The Real Casey McGehee?

[The Truth]

No, I like the Braun contract. Braun is a legit star. The Bill Hall contract is what I don't want to see Melvin give anyone like Casey or Hart or Hardy or any player who suddenly hits great for one season. We need to put money into pitching. I wouldn't put big money into any position player not named Prince or Braun. Turn the roster over when players hit arbitration (or free agency for a select few) and build a team with pitching and defense.

 

Just imagine how much better the Brewers would be right now if Melvin had traded Hardy, Hart, Hall for pitching after the '07 or '08 seasons and invested Mike Cameron's $$$ into pitching

[Never Outhustled]

Then you should be screaming at Melvin for that contract he gave Braun.

Wow, dude, just wow. You just compared Brauns monster minor league career and 5th overall pick status to McGehee's pedestrian minor league career. Braun had a huge history of success when he signed that extension, even if it wasn't all in the Majors. If McGehee has a good year next, it will be just the 2nd good year he's had since HS.

[Teatoe993]

I really would not mind trading McGehee if it brought anything of value back. If Melvin can't find a good deal for him, I would not mind having him back either. What I do not want to happen is to see Melvin sign him long term. There is probably a reason we picked Casey off the scrap heap. I'm just picturing Wes Helms pt. II if we end up signing him to a deal. It won't cripple the franchise by any means, but it will be our luck that he won't earn the money we pay him. I agree he'd make a good super sub playing behind Gamel & Weeks, and just filling in if either underperform or are injured.

[topper09er]

This offseason would be the perfect time to sell high on McGehee, especailly since we have Gamel waiting to take over. If McGehee will not be a starter and has any trade value he should be traded and we can easily find someone to be a backup 3rd baseman. That of course means Melvin wont trade him because he is too conservative and never wants to trade a young player with any "potential" because he doesnt want to regret it if the guy turns out to be good, but he doesnt realize that doesnt happen very much and we would be better off overall if he just sold high on all of these guys who were never great but had shown some major league potential (Hart, Hardy, Hall).

[endaround]

Then you should be screaming at Melvin for that contract he gave Braun.

Wow, dude, just wow. You just compared Brauns monster minor league career and 5th overall pick status to McGehee's pedestrian minor league career. Braun had a huge history of success when he signed that extension, even if it wasn't all in the Majors. If McGehee has a good year next, it will be just the 2nd good year he's had since HS.

 

It has nothing to do with McGehee its the idea that signing Hall was a franchise killing move and that it even was the wrong thing to do. The point is that long term contracts aren't this evil thing that always has to be avoided.

[TheCrew07]

True big contracts are not the devil, but I didn't/wouldn't classify Hall as a cornerstone player. Braun had enough talent and production out of the gate to get signed right away. Fielder had enough talent and production out of the gate to be signed right away. The rest of the gang, not so much.

 

I'd like to build around 2-3 position players, and 2-3 pitchers, and have a revolving door around the rest.

 

Signing players to long term deals isn't the problem, signing the wrong player to a deal is.

[endaround]

Yeah but Hall wasn't given this huge contract either. $8m at its highest level would be what an average player could be expected to earn. Meaning that there was a great deal of fall off already built into the contract, Hall just crashed past that.