On the bus ride back to Maryvale Baseball Park after an ugly loss to the Cubs on Thursday, Brewers skipper Ken Macha was hot. And it had nothing to do with the above-average temperatures in the Valley of the Sun. In the 7-4 loss, Macha figures his team spotted the Cubs 14 baserunners, 11 on [...]
The paydays just keep on coming. The Brewers on Friday finalized one-year contracts with reliever Carlos Villanueva and catcher Mike Rivera, leaving right-hander Yovani Gallardo as the only pre-arbitration player — and the only member of the 40-man roster — yet to reach terms for the upcoming season. Gallardo, who turned 23 on Friday, remains [...]
Stressing that the order could change before Opening Day, Brewers manager Ken Macha set his Spring Training starting rotation on Monday and tabbed right-hander Jeff Suppan to pitch Wednesday’s Cactus League opener against the A’s. Suppan will be followed by Yovani Gallardo at Mesa, Ariz., against the Cubs on Thursday. Manny Parra, the lone left-hander [...]
Trevor Hoffman will close games this season for the Brewers, but how will the rest of the bullpen shape up? Manager Ken Macha offered few clues during the first week of Spring Training workouts, saying that he’d make decisions about roles later in camp, or perhaps not at all. “I will probably sit down with [...]
These days, the only thing big about Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder is his new contract. A trimmer Fielder, who inked a two-year, $18 million extension last month, concedes that he “clearly” packed on some extra pounds last year. He vowed to keep them off in 2009. “Unfortunately, I can get huge,” Fielder said, cracking [...]
The team, the colors, the uniform and the environment are all different this spring for Trevor Hoffman, Major League Baseball’s all-time leader with 554 saves. Only his number remains the same. “There wasn’t anybody on the roster with it,” Hoffman said earlier this week in an exclusive interview with MLB.com. “So they gave me No. [...]
It looks like the legion of Milwaukee fans which has been itching to see their newest prospect, power-hitting catcher Brett Lawrie, stride to the plate in a Brewers uniform may have to wait just a little bit longer. And the legion of Team Canada fans which has enjoyed watching the teenage phenom sport the maple [...]
Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin said it all winter, until he turned a Brewers shade of blue in the face: Short of discovering a gold mine buried under Miller Park, there was no way the team could replace CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets. Yet replacing those co-aces is precisely the challenge currently facing the Brewers, [...]
Unfinished business couldn’t keep Brewers outfielder Corey Hart from the practice fields on Sunday. Hart still does not have a 2009 contract, and each day brings him closer to the unpleasant reality of an arbitration hearing that’s scheduled for Wednesday. Yet Hart was among the Brewers’ position players who reported early for camp, and he’s [...]
Brewers right-hander Yovani Gallardo said he has yet to make a decision about representing Mexico in next month’s World Baseball Classic, but it appears that his desire to pitch a full season for the Brewers could force him to pass on a chance to play for his country. “Obviously, my main focus is to pitch [...]
