BCB Tracking Poll Shows Majority Of Voters In Favor Of Corey Hart Playing First, But Still Want Mat Gamel There Too

by Kyle Lobner on Jan 25, 2012 4:00 PM CST in Tracking Poll

This week's poll was open from Monday at noon through Tuesday and received 253 votes. Here are some notable responses:

83% of voters approve of the decision to ask Corey Hart to play some games at first base.
70% of voters, however, still think Mat Gamel should get the most starts there.
69 and 68% of voters think the Brewers should settle their arbitration cases with Shaun Marcum and Jose Veras, respectively.
94% of voters approve of the contract given to Norichika Aoki.

Follow the jump for the full results.

Do you approve of the Brewers' decision to sign Norichika Aoki to a two year, $2.25 million deal plus incentives and pay $2.5 million to his former Japanese team for doing so?

Response	Votes	%
Yes	238	94%
No	3	1%
Undecided	12	5%

Do you approve of the Brewers' decision to ask Corey Hart to play some games at first base?

Response	Votes	%
Yes	210	83%
No	19	8%
Undecided	24	9%

Who do you want to get the most starts at first base for the Brewers this season?

Response	Votes	%
Mat Gamel	178	70%
Taylor Green	13	5%
Corey Hart	28	11%
Travis Ishikawa	4	2%
Someone else	11	4%
Undecided	19	8%

The Brewers and Shaun Marcum are nearly $2 million apart in their arbitration salary requests, with the Brewers offering $6.75 million and Marcum requesting $8.7 million. What should the Brewers do?

Response	Votes	%
Settle near the midpoint ($7.7 million).	175	69%
Take Marcum to arbitration.	67	26%
Undecided	11	4%

The Brewers and Jose Veras are $375,000 apart in their arbitration salary requests, with the Brewers offering $2 million and Veras requesting $2.375 million. What should the Brewers do?

Response	Votes	%
Settle near the midpoint ($2.188 million).	173	68%
Take Veras to arbitration.	64	25%
Undecided	16	6%

Now that we know that Francisco Rodriguez will make $8 million in 2012, how do you feel about the decision to offer him arbitration?

Response	Votes	%
I was against it before and I'm still against it now.	18	7%
I was against it before, but I'm not against it anymore.	42	17%
I approved of the decision before, and I still approve now.	156	62%
I approved of the decision before, but I don't approve anymore.	17	7%
Undecided	20	8%

What did you think of Ryan Braun's NL MVP acceptance speech Saturday night?

Response	Votes	%
It was great.	38	15%
It was good.	101	40%
It was ok.	37	15%
It wasn't good.	2	1%
It was bad.	0	0%
I didn't see it/undecided.	75	30%

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Travis Ishikawa

4 people want Travis Ishikawa to get most of the starts @ 1st base? They must be Cubs fans trolling…

by Saberilliterate on Jan 25, 2012 4:57 PM CST reply actions

or they're really big fans of defense

Ishikawa IS good at that, the hitting not so much, so if you think that Gamel’s D would reduce the impact of his offensive contribution to the point where Ishikawa’s defense minus his horrible offense would be better, I can see where someone could make that decision.

Gamel’s defense isn’t that bad.

by morineko on Jan 26, 2012 8:38 AM CST up reply actions

I think the Brewers will take Marcum to arbitration

I think the Brewers are much closer to his value than Marcum’s figure. I don’t see the two sides agreeing on a number between the offers and I don’t they should. Marcum is good, but there’s no way he’s worth $7.5 million.

by ecocd on Jan 25, 2012 7:06 PM CST via mobile reply actions

His typical season is 150 innings with a sub-1.2 WHIP

He’s worth about 3.5 WAR a season – that is more than $7.5MM. I’ve been listening to people talk about how we should trade him since last October and I don’t understand it. Without his services last year we probably don’t win the division.

Mark Attanasio is the best.

by nullacct on Jan 25, 2012 7:17 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

On the free agent market, not through arbitration.

I think Melvin would win in arbitration. No reason to settle unless an extension is planned to keep him in the organization.

Solve for X: 5.5 (Fielder) + 0.3 (McGehee) + 0.5 (Betancourt) < X (Gamel) + 3.6 (Ramirez) + 1.1 (Gonzalez)... X >= 1.7 fWAR!

by SRB on Jan 25, 2012 8:34 PM CST up reply actions

This is the gist of it

"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

"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."

~RRR

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 25, 2012 9:43 PM CST up reply actions

I'm kinda surprised that such a majority of people liked offering K-Rod arbitration in the first place...

by hibachi777 on Jan 25, 2012 8:31 PM CST reply actions

At the time it looked like a sure thing that he would decline

Out of desire for a longer contract and the opportunity to close elsewhere – we just wanted the draft pick

Mark Attanasio is the best.

by nullacct on Jan 25, 2012 8:59 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

This

No one expected K-Rod to accept arbitration. I bet even K-Rod and Boras didn’t expect to after the season ended.

by sjlee on Jan 26, 2012 9:58 AM CST up reply actions

Just wondering

Are there any teams that effectively “sold high and bought low” on the closer market? Were there any teams that called it right? It seems to me that the moment the Phils signed Johnathan Papelbon the market started dropping, and I’m not sure if it has bottomed out yet, but people should have their holes filled by now.

Mark Attanasio is the best.

by nullacct on Jan 26, 2012 2:46 PM CST up reply actions

The majority approved because it was the right decision.

by cwolf20 on Jan 26, 2012 2:03 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs

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