Batting Average Leaderboard

Name Team Name BA

Brad Polczynski Smashin' Assassins .833

Mark Kadlec Boy Toyz .800

Garret Newkirk Big Hard Dirty .714

Ryan Anderson Smashin' Assassins .667

Jim Gross Smashin' Assassins .667

Mike Keith J-Bonz .667

Dan Zier J-Bonz .667

Gary Anderson Iron Waffl e .625

Robert Kniprath Smashin' Assassins .600

Rich Tower Boy Toyz .600

Steve Hepp Iron Waffl e .571

Tony Peltier Big Hard Dirty .571

Robb Slak Iron Waffl e .571

Chris Teske Big Hard Dirty .571

Tim Adamany Boy Toyz .500

Greg Beaubien Sweet and Sour .500

Tim Duex Boy Toyz .500

Jason Holtz Iron Waffl e .500

Lew Krisberg J-Bonz .500

Mike Martin Iron Waffl e .500

David Maruska Boy Toyz .500

Don Quinones Boy Toyz .500

Eric Scott Boy Toyz .500

Matt Varney Sweet and Sour .500

Jeffrey Hahn Big Hard Dirty .429

Randy Oswald Sweet and Sour .429

Ron Schoenbach Sweet and Sour .429

Dennis Johnson Big Hard Dirty .400

Edward Oswald Sweet and Sour .400

Jerry Thornsen J-Bonz .400

Joel Winn Big Hard Dirty .400

A BIG THANK YOU TO SCOTT ABRAMS and GREG BEAUBIEN

FOR COMPILING THE STATS.

Fantasy Camp StandingsAfter 2 games

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BIG HARD DIRTY 2 0

IRON WAFFLE 2 0

SMASHIN’ ASSASSINS 1 1

J-BONZ 1 1

SWEET AND SOUR 0 2

BOY TOYZ 0 2

Tuesday’s ResultsMorning Games

Iron Waffl e - 4 J-Bonz - 2

Big Hard Dirty - 7Sweet and Sour - 5

Boy Toyz - 7Smashin’ Assassins - 12

Afternoon Games

Big Hard Dirty - 11 Boy Toyz - 5J-Bonz - 6

Smashin’ Assassins - 4Iron Waffl e - 13

Sweet and Sour - 11

If You Were the Commissioner of Baseball

Pitch Clock for Minor Leagues

Campers Wish List

Without fail, at every Fantasy Camp I’ve been to, I hear campers talking about who they’d like to see coach at a future camp. If you ask my wife, Amy, she’ll give you a big smile with an emphatic “BILLY SPIERS!” Like wishing on a shooting star, I posed the question to this year’s campers to fi nd out what former Brewer they would like to see coach or coach again at fantasy camp without using the name Robin Yount or Paul Molitor. Here are the answers:

Ron Schoenbach - Richie Sexson and Ben Sheets; Josh Schwiesow - Ben Sheets; Jeff Hahn - Geoff Jenkins;Dennis Johnson - Charlie Moore and Bill Hall; Scott Foulke - Paul Molitor; Ed Smith - Ted Simmons; Jeff Matthews - Tommy Harper; Tom Kilbey - Bobby Coluccio; Ed Oswald - Rollie Fingers; Craig Salzer - Pete Vuckovich; Randy Oswald - Charlie Moore; Joe Wojtasiak - Ted Simmons; Scott Piemeisl - Hank Aaron and Trevor Hoffman; Frank Denis - Any one of this year’s coaches; ‘Colonel’ Bishop - Gorman Thomas and Pete Vuckovich; Garret Newkirk - B.J. Surhoff; Bob Kniprath - Stormin’ Gorman; Bob Neuman - Hank Aaron, Mike Caldwell, Dan Plesac, and Lyle Overbay; Brian Karpinski - Pete Vuckovich; John Clark - Cecil Cooper; Randy Dummer - Ben Sheets; Tim Adamany - Dan Plesac, Ben Sheets, and Richie Sexson; Malcolm Hatfi eld - Del Crandall; Mike Martin - Pete Vuckovich, Ted Simmons, Jeff Leonard and Don Sutton. Glenn Soderstrom - Henry Aaron; Ryan Anderson - Mike Caldwell; Terry Jannsen - Cecil Cooper; Joel Winn - Cecil Cooper; Bruce Gilbert - Pete Vuckovich, Charlie Moore, and Ted Simmons; Steve Gilboy - Tommy Harper, Ellie Rodriguez, and Danny Walton; Gary Polczynski - Henry Aaron; Dan Rooks - Jim Gantner; Brad Polczynski - Bill Hall; Chris Grossmann - Dave Nilsson; Roger Rustad - Craig Counsell; David Wall - Hank Aaron or Bill Schroeder; Jason Connell - Hank Aaron; Joseph Coffey - Cecil Cooper; John Gruentzel - Randy Wolf, Mark Difelice, and B.J. Surhoff; Tom Schroeder - Jeremy Burnitz, Dan Plesac, Gorman, Mike Caldwell, and Pete Vukovich

