TheCrew07

There's our first Canadian

The were already beat to the punch on the 2 position players I think they had targeted past the 1st.

No Heckathorn and Bucci instead is interesting. We've discussed the baby faced assassin's peripherals quite a bit, and while Heckathorn did start slow, outside of 1 bad 1st inning, he's been great over the last month. Use it as motivation Kyle!

That's very interesting, thanks for the additional information.

Well after reading Colby's scouting report, he profiles exactly like Suppan in his prime.

BK darn you I was just posting that. I really like his line outside of the strike outs. Real nice power potential.

Hunter Morris, from Huntsville... perhaps a local boy will help the attendance?

It all depends on the type of pitcher we sign. If we're signing Lee(for example), I'll be concerned about the long term implications but at least he has significant talent. Perhaps some of the young pitching talent would work out wonderfully making Lee expendable in a trade. Some way, some how, the top of the rotation desperately needs to be addressed. What I hate is spending money on averagish pitching.

There goes Cole to the Nats... darn. I gotta believe if the Brewers liked him they would have taken him earlier.

another pitcher... wow.

Coach32sm just had his SS drafted in the 3rd round.

He throws harder than Suppan topping out at 94, but his secondary pitches are similar, none of his pitches have good life according the MLB scouting report

Another pitcher, this time college, James Nelson.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ev.../y2010/draftlive_app.jsp

The Pirates took Allie right away.

Hendry would be a better choice, bring the whole organization down!

Time for a new avatar crewcrazy!

The only negative about those signability guys is that they likely won't pitch this season, they'll be on the shelf waiting for MLB to approve the bonus money, but I agree that it will be great to have them in the system regardless.

Chemist. I'm on the Mark Rogers bandwagon, I'm a huge fan, and I always have been, Not just because of his big arm, but because I like the whole idea of drafting multi sport athletes who are more than just a pitcher. I would guess your a friend or family as you seem to take everything posted about Mark very personally. 85 pitches isn't the problem, only going 5 innings is. Mark doesn't need better luck, he needs to dominate because his stuff is that outstanding. Every time I read a scouting report on Mark every pitch is described as "plus", most of our pitchers only have 2 plus pitches. I was encouraged in that he had only had 1 walk last night, and after 1st he was pretty dominant, but the double steal he was partially responsible hurt him badly. Everyone know's Wheeler isn't a SS, but he is holding his own even though he's miscast and playing out of position, and of course Lawrie's error didn't keep Mark's pitch count down either. So I do understand that the defense certainly didn't help him at all last night and I did take that into consideration, though it may appear it didn't. Looking at the big league club, one of the biggest problems with the pitching is that the starters aren't able to get past the 6th inning before running out of gas, that's even true of Gallardo. Mark needs to become more economical and work later into games or he becomes part of the problem up there instead of part of the solution. Outside of his pitch count, Mark has been just okay because his strike out rate is down to around 7 batters per 9 innings so far this season, while his walk rate is an alarming 5.8 per 9 innings. I do love the ground balls he's getting, but quite honestly with his stuff the K rate should be up around 9, and for him to have success in MLB the walk rate is going to have to be reduced significantly. The strike zones will only get tighter as he moves up, so he needs to sharpen up his command. He's pitching his way through those issues in AA but again I don't think that's realistic as he approaches MLB. There just aren't many pitchers that have success in MLB with such a high walk rate and a slightly above average strike out rate like Mark is currently carrying. When I evaluate any pitcher, not just Mark, I'm projecting their current rates to MLB and I'm speaking in that context. I would love for both Rogers and Rivas to just out flat out dominate because the are so close to MLB that between the 2 of them they could save Melvin from himself and be pitching for the Brewers next season. I would love to have a rotation of Yo, Rivas, Rogers, Wolf, and Parra (if he straightens himself out) vs Yo, Wolf, Parra, random soft tosser, random soft tosser. However for that to happen Mark has to at least stopping walking batters so he can pitch deeper into games, he's got some work to do. Again, I realize last night wasn't entirely his fault, he could have pitched through the 6th on a regular pitch count despite the errors. It's just his stuff is so good that relative to how talented he is the results have just been OK and I sincerely hope you understand what I'm trying to explain.

When I posted that he had given up 3 ER in 4.1 IP, and I'm not big on the whole QS thing, I'm not one to champion being average. What does he bring that we don't already have? Where does he really fit at the next level? He seems like a quality individual who's steadfastly pursuing his dream, but I would have rather bumped a Rivas for the rest of the season than recycling yet another soft tosser. Sam had some nice seasons here and there throughout his career but he's something we've always had quite a bit of and I'd like to get away from.

I guess my point is how would a reliever help Milwaukee's pitching situation? Is another reliever going to make this a .500 ball club? All Seid has been talking about is building a championship rotation, I'm not seeing how that concept meshes with what Melvin was quoted as saying. Basically all he really said was I give them credit for not being incredibly stupid... what wonderful insight.

And pitch in the bullpen? What? In the first round? That just can't be an accurate quote, if it is than I have no idea what Doug was trying to say. When was the last time a college pitcher was drafted and had an immediate impact in the same year for the team that drafted him? Why would we ever draft a reliever in the first round? Price only pitched out of the bullpen for the Rays because they went to the WS, and he was the #1 pick in the draft. If he means next year... that's not even a realistic scenario give where we drafted. If he mans the rotation for next season is set.... well, I don't want to revisit that discussion in the draft forum.

How many times was it mentioned in that article that Suppan was Mark A's favorite player? 2 or 3? I'm really curious what's been said/happening with the pitching since 2006. How much was Mark A truly involved with Suppan? What about the other FA signings?

Wow he's seriously signed already? I wonder if the Brewers are already negotiating with Covey.

Geez,TB has had a good first day with 3 nice bats.