The Crane Pool Forum

Familiar faces in different places:

- Corbin Burnes … the CY winner in ’21 (plus three other top tens) will be slinging it for Baltimore this year after an off season trade

- Brandon Woodruff, the other co-ace in recent years will start this one on the IL where he’ll likely miss the entire season

- Lefty hurler Wade Miley has a short term injury but it’ll be enough for him to miss this series

- Devin Williams, the top notch RH reliever [1.53 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 38 Saves] who went from setting up Josh Hader to later replacing
him has a stress fracture in his back which will shelve him until June at a minimum


New Faces:

- Rhys Hoskins, phormer Phillie who blew out his knee in a non-contact play during the WBC a spring training game a year ago
signed with Milwaukee in the off-season and will presumably make the majority of starts at 1B

- OF Jackson Chourio, MLB’s #2 ranked prospect* will open the season with the big club just two weeks past his 20th birthday.
And why not seeing as how he’s already signed an eight-year contract prior even to his ML debut.


* And also the #2 ranked Jackson but #1 prospect Jackson (son of Matt) Holliday will Not start the season with the Orioles

Here’s the Brewers opening day roster
Pitchers
DL Hall, Bryan Hudson, Jakob Junis, Trevor Megill, Hoby Milner, Joel Payamps, Elvis Peguero, Freddy Peralta, Colin Rea, Joe Ross, Abner Uribe, Thyago Vieira, Bryse Wilson.

Hitters
Willy Adames, Jake Bauers, Jackson Chourio, William Contreras, Sal Frelick, Rhys Hoskins, Andruw Monasterio, Joey Ortiz, Blake Perkins, Gary Sánchez, Brice Turang, Christian Yelich.

Later

The M/B logo that is also the glove holding the baseball is maybe my all time favorite team logo (that isn't the NYC skyline with Mets in front of it in a beautiful script, of course).

I mean, that's it, right there

I've always liked that too. Very clever.

I don't much care for that logo. Yeah its a glove, I get it. very clever. But it's not like its a swinging friar.