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Jake Humphrey
The Brewers have a pretty decent team, but I don’t think they can stack up against other potential Wild Card teams like the Rockies, D’Backs, and Braves.
TwinsVet
Those bullpens signings look atrocious when you consider the pricetag, age, and likelihood to regress or sustain injury.
In an offseason with deep closers, it’s hard to say they spent wisely.
Holy_Roman_Emperor
The pitching is still mostly crap besides Gallardo………………
Wolf and Hoffman are overrated and old, respectively, and they spent way too much on both of them. Neither the rotation or bullpen are deep and/or have talent at the back ends, end of story.
Fielder and Braun aren’t as good as Pujols/Holliday/Ludwick, so the offense can’t compensate.
boof3000
Braun/Fielder are better offensively than Pujols/Holliday, sorry.
Ricky Bones
In which alternate dimension?
STL_Bulldog
The Card’s definitely have the better starting staff. Bullpen… who knows. I, for one, don’t have much confidence in anyone outside of Trever Miller.
I don’t buy the Fielder/Brawn comment. Pujols is Pujols, but speaking strictly in terms of offense, Fielder isn’t THAT far behind. He’s as dangerous as they come. Braun (again, offensively) is better than Holliday. Ludwick is a wild card. A lot depends on whether or not he’s 2008 Ludwick or 2009 Ludwick, or somewhere in between.
I just don’t think the Brewer’s offense is that far behind the Cardinals. Of course, like any team, both have many variables that could close or widen the gap.
Holy_Roman_Emperor
I disagree about the Brewers’ offence being better then STL………………..
Thanks to losing secondary players like Cameron and Hardy, and the regression of Corey Hart, Fielder and Braun are increasingly isolated in that lineup.
You basically have an uncertain Rickie Weeks, and then a bunch of players who are filler or who are unproven to be consistent, like Gomez, McGhee, Escobar, Zaun, and so on, so on……………… I’ll take STL any day.
orbrewer
The Pujols/Holliday combo is even more isolated in the Cardinals lineup than Fielder/Braun is in the Brewers.
With the Cardinals you have an uncertain Colby Rasmus, and then a bunch of players who are filler or who are unproven to be consistent, like Ludwick, Freese, Ryan, Schumaker, and so on, so on……………..
orbrewer
With the Cardinals, you basically have an uncertain Colby Rasmus, and then a bunch of players who are filler or who are unproven to be consistent, like Freese, Schumaker, Ludwick, Ryan, and so on, so on………………….
Holy_Roman_Emperor
You also have Pujols, Holliday, Molina, Carpenter, Wainwright………….
Also Ludwick, who had more RBI’s than either Braun or Fielder in 2008, and surpassed Fielder in HR’s and tied Braun in that said year.
orbrewer
You’re going to try to compare Ludwick to Braun and Fielder? A better comparison would be Corey Hart. Ludwick had a career year in 2008 (an OPS over 150 points higher than his career number).
Ricky Bones
Not only is Pujols better offensively than Fielder, but his defense is vastly superior to Tubby’s which adds even further value to his offensive output. Same holds true for Holliday’s defense over Braun’s. Holliday isn’t so far behind Braun in offensive capabilities that the defense makes no difference.
ajoconnor1
How can you say Hoffman is overrated when he just saved 37 of 41 save opportunities with a 1.83 E.R.A.? I do agree Wolf is being overpaid though.
Holy_Roman_Emperor
Actually, I said that Wolf was overrated(and overpaid,) and that Hoffman was just overpaid.
Hoffman is still pretty good, but he’s chugging along on a smoke-and-mirrors act which I fully expect to implode at any second.
When Hoffman implodes, wtf is plan B for the B-crew, Jorge Julio ????
ajoconnor1
If Hoffman hasn’t imploded in his first 17 years, I doubt he will in his 18th. His stuff has already declined but he has shown he can still get batters out because of his changeup and deception.
And plan-B would be Hawkins, who posted a 2.13 ERA last season. You might want to do some research about the Brewers before you talk.
Holy_Roman_Emperor
The same Hawkins who ran the closer-comedy debacle for the Cubs for all of those years. Sure !!!!!
Sounds like good times to me.
ajoconnor1
Again, you might want to do some research before you say stuff. By “all those years,” I’m guessing you mean the 1 year and 21 games he played with the Cubs. He posted a 2.63 ERA and 25 saves in his one full year in Chicago.
Maybe for my number one closer I wouldn’t want those numbers, but as a backup I don’t consider that to be too bad. Especially considering he had a strong year last year, which is probably a better indicator of how he will do this year.
Ry_the_Stunner
You really think Gomez can put up similar stats to Cameron? Besides being fast, he’s a very very weak offensive threat.
martinfv2
I didn’t really think this until I saw the CHONE projections for the pair. I agree that there is a leap of faith there though since Gomez has never posted a .300 OBP.
Ricky Bones
As the saying goes, you can’t steal first.
bigpat
Carlos Gomez is one of the worst everyday players in the league, in my opinion. Maybe he will break out some time, but I won’t be holding my breath.
I really don’t know what the Brewers will do. The 1-2 punch of Fielder and Braun is great, but the supporting cast isn’t great. Was Weeks really breaking out last season before he got hurt? And is that what we can expect from him going forward? Is Corey Hart really as bad as he was last season, and is Casey McGahee really that good?
Also, I don’t think Wolf can replicate the season he had last year. His luck will catch up to him and I can see him putting up an ERA in the high 3’s or low 4’s. Same thing with Davis. I think they have too many question marks to be a playoff team.
orbrewer
An ERA in the high 3’s or low 4’s for Wolf and Davis puts Milwaukee in the playoffs. An ERA of 4.00 would be over a run lower than the starters put up last season. That would easily be enough to go from 80 wins to 88+ wins.
thelaser69
You could put in the minor league signings section Mark DiFelice. He pitched in something like 50 games out of the ‘pen last year and did pretty well, but lost this season to surgury. Brewers released him and signed him to a minor league deal.
Also, just something to take note of is the deferment of 4 million dollars of Wolf’s salary for this season. That isn’t on Cot’s, but you can google it.
Logjammer D"Baggagecling
Pig Fielder is there only legit hitter.. Braun is far from being anything close to legit
R_y_a_n
Seriously hope that is sarcasm.
losingfaithinmightymelvin
Where’s the dislike button when you need one. Do some research on Braun and you will sing a different tune. Also there is a difference between there, their and, they’re. Buy a dictionary or thesaurus before you post next time.
Yankees420
Hey grammar police, you should probably look in that dictionary you told patchjohnson to buy because there is a big difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus.