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reillymcshane

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Willingham has pretty much been a leftfielder, and not a very good one. You'd probably have to move Braun to RF to play him. Unless you let him try 1B.

 

Cuddyer plays a pretty bad RF. You could put him at 1B.

 

Both are righthanded - and we are seriously lacking in a lefthanded power with Prince leaving.

 

Both guys offer bad fielding in the OF. Neither offers much power versus right handers (though they aren't terrible). Both will probably make $8-10 million a year for probably 3 years. Both will be 33 at the start of 2012.

 

I say for the price you skip it. Go with Gamel at 1B at $500,000. If he can get an .800 OPS, he's doing great. You can bring on someone to to get some ABs versus lefthanders if you're concerned about Gamel's splits.

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Metrics vs. eyeballs. Here we go again.

 

I've watched Cuddyer his entire career and can safely say he's a solid RF defensively. Listening to how folks rag on Braun's defense on this site all the time even though in many folks' estimations he's just fine, folks up here in the Twin Cities don't have similar complaints about Cuddyer's D.

 

I'm not saying Cuddyer's the right guy for the Brewers. I like him a lot but I don't see an obvious fit without a series of other moves that still may not amount to a net gain in talent or talent/payroll. I just think it's way too easy to look at metrics that are far from fully reliable and using that as an ultimate judgement.

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I would love to try Willingham at 1B for a year or two, provided they don't want to give the job to Gamel. I think he could mash if he got to play in a better hitter's park. He's always been a solid hitter.
Agree. He's had some nagging injuries here and there. But if you could get him for a decent price, it would be a good alternative. And, of course, you don't trust Gamel, or you use Gamel in some other fashion (trade, back up, whatever).
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Cuddyer seems like a type of player that Dean Taylor would have signed. Namely a fringe player on a good team or the best player on a horrible team. I see nothing to get excited about, he kind of smacks of a rich man's Sean Berry actually. He's old and will likely be on the decline, hits right handed, hasn't played 3B much in recent years, and I don't think that he will put up numbers much better than Gamel at 1B (if given a full season). Let the Twins or someone else overpay.
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Cuddyer seems like a type of player that Dean Taylor would have signed. Namely a fringe player on a good team or the best player on a horrible team. I see nothing to get excited about, he kind of smacks of a rich man's Sean Berry actually. He's old and will likely be on the decline, hits right handed, hasn't played 3B much in recent years, and I don't think that he will put up numbers much better than Gamel at 1B (if given a full season). Let the Twins or someone else overpay.
Very well said. We don't need to sink $10 million into a guy like this. He's a decent player - but not at the price, years and age he'll be during the course of the contract.
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I think the Brewers are about 99% certain that McGehee will have a bounce-back season.
It's mind-blowing that they seem to be ready to just count on it. It's not like he was a special player prior to last season.
Agree 100% brettac...McGehee should be DFA'd...not counted on to bounce back. I shudder at the thought of seeing him at 3rd for 130 games next year..
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I think the Brewers are about 99% certain that McGehee will have a bounce-back season.
It's mind-blowing that they seem to be ready to just count on it. It's not like he was a special player prior to last season.
http://www.thebrewersbar....hee-bounceback-2012.html

 

Brewer Bar did a look at McGehee as they wondered if he could come back. The looked at players who had experienced similar collapses of similar age, experience, and wondered if those players were able to rebound. The results are not very encouraging.

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