danandsteve.com - 11/10/2009
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Posted by Steve
Quite a bit to talk about in the aftermath of the J.J. Hardy trade. This off-season will really be all about starting pitching, so that’s what I’ll largely focus on here.
Before we get into that, though, the Brewers made the correct move in declining the $3.7 million ...
Should the Brewers Sign John Lackey?
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 11/10/2009 — I'm skeptical, but Buster Olney is more optomisitic than I: "Remember, it was only a year ago when Milwaukee offered CC Sabathia a $100 million deal, so the Brewers clearly are prepared to pay big dollars for a big-time starting pitcher. And they ...
Melvin did meet with Lackey's agent
brewersbeat.mlblogs.com 29 days ago — Brewers general manager Doug Melvin may be downplaying his club's chances of landing the top pitcher on this year's free agent market, but don't count Milwaukee out of the John Lackey sweepstakes just yet. According to a Major League source,...
Brewers Rumor Mill - John Lackey Edition
wisconsinsportstap.com 11/10/2009 — It's no secret the Brewers are going to need to acquire pitching if they want to be successful in 2010, and unfortunately the list of potential candidates is slim. And since one of the Brewer's largest trading chips, JJ Hardy, was traded to the Twins ...
Brewers eye free agent pitching market
brewersbeat.mlblogs.com 29 days ago — Surprise, surprise. Brewers general manager Doug Melvin spent his time at this week's General Managers Meetings in Chicago focused on pitching. Melvin spoke this week with agent Arn Tellem, who represents free agent left-hander Randy Wolf, and Steve ...
Know Your Rivals Offseason: Brewers
talkingchicagobaseball.com 28 days ago — While all is pretty quiet on the Cubs front for right now (knowing that Milton could be moved at any moment) I think its a good idea to look at the offseason situation for the rest of the teams in the NL Central. Today the Cubs little brothers up north the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Brewers were ...
Blogging the Offseason: Milwaukee Brewers
simononsports.blogspot.com 29 days ago — Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here. Today's team NL is the ...
The most interesting offseason in Milwaukee Brewer history
thesportsbank.net 22 days ago —
By Jake McCormick
Milwaukee Brewer GM Doug Melvin is taking a page from the Batman book of rebuilding. At the end of Batman Begins, Michael Caine asked Christian Bale what the billionaire is going to do in regards to rebuilding Wayne Manor. Bale responds that he’s going to tear down the ...
Brewers Trade Hardy, hundreds of tweens weep
cutesports.blogspot.com 11/8/2009 — I'm at work with limited internet availability, so I can only provide you with the text of the article my boyfriend sent me. I even forgot my phone at home, so I'm even Twitter-less. Alcides Escobar more than proved his worth this season and showed ...
Brewers Unlikely to Be Major Players For Lackey
mlbtraderumors.com 25 days ago — In their roundup of the talk at the GM meetings, Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi at FOX Sports report that the Milwaukee Brewers aren't likely to land John Lackey . While the report notes that the Brewers need starting pitching, it suggests they're ...
Odds and ends
danandsteve.com 24 days ago — Posted by Steve
For the most part, the off-season has begun the way I was hoping. The Brewers declined David Weathers’ option (admittedly, this should have been a no-brainer). Then on Friday they announced they were also declining to pick up the $6 million option for Braden Looper.
What ...
CF Cameron files for free agency (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 11/9/2009
The Mike Cameron era in center field for the Milwaukee Brewers ended Monday when the 15-year veteran filed for free agency. Cameron's spot will be taken by Carlos Gomez, who was acquired Friday from Minnesota for shortstop J.J. Hardy. Four other ...