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Alcides Escobar: After this season JJ hardy has 2 seasons of Arbi left before he becomes a free agent. As much as I like JJ, I don't see him as a Brewer once he hits free agency. With the emergence of Escobar, it really makes no sense to pay JJ free agent money to stay here. So there is really no need to rush Escobar right now if he's not going to start in Milwaukee for 2-3 seasons. Let him continue to hit at AA this season. Start him in AAA next season, and in 2010 start the year in AAA, JJ traded in the middle of the season and Escobar takes over or he spends the whole season as a backup MI in Milwaukee. I could also see JJ being traded with 1 year of Arbi left and Escobar given the job in spring of 2010. Matt LaPorta: Well, he's obviously not playing left field in Milwaukee any time soon. So the positions he has left, RF and 1B. The Brewers prefer to keep him in the outfield so lets say we keep him there. Mike Cameron has an option year next season that the Brewers hold for like 10 million. Option 1, the Brewers pick up Cam's option, keep Corey Hart in right field next season. In that case you leave LaPorta in AA for 2008, AAA in 2009 and in 2010 when Cam is gone, Corey goes to CF and LaPorta goes to RF on opening day, every day. (LaPorta would probably be up mid 2009) Option 2, which I think is the most realistic, if you really think that LaPorta is ready, move him to AAA mid 2008, if he mashes there, then you know you don't have to pick up camerons 2009 option, move Hart to CF and start LaPorta in RF in 2009. It probably adds offense and is about 9.5 million dollars cheaper. Mat Gamel: Gamel is a hard call because I'm not sure how far his defense has come yet. Since following Brewers minor league baseball (not that long, I'm only 22 years old), I've never seen someone put up Gamels numbers through 55 games. Bill Hall is signed for 2 more seasons after this one and has a club option for 2011. Bill is a guy who I can see getting traded down the road at some point. More realisticly, I see Gamel at some point getting bumped up to Nashville in 2008. Then I see Fielder getting traded either in the offseason before 2009, or at the 2009 trade deadline for pitching. Gamel makes the move from first to third or LaPorta moves to first and Gamel moves to RF. I know everyone says his defense is getting better but I don't see him sticking there. Just an opinion. If we don't trade Prince then either Gamel or LaPorta gets traded. I don't see an option where all 3 of these guys will be with the organization in spring training 2010. Angel Salome: I think Salome needs to take each level year by year. I'm not 100% sold on his catching abilities yet but the talent is there. He's going to hit no matter where he is. Full 2008 in Huntsville, 3/4 2009 in Nashville, call up to Milwaukee at the end of 2009, hopefully starting in Milwaukee in 2010. Kendalls contract expires after 2009. Salome needs to start almost every day. Get Kendall up at the end of 2009 to learn from Kendall what it takes to be a big league catcher. Like the cubs did with Soto and Kendall last season. Michael Brantley: Brantley is so young that I think you need to take it slow especially with our outfield depth. He's not as advanced as Gillespie or LaPorta yet and he's not good enough to have someone ahead of him get traded to make room for him. I could see Brantley used in a trade by the Brewers to help aquire pitching. I don't see a reason to advance him faster then a level per season at this point. Cole Gillespie: Can't remember who said it on this board but Cole needs to hire a hit man to get to Milwaukee. I have loved Gillespie since we drafted him but where is he going to play? He is another player that may end up in a trade for some pitching.

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After today the Brewers will be 7-2 since 3TO has been called up.

They weren't saying booooo, they were saying moooovers.

Escobar with a pretty good week so far. 13 for 24 with 2 homers and 5 rbi's since Monday.

Good stuff thanks for the work. I think it's only a matter of time before Milwaukee is introduced to a few of these studs in Huntsville, Alabama.

Not to change the subject but what do you think the brewers record would be if Huntsvilles 1-8 replaced Milwaukee's 1-8 for a full season? Keep the pitching the same or whatever.

I feel the fact that he's already a great hitter and he doesn't have plate discipline yet, means that he's going to be extremely special and a HOF type guy when he gets to a point where his OBP is .60 to .80 points higher than his batting average or even higher.

huntsville is sick

I'm in thanks for the generosity.

Until he develops at least SOME power, can we really assume he's not just a Tony Gwynn clone?

An opportunity to throw out your opinion of the Power 50. Not a guess of what it will be, what you think it should be. 1a. Matt LaPorta 1b. Mat Gamel 3. Alcides Escobar 4. Angel Salome (up 1) 5. Jonathon Lucroy (Up 5) 6. Cole Gillespie 7. Omar Aguilar (up 17) 8. Michael Brantley (up 1) 9. Zach Braddock (down 2) 10. Taylor Green (up 1) 11. Jeremy Jeffress (down 7) 12. Luis Pena (down 4) 13. Hernan Iribarren (down 1) 14. Caleb Gindl (up 3) 15. Chris Errecart (up 15) 16. Brad Nelson (up 12) 17. Tim Dillard (up 21) 18. Steve Hammond (up 7) 19. Alex Periard 20. Derek Miller (up 3)

IIRC, it was the one that hit off of the roadrunner sign in Right Center field. Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner. This is the one that I was referring to as well... That was prince that hit the road runner sign.

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Very excited to watch Bruce. Took a flier on him in my fantasy keeper league draft this spring hopefully he pans out. I'll take 75% of what Braun did last year for this guy on my team.

Tom H has a blog post about Billy being upset about the current situation at third base. I understand that Billy wants to play every day but does he not realize that he has been absolutely atrocious against right handed pitching? He also says "going on the last 4 years, nothing makes sense." Is Bill Hall starting to get pissed off about switching positions, getting platooned and starting to speak up about it? What does this mean for the chemistry of this team?

Weaver just isn't getting the job done. I didn't mind the signing because it came with virtually no risk to us. It probably wasn't going to work out and it looks like it wasn't meant to be.

Is there any chance that with WV playing so poorly that some of our higher draft picks/older draft picks may debut in WV instead of Helena right from the start?

Hell, if your asking for Kershaw and Kemp why not see if we can get LaRoche and Dewitt while we're at it.

Former Wisconsin minor league teams, like the Eau Claire Bears (where hank aaron and joe torre played).

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I'm assuming a roster spot. Personally I wouldn't mind Gwynn going down. Kapler and Dillion can be used as OF reserves. Branyan actually provides some pop off the bench in the later innings besides platooning with Hall.

Wow, we could really use this.

For all of you using the argument that his past results show that he is not the option we need off the bench right now, need I remind you that his past results are still better then Gwynns or Counsells coming off the bench in a late inning situation. God forbid we had a lefty that could step up and actually drive a ball out of the infield. 3TO is absolutely crushing the ball right now. You can make no excuses for that even if hes in AAA. Consider me in the vote to bring him up.

Nice Trade...