In light of Colonel's post on the Redlegs, it's an appropriate time to talk about one of their NL Central rivals: The Milwaukee Brewers
During spring training, the only story out of Milwaukee was the "Who's Less Dreadful" contest between Wes Helms and Russell Branyan over at third base. Tonight, though, we see tremendous hope for the Brew Crew: their infield features Prince Fielder at first, Rickie Weeks at second, and J.J. Hardy at short - top prospects all. It's obviously way too early to anoint them the next coming of Teixiera-Soriano-M. Young-Blalock (especially considering that Bill "Don't Call Me Mel" Hall is playing third tonight), but these guys could be the corps of an exciting future in Dairyland.
Add in All-Stars Ben Sheets and Carlos Lee, the improving Doug Davis and Victor Santos, and uber-prospect Jose Capellan (still in the minors; he was the Brewers' steal for dumping Dan Kolb onto Atlanta), and maybe we'll see this division become more competitive in the next few years.
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It will be very interesting to see if the Brewers can get all of their prospects paying off at the same time, the way the Indians did in the early 90s and the way the Rangers are right now. If they do catch lightning in a bottle, they may yet enjoy baseball again in The Good Land. Maybe this is the 2nd coming of Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, Ben Ogilvie, Gorman Thomas, Ted Simmons, Jim Gantner, Pete Vuckovich and Rollie Fingers from that great 1982 team that went to the World Series. That was the last time the Brew Crew played in October.
If there is ever a second coming of Rollie Fingers (with handlebar mustache) I will move from Denver to Milwaukee and purchase season tickets to the Brew Crew games.
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