Disciples of Uecker

When Carlos Gomez signed his extension in mid-March, Doug Melvin spoke about the importance of locking up his young “up-the-middle” starters. Gomez joined Jonathan Lucroy in being signed through 2016. Now, it looks like the Brewers may be looking to keep another young star in… [More]

Following Wednesday’s loss to the Pirates, the Brewers announced they were optioning Khris Davis down to Triple-A Nashville. Most people seemed to guess it meant Jeff Bianchi was ready to end his rehab assignment and come off the disabled list, and today we found out… [More]

While the Brewers’ bullpen has stabilized a bit recently, it’s never a bad idea to add an insurance policy. Well, maybe almost never, depending on your opinion of the Brewers bringing Francisco Rodriguez back. The Brewers announced after Wednesday night’s walkoff win that they were… [More]

As bad as things have been to start the year, the last thing the Brewers needed was another distraction from one of the faces of the franchise. Of course, when your best starting pitcher gets arrested for driving with a BAC of 0.22 — almost… [More]

As we are fond of noting here at DoU, baseball’s latest collective bargaining agreement makes it tougher for small-market teams to stockpile and overpay draft picks. As a result, teams are starting to explore other avenues to collect young, controllable talent. It’s a good thing,… [More]

When the Brewers basically lost a game on Sunday because they ran out of position players, the consensus was that the team needed to make a move for the Cubs series to ensure something similar would not happen again. Ideally, that move would be removing… [More]

Aramis Ramirez’s knee injury isn’t as bad as it looked on Friday night, but it will still land him on the 15-day disabled list. To replace Ramirez on the roster, the Brewers called up outfielder/utility man Josh Prince. Ramirez has a sprained right knee, the… [More]

When the Brewers signed free agent Kyle Lohse, much was made about the team giving up its 17th overall pick to do so. The less-reported (and more damaging) penalty for signing a free agent attached to draft compensation, though, is the loss of pool money… [More]

The importance of the Opening Day roster and the last few guys to make the cut is always a little overblown — there’s always so much movement with those final two or three spots that it doesn’t really matter who starts out there — but… [More]

Everyone knew Yovani Gallardo would be the Brewers’ Opening Day starter, but the Brewers made the somewhat-official-announcement Friday when they released their probable pitchers for the first three games of the season. Gallardo will take the ball on April 1 when the Brewers host Colorado,… [More]