Brewers Transaction News

From the MLB's transaction listings:

1. Jack Z steals another former Brewer, claiming Luis Pena off waivers

2. Vinny Rottino passed through waivers and has been outrighted to Nashville

3. Ramiro Mendoza failed his physical and left camp.

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Damn, I was hoping to keep Pena.

Rottino, not so much.

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by NoahJ on Feb 15, 2009 2:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Only mildly related

I had not ventured to the JS Blog in a while, but I noticed this.

Read this blog entry from Anthony Witrado. Remember that the rallying cry of newswriters is that unprofessional bloggers do not have the right tone and writing style. Well, I would have been embarrassed to write something like Witrado’s little story in eighth grade. We also reported the number change about a month ago, they are just getting on it now.

Everyone knows baseball players are the superstitious type.

Add left-hander Manny Parra to that list as well.

Does that even make sense? Define the list, dude. Terrible start.

Parra, one of of the Brewers’ top prospects entering last season, was the quiet type all of 2008 and didn’t make any waves (there was that whole Prince Fielder shoving him in the dugout incident, but other than that everything was cool).

Yeah, didn’t make any waves— except when he got in the only dugout fight of the entire season. That is also not professional syntax. Who uses “everything was cool” like that?

So he had no problem wearing No. 43 on his uniform as long as he had a place in the big-league clubhouse.

What the hell?

Last season Hernan Iribarren wore the number, but Parra asked if there was any sentimental value to the digits and Iribarren said there wasn’t, so Parra took it over.

Something is wrong here, too. This is one of those sentences you delete and try again without so many clauses.

He wore 26 in high school and through some minor league teams. He was drafted in the 26th round and signed on the 26th day of the month. Also, he is currently 26 years old. Go figure.

That’s the end. I like how it finishes with “Go figure.” And “through some minor league teams” does not make sense.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 15, 2009 2:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

At least he won't have to write about Ramiro Mendoza's tortuous number-choosing process

Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.

by TheJay on Feb 15, 2009 4:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, that’s not even news, I think we at BCB covered number changes when the 40 man was set up before the Rule 5 draft way back when. Witrado is simply a freaking moron, and it’s stuff like that that got my JS account deleted because I took shots at his idiotic work.

by Lavender on Feb 15, 2009 6:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I seem to recall

his excuse for his sloppy, sophomoric writing around this time last year being ’it’s a blog, dude!’ I don’t think he realizes that he’s writing for a professional publication, regardless of his current medium.

I believe the sentence that really set this off last year included a reference to Haudricourt as “My boy TH”. I’m sure he appreciated that.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 4:35 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, and another thing.

Everyone knows baseball players are the superstitious type.

Add left-hander Manny Parra to that list as well.

I’m pretty sure Manny Parra was on the list of baseball players before you so nobly moved to add him to it, Mr. Witrado.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 4:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The list of baseball players or the list of baseball players who are superstitious?

by ol Pete on Feb 16, 2009 8:58 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, the sentence implies

that all baseball players are superstitious, and hence Manny Parra is now on the list of baseball players as a virtue of being superstitious.

I think I might just e-mail the JS about his horrid writing and see if I can get KL a paying gig.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 3:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Where can I subscribe to this "list"?

by Bernie's Mustache Wax on Feb 16, 2009 9:08 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Actually,

for the first time, the Timber Rattlers’ roster won’t be an awful place to start.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 3:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

bring back FJM

by brewjoles on Feb 16, 2009 5:49 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Forget bringing back anyone, I say hire someone from this website because it’s more intelligent then a lot of what comes from JS. We also spell correctly just about every time, which is brilliant considering none of us, presumably, pay for editors.

Here’s a future Witrado post,

O shiz yallz see taht duble play?!

by Lavender on Feb 16, 2009 7:55 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Shouldn’t that last comma be a colon?

by ol Pete on Feb 16, 2009 9:04 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs

Yes,

but the block quote should have an additional 1111!!!!eleven at the end of it also. Shame on you, Lavender. :)

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 3:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Last season Hernan Iribarren wore the number, but Parra asked if there was any sentimental value to the digits and Iribarren said there wasn’t, so Parra took it over.

This is what we call a run-on sentence – a sloppy one, at that.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I try to avoid using contractions for front-page posts, too

not sure on the protocol for newswriting there.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 16, 2009 3:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I wonder...

If I posted a link to the AP stylebook as a comment to every Witrado post, would I get banned? I realize it’s not an actual newspaper article, but it is a supplement to a relatively respectable publication.

by Wayfaerer on Feb 16, 2009 3:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Mendoza left camp?

“He didn’t pass his physical and left camp.”

1. I wonder if he went home to Panama. If you went to a map and drew a line from Arizona to Panama, mapping the route he took home, you could call that the Mendoza line.

2. Does this mean he’s off the 40 man roster? If so, with better timing, could we have kept Pena?

"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Feb 15, 2009 4:27 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I thought he was a non-roster invitee

"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck

by dux2bux on Feb 15, 2009 4:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Mendoza signed a minor league contract and was invited to spring training

He never was on the 40 man roster.

Is his contract void because he failed his physical or do the Brewers have to pay him something?

by jeffro53081 on Feb 15, 2009 5:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

probably void

players on minor league contracts get next to no money for spring training, though they do get meal money, and meal money is pretty substantial in big league camp. I hope Ramiro ate well yesterday.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 15, 2009 5:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Something wrong with this...

It’s terrible that we let a good, young, hard-throwing arm go like that…and, of course Z picks him up, probably because he know that he’s got the ability to be something special…Looking at the 40 man roster I can easily see 3-4 players that should have been DFA’d well before Luis Pena, this club has enough problems finding young, talented pitching before giving up one of our own. Who cares if his numbers balooned in AAA last year, he deserved another shot

by Brewcityhoya13 on Feb 15, 2009 8:18 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'm curious who your 3-4 guys are who should have been let go first.

Pena may turn out to be something for someone, but really, he’s had one good year out of eight as a Brewer farmhand, so I don’t think the team let a future All Star walk.

He’s not the worst pitcher ever, just the worst good pitcher.

by KLSnow on Feb 15, 2009 10:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, yeah, the seeming inability of Luis Pena to develop into a pitcher worth using on the big-league club is in fact a big part of the Brewers not having so much “young, talented pitching” right now… If he goes all Turnbow (first season version) for the Mariners now, great, but pitchers like Pena get cut all the time, and rarely with negative repercussions.

by Zeyes on Feb 16, 2009 7:01 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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