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name if the team, led by Cecil Cooper and Fernando Viña, could come back and win their game against Big Hard Dirty. Well, their name is still Boy Toyz. All is not bad for the Toyz, though. Mark Kadlec is second in batting with an .800 average, while Rich Tower rounds out the top 10 at .600. One of the two teams at the bottom will be victorious today, as they are slated to meet in today’s morning game.

A PERFECT OPENING DAY FORBIG HARD DIRTY AND IRON WAFFLE

Under a sunkissed Tuesday morning, the four day, 8-game season of the 2015 Brewers Fantasy Camp started off with a bang. By the end of the day, two teams are sharing the top spot with 2 wins, two others are level at 1-1, and the last two teams are hibernating at the bottom of the standings. Big Hard Dirty, managed by Bob Skube and Greg Vaughn, lead all teams with 18 total runs in two games, highlighted by an 11-5 afternoon spanking of Boy Toyz. In their morning session, Big Hard Dirty was able to squeak by Sweet and Sour for a 7-5 win. The Dirty’s Garret Newkirk leads the team with a .714 batting average, while slugging 1.000. Iron Waffl e, managed by Jerry Augustine and Pete Ladd, are right behind the Dirty with 17 total runs. The Waffl e also had a big afternoon banging out 24 hits en route to a 13-11 win over Sweet and Sour. Gary Anderson toed the rubber in the Waffl es’ morning game, fi nishing with a complete game, 10-strikeout 5-hitter,

only allowing one earned run in beating J-Bonz 4-2. Smashin’ Assassins won their morning game over the Boy Toyz, busting out for 12 runs on 11 hits in their 12-7 victory. The squad, led by Jeff Cirillo and Rob Deer, took one on the chin in the afternoon, losing 6-4 to the Darryl Hamilton and Jeremy Reed skippered J-Bonz. The Assassins are wreaking havoc to the batting average leaderboard with four of their players in the Top 10, led by Brad Polczynski’s .833 average, which tops all campers after day one. The J-Bonz’s Mike Keith and Dan Zier are also in the top 10 of the leaderboard, each batting .667 after two games. Sweet and Sour, headed by Rick Sweet and Jim Gantner, is tied with the Assassins for third in total runs with 16 after two games, but don’t have a win to show for it. Greg Beaubien leads the team in batting with a .500 average. During the afternoon game, the Boy Toyz’s Jeanie Hatfi eld tried to spark her team by offering to change the team’s

As Bud Selig gets ready to hand over the reigns of Commissioner of Major League Baseball to Rob Man-fred, Selig’s made a number of changes to America’s Pastime during his 22-year tenure as Acting Commis-sioner and Commissioner. From instituting the Wild Card (1994) to Interleague Play (1997) to declaring a tie in the 2002 All-Star Game, which led to awarding the winning league of future All-Star Games with home-fi eld advantage throughout the World Series, some of Selig’s decisions have been met with dissatisfaction by some, and applause by many. So what would you do if you could change or imple-ment one rule in Major League Baseball? Here’s what some of the campers had to say:

Josh Schwiesow - Add a salary cap. Limit uniforms to two styles per team, not a dozen with alter-nates. Also keep those batting hel-mets clean. I want to see the logo. I’d make Milwaukee go back to the 80s style. Eliminate the designat-ed hitter (DH) and instant replay. Also, if you want to pitch, you have to bat. If you want to bat, play the fi eld.

