It's been reported that the Brewers have submitted an offer now to Craig Counsell. It doesn't seem likely anything will happen before next week's Winter Meetings when GM Doug Melvin can meet with Craig's agent, Barry Meister, face to face. While Melvin won't say whether he is willing to go over one year for Craig, it seems likely that is what the market will demand, or at least some form of a mutual option.
In other news Brewers signed lefty outfielder Trent Oeltjen to a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training. Trent made his big league debut with the D'backs last season and hit .243 with 3 hr and 3 sb in 24 games. Seems like he may compete for a back up outfielder position, or at least provide some AAA depth.
Some other notes on the Zaun signing. Like I said before it is a 1 year deal paying 1.9 million with a 2.25 million dollar club option and 250k buyout. There are 600k in incentives based on games played (no idea how many, but I would guess that at least the first few are very reasonable). Also, Gregg said that during talks with Melvin he was asked about mentoring, which Zaun seemed more than pleased to do. This may be related to bringing up Lucroy to back Gregg up. Also, Zaun said that he is ready to go out there and catch 4 of 5 starters, not an uncommon thing, which would equate to around 130 starts. I think 110 might be more realistic, but that may be more related to how well guys are playing.
It for now. Winter meetings start next week, should be fun. Just in case anyone was wonder, Melvin said the Brewers won't be in on any Roy Halliday trades... how surprising... Brew Up.
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