Brewers increase the depth of the back-up catching options behind Lucroy

So his teams wins 11 out of 12 to get above .500 and then resigns. There has to be more to this than the decision to decline to pick up his 2012 option.

It look more favourable for the Brewers than 1st might of been thought with atleast $18million to be deferred for 2022-31 interest free. Even the signing bonus is a more managable since it is over 4 years 2012-15.

Sounds like that re-habilitation is going well

Cueto is to miss the start of the season so Homer Bailey is likely to pitch in the 2nd game of the season.
I don't want to see players get hurt but this is good news for the Crew

I saw this linked by Rob Neyer on his blog, Thought it might be of use for some people here.

The Rockies are to be the visitors on the 5th April.
The Crew also play the Cubs in their home opener 7 days later.

Not much surprise here, it was probably between him and Bob Melvin as to which manager got fired 1st.

Al is reporting that Harden will be going onto the DL when Zambrano comes back. I suppose it was only a matter of time before Harden made his annual journey to the DL.

So the Cubs decide that having a guy that can jump a car is not actually helping the baseball team so instead trade him for a guy on the DL.

Assuming that Hoffman opens the season the DL it looks like Macha has indicated the Villanueva is the preferred option to close.

Looks like we will need to have somebody else close games to begin the season.

No surprise here, Gange is going to try to rehab in private rather than in the Brewers minor league system, saving the Crew some cash

At the bottom of this article it gives a list of nationally televised games that the Brewers will play in.
I cant remember the last time that the crew were scheduled to appear on Sunday night baseball in the 1st half of the season, I assume that they had a game the 1st year Milller Park opened but since then I can't remember any.
It does mean that I will be able to see them live on TV here in Scotland since that is one of the 2 games that we get each week live.

I am not suprised although from a Brewers point of view one year of Sheets at around $15 million would of been pretty good.

In terms of deal very similar to Suppan's

Looks like the Braves done quite well for a guy who is only a 3 month rental. Kotchman has still got 2 more years until free agency
The Rays and D'Backs had also made offers

Apparently, although Yost ruled it out a couple of days ago Braun and Fielder have requested to swap positions in the line-up (Thankfully not their fielding positions!)