The Milwaukee Brewers were able to score three runs off three one wild pitch Saturday at Coors Field. The Brew Crew went on to beat the Bad News Bears 9-4.
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Check out Jean Segura of the Milwaukee Brewers and Norichika Aoki of the Kansas City Royals doing what they get paid millions to do: Fail miserably.
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Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Carlos Gomez celebrated Mother’s Day by dyeing his goatee pink.
What did you do for your mom? You know you’re the reason she pees a little everytime she sneezes right? Call her.
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According to team officials, Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura will need plastic surgery after teammate Ryan Braun whacked him in the face with a bat Saturday night.
Braun went 1-4 with two hits on the night. One off the pitcher and one off Jean Segura’s dome.
No word on whether Braun will be suspended for 250 games or not. We’ll keep you posted.
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Milwaukee Brewers hotdoggin’ center fielder Carlos Gomez thought he had a home run and went big pimpin’. Unfortunately, the ball fell short, Gomez had a triple and Pirates starter Gerrit Cole took exception.
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It’s going to be a long year for Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and amateur body builder Ryan Braun.
Since returning from his 100-game PED suspension the steroid slugger has struggled at the plate and can expect fans to be anything but forgiving.
However, Braun was showing his brawn in Philly with three homers and seven RBI last night despite being photombed by an ice cream ad that had us all wondering: Is Braun now all natural?
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According to Legion Report, the Colorado Rockies were planning a “stoners night” and would be serving weed brownies for their April 20 game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
The report states:
“The Marijuana Brownies are expected not only sell more tickets, but to boost sales in other concession items, obviously, as the entire Coors Field audience will have ‘The Munchies'”.
However, sorry Cheech and Chong, it turns out the story is false. You can drink all the $8 beers you want at Coors Field, but leave the bong at home.
I hate you, Internet.
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Hank the dog, a walk-on at Milwaukee Brewers camp this spring, got the news Friday that he’s made the team.
Brewers GM Doug Melvin made the announcement:
“Hank, you’re one of the few walk-ons we’ve had here in camp. You’ve been a good teammate. I think that you add to our ballclub.”
Hank was a homeless pooch that the Brewers adopted and he fast became a fan favorite. Hank will fly back to Milwaukee on a private charter flight with Brewer big wigs and will be welcomed to the Milwaukee by the mayor.
Baseball spring training is a grueling couple months spent in the warm winter weather trying to hit a little white ball and avoid sunburns that rivals anything the Navy SEALS have ever had to face.
Baseball is a dangerous game where only the strong survive.
Just ask Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Francisco Rodriguez. He was attacked by a cactus.
Francisco Rodriguez stepped on a cactus yesterday. First freak incident of camp. Status for tomorrow’s game unknown right now. #Brewers
— Todd Rosiak (@Todd_Rosiak) March 12, 2014
Stepping on a cactus in the Cactus League. Irony.
According to the team, K-Rod will be fine. However, the cactus remains at large and should be considered armed and dangerous.
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Time to finally hang up the fantasy football helmet, slip into my official Steve Balboni athletic supporter and get ready for some of the base and the balls talk. Your humble-but-nonetheless-handsome Guru has already given you the top 100 players, the top players by position and now it’s time to go deep sleeping as we find those players that separate the fantasy studs from the fantasy duds.
When drafting catchers I’m not one to go crazy drafting Buster Posey or Joe Mauer in the early rounds – let someone else make that mistake and finish in tenth place. Usually, I grab a catcher late then stream away the hot bat at the position throughout the year. Last season, I owned Jarrod Saltalamacchia, AJ Pierzinski and any other catcher whose name I had to spell check and won my league.
With all that said, let’s go deep sleeping and find the best bargain catchers for 2014 fantasy baseball.
Jonathan Lucroy, Milwaukee Brewers, ADP 8.75: Lucroy was top 10 among catchers in all standard fantasy categories last year, yet he was the 15th catcher taken off the board. OK, maybe Lucroy isn’t as sexy as Brian McCann, but he could be a top three catcher this season who also has first base eligibility. While the power disappeared in the second half last year (just five homers after the All-Star break), he does make contact with a LD% of 22.8, a BABIP of .290, a strikeout rate of 12.7% and the career power numbers sure look sexy enough to me with a HR/FB rate over 10% each of the past three seasons. 2014 Projections: 55/17/66/5/.292
Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals, ADP 10.9: Perez is a middle round steal. Perez is young – just 24 – has the full-time job, doesn’t strike out, hits line drives and has some pop. His stats aren’t too far off from Joe Mauer’s either and you can get him about 7 rounds later. Last season, in 138 games, Perez hit .291 with 13 HRs and 79 RBI with 37 of those coming in the last 50 games. Mauer hit .324 with 11 HRs and 47 RBI in 113 games and is coming off a concussion. I’m sold on my pal Sal. 2014 Projections: 55/14/67/1.293
Jason Castro, Houston Astros, ADP 17.0: As a rookie on a bad team Castro had 18 homers, 35 doubles, ranked third among catchers with .485 slugging percentage and had a tasty LD rate just over 25%. If Lucroy and my pal Sal go too early, Castro is my backup plan. And by backup plan I mean this is probably who I end up with. 2014 Projections: 59/16/56/2/.260
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