Day Off

Brewers place Rickie Weeks on 15 DL. Hernan Iribarren gets the call up. This is his second call-up, the first being in April. He is batting .273 w/ 14 steals. He and Dillon should get split playing time. With Weeks on the DL, this should allow him ample amount of time to head a sprained knee. Hopefully he comes back a-blazing. Last season he came back and looked damn good. Hernan has two hits on the season, one against the Cards the other against NY Mets. I will now misspell his name in the rest of my posts.



As I mentioned/thought earlier, the injury to Rickie Weeks knee this past weekend appears to be pretty serious. Jeff Baker slid in to second blatently late and lead-leg high to take out/break up the double play attempt. The right leg crashed in just-under Weeks' left knee.

I guess my question that I have is why there wasn't any retalliation for this? It was blatent. It was 'hard baseball'...yes. But you have to stick up for your teammates in a situation like this. By throwing a little chin music you even the score. That's baseball. Plus, it could've been a good kick in the ass for the Brewers that day...an igniter if you will. Instead, they looked a tad soft. I guess Yost will play beam ball at the end of a pennant race (Cardinals ala 2007), but not in early June while on the road, down by a game in the series. Sad.

This could open the door for Callix Crabbe to be called up and platoon at second from Nashville. This is the same player who was aquired by Rule 5 draft from San Diego back in mid-May. He could rotate with Dillon and get some Big League reps.

Weeks will more than likely go on the 15 day DL and could even be worse depending on the test results back in Milwaukee, where he currently is.

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Doug Melvin may have his eye on Baltimore's Brian Roberts! Although he tried to squash the rumor, this would be great addition. Of course, this theory could all change now that the targeted Brewer was Rickie Weeks (injury). Weeks is claimed by Milwaukee until 2011 while Roberts is a free agent at the end of the season. Roberts' stock has fallen since trade talks with the Cubs were held this past spring. This trade rumor was started by none other than Ken Rosenthal, so there is some substance here.

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Cameron dropping out of the 2 spot

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More on Brett Lawrie. This kid will be a stud in the future. SIGN HIM

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BIGTEN Network will air a day long special on June 19th covering University of Wisconsin...in order to fill their lack of events.

Evan Frederickson interview by Rightfield Bleachers.