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  1. TruffleShuffle
    sweet, up to a tie for 9th and only 18 back! i was 34 back at one point. of course, if i'd kept cust instead of dropping him for markakis, i'd have 5 more home runs and would've been able to drop zimmerman over a month ago #-o
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    ed wade took so much from the phillies, he figured he should give something back when he got the chance. and he got to take care of that michael bourn fetish that he had while he was the phillies' gm, too.
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    Yea Harden when healthy is great. Stone was saying this morning though that yesterday Harden was topping out at 92 and has been like that for his last 4-5 starts. Also said it seemed as if he was spending lots of energy to get the 92. Im not to fond of Stone at this point, so I really dont know how much of this is relative. according to fangraphs, his avg fastball is 92.6 this year. yesterday he had a 96 mph and 97 mph fastball, and had several pitches faster than 92, from what i can see in the mlb gamecast.
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    BP: it's not hardy. trading him makes absolutely no sense for milwaukee.
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    shoulda traded him after yesterday's game when his value was at an all-time peak
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    :lol: :lol: On this topic, am I the only one who feels like a pitcher as large as Sabathia who's now going to be forced to run the bases with at least some regularity is just a hamstring injury waiting to happen? yeah but when he gets a hold of one, look out. he hit a bomb in l.a. that went something like 440 feet, it was tremendous.
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    In his older days yes, but he was about that weight during his prime years. The problem with our modern sense impressions of Ruth is that most of the footage we see is of him during his late 30's, when film footage of players was just beginning to get popular. Thus, we rarely see film footage of him in his prime seasons, when he was a big guy, but certainly wasn't fat like he was later in his career. yeah but john goodman played him in a movie; if john goodman plays you in a movie, there's no way that you can be considered an elite athlete!!!1111!!!!11!
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    kick ass. hart over fukudome is fair if we get lee over fielder. plus fukudome could spell braun and soriano frequently against RHP and prince could play against some RHP too. i'd take derosa and hardy as the everyday 2B/SS combo. i agree with most of the pitchers, but sub in howry for wuertz. also, lilly as the #5 is fine, but let's put dempster in for lieber as the other reliever. the bench would be: Fielder Fukudome Theriot Cameron Kendall i guess... Hall or Weeks can be added if you leave off Dempster and go to 14 position players and 11 pitchers. so what do you choose if the options are either city, or team name/uniform? so it's either the chicago brewers, wearing dark blue and gold, or the milwaukee cubs, wearing cubbie blue and red.
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    if you're a buffet restaurant owner in milwaukee and you see prince fielder and c.c. sabathia walking toward your place, do you (a) lock the door immediately or (b) call your lawyer and file bankruptcy paperwork?
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    the cubs will end up signing with milwaukee? that'd be crazy.
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    i'm not gonna lie, i really do not like the cubs going to shea at the end of the year. my only game ever there was the victor diaz game. whoever made this year's schedule has a sick sense of humor.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    july: 10 home, 10 away august: 19 home, 9 away september: 9 home, 16 away we should make some hay in august if we want to be safely on top by the end of september. remaining series: Home: 3 vs Cincy 3 vs San Fran 4 vs Florida 3 vs Pittsburgh 3 vs Houston 3 vs St. Louis 3 vs Cincy 3 vs Washington 4 vs Philadelphia 3 vs Houston 3 vs Milwaukee 3 vs St. Louis Away: 3 @ Houston 3 @ Arizona 4 @ Milwaukee 3 @ Atlanta 3 @ Florida 3 @ Pittsburgh 3 @ Cincy 3 @ St. Louis 3 @ Houston 4 @ New York Mets 3 @ Milwaukee so we have 7 left at milwaukee versus only 3 against them at home. that is kind of a big deal as far as the division goes. we've already gotten the trip to philly out of the way; arizona and florida have usually not been fun road trips, but neither team is playing that well. we do have 6 home versus only 3 away with st. louis. and, it should be noted that the brewers still have to do the west coast swing.