Terry Jannsen - Ban the DH. As a professional, you should play all parts of the game.

Ryan Anderson - If a batter is clearly attempting to avoid being hit by a pitch, the pitch should be called a ball even if the pitch hits the batter’s bat.

Glenn Soderstrom - A batter cannot step out of the bat-ter’s box to adjust his batting gloves.

Mike Martin - Speed up the game. I look back at my old box scores — most games were between two hours and twenty minutes. To do that, you’d have to minimize the between innings promotions, widen the strike zone, and limit the time between pitches to about 15 to 20 seconds.

Malcolm Hatfi eld - They need to show the replay in the stadium. Too bad if the ump makes a mistake. Why should the fans in the stands not get the same replay as those at home? That sucks. Are they afraid we will hurt the umps feelings? I don’t get it.

Tim Adamany - NO MORE RULE CHANGES! The only new rule I’d consider is to eliminate the need for a pitch-er to throw four balls for an intentional walk. Just put the batter on base if that’s the intention. Frankly, I hate all the proposed “speed-up-the-game” rule changes. I never want to see a play clock implemented or force a manager to make quick decisions based on a clock.

Randy Dummer - When trying to break up a double play, if you can’t touch second base after you complete your ‘slide,’ then the double play is considered to be executed by the defense.

John Clark - No games shall be played on artifi cial turf. All MLB stadiums must have a natural grass surface.

Brian Karpinski - Eliminate the DH

Bob Neuman - If it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it!!!

Bob Kniprath - Get rid of the All-Star game determining the home fi eld in the World Series. The only way that works is if they start playing it to win, instead of trying to appease everyone by playing all the players and screw-ing up the lineup. It is one or the other.

‘Colonel’ Bishop - Do away with the winning league in the All-Star Game having home fi eld advantage in the World Series. Award it based on best record.

Joe Wojtasiak - Enforce the time limits for pitchers. Don’t need to read a book and adjust after every pitch.

Randy Oswald - The pitcher has the option to wave a batter to fi rst base for an intentional walk.

Ed Oswald - Eliminate the designated hitter.

Craig Salzer - DH in NL parks during interleague play and no DH in AL parks.

Jeff Matthews - Drop the DH!

Tom Kilbey - Change the requirements for a statistical save in relief where the winning run has to be on base, not on deck.

Ed Smith - Get rid of the designated hitter. Also, see better revenue sharing and the elimination of a few very wealthy teams being able to attract the better players by having more money. The drug screening that goes on now seems a bit unsatisfactory. Now I really don’t have a concern that drugs are used, and I will say I fa-vor not having them involved. Athletics are supposed to be about an individual training the body to perform, not to simply take a substance that alters performance. So

instead of the random testing that goes on now, I would suggest, in an effort to reduce the amount of testing that goes on, each Sunday of the season, all of the fi rst place teams in each division have all the players that played in the last 7 days take a drug test. If any play-er fails such a test, there would be no penalty for the player, but have the results of all of the games that week for a team with a failing tested player be changed to a loss for the team. I am pretty sure the teams themselves would clean up an potential drug issue if there was any chance to go to win the

division. And teams at the bottom of the division would have no incentive to tolerate drug users, as it would be apparent that the drug usage was not helping them win.

Jeff Hahn - Allow pitchers to move toward third and throw to fi rst on a pick-off attempt.

Joel Winn - The intentional walk automatic.

Bruce Gilbert - Pitcher time clock and restrictions for batter stepping out of the batter’s box.

Steve Gilboy - If pitchers come in and get pitches to warm up, then pinch-hitters should be able to get some batting practice in until they are ready.

Gary Polczynski - Designated hitter in both leagues.

Dan Rooks - Tie player salaries to performance on and off the fi eld.

Gary Polczynski - Designated hitter in both leagues.

Brad Polczynski - Allow Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Grossmann - Allow players to re-enter game.

Roger Rustad - Eliminate the designated hitter.

David Wall - Tighten luxury tax/salary cap structure to better maintain competitive balance. I would also make a change to pitcher scoring, so that if the pitcher com-mitted the error that leads to an unearned run, that run would actually be earned.

John Gruentzel - Eliminate the designated hitter.

Joseph Coffey - Eliminate the designated hitter.

Jason Connell - Hitter must keep