Wednesday's Frosty Mug

But he was awesome in the field, proving once again that a person can have a place in the majors based on their glove work alone.

to try and help keep the cost lower for a potential signing?

0-3 with 2K’s. Remind me again why we have a useless catcher wasting a bench spot. CC looks asleep at the plate this year.

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picture 3 axford?
picture 4 which one of your coaches is this?
any help is much appreciated

On May 29, McGehee had 2 hits and on May 27 he had one hit. Starting at May 27, then, McGehee’s been 3-for-34 (0.088). He’s struck out just over 25% of the time, compared to a 2010 K% of around 15%. That’s certainly not a good sign, but given the small sample size that’s only 3 more K’s than expected.

He’s always been susceptible to the high fastball, but it seems more pronounced during his cold streak. Based on his Texas-Leaguers data, he’s otherwise been pretty good at only swinging at pitches in the zone – about as good as Ryan Braun over the same stretch.

His BABIP over that stretch has been 0.111 so we know he’s getting a little unlucky. He hasn’t had much power on those, though and nothing has gone over the wall so that’s suggestive that he’s been making poor contact rather than having a lot of his balls fail to find holes (it’s practically Yunieskian). He’s also been pulling the ball more than he usually does so it seems he’s been out in front of a number of pitches.

I don’t have any info on the pitch counts he’s been in, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s finding himself down in the count a lot lately and has to be particularly defensive at the plate with his swings; it could also explain swinging at a lot of high fastballs. Other than needing to layoff the high fastball, it seems like he’s seeing the ball pretty well, but he’s not making solid contact when he does swing.

Ultimately, the only thing he might need right now is some confidence.

Maybe the rest of the team needs to take some sleeping pointers from Braddock. He seemed to be just fine last night.

“John Axford wasn’t with the team last night, but his son (John Brian Axford) was born early Tuesday morning. He’s expected to rejoin the team today.”

I, for one, look forward to seeing what John Jr. can do. I hear he’s projected as a left-side infielder, not sure if they’re talking shortstop or 3B, but either way I’m excited to see some above replacement value production out of him tonight.

I hear he’s a good base-runner too, always a plus. Anything to push Yuni and Mcgehee.

So going off of what NullAcct posted last night on the game thread….

If a team wanted to acquire Jose Reyes, I would calculate his surplus value at about $11 million. that includes approximately 2.5 WAR left for the year, plus $5 million in value for the two draft picks, and minus the $6.3 million he would be due in salary.

Considering he is the top trade target, some sort of premium probably needs to be applied, and I would bump that perceived value at around $16 million.

This equates to either A) a Top pitching prospect as well as a throw in low level prospect, or B) a hitting prospect in the 51-75 range plus a B graded hitting prospect according to John Sickels.

The Brewers, as well all know have no top prospects in the system, much less mid level prospects. And although Mark Rogers was ranked #1 in the system by a few publications, his struggles this year, will most likely make him a minor league free agent by years end, at which point, no one will give up anything to get him.

For Reyes, the Brewers would probably have to give up Cody Scarpetta, Kentrail Davis, Amaury Rivas, and Kyle Heckathorn to land Reyes at the minimum. We can all assume that they will get some sort of offfer that involves a top prospect.

It’s pretty unlikely that the Brewers can land him on prospects alone. Even if they were willing to pick up the rest of his contract, they would probably still have to give up 2 of those guys.

In case anyone is interested in some more Jungmann/Bradley discussion, I was listening to the Baseball Prospectus podcast from the week before the draft, and they have Jim Callis of Baseball America on and he discusses both players. (around 1:23-

Summary: Taylor Jungmann is Callis’s pick as the most underrated guy from the elite level of players at the top of the draft, and he disagrees with Kevin Goldstein about Jed Bradley (Goldstein doesn’t think Bradley should be a potential top ten pick) and argues that Bradley could have been a top five pick a month ago before hitting a rough spot at the end of his season, that he “has a better arm” than Danny Hultzen (who ended up going #2 overall), and that he could be “a steal” in the #12-14 range and that he would “love” to get him in that range. I’ve heard him say similar things elsewhere as well (e.g. Bradley having better stuff than Hultzen).

Considering Jim Callis is probably the go-to source for prospect info (outside of MLB scouts, I would imagine) I think that’s pretty high praise of the two guys the Brewers drafted.

It just took back-to-back HRs from Pena and Ramirez.

would be the perpetual windbag decrying the team’s “intransigence.” If you read Tom Daykin’s story on J-S, after Baumann laid out his conspiracy theory of how the Brewers intentionall blocked another deal so they could claim this land, the commissioner in charge of the water works basicaly said, “No, it was my idea.” I then picture Baumann scribbling angrily ina notebook.

This is the same alderman who once held a press conference to decry a commissioned work of public graffiti art, which had already been removed and repainted because it was a temporary project for a street festival.

Delusions of grandeur don’t even begin to describe this guy.

I had originally bought MLB 11: The Show for PSP, and I don’t know what I was doing wrong, but I was getting dominated on the easiest difficulty in that game. So, I found MLB 2K11 on sale and bought it (on the assumption that the Brewers won’t be good enough over the next few years to tempt me to buy another baseball game again anytime soon).

Basically, I’m just wondering how good of a game it is. I also have MLB 2K9 and it was good, but I felt it was lacking some things. It’s been so long that I don’t remember what those things were.