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2013-05-17 Brewers (Peralta) at Cardinals (Garcia), 7:15 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 7-6]

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That is exactly what I am saying, and if he let Mark Attanasio dictate the "strategy", then he's part of the problem, too.

 

We have a guy down here in Dallas, Jerry Jones, who is an owner and GM. He likes to fancy himself a football guy. His one stroke of luck was signing Jimmy Johnson as head football coach, and with Johnson making all the football decisions, and "buying the groceries" (making draft decisions, personnel moves), they won three Super Bowls. Two with Johnson at the helm, and one with the team he built. Since Johnson was fired, the Cowboys have won one playoff game. One. Why? Because Jerry Jones can't butt out. He is there to sign the checks, and market his team. Mark needs to do the same thing. Put people in place to make sound baseball decisions, sign the checks, and show up at home games.

 

An honest assessment of where this team was at before the 2013 season should have dictated we not sign an old pitcher, giving up a much needed first round draft pick. We weren't going to realistically compete for a playoff spot unless our hitters performed at near 2012 levels, and one or more of our young pitchers really stepped up.

 

Everybody and their mother picked the Brewers for fourth place, third at very best. Why? Because everybody has it out for the Brewers? Or, maybe because they were able to gauge our overall talent level, and see we couldn't compete in our own division with the Cardinals and Reds.

 

I don't think Attanasio micromanages the team on the same level as Jerry Jones does with the Cowboys, he's probably somewhere in between Jones and when ownership stays completely out of team building as is the case in Green Bay.

 

Mark isn't there in the draft room telling Seid who to pick and likely isn't involved with any smaller type of moves on the big league roster, but i do think he's both super competitive and very protective of seeing 2.5-3 million fans filling Miller Park, so he involves himself in free agent signings like Suppan, Ramirez, and Loshe. He either just gives the ok or pushes for trades of Marcum and Greinke.

 

His taking over the team has mostly been a huge positive, but hyper-competitive owners in any pro sport who take pleasure in being involved with roster construction can sometimes have a negative effect.

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Seriously need to trade as much as possible for as many pitching prospects as we can get

 

They don't really have the prospects, but they hopefully will have the MLB offensive ones to be able to dangle in a trade. I really wish Weeks was doing well, and Hart comes back strong, because they are the ideal candidates to trade. I'd also dangle Gallardo depending on the return.

 

Ya I was hoping we could do something with weeks for sure......and ya gallardo isn't a bad idea also I was hoping yuni would keep doing good so we could trade him too

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It's not velocity that's the problem with Wily. At some point, you have to figure he's going to put it together, because he's got all the things a successful starter needs. He's got nasty stuff, he gets a lot of ground ball outs. At least, he did in the minors.

 

I certainly hope something clicks soon. We really, really need him to step up.

 

We all hope for that, but if you look at his minor league stats, he had a career 1.410 WHIP. A poor K/BB ratio. The only really good thing he did was not serve up a lot of home runs.

 

If Peralta didn't throw as hard as he does, he'd likely have never been called up to the majors yet.

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His price tag for next year (including deferred money) may not be optimal but man that guy can still hit.

 

I'm actually starting to think 3/36 for ARam was a bargain.

 

Oh I agree. The only bummer is that we weren't able to do anything with the big year he had last year - and we've got a long way to go before it will look like we can do anything this year.

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