Sorry Sorry Sorry!!!

Well Everyone,

I am so sorry (as previously stated three times in the title) that I haven't made a post since August. I went back to school and had one rough semester. But that's over, it's after the holidays and there's been so much news in Brewers nation, I don't know where to start. But really, that's a no-brainer.



So who else wants a salary cap? Everyone reading this post should - that's assuming that the only traffic my blog gets is from Brewers fans. How many times will the Yankees try to buy a good season by overspending on free agents? I, personally, think it's a crock of sh#% that one team is allowed to spend more than $400 million on three players! Some might argue "The luxury tax evens that out" but the thing about that is, the luxury tax doesn't really make anything even and here's why:

1: The small market teams can't afford to spend a ton of money anyway, so they don't have to worry about the luxury tax.

2: The medium market teams are the ones who get hurt the most, because if they could've maybe found a way to spend enough for the luxury tax to matter, then they just got stopped because of the luxury tax.

3: The large market teams, the reason why the luxury tax was put in place, who have the money to spend on the "Type A" free agents, will pay through their noses for the players, and then the luxury tax is still chump change!

I, for one, am appalled at the player whom we all grew to love. The player who got us to the post season. The player who claims that he went to new york because he wouldn't have been surrounded with enough talent to win in Milwaukee. Yeah right CC! We all know why you really left you money grubbing f*#%! I hope you never get back to Milwaukee and I hope you never get another post-season win (Post season stats: 1-3 7.92 ERA, 22 walks 24 strikeouts in 25 innings pitched). Good Riddance.



Trevor Hoffman -- I have to admit, I didn't see that coming. After not even coming close to getting Fuentes to consider Milwaukee, I thought that next year's closer was already on the roster. I never thought Melvin would go out and spend any decent amount of money on another closer after the Gagne debacle. And, to be completely honest, I wasn't even all that excited when I heard that the Brewers signed him, I mean, his ERA was almost 4 last year, and for a closer who just signed for $6 million, that's huge! He pitched a career low in innings (except for one year when he was injured) and had his third highest ERA. However, I have been looking at his game log for last year and he really only had two bad months. He ended the season pitching very well and it seems that the reason for his high era was really due to about 2 bad games in which he gave up 3 and 4 runs (He had an ERA of 7 in those games and a 2.45 ERA the rest of the year). He had 10 games in which he only gave up 1 run, and he still recorded a save in 3 of them. So after looking at the stats and doing a little bit of analyzing I am happy with the signing, and if you're not, listen to this:

Out of the top 50 pitchers according to saves last year, if you take out those two bad games and use the era from his 44.1 innings(2.45) Trevor Hoffman lands at number 10 according to ERA (reordering the top 50 saves according to ERA).





JJ Hardy avoiding arbitration. Why the hell are you still messing around with this? Ask JJ if he will move to third base to make room for Alvides Escobar to better the team. I have never heard anything about JJ that would make me believe that he would not move to make the team better, but if he doesn't want to move, ask Escobar the same question. If Escobar says no, then even though I hate to say it, you need to start shopping Hardy. Let's stop, for lack of a better saying, pussy-footing around this and see what we can do with a good problem like too many shortstops. This is a problem that should definitely be solved while shortstops are still in high demand and while the brewers are lacking pitching(which will probably be a while, lol). Escobar is almost major league ready, let's get this out of the way.




If anyone would like me to answer a question, talk about something, or contact me for any reason, feel free!

mwebster@bradley.edu