Wake up with a Manny Ramirez Taiwanese dinger and maybe the most electric call in baseball history pic.twitter.com/NrUyG8S2yC
— Barstool BC (@BarstoolBC) April 30, 2017
@Bucks @Brewers I agree with this guy at the DBacks/Rockies game pic.twitter.com/ka5c1UQfUk
— Brad Magnus (@realbradmagnus) April 30, 2017
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When was the last time the Brewers had a Giannis type? The kind of player you see and by the time he's 20 or 21 looks like a future Hall of Famer?
Robin Yount in 1974
Paul Molitor in 1976
Gary Sheffield in 1988?
Pre-positive drug test Braun?
When I think about this type of thing, it's scary to think how loaded that 1982 World Series team was and that that core of players only made it to the post-season twice.
Four Hall of Famers: Yount, Molitor, Sutton, and Fingers
Four other players who played in at least 3 all-star games: Simmons (8), Cooper (5), Money (4), Oglivie (3)
Another guy who hit 40+ home runs multiple times (Gorman Thomas)
Two intangible guys who seemed to play forever (Gantner and Charlie Moore)
A pitching staff with two Cy Young Award winners (Vuckovich and Fingers), another very underrated starter who had the best season by a starting pitcher in Brewer history (Caldwell-1978).
The starting pitching staff was Vuckovich, Sutton, Caldwell, Haas, and McClure - not a stiff among them.
The long-reliever was Jim Slaton - a really solid pitcher for a long time.
What would that roster cost in today's dollars? Molitor and Yount would both be 25-30 million a year players. Cooper would get at least 20 million. Vuckovich and Caldwell would likely get 15-20 million a year each. 30-40 HR power from Thomas and Oglivie would likely get 15 million a year. Fingers would get 15 million. Simmons would get 15 million as well. That's 170 million conservatively just for those 9 guys and that's not counting Sutton, Haas, McClure, and Gantner.
Post PED+ Braun has been pretty damn good too.
Bambi's Bombers and Harvey's Wallbangers.....those were the days.
Missing from the above list, if the criteria is "transcendent players"
Rob Deer
Russell Branyan
Brooks Kieschnick
Junior Guerra might have a shot.
If Fingers pitches in the Series, the Brewers have a banner...
I still wish Gantner had charged the mound and cold cocked Andujar.
Good times......
Who knew 30 some odd years later that would be the teams' peak?
Long story, but I sat in the Brewer's press box counting pitches as the spotter for ......Vin Scully.
Little did I know.
Broxton starting to get it.....hopefully.
Sophia Minnaert, on the other hand, does not.............could she be any more mono tone? I miss what's her face from years back, ended up on MLB Network for a bit. Didn't have big enough boobs though to hang with the pro bimbos.
Game 3 is ours.
Trenni
This is what @BenHeller21 told my bro about what Jesus Aguilar did when they were teammates. Congrats on the first career dinger, Jesus! pic.twitter.com/ih8MXc8Gfz
— Gabe Stoltz (@Stoltzy3) May 5, 2017
