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theBREWERS? ‘Next Year’ Couldn’t Have Gotten Here Fast Enough for the Milwaukee Brewers
BY CHARLIE VASCELLARO
PHOTOS BY JOHN ANTONOFF New Spring Training digs solidifies the Brewers’ presence in Maryvale and highlights the team’s place at the center of the Cactus League Universe.
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ne of baseball’s best stories, if not the best story in 2018: who would have thought before the season began that the Milwaukee Brewers would have the best record in the National League and come within one game of reaching the World Series? Well me actually, that’s why I laid down $20 at the Caesar’s Palace sports book while Las Vegas odds makers still had the Brewers as 40-1 long shot to win the Series, and we did tout the team’s praises here in the pages of Arizona Key magazine’s 2018 Cactus League Spring Training edition. Credit 32-year-old GM David Stearns with not only assembling a competitive squad at the big league level but also developing a farm system that had the Brewers ranked in the top five in the majors by MLBpipline.com… It should come as no surprise if the Brewers are once again in the thick of the pennant race this year. The “Brew Crew” took the National League and the Central division by storm engaging in an exciting three-team pennant race with the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals providing the major league’s most interesting story line down the stretch battling the Cubs BRANDON WOODRUFF
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