Dave Bush News

A bit of doom and gloom in Buster Olney's most recent blog post for ESPN -- with a wave of young stars constantly raising the bar in arbitration cases, some of Olney's sources maintain that players are starting to get more through arby hearings than they would get on the open market.

The biggest questions for the Milwaukee Brewers organization this winter all center on a pitching rotation that was dead-last in National League ERA.

Rick Peterson knew he wanted to join the Brewers as soon as he left his interview.

Brewers general manager Doug Melvin plans to move fast in his search for a new pitching coach.

Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said Wednesday he'll sacrifice offense for pitching this offseason.

Brewers lefty Manny Parra will join third baseman Casey McGehee and righty Braden Looper for relatively minor surgeries in the coming days to fix problems that nagged all season.

The rumor mill was buzzing today, with Fox Sports reporting that Rick Peterson may be in line to become the Brewers' next pitching coach.

For the first time in five seasons, Miller Park didn't provide a home-field advantage.

Dave Bush has probably thrown his final 2009 pitch for the Brewers, who are suddenly scrambling to fill the final innings of the season.

On Wednesday, Jeff Suppan will get one final start to put a positive finish onto an injury-plagued year.

Jimmy Rollins had three hits Sunday, including a solo homer, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-5 win over Milwaukee.

What do I mean by the title of this post? Randy Wells comes into tonight's game with 147 innings pitched and a 3.06 ERA.

MILWAUKEE ? The way Cubs manager Lou Piniella sees it, Randy Wells has one more start left this season.

Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez each had two RBI Tuesday in the Chicago Cubs' 7-2 win over Milwaukee.

Are changes ahead for Crew's rotation? Adam McCalvy / MLB.com Dave Bush will take the mound for the Brewers on Thursday in the finale of a four-game series against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio gave his full support to general manager Doug Melvin on Wednesday evening and said he would leave it to Melvin to determine the fate of manager Ken Macha.

CHICAGO a ' When the long baseball season hasn't gone quite according to plan for an individual player, the primary goal is to go home feeling good about himself in some way.

Jody Gerut belted a grand slam to help the Milwaukee Brewers defeat Chicago, 7-4, and salvage a split in a four-game set at Wrigley Field.

From my column over at SportsBubbler.com : To fire or not to fire: that is the question, and a year to the day after the Brewers fired manager Ned Yost, they again may need to answer it.

The Milwaukee Brewers are not blind to the fact that they have no pitching prospects close to being ready for the major leagues.