Ned Yost announced his 5 man pitching rotation yesterday, and it goes as follows.

In order: 1. Sheets    2. Suppan    3. Bush    4. Villanueva    5. Parra

I'm guessing when Gallardo comes back he'll take over the 3 spot and everyone will get pushed down a spot with Parra probably going back to the minors until needed later.

   The big surprise here to me is Bush in the 3 spot. He is not a number 3 pitcher. Yost and the guys must have decided experience was the biggest factor in setting the rotation. So Sheets, Suppan, and Bush will be the starters in the opening series in Chicago. Villanueva will start the home opener friday. Then Sheets will start saturday as that would be his normal day and Parra will start sunday on Prince Fielder bobble head day.(Those bobble heads look sweet by the way, he's wearing a crown!)

   So it seems setting Vargas loose has opened it up for the young guys. That's great. Vargas had a career era of almost 5 and was 30 years old with an awful agent. Good riddance. The Brewers will save 2.7 million dollars by cutting him. (They will need to pick up 900,000 of his contract when he signs with a different team. Unless the team signs him for more than his current 3.6 million dollar deal. No team will do that.) Doug Melvin said that money will make it easier for the team to make another trade or pick up a free agent if the team needs help. I wonder if they have something bigger in the works here?

Aramis Ramirez wears ladies stockings. (that's true.)