Brew Crew Ball on the Brewers' Offense Rebounding

As always, good stuff from BCB.

It's the same basic idea as what I talked about here, except they actually, y'know, use real numbers and come to an actual conclusion. Long story short, we can expect our five core players (Braun, Fielder, Hardy, Hart, and Weeks) to add 5 wins just by rebounding from a bad offensive year last year.

In other news, the Brewers ended their first Spring Training game against the Oakland A's with a 3-3 tie after ten innings. Worth noting, IMO, is that Corey Hart went 2-2 with a home run and a walk. Yes, it's a tiny sample size and not worth extrapolating anything from, but this team needs Hart to be contributing this season, and it's nice to see he's at least capable of putting up some numbers. Hopefully the trend will continue...

Also, I've been meaning to mention this, but I hope that Macha starting Suppan in the first Spring Training game doesn't mean he wants him to be the Opening Day pitcher. As I indicated before, I don't even like the idea of anyone other than Gallardo being the opening day starter, and I especially don't like the idea of Suppan being the opening day starter. I don't think Suppan will be as bad in '09 as he was in '08, but barring a freak occurrence, he's the worst pitcher in the rotation, and it just doesn't make any sense to give him the most starts.