TheCrew07

If you read the entire article that's not what Melvin was getting at, he's athletic enough he could play anywhere on the diamond, but he's making significant strides at 2B in a short time. He's a guy they can tell to correct something, and he actually goes out and does it... those guys are pretty rare. He provides defensive flexibility with his tool set, I believe Melvin was actually saying is that his bat is so good they would consider plugging Lawrie in where ever they have the greatest position of need.

If you're into wine I've done some work for both Door Peninsula Winery and Stone's Throw Winery. I'm not a big wine drinker at all, maybe once every couple of years so I don't know first hand, but their client lists are impressive, regardless of where in the country the winery is located.

The continual discussion of "rights" is off the mark from the start, there are no "rights" involved here. People are going to do what they are going to do, and they will suffer the consequences for it or reap the rewards. If you're obnoxious, immature, and a drunken buffoon you're probably going to get what you have coming. If you're looking for a family outing then stick to the family section or deal with the consequences of buying tickets elsewhere. The simple truth is that in most cases no one cares about the people around them, they are all about themselves and what they believe they are entitled to. There's no game etiquette anymore because in general people just don't give a damn about anyone else, it's about "me". It doesn't matter what the situation is in the game, someone in the section is getting out of their seat while there is action on the field because they have to go to the bathroom, or need a beer, or are hungry and it can't possibly wait until the half inning is over. It doesn't matter if it's Cub fan or Brewer fan, there's enough inconsiderate and deplorable behavior to go around. In fact I've seen worse out of Brewer fans than I have out of Cub fans. I've only been to 3 Cub games, and they weren't exactly great experiences as the Brewers have lost all 3, but the experience had more to my general distaste for all things Cubbie blue than the Cub fans around us. In fact, the couple next to us for last year's season ticket package were Cub fans but prefer watching MLB baseball at Miller Park for a variety of reasons. They were good people, and only wore their Cubs gear for the 1 game when the Cubs were in town. The Cubs certainly didn't corner market on drunk, loudmouth, stupid, and inconsiderate fans... there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. The best experiences I've had at MP have been on the club level, people up there just behave better... in the general seating bowl, there's has always been a group that was loud, obnoxious, foul, and whom everyone else just wished would go away. It's the reality of a ballpark trip in this day and age, I've yet to attend a game where it wasn't the case.

He lacks control and will struggle until he can locate against better hitters... they won't swing at garbage out of the zone.

Jeffress... Well at least Braddock looks to be back to his pre injury ways. A long time ago I posted that I paired up starters and was happy if 1 guy made it to the show. My pair was Jeffress/Braddock... at least young JJ isn't hurt that we know of and that pairing is working out better than Bryson/Tyson. At any rate Rogers was a tad wild tonight giving up runs on 2B and WPs... Gindl and Haydel both with 2 hits. BC down 2 latish as Luetge continues to give up runs. I'm rather surprised by that to be honest, I thought he'd be better. Brewer is officially at the Mendoza line as of this posting. Lucroy is only batting .219 over his last 10, and man do I wish Green and Cain were there so I had more position players to follow. Hopefully Green is getting close to his return to action. Gamel is only batting .229 over his last 10... I hope the time off for Salome does him some good, though he was showing signs of breaking out of it before Rivera's 3 game rehab assignment. edit. The Hurricane just keeps on getting hits, 2 again thus far tonight, gotta give the young man some love. edit 2. For all my frustrations with him previously Mercedes has been spectacular out of the pen so far this season as well. edit 3. Gillespie has 2 2B tonight, somehow I missed that earlier, good for him, maybe he'll start to settle in.

In his case it's simply a matter of pure stuff like you noted. He's going to have to prove himself at every single level because he has very little margin of error. If Jeffress doesn't make it as a starter, he has a good chance to make it in the bullpen. Cody might profile better as a reliever right now, which limits his value. He's just incredibly difficult to project, his results have been absolutely fantastic, but is he a SP or RP, is he a LOOGY only, can he continue to get hitters out at the next level and then MLB? I feel comfortable saying Cody will get a chance to pitch in the majors, I'm just not sure in what role and for how long. I agree that he's too low though given his success early as he continues to build upon what he did last season, he should probably be in low teens someplace. edit. I don't know why I type low teens when I was thinking high teens. I was thinking 17-19 for him personally if I was going to do a top 20 again.

