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Some things to read while holding a pineapple.
We are still 73 days away from Milwaukee Brewers pitchers and catchers reporting to Maryvale Baseball Park to open spring training, but we’re learning a fair amount about the likely 2015 team this week while Doug Melvin and company attend the annual winter meetings in San Diego.
After spending a fair amount of the offseason claiming their roster is nearly set, for example, yesterday the Brewers all but confirmed that they’re still looking for bullpen help. It might be awhile before we see anything come from that search, however, as Doug Melvin told Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that prices are still a little too high at this point, and told Adam McCalvy of MLB.com “it’s too close to the holiday season.”
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