Thursday's Frosty Mug
by morineko on Mar 3, 2011 11:26 AM CST
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PrintGuess who's back? No, not Kyle, he'll be back next week. In the meantime, you'll have to put up with me doing a Mug again. It's been a long winter filled with irritated tweets about snow, basketball, and bad amateur fiction for me.
Rob Neyer's Question of the Day today is about the Brewers: Will Greinke and Marcum be enough to make them contenders? His answer is yes, but it's a bit more detailed than that.
In Adam McCalvy's most recent Brewers notebook, he updates us on Mark DiFelice's first appearance against major league hitters since 2009, as well as Jonathan Lucroy's injury.
Tom Haudricourt also brings us an injury update, this about the various relievers with minor issues.
Yesterday's game was more interesting on what happened on the Cubs end of things. Carlos Silva and Aramis Ramirez had a wee fight in the dugout. There's been a lot of frustration over fielding mistakes down over Cubs way and yesterday it boiled over.
The spring training reporters at the JS are doing mildly interesting work. Today, get to know Stan Kyles and Maryvale groundskeeper Jon Naber and learn fielding from Craig Counsell in this video.
Team preview time: Jack Moore at FanGraphs brings us the statistical approach, while Babes Love Baseball describes the team in haiku.
Which pitchers induce the most popups? According to Otis Anderson's analysis, Takashi Saito is ninth over the past five seasons.
Minor league note: For those of you in the Appleton area, the Timber Rattlers are having a rummage sale of memorabilia this Saturday. Tickets are also going on sale.
Around the majors:
Angels manager Mike Scioscia wants to get his players to know each other during spring training, so he's invented some great icebreaking exercises. The managers who have served under him, like Bud Black and Ron Roenicke, are inspired by this.
Actual spring training transaction news, as the Indians traded P Aaron Laffey to the Mariners for minor league IF Matt Lawson and cash.
Today's former Brewers news:
Rob Neyer thinks that Lorenzo Cain should be given a shot to start in the Royals outfield this season, but he has some fierce competition there. Wait, it's just Melky Cabrera, sorry.
Tyler Maas remembers Jody Gerut on the occasion of his retirement.
Camden Chat presents an interview transcript with Mac from Sunny J.J. Hardy. He discusses his amazing resemblance, as well as table tennis.
Today in Brewer birthdays:
2009 Brewer Jorge Julio is 32.
1992 Brewer Neal Heaton is 51.
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god do I miss hardy
seriously, I’d give my kickass plasma tv if they could just get him back. To think, no gomez, plus cain and hardy, and still have grienke? Just awesome.
"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."
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by Hyatt on Mar 3, 2011 11:49 AM CST via mobile reply actions
I think his thinking is that
With no Hardy for Gomez trade, they couldnt have traded away cain.
Although I dont think Greinke would be here now if not for Cain. Obvrioulsy the 4 involved created a package, but there isnt anyone else in the system right now that could have enabled that Greinke trade.
Given that this Saturday's game is on WMLW
I don’t think you’ll notice that you’re not watching your kickass plasma tv.
I'm not convinced Cain is all that much better than Gomez.
Hindsight certainly suggests they should have just traded Escobar rather than trading Hardy to make a spot for him though (his value was probably even higher then anyways). But as backtocali says, who knows if things would have played out to set up the Greinke trade at all in that scenario.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
by SRB on Mar 3, 2011 3:38 PM CST up reply actions
One other issue on Hardy
Is that his salary, if on the team right now, would not allow and wiggle room at all for further moves.
Didn’t DM imply that he had a better offer on the table last offseason for Roy Halladay than the Jays offer? That would suggest that it was Escobar, Gamel, Lawrie and someone else maybe (not at all considering the fact that the reason that deal got done was because Halladay signed an extension.) I think if you held onto Escobar one more year that value drops, especially if he is riding the bench behind Hardy.
If he had been open to clearing out the cupboard last season, I dont know if a trade was out there for him. Odirizzi was the key part of the Greinke deal, imo, but he wasnt proven yet at this point last year.
Scioscia seems like a pretty entertaining manager
I think if Ron brings even a small portion of that type of leadership to the Crew this year it can have huge returns. We all know managers by and large have a pretty small impact on a teams performance, however after the way the team underperformed last year under Macha I really think a clubhouse run more loose and fun like the Angels will really benefit the ability of the Crew to go out and perform up to or above expectations. We all know the talent is there, now it’s just a matter of performing up to that level and with the characters and age of the clubhouse I think they will really benefit from that type of clubhouse.
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by MadJimiBrewha on Mar 3, 2011 12:00 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
also...
maybe we can get something like this again
It is what it is.
by coolig on Mar 3, 2011 12:47 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
best baseball picture ever?
/most likely to annoy cardinals fans
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
Probably the same one that would annoy Giants fans too.
Particularly Zito.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Zito will now steal this picture
because it’s green.
Celebrating the addition of Greinke and mourning the loss of my man crush Cain
JJ does look a bit like Mac...
Charlie – Casey McGehee?
Dennis – Ryan Braun?
Dee – Trenni Kusnierek
Frank – ???
Frank
Depends on what characteristics we are going for… Fielder fits the plumpness factor. Gord fits the baldness factor. For some reason I also have this urge to fit Marcum into the role. (On a side note I wouldn’t mind having the other marcum that comes up if you google image “marcum”.)
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by MadJimiBrewha on Mar 3, 2011 1:02 PM CST up reply actions
Ha
That’s the mugshot of a dude that was arrested for arson after he burned down a restaurant. Guess the fire got going a little faster than he expected.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Julia A. Marcum?
Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Ryan Braun: He loves it. -- Four pitchers in history with 8.5+ WAR and <250 IP seasons: Greg Maddux (age 29), Pedro Martinez (age 28), Roger Clemens (age 27), Zack Greinke (age 25).
by SRB on Mar 3, 2011 3:42 PM CST up reply actions
Cubs
Between Silva and Zambrano, the dugout should be quite interesting to watch this season.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
Z is just misunderstood
He’s a Powerade guy.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
by sjlee on Mar 4, 2011 9:57 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
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