It would make my month if Salome and Brewer could get their BAs over .240 respectively. It wouldn't hurt if young BB starting to flash some power again as well. His SLG is currently .1 over his OBP... not a good thing, nor is striking out 37 times out of 107 ABs. The good news for Angel is that 2 of his 3 2B and both HRs have come over his last 10 games, he may be on the upswing, but it's going to be a long climb to respectability. Speaking of respectability, I wonder if Escobar read the off season comparisons between himself an some other top SS prospects, the only knock on him in the comparison was that while his speed was well above average, he wouldn't steal as many bases. I wonder if his campaign to steal bases is impacting him. His doubles total is drastically lower than it should be, only 2 in 32 games? Something is up. Someone should tell him that no one cares about SBs, bring back the power stroke! If he wants to steal bases, turn doubles into triples...

Congrats! Now come back and post more often before you have even less time than you do now.

The multimedia side of MiLB has really taken a step back this season, it's too bad.

bah you jinx... if he has one tomorrow I blame you.

The box score issues are getting slightly irritating.

Stepping off of the Bowman bandwagon which I'm firmly planted on and trying to be as objective as possible this moves makes absolutely no sense to me. I think we all know the pitcher that should have moved to make room for Tyson and it wasn't Bowman. Why not move another reliever rather than a SP? If you're going to move a SP why not base it on performance? I just don't see how Bowman's performance warranted this move in anyway. Mike's walks have been his biggest issue, but that's an issue with everyone on the WI staff for the most part. Very confusing move, and one I'm not particularly happy about. On the flip side, I've been wondering all year why Tyson wasn't back in A ball, I was going to ask if I missed a blurb about him getting injured in ST. He's another guy who's K/9 is fantastic but he gets hit around much more than someone with his lofty K totals usually does.

It wasn't a question to be answered, it was rhetorical in nature and I've hammered on that point before when salary disparity discussions pop up. There's a huge difference between his contract and his true cost, and I may be wrong but I didn't find any verbiage indicating that the posting fee factors into revenue sharing which seems to be a huge loophole in the system.

I can understand why people have issues with Braun and I think Hawing absolutely nailed how I view him, but I'm pretty old school in my love of the game and I have no idea why the untuckem thing is such a big deal? Maybe it was just the group of guys I played with all through Little League, Babe Ruth, and up through the end of High School but the second the game was over we always untucked and unbuttoned, especially in mid summer when the humidity was horrible. I guess we were slobs, and I don't recall the other teams ever doing it themselves, complaining about it, or their fans ever saying anything about it. I was fortunate to play with great athletes and we won nearly every game, so we were cocky, but I think people understood that we just trying to get comfortable after a long afternoon in the sun. The analogy with Cameron made perfect sense to me personally being a farm kid, and I like that this young group of guys has latched on to something to call their own. Is the Lambeau Leap disrespectful to the game of football? That started with one man's jubilant celebration and has become iconic within the sport. I'm sure Viking fans are bitter when we score on them knowing that the Lambeau Leap is coming, so I can see how our division opponents in baseball would hate losing knowing the untuckem is coming. I just don't understand how untuckem is the baseball equivalent of TO doing his thing on the Dallas Star at midfield? One is more of a team bonding ritual, the latter is actually showing up an opponent. To me there is a vast gulf between the 2.

Thank you for pointing out the obvious nearly 2 months later... The fact is that they paid over 40 million upfront to be able to negotiate with him. While really any team can afford his player contract which is pretty reasonable, very few can throw around these enormous posting fees, which limits the amount of teams that can realistically get involved with high profile Japanese pitchers. It doesn't matter if the money goes to the player or not, the total cost of the acquisition is twice what it is recorded in payroll discussions, he isn't a 40 million dollar pitcher, he's an 80 million dollar pitcher because that is his true cost.

