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We have one of the worst staffs in majors. Four of our opening roster starters this year have ERA's over 5.

Yeah, he pretty much said the same thing when he was on the D List today. They're out of the race, it's hard enough to go from 20 some innings to the 160 he has now. With the team out of the race, there's no need to push him any further.

Too bad for Braun. I want what's best for the Brewers in the present and future. If Braun is so upset about it then he can wait until Melvin is fired and then give Attanasio his resumé for GM.

I'd field offers this offseason. If you wait until next offseason, his value is going to go down since there's only one year left before free agency. It would also be nice to sell high on a player.

Another 110+ pitch outing for Gallardo. It's like they don't know he's only 23 years old and coming off a season where he pitched 30 innings.

Jones struggling so far. 2.2 innings, 5 hits, 3 earned runs, 3 walks, 0 strikeouts. Lucroy keeps his hitting streak going with another double. 1-1 with a walk. Green 2-2. Butler 3 scoreless innings with 0 walks and a strikeout.

Totally agree. If we're not in the playoff race, I want us to protect our young arms. Call up guys like Ginter and Wright and let them finish the year. We'll have plenty of roster spots in a couple weeks. We can definitely get higher than that. We're five games out of picking #8 and 7.5 out of picking #6. We also have a brutal schedule in September and October.

Gallardo isn't fun to watch anymore. High pitch counts, high walk totals. Bleh.

The only thing I'm hoping for is the Mariners paying most if not all of his salary. Probably not realistic, but until I hear otherwise, I'm going to keep hoping that's the case.

Doesn't seem like much in return, but we couldn't really expect much.

I think Melvin just promoted Castro and asked Sveum if he wanted to come back. Randolph and Fischer were Macha hires IIRC.

8.5 back in the division and 7 back in the wildcard now. They're done.

That's not possible.

Kendall's feelings. Seriously though, I'm all for Rivera starting the rest of the year. They can't even lean back on handling the pitching staff well with Kendall. I don't put much stock into catcher's ERA, but what else could you use on something as stupid as handling the pitching staff well? Anyways. Catcher's ERA: Rivera - 4.58 Kendall - 4.94 CS%: Rivera - 28.6% Kendall - 21.3%

Lee netted the Rangers compensation too, so it's not like we were the only ones to get it.

We're in Phase 2 right now.

Terrible deal. Complete waste of money.

If he takes the QO, he's still an RFA next year.

No. Jaff Decker is younger and better.

Since when is free agency the only avenue to acquire starting pitching?

To be fair, I still thought they had no chance even after the winning streak.

That's fine. It still doesn't mean that Escobar had to be the starting SS for the Brewers if Hardy was traded.

Lacks a third pitch.

I doubt Lopez would give up as many HR's as Braden.

Disregarding the fact that rushing Escobar up from AA burns an extra year of the Brewer's control in his prime Who said Escobar had to be promoted? He could've stayed in the minors and we could've gone with a stop gap like Counsell or Izturis. Not that either option would be ideal, but it's not like a Gallardo, Parra, Bush, Suppan, Looper rotation is ideal either and at least we had a replacement knocking on the major league door for Hardy. shame on Doug Melvin for not having the clairvoyance to predict Hardy's utter collapse. Not that you could predict a collapse this bad, but his BABIP was the highest it had been in his career by 26 points and his line drive rate has gone done every year he's been in the league down to 15.5% last year. That dropped to 13.3% this year. So let's not act like there weren't signs of at least some regression. Plus, if you weren't going to get value last year, when were you? He either hits well this year and still is only one year from free agency lowering his value or he sucks, you send him down and at most get another year but his value is lowered again because he got sent to the minors. Last year was the perfect time to sell, even if we had to take a little bit of a step back. Funny how the guy with the username of 'Postseason2006' is angry about not getting longterm prospects in the deal for Lee. I'm still pissed off about it. That was a joke of a trade. An all-star outfielder for the same guy except he couldn't hit outside of Texas, a closer, a minor league soft tosser who never made it out of A ball and a minor league outfielder for a much better outfielder and the better minor league outfielder. We got jobbed in that. All because Melvin thought we were still in it.