I would of taken Garza or Bucholtz only because the brewers have hardy and escobar waiting in the wings. Can't really argue with the pick after the year he had last year.
you forget that while Prince is only hitting 202 against lefties, Ned said last that night that "he hits them really well". I don't see a good option to replace Prince for the day. 3TO can play first but hes left handed. Maybe Dillon but I don't see him doing better against the big unit than prince.
i have no problem taking Gagne out of the closers role. He is a 1 year rental therefore we don't have to worry about hurting his feelings. If Torres is getting the job done there is no point in putting Gagne back in there in pressure situations, unless Torres begins to struggle. The bottom line is the pen has been more effective since Gagne went down. I hope we are past the point where we have to pay our top paid players only because of his salary.
Guys i have 2 tickets in 229 row 2 for the Baltimore Series on the 21st and the 22nd. I will be out of town so I am looking for face value for them. Each game would be 52 dollars for the pair. Saturday is Brewers Hat day for the first 15,000 over 21 and Sunday is Polish Sausage Bobblehead day.
if this is just a replacement for defelice, than i am fine with it. I didn't like him while he was on the cards and giants, we have to hope he turns it around. I think this may mean that gagne may be hurt worse since we haven't heard anything about his status since he went on the dl. I know when riske went on the dl, they atleast said on the tv that he expected to return when he was eligible to.
this kind of reminds me of the linebrink trade in which I believe a roster move had to occur that day for some reason and we were waiting for it and speculating about a trade and then it went down.
The move could be a lot of things including Bush going down, removing DeFelice or Jackson from the 25 man, Gagne DL'd, or a trade. It seems to me that the first 3 would have been announced along with the Dillard move, but we will have to see.