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Twins get SS Hardy, Brewers get OF Gomez (PA SportsTicker)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:39:43 PST

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI and CHRIS JENKINS AP Sports Writers

Brewers decline option on RHP David Weathers (AP)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:26:49 PST

The Milwaukee Brewers have declined a $3.7 million club option on right-handed reliever David Weathers for next season. Weathers arrived in Milwaukee in a trade with Cincinnati in August and went 1-3 with a 4.88 ERA the rest of the year. He gets a $400,000 buyout and becomes eligible for free agency. The Brewers also are weighing a decision on exercising a 2010 option on starter Braden Looper, who...

Brewers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:07:17 PST

The Brewers are willing to do most anything this winter to improve their inadequate pitching staff.

Except trade Prince Fielder or Ryan Braun.

Despite ongoing speculation—mostly from national pundits—that the Brewers will have to trade one of their two sluggers to acquire a quality starting pitcher, general manager Doug Melvin made it clear he isn't entertaining such thoughts.

Melvin conceded he might have to sacrifice some offense to acquire pitching, but he said that didn't include dealing Braun or Fielder, his Nos. 3 and 4 hitters.

"That would be a tough one," Melvin said. "I don't see that happening."

Melvin and assistant Gord Ash said it would be nearly impossible to get equal value in pitching for either Fielder or Braun, the most...

Large-market teams dominate baseball this year (AP)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:07:01 PDT

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio thought about the teams in baseball's final four this year -- all large-market clubs -- and wondered whether there would be room for his franchise anytime soon. "We don't know if that's a trend or just an aberration," he said. "The disparity among the clubs appears to be widening." Baseball's four league championship series...

Baseball's big bucks: Large-market teams open wallets, get plenty to show for it (The Canadian Press)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:44:30 PDT

PHILADELPHIA - Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio thought about the teams in baseball's final four this year - large-market clubs all - and wondered whether there would room for his franchise any time soon.

Padres hire Hoyer as GM (CBC.ca)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:41:25 PDT

Jed Hoyer was hired Monday as the new general manager of the San Diego Padres.

Ben Sheets planning to pitch in 2010 (SportingNews.com)

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:16:54 PDT

After missing the entire 2009 season after offseason surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon in his pitching arm,...

Storied legacy of sportswriting passed to robot stat monkeys (Yahoo! Sports)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:09:09 PDT

Welcome to the future, where the umpires might not be killer robots just yet, but the sportswriters already...

Berwers hire Rick Peterson as pitching coach (AP)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:33:33 PDT

Rick Peterson knew he wanted to join the Brewers as soon as he left his interview. Help for Milwaukee's beleaguered pitching staff can't come quickly enough. Peterson, 54, was given a two-year contract Tuesday as Milwaukee's newest pitching coach after spending a year out of baseball. He inherits one of the worst staffs in league.

Yankees confident in short-rested Sabathia (Yahoo! Sports)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:00 PDT

Despite last year's meltdown for Milwaukee, CC Sabathia is being counted on to step up in Game 4 of the ALCS.

Report: Venezuela to exhume MLB pitcher Gonzalez (AP)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:12 PDT

Venezuelan authorities reportedly will exhume the body of former major league pitcher Geremi Gonzalez to probe whether he was killed last year by lightning, as an autopsy determined, or was the victim of a deadly robbery. Prosecutors in the western city of Maracaibo plan to exhume the corpse Oct. 29 at his family's request, the newspaper Diario Panorama said Friday, citing unidentified judicial...

Broadcaster Brenly talking managerial job (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:21:00 PDT

Bob Brenly spent his season broadcasting Chicago Cubs games and now he's doing color commentary for the Los...

Were the Phillies big league bullies over a ball? (Yahoo! Sports)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:39:00 PDT

The Phillies returned Ryan Howard's 200th home run ball to a 12-year-old girl after she filed a law suit.