Brewers sign Scott Shoeneweis, invite to camp
Minor league deal. Maybe Mulder's not going to happen.
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Charlie Marlow
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I'd just like to point out
I beat Mykenk. Finally.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
lol, I just deleted my own FanShot on the same subject
"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!"
Yep, I saw yours right after I posted mine... stupid switching browers...
… didn’t have the “post on sbnation” bookmark in chrome yet… won’t happen again!
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So how many pitchers in ST?
Sure seems like we are going to have our fill of left handed pitchers at spring training.
75 or so, I think
I wonder if Parra is less likely to be in the ’pen now. Also, since Dave Bush has options left, but can refuse due to service time, I wonder if the Brewers are talking to him about that.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Feb 9, 2010 2:01 PM CST up reply actions
I heard Parra was a lock to be in the rotation. Only starting rotation battle is between Suppan and Bush. Bush will probably go, Suppan would cost to much to just straight release.
Why because Ken Macha said it?
I don’t put a lot of stock in what anyone from the front office says before Spring Training even starts.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Feb 9, 2010 3:36 PM CST up reply actions
Schoeneweis to get $800,000 if he makes the team
"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!"
Chase Wright back on a minor league deal as well
http://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/8865346105
How far will this one fly?
No, they really don't.
Now they’ve got Halama, Loe, Capuano, maybe Narveson, Chris Waters, Marco Estrada, Chris Cody, Tim Dillard, Butler, Axford, AJ Murray, Chris Smith, Zach Braddock, Schoeneweis and Wright.
By my count, that’s 16 pitchers, and almost all of them are long shots at best to make the team.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
well, now they don't
my point was more that things will fill in—the guys who are awful will be let go, the less awful ones will fill the minor league rosters, and the Brewers will take the rest. there’s really no sense in thinking the sky is falling with minor league contracts (which I know you don’t.)
I’m just not sure that Schoeneweis will be happy not getting the major league spot, that’s all.
this signing brought to you by the letters W, T, and F
That or they don’t think Narveson makes a good LOOGY.
This just in….The Brewers will attempt to field an entire 40 man roster comprised of only Pitchers. Because when your team is in need of two starting pitchers and two or three relief pitchers it is important to sign 5 starters and 42 relief pitchers to make up for letting Sabathia leave. Thanks Doug!
Sabathia left?? OMG!?!
When did this happen?! Why didn’t Dougie lock the doors?!? NOOOOO!
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by Mykenk on Feb 9, 2010 3:20 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
minor league contracts are a wonderful thing
every year, AA and AAA teams lose players due to minor league free agency and players who pack it up and retire. The sad fans in Huntsville and Nashville need pitchers to watch too!
(all joking aside, consider that Schoeneweis himself was replaced as Arizona’s situational lefty by an AA pitcher who actually retired out of A ball when his parents died and his brother was deployed thus needing him to take care of the family farm. He came back, and—yeah, that Clay Zavada kid is pretty good, isn’t he? Things will happen, and players are always needed.)
Clay Zavada: Source of the Gritty Von Canthitalick mustache...
Applying Simpsons and Star Wars quotes to Brewers discussions since 2009.
The soul patch really adds to the entire situation.
Just amazin.
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
He just might be a maverick.
The soul patch with that stache’ could be a completely new frontier.
Why hasn’t DM hired him as a facial hair advisor?
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
not that moustache
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
True. Should we start a quantity v. quality debate now?
is 1 awesome facial hair set better than a continually revolving door of nonsense?
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Hey now,
David had some sweet face bushes. I think he was a matter of quality and quantity… Very efficient!
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
Looper grew a beard some time, but that's about it.
Villa was trying to compete with Mountainman.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
You do realize that these guys aren't even on the 40 man roster, right?
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
If Schoeneweis makes the team
He will have the second lowest FanGraphs player ID number (33) in Brewers history. Only Jorge Fabregas (12) was lower.
I was updating the roster on the left sidebar and noticed his ID number was 33
I got curious and have no problem plugging numbers in repetitively.
I guess that's not too tough to find out
I was picturing a spreadsheet with every player ever sorted by every column imaginable.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
Casual Friday, huh?
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Feb 9, 2010 7:22 PM CST up reply actions
more than you wanted to know
fangraphs ids are, I believe the same as Baseball Info Solutions IDs. BIS IDs started back when Schoenweis and Fabregas were both on the Angels. Because “Anaheim” is first alphabetically among team names, BIS started numbering people with Anaheim, I believe in alpha order by last name.
Now they just add numbers to the end of the list as they debut in the majors. They skipped a bunch of #s in the middle at some point, which is how new players are now in the high thousands.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 10, 2010 9:44 AM CST up reply actions
That's what I figured
I had noticed previously Fangraphs and Hardball Times share numbers and everyone I was looking at yesterday had Anaheim connections.
For those keeping score
The Brewers now have or had (in ’09 or ’10) six of the twenty worst pitchers in the major leagues last season (as measured by WAR: McClung, Looper, Weathers, Schoeneweis, Suppan, Smith)
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
so, they have 4. You can't really add the 2 rosters together.
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or 3.
or 1, if you’re looking at the actual roster.
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And one more to make it green for liftoff
dickie_thon: Third baseman Bill Hall / Watches the third strike go by / Gamel grabs his glove
I didn’t intend for it to be a statement about the 2010 pitching staff… Obviously none of those guys can be projected to be as terrible going forward. I just found it amusing that almost a third of the bottom twenty pitchers in 2009 are/were tied to the Brewers.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
by SRB on Feb 9, 2010 5:21 PM CST up reply actions
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