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Milwaukee Brewers Announce Plans to Honor the Great Davey Nelson

The Milwaukee Brewers announced their plans on Sunday, May 6 to honor the memory of Davey Nelson who passed away last month.

Nelson was a member of the Brewers family since 2001 and a former Marjor League All Star infielder. He passed away on April 23 after battling a long illness at the age of 73.

The Brewers will be honoring Nelson in many ways — starting with Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Prior to the game, there will be a moment of silence to remember Nelson.

Additional activities will take place during the Brewers’ June 21 through 24 series against the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Milwaukee Brewers Review After 3 Weeks

A 3-3 week for Milwaukee included a series win (two of three) in St. Louis, and they have won every series there last season and this, getting four in a row. The game they lost to St. Louis was a tough pill to swallow, with the Crew blowing leads in the bottom of the ninth and tenth before losing in the eleventh. Their win Saturday against the Mets (5-1) gives Milwaukee a 6-2 road record on the young season, and 8-7 overall.

Taking a look at the Brewers’ hitting so far, it has definitely been lackluster. Second baseman Jonathan Villar has been the lone significant producer for the Crew. He is batting over .300 for the season and his three-run homer against the Mets on Saturday gives us Brewers fans promise for the rest of his season’s productivity.

Pitching for the Brewers has definitely been one of their weapons so far this season. Josh Hader is throwing the ball really, really well right now and stands head and shoulders above the rest. He gave up a home run, and he walked a guy, with three appearances and 4 2/3 innings pitched. He registered his first save of the year, and of his career. The wow moment is that he struck out twelve batters in the past week. That’s fourteen outs registered, twelve of them by strikeout. His WHIP was 0.43 and I’m beginning to think he might be pretty darn good.

As the Brewers’ series with the Mets begings, they will need to start producing more offense if they are to excel in their division. This will be a difficult task as the Mets have a very young and powerful pitching core.

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Brewers Open 2018 Season With a Win

Winning a game after you give up a two-out hit in the bottom of the ninth is tough. Winning a game when the opposition has second and third with one down in the bottom of an extra inning is tough. Winning a game when you go eight innings with no runs and two hits is tough.

But the Milwaukee Brewers (1-0) managed that in their season opener against the San Diego Padres (0-1) at Petco Field in San Diego. They used great pitching, a couple of two-out rallies, solid defense, and more Ji-Man Choi magic to pull out a very tough win in twelve innings, 2-1.

Brewers’ starter Chase Anderson worked six great innings, picking up where he left off last season. He shut out the Padres over that stretch on one hit, three walks, and six strikeouts. His only blemish on the day was actually a positive for the Crew: he scored the Brewers’ only run in regulation on one of the worst slides in baseball history. Anderson barreled towards home plate, attempting a slide that resulted in him jamming his head into the turf.

The twelve inning game probably means that the Brewers will have to add a bullpen arm before tomorrow’s game. Brandon Woodruff and Oliver Drake are the only relievers that didn’t work today, and it’s too early in the season to expect that tomorrow’s Brewer starter Jhoulys Chacin will give the team more than six innings.

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Milwaukee Brewers “Intent” on Adding Starting Pitcher

Although the Milwaukee Brewers lost out on signing coveted free agent starting pitcher Yu Darvish, the organization is still set on acquiring another starter to help boost the status of their pitching staff. As things stand, Milwaukee projects to have a decent pitching rotation heading into the 2018 season, but the organization lacks in upside compared to division rivals such as the Chicago Cubs, who recently signed YU Darvish to a max contract, and already have a very competitive pitching core.

Currently, Chase Anderson, Zach Davies, and Jhoulys Chacin are the known starters for the Brew Crew, with Brent Suter, Junior Guerra, Aaron Wilkerson, Brandon Woodruff, and Yovani Gallardo set to do battle this spring for the fourth and fifth slots. That aside, Milwaukee has been linked to a multitude of different pitching options that the club is looking at bring aboard.

The most talked about option as of recent has been Oakland Athletics pitcher Jharel Cotton. The recently turned 26 year old was originally a 20th-round pick by the Dodgers back in 2012 but was dealt to Oakland at the trade deadline in 2016 as a part of the Rich Hill deal.

He debuted in the big leagues that September and tossed 29.1 innings with a 2.15 ERA across five starts, though FIP- (90) and DRA- (100) saw some luck involved in that level of run prevention. The 5’11” Cotton posted a 3.65 ERA with 10.1 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9 during 468.1 innings pitched coming up through the minors and after his terrific run down the stretch, he entered 2017 ranked as a top-100 prospect by both Baseball America and Fangraphs.

He features a mid-90s fastball that averaged 93.6 MPH in 2017 along with a cutter, curveball, and his bread-and-butter pitch – a plus-plus changeup. As spring training approaches, the Brewers will continue weighing their options, but expect Cotton to be a prioritized target for the club going forward.