's so far from being a sure thing.
  14. MNBrew
    I don't favor trying to trade Prince at this point. However, if/when that time comes, Ellsbury & Buchholz should be the core of the package but no way the sum. Would you expect the Cardinals to ONLY ask for those two if they were looking to trade Pujols? Granted, Prince doesn't have the longevity or the consistently killer BA that Albert does, but he's not far behind overall. If they consider trading Prince, a king's ransom (no pun intended) ought to be coming back to Milwaukee in the deal. A stud starter still only plays 4x every 3 weeks. A stud hitter plays 18-20x. No comparison.
  15. MNBrew
    Great point on Gerut, Danzig. I'm really not sure why anyone thinks we really need Gerut . . . UNLESS the point is letting the #5 guy be someone whose development isn't hindered by getting only 2-3 ABs and a few late innings in the field any given week.
  16. MNBrew
    If that's literally a trade at the mid-point or later, then keep in mind that you're talking about a pitcher w/ $8-10M contract, not a $4-5M contract.
  17. MNBrew
    Thanks for the answers. I knew I'd seen that options "counter" many moons ago, but I'd forgotten exactly where it was. The Stetter element of that question was more of a passing thought, with the options listing location being my main question. You folks do great work on this site, and I can appreciate the challenge of keeping 100% of everything 100% current. It would be nice if the BF.net player stats (Brewers' & each minor league teams', that is) could become current once again. But I also realize that could be "just one thing too many" or too big a task to keep up with given how the site's usage has evolved over recent years. I know you can find all that on the Brewers' official site, too. But I really appreciated how, for instance, when someone appear in the transactions page, you could click on their name and find their current stats, a feature which provided all of those moves with a much greater and very immediate context.
  18. MNBrew
    Stetter was darn solid last year. But he's been bad enough this spring that I've started thinking maybe he's the guy that needs to go to AAA if/when Suppan returns. So, 2 questions: - Does he have any minor league options? - Where on BF.net can I find such a list? I've seen them before but now can't find them. Related question: The stats on each player haven't been updated for a couple years. This site used to be golden for that. Why doesn't that happen anymore, either? Thanks.
  19. MNBrew
    I think you're remembering 2008, when he was unbelievably productive. Rivera wasn't very good at all in 2009.
  20. MNBrew
    Trading Hart now would be selling seriously low. They already did that with Hardy. Much as Hart's play is totally ugly at the plate right now, I'm not thinking trading him's a good way to go. I like some of what I see in Katin, but it tells me something that the Brewers never once brought him over from minor league camp to fill in late innings, but they did so with lots of other young OFs.
  21. MNBrew
    Gerut was worse than Hart in the majors last year and it wasn't even close. Gerut's been terrible this spring, too. I really don't get where people think he can replace Hart's previously-normal production levels, whether as sole starter or as part of a platoon. The only things Gerut really has going for him are his team-first approach and solid glove. Not singling just you, RoCo, 'cause plenty of posters talk like this. Your post just jumped out when my thinking hit this chord. Sounds like way too many folks think Gerut can turn the page back to his '03 in Cleveland or his '08 of part-time play in SD. I don't believe the guy can be any better than that. Hart's average years in the past 4 were that good, and his good years blew those Gerut years away. If Gerut doesn't start hitting any better, I'd gladly see him get dumped in favor of signing Dye. Dye pushes Hart in RF (no terrible dropoff defensively, based on everyone else's remarks) and Dye's '09 HRs & RBIs are right in line w/ Hart's career-best numbers. Edmonds still pushes Gomez in CF. Then it's fairly easy to bid farewell to Dye &/or Edmonds when the Cains, Schaefers, Haydels, Gindls, even Sterns have earned their way into the Miller Park home clubhouse. (Heck, I'd take Stern over Gerut right now!)
  22. MNBrew
    I like Hart but am no Hart apologist. In the middle of such a hideous slump as this, when a guy looks this lost, it never looks like it's coming back. But many of those guys still do find their clue again. I'm not saying Hart will. But there's no guarantee he won't, either. Brewers history is loaded with guys like this. One that really stands out in my memory is Greg Vaughn. That dude went through some of the most ridiculously bad stretches, seriously ugly droughts (4-for-55 type things), in years where other than his HRs, he was pretty terrible (and nothing to speak of in LF defensively, either). Before '96, he only had two years playing full-time where he hit above the .240s, w/ 3 seasons in the .220s. Cripes, he would've never heard the end of it if boards like this existed then. Then he came back w/ years like '93 and especially (pre-trade) '96 where he was everything we hoped he'd be. And now so many comments about him looking back make it seem like he was one of the best Brewers from that time period. (In hindsight, Jeromy Burnitz was a FAR more consistent & productive Brewers OF.) I sure hope Hart finds it. Given recent (read: Bill Hall) history, looking this badly lost, I don't think anyone can be sure he would. But Hart right now is like the hitting equivalent of De La Rosa in 2006. How many people now talk like giving up on him was such a heinous idea at the time?
  23. MNBrew
    Heck, I'd trade Suppan for Ivan DeJesus.
  24. MNBrew
    You're mistaken, multi-year deals are guaranteed, and Suppan's service time obviously allows him to refuse the assignment and walk back to Soup's Grill. But doesn't it work that if he refuses the assignment, in effect, he elects free agency, which, since it was HIS choice, by doing so, therefore forfeits the remainder of his contract? I know we've heard that verbiage many times. If it's not applicable in Suppan's case, a) why not?, and b) in what cases would that apply?
  25. MNBrew
    RoCo & DHonks, I think you're missing the strategy. Unless I'm mistaken (and I could be), Suppan refusing the assignment if he's sent to AAA would mean choosing to walk away from the remainder of his contract. Oila! The Brewers are suddenly in $14.5M's worth of better shape! It just may be a strategy worth pursuing. It's been pretty clear (reading between the lines) that Suppan would've been cut quite a while ago if it weren't for his absurdly onerous contract.
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