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    in a similar situation: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DD163BF937A35754C0A965958260 i remember they said attendance was actually increasing by the end of the game because the die-hards were there for the long haul, and a handful people were home listening to the game and decided to go in and try to be there - since it was going to be the latest game ever played.
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    i know people are gonna go overboard on the brewers 1-2 punch now, but you can't just look at 2 pitchers who have pitched great heading into the playoffs and assume it will continue. remember, sheets is #1 in PAPs and he's likely to be ridden hard by yost the rest of the way - he's on pace to throw about as many innings as he threw the last two years combined. sabathia is #5 in PAPs and is coming off a year in which he threw almost 260 innings. everyone looked at sabathia and carmona on the indians and figured that they would be a monster 1-2 in the playoffs, but sabathia was gassed (he's not the fittest guy in the world) and the huge leap in workload also took a clear toll on carmona.
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    if he can keep that BABIP over .400 he will be a dynamite prospect :wink:
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    They'll be good b/c of the core of the offense, but to assume that Gallardo and Parra will equate or come close to Sheets and 14 starts of Sabathia in a playoff push isn't fair as well as needing to overall the pen (again). I'm not assuming they will replace Sabathia, I'm saying that if both of those pitchers walk the team won't be significantly worse than they have been so far this season. They are still a .500+ team assuming Gallardo and Parra stay healthy and assuming the team picks up a #3 or better starter from somewhere. That also doesn't mean Parra is a #2. Gallardo has true ace potential and Parra sits in the #2/#3 potential area. Another #3 or better arm sets them up to be competitive. Like I said maybe not a powerhouse but certainly a team that sits around the playoff picture. Not a team that is selling off Fielder mid season and playing for 2012 like the post I quoted suggested. you're probably overrating each of them by a spot. gallardo's ceiling is a good #2 or a #1 on a lousy team, and parra's ceiling is a #3. parra has given up nearly a hit per inning in the minors and his WHIP this year is 1.5... he's not as good as his ERA would suggest. and parra has the ben sheets bug when it comes to health, which have to be factored into his future expectations.
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    he'll probably make 15 starts this year. acquiring him is basically replacing either bush or mcclung in the rotation. sabathia is probably worth about 9 wins a year over a replacement-level pitcher; bush and mcclung are probably worth around half that. take out roughly half the season, and sabathia is going to be worth an extra 2-3 wins this season for the brewers. certainly an upgrade, but this isn't a devastating move or something that makes them the favorite in the division. probably the biggest impact will come if sabathia and sheets are both healthy and effective in october, which - given abuse and health histories - is far from a guarantee.
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    what was it for? either way, bean them back. in minor league baseball there's no excuse NOT to get into a beanball war.
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    1984, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008. so 8 of the past 25 years.
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    Wow. So the Cubs suck because they were actually relevant for 25 years while the Brewers stockpiled young talent? WHAT AN OUTRAGE the cubs have been relevant for 25 years? i must've missed that.
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    Mark Rogers is involved in this trade? He has a fantastic arm, but horrific control. He's still young enough to become a good pitcher. sorry, brain fart. i meant taylor green.
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    J. Nelson Fox with the white sox used to choke up as much or maybe more than Ashburn.... but I doubt you'd consider him to be "in modern times". :wink: cool thing about him - the strikeout rate! he struck out 216 times in 9,232 ABs. his single-season high in strikeouts was eighteen, and this came in 624 ABs. that is completely ridiculous.
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    I'd like to ask you what tradeable player in our system offers what LaPorta can, since a middle of the order power bat is what Cleveland was obviously looking for. aramis ramirez
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    bryson was rated by BA as the brewers' #11 prospect coming into this year; jackson was not among their top 30. as mentioned before, rogers was ranked at #17.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    You must be ga-ga for Justin Berg. his control is pretty lousy. i'm talking more in the derek lowe, chien-ming wang vein.
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