The Milwaukee Brewers announced this afternoon that they are releasing veteran right hand pitcher Claudio Vargas. In doing this the Brewers will receive no compensation for Vargas who was having a solid spring thus far and from any onlookers perspective was pitching himself into the number four spot on the Brewers rotation. The crew might save a little money from his 3.5 million dollar contract by releasing him now, but I just don't see how this can be a great thing for the Brewers.

   Yost said he feels Claudio deserves a chance to pitch in the big leagues, so he didn't want to send him to the minors. With the way injuries go in baseball these days it can't hurt to have more than enough experience in your system as backup. We all know Ben Sheets is going to go down at some point this season with an ingrown ass hair so it's surprising to see the Brewers get nothing for a starting pitcher.

   This obviously means the Crew is going to be depending on youth this season to get it done. So the new rotation will look like this. 1. Sheets 2. Suppan 3. Villanueva/Gallardo 4. Parra 5. Bush. This is pretty exciting to see, but once again disappointing they could get nothing for Vargas.

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