Now that Juan Encarnacion is out of baseball since losing most of the vison in one eye because of an errant foul ball in 2007, heās going political. Heās running for a Senate seat in his home country of the Dominican Republic. Hereās an even more detailed article provided you read Spanish.
With the Brewers two games under .500 and 6 1/2 out, theyāre ready to make changes. Theyāve demoted slumping JJ Hardy to Triple A and DFAāed Bill Hall. Not only that, theyāve fired pitching coach Bill Castro. Castro had been with the organization as the bullpen coach for almost 20 years before getting upped to his new position this year.
Orlando Hudson will be missing a couple days with a groin injury according to Joe Torre. He is currently on a 10 game hitting streak. Torre says it ācould have been worseā. Ouch.
Finally, poor Jamie Moyer. Heās having hard time of it. But as I always tell my kids, you need to find appropriate ways to express your anger. And in the context of Major League Baseball, this is not it.
Couldnāt he just smash a water cooler like every other player??