Melvin's comments before Winter Meetings

[tigerbrew]

Read somewhere that the Dodgers are one of the teams interested in Weeks. Would Weeks for Kemp interest anyone?

[zzzmanwitz]

I'm about as big of a Weeks backer as there is and there are very few players out there that I would be willing to give up Weeks to get.

Saying that, Kemp is definitely one of those players. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[yoshii8]

Read somewhere that the Dodgers are one of the teams interested in Weeks. Would Weeks for Kemp interest anyone?

 

Do you have a link? I would be very interested in a deal for him or Ethier, but I'm not sure the Dodgers would be interested in a one for one deal.

[JohnBriggs12]

Of all the comments from Melvin, I find those about Weeks to be the most curious. Here's a guy he felt compelled to replace down the stretch last season, and now he's somehow basically untouchable? Which is it Doug? You say one thing "Weeks was near the top in runs scored for leadoff men blah, blah, blah", then you go out and find a guy (Durham) to boost the offense after which Weeks, when he did play, was hitting 7th, not leadoff.

He's trying to increase Weeks' value. Your bargaining position is much stronger if you appear content with a player.

 

Isn't it a little late to talk Weeks up after you've shown a lack of confidence in him by going out and getting Durham for the stretch run last season? I'm not saying Weeks is a terrible leadoff option, but it was the Brewers who decided to take him out of that role last August. The fact is the Brewers need help at the top of the order and they need a lefthanded bat. Weeks does and should have some trade value whether Melvin talks him up or not. Talking him up like Melvin did in light of last season sounds hollow to me.

[nate82]

In Hardy's case, Jack Wilson is apparently a highly sought after commodity this offseason, so that should speak to the scarcity of quality SS available right now.

The Astros are apparently also shopping Miguel Tejada. The Dodgers and Twins have shown interest in Tejada. To me the Dodgers make more sense than the Twins.

[Hate those Rodents]

If we could trade Weeks for Kemp and then Hart for Kelly Johnson, I'd be quite happy.

[nate82]

I forgot to post a link to the articles about the Astros making Tejada available. Fox Sports Link and the Houston Chronicle Link.

[Ennder]

You are reading way too much into picking up Durham, he was a depth move not a replacement

[LouisEly]

In two years though the core will also consist of Gamel, Gillespie, Cain, Escobar and Salome, so you probably arent going to be giving huge raises to all the players you mentioned, you'll probably trade a few of them. The Brewers complete inability to develop pitching is really showing its ugly face right now because not only are we looking for starters, but also relievers, and we have zero options in house to fill them, except for possibly Dillard and Stetter.

 

The first part - 'zactly. Plus you can possibly add Aguilar, Jeffress, and maybe others (Lucroy, Pena, Periard, Nelson, DiFelice, Welch, Wright, Iribarren) to that list, and Gallardo and Parra will be cheap for two more seasons. Sabathia may cost a lot, but they will have plenty of guys to fill out a number of starting spots and the bench at the ML minimum. (Maybe we'll get lucky and the Yankees will have so many injuries at SP that they will take Suppan off our hands early, freeing up more salary.) The rotation in 2010 could be Sabathia, Gallardo, Parra, DiFelice, Welch/Wright (if they can trade Suppan), in which case the total salary of the five starters could be only $25M, worst case $37M if they can't trade Suppan. $37M for a starting rotation with Sabathia, a legitimate #2 (Gallardo) and #3 (Parra), and average #4/#5 starters (with Jeffress and Periard waiting in the wings). By golly, this Melvin guy might just know what he is doing.

 

I was going to post the same thing about Abreu... I don't know if Hart can man CF but Abreu would be a perfect addition if the can offset that with trading Cameron (or package Hart with Suppan for something).

[TooLiveBrew]

Abreu would have to play LF in order to not entirely kill us defensively, & Hart can't handle CF without costing us runs either. If we're going to keep an aging OF, Cameron is a far better choice to Abreu imo.

[logan82]

Looking at wOBA over the last 3 years and using it to compare Mike Cameron and Abreu, I think that an outfield of Braun/Cameron/Hart would more than make up the difference in offense over a Abreu/Hart/Braun outfield with defense.

 

2006-17.2 runs

2007-13.5 runs

2008-7.8 runs

 

(Abreu wOBA-Cameron wOBA)/1.15*600PA