GM Doug Melvin is calling it “financial flexibility.” The Brewers have already saved $10 million by not picking up the option on Mike Cameron, now today Melvin announced the team will not pick up the $6.5 million mutual option on starting pitcher Braden Looper. Looper led the Brewers with 14 wins last season, but also [...]
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Thoughts on the Hardy-Gomez Trade
On Friday the Milwaukee Brewers traded shortstop J.J. Hardy to the Minnesota Twins for center fielder Carlos Gomez. Thursday, I read a rumor on sportsillustrated.com that said Minnesota and Milwaukee were in talks about Hardy but the player Milwaukee would get in return would be left-handed starting pitcher Glen Perkins.
I was excited at the possibility [...]
The Great Home Run Celebration Debate
Okay so by now we have all seen the Milwaukee Brewers team celebration following the walk-off home run victory September 6th at Miller Park against the San Francisco Giants. If you haven’t, you can see it from the stands here http://deadspin.com/5354587/baseball-pretends-to-be-appalled-by-prince-fielders-home-run-celebration or just go to the Brewers’ website for the actual video during the game [...]
Rate my team
Like I mentioned in my last post, I got to participate in my Fantasy Baseball draft over the weekend. Since I’m sure a good chunk of leagues will be holding their draft over these next few days, I thought I’d share with you how our first couple of rounds went along with my draft strategy [...]
Fantasy Baseball - You should give it a try
This past Friday night, we held our annual WKBT-TV Fantasy Baseball draft. This is a league I have been running for about the past 5 years now. The NewsChannel 8 sports department currently holds bragging rights as Aaron Matas won last season and I took the title the year before that. But even if I finish in [...]