Well having not ever contributed on that forum, you deserved to get banned for basically trolling. They are classless no doubt, but running over there and spouting off puts us on the same level as them. Read for the comedy in their well thought out arguments... the same goes for NSSB. Even if your intention isn't to troll, it's hard not to when you're responding to that sort of idiocy. Take the high road...

I have a feeling Lawrie is going to be similar to Braun, he's as unrelentingly confident as Braun is. Check out his interview here, and that's pretty much the norm. He expects to be in Milwaukee in less than 3 seasons, and he might do it.

Jones with a very nice line tonight, the versatile Wilson actually playing LF, I don't remember him in the OF before? He had a 2B error in the 4th. Brewer 1-4 but with 3 Ks. BC up 3-2 going in the 9th. Huntsville postponed again, wow. Green with a tough 1st inning for Nashville.

Peralta had a real nice outing going until the 7 run 7th... very Fredericksonesque.., South Bend Bottom 7th * Reynaldo Navarro singles on a ground ball to right fielder Michael Vass. * Brendan Duffy grounds into a force out, shortstop Michael Marseco to second baseman Brett Lawrie. Reynaldo Navarro out at 2nd. Brendan Duffy to 1st. * With Alfredo Marte batting, Brendan Duffy steals (6) 2nd base. * Alfredo Marte walks. * Alberto Diaz singles on a ground ball to center fielder Erik Miller. Brendan Duffy scores. Alfredo Marte to 2nd. * With Justin Parker batting, Alfredo Marte steals (3) 3rd base. * Justin Parker triples (2) on a fly ball to right fielder Michael Vass. Alfredo Marte scores. Alberto Diaz scores. * Rossmel Perez singles on a line drive to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Justin Parker scores. * Jacob Elmore singles on a ground ball to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Rossmel Perez to 2nd. * Ramon Ramirez triples (3) on a line drive to right fielder Michael Vass. Rossmel Perez scores. Jacob Elmore scores. * Pitcher Change: Jim Henderson replaces Wily Peralta. * Chris Davis doubles (4) on a fly ball to center fielder Erik Miller. Ramon Ramirez scores. * Reynaldo Navarro strikes out swinging. * Brendan Duffy walks. * Alfredo Marte pops out to first baseman Brock Kjeldgaard.

I just find it to be incredibly poor taste. Everyone knows he interviewed for the job and wasn't hired, it just looks bad. If it's not sour grapes and he really doesn't like Milwaukee, how committed would he have been? I never wanted him to be the guy Melvin hired, so I'm indifferent towards him, however he's put himself in a no win situation.

I know they normally wait till the breaks to promote guys, but this is getting silly, Wooten needs more advanced competition.

He just isn't able to avoid the blow up inning... looking at it statistically he appears to be weak upstairs. Hopefully I can see him live in the next 2 weeks, I'm curious about him. It seems like 1 thing goes bad and his inning goes to hell... the ball starts hitting the backstop, he walks people, today he just got hit hard for in 1 inning. If we could pull that 1 inning from each of his bad starts, he'd be all world. Just limit the damage son, roll with the punches, there's hope for you yet.

With Braddock and Rogers back and pitching, and Rivas and Anundsen pitching well, the starts will only get more important for Welch as we go along here, there's going to be some pressure to open rotation spots in AA at the break. One could maybe consider Jones for a promotion, he hasn't been lights out, but he's been so much better than last season, it just doesn't appear the organization has much a of commitment to Mike having offered him his release. I'm interested to see what sort of start Frederickson has as well.

I would hope they take the best player available and not worry about pitching vs hitting.

So basically you're going to go around and argue semantics instead of the spirit of the post in every single thread? My point was supposed to be that we have plenty of offense and not enough pitching, the same point I've been making since late 2007. I'm not getting into the conflicting statements argument with you again, it's a waste of everyone's time, this was a productive thread.