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this year's (and last year's) callups

morineko — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:45:29 -0000

Hidden inside this game preview was a mention of the deliberations behind this year's roster expansion.

Meanwhile, Macha expects to have "the big talk" in the next day or two with Brewers general manager Doug Melvin regarding which players currently in the Minors will be joining the club on Sept. 1.

"He mentioned that we need to sit down and figure out who will be called up," Macha said. "Last year, a lot of people got called up and some didn't get used. And he's leaning towards not having that happen again. I think that will be a Tuesday conversation."

The situation of last year and this year are reversed. Last year, it was Nashville that had no chance of making the playoffs. Even so, the Brewers chose to call up mostly position players. After Sheets was injured and the team was forced to run Bush, Sabathia and McClung out on short rest for the last weeks of 2008, some more pitchers could have come in handy. DiFelice, Dillard, and Stetter got plenty of work in during September (and waiver claim Coffey also was quite useful.)

This year's Brewers team doesn't seem to have many problems with the bat. It's the pitching that's lacking. Which minor league players do the readers here think would be most helpful, playoff run or no (seriously, no) for the 2009 Brewers this September?

Offline Cubs trolls at the 22 May 09 Brewers-Twins game flying the M flag after a Brewers loss. At...

morineko — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:24:31 -0000

Offline Cubs trolls at the 22 May 09 Brewers-Twins game flying the M flag after a Brewers loss. At the time, the Cubs were down a run to the Padres, BTW.

St. Paul Pioneer Press article on Corey Koskie

morineko — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:59:43 -0000

St. Paul Pioneer Press article on Corey Koskie

Koskie is a Cub now, but the article is definitely relevant to the Brewers as Koskie is not pleased at all with the team's treatment of his post-concussion syndrome.

Weeks, Hardy likely to bat 1-2

morineko — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:50:34 -0000

Weeks, Hardy likely to bat 1-2

Well, at least Macha got the part about Weeks leading off right.

McClung's split indoor/outdoor, not home/away?

morineko — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:52:18 -0000

I was thinking about the proposed home/away pitching platoon involving Seth McClung and Dave Bush. The Bush splits were already well-accounted for by dixieflatline in his post. I don't have the same nifty data analysis tools or the knowledge to work up McClung's away splits in the same method, but I did go over to Baseball Reference to check one of my hunches out. I think I may be correct, because...

...it's not that McClung is awful at home so much as he's not as good indoors as out. (Note: the Miller Park roof was not opened until the end of May in 2008.)

Outdoors, his WHIP is 1.31; indoors, it's 1.45. The big difference is in OPS, with .648 outdoors and .823 indoors.

I'm also wondering about games he's pitched in where the roof has opened and closed during the game. I recall the roof was opened and shut several times during his 6/21 start against Baltimore, but he started 4 other times in parks with retractable roofs and I can't find any data on roof openings in those.