maybe not in absolute numbers, but certainly as a percentage of total salary. Pretty close to NY, they have Rivera (15M), Farnsworth (6 m) and Hawkins (3.7m),
and the rest are inexpensive. the standard operating practice for small-market teams is to have cheap bullpens. So, who is going to fill in if Gagne, Mota, and
Torres are in their last year with the brewers? Pena had a bad start in Nashville. The guys in the minors might be able to fill in for a couple of the guys in
the pen, but no closer in sight.
0 Kudo
we gotta have one of the most expensive bullpens.
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Posts: 252 April 16, 2008 11:35 PM |
maybe i'm misreading your post, but you know we've got riske, right?
i'm going to paraphrase here: somewhere in the doug melvin/billy beane commandments it says thou shalt not trade top prospects for sample-sizable closers;
to the contrary, thou shalt develop said closers and spin them in such deals when possible.
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riske is going to be here for a couple more years. the other guys I mentioned aren't. need more than one good setup man.
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I'm confused... does the thread title have anything to do with the question posed in the OP?
I can't believe he's gone... -- Luke Skywalker, aboard the Millennium Falcon, clearly
meaning to refer to Brett Favre
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Posts: 98 April 17, 2008 5:54 AM |
I think this year's bullpen was just an example of Melvin throwing everything he could at making the Brewers contenders this year, presumably the last year
Sheets is a Brewer. The bullpen was obviously a weakness last year, just a few less blown 3 run leads and the Brewers were in the playoffs last year. So he
signed who he could, and I thought he did a very good job in that regard.
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Posts: 868 April 17, 2008 9:01 AM |
guys like Stetter and Jackson will eventually be in the pen if they continue to develope. OR in the case of Jackson not develope a change up which seems to be
his problem as a starter. Other than that I don't see any reason why we can't either resign a couple of the releivers or go the exact same route next
off season and get a bunch of other veterans on short term deals.
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Posts: 800 April 17, 2008 10:50 AM |
TooLiveBrew wrote: it was implied that they can't continue to invest so much in the bullpen, so the question is what happens in the (near) future. |
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Posts: 2236 April 17, 2008 11:21 AM |
There is an option on Torres for next year. |
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Posts: 1490 April 17, 2008 11:36 AM |
TooLiveBrew wrote:
I thought the thread title was our strategy. Throw a whole bunch of money to bullpen pitchers....at least it's better than throwing retreads, has-beens
and never-was types out there.....er..... maybe not.
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Posts: 1595 April 17, 2008 11:55 AM |
Riske is signed for 3 years + a club option for a 4th. Torres, as noted above, is held by a club option for 2009. Bush and Villy are both properties of the
Brewers in 2009. So is Cappy, though I am unsure if he ever pitches again. Most likely some or all these guys figure into the mix for 2009 and the Crew pursue
a free agent starter or two.
"We're the big-big-wowowow-look-how-far-i-can-hit-a-ball-moron-brewers. It's our identity".--
holybannana 7/31//08
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