[phantomtollbooth]

In digging through my notes, it occurs to me I should take a step back and explain the Reimer trade. He was a perfectly average player, but IIRC, he could only play LF, and there were plenty of other average players available for cheaper. More importantly, from his ratings, Troy O'Leary seemed ready to be playing every day. Picking up Hurst was basically trying to get anything at all for spare parts. In retrospect I should have been shopping him all offseason.



After dumping Reimer, the Brew Crew ended up with an everyday outfield of O'Leary, Greg Vaughn and Darryl Hamilton. Not too bad.


I also forgot to mention that infielder Bill Doran retired after the 1993 season, freeing up another million dollars to shovel at free agents.


At this point, the primary lineup for the Brewers was:


C Dave Nilsson
1B John Jaha
2B Jeff Cirillo
SS Jose Valentin
3B Bill Spiers
OF Troy O'Leary
OF Darryl Hamilton
OF Greg Vaughn
DH Roberto Petagine
Garret Anderson as supersub across all three OF spots.


SP Randy Johnson
SP David Wells
SP Cal Eldred
SP Jaime Navarro
SP Kirk Rueter (well, until the injury)
RP Tim Davis
RP Doug Henry
RP Eddie Guardado
RP Graeme Lloyd
RP Jackie Nickell
RP Bruce Hurst
CL Jesse Orosco