Money Well Spent??

Baseball season is now 2 weeks old so I figured I would leave my first of probably many rants on the Milwaukee BRewers.

So far they have looked good enough and Yost really hasn't been able to 'Yost' the team yet. One thing that is getting me worried is the lack of any kind of production from Fielder. He has really done nothing yet this year. That aside, I still think the team needs to resign their cornerstone players this year. In order they would be Braun, Fielder, Hart, Sheets, Weeks, Villeneuva, Gallardo, and then the role players.

Looking at the actual team salaries they do have money that they could have spent on these players coming into this season, but should have next year for sure. By my calculations they should have over32 million. (That is just the salaries of Sheets, Gagne, Cameron, and Kendall), and if they could somehow move the salaries of Capuano and Bush and Turnblow, that would be another $10 million. They could resign all those players listed for $42 million. Plus Torres, Moto, and Riske make $10 milliona combined, and I do not know the status of their contracts.

As much credit I give the organization for actually spend money for the first time in 25 years, they may have spent their money worse than any other organization in the league.

• Why do we need Cameron when Kapler is hitting the way he is now. He is actually feared out there.
• With already 2 blown saves in 5 tries and an ERA over 7 Gagne is already a bust. Turnblow is a total bust and is useless.
• Counsell gets one at bat a week and usually strikes out and hits into a double play, so why did we resgin him?
• Bush just sucks and Capuano may never pitch again.
• Riske and Torres are doing alright but Moto has gotten lit up in two games straight.

My one wish this year besides making the playoffs for the first time in 25 years is that the upper-heads with the Brewers stop spending money on these "gritty vets" and role players and spend it on the cornerstone of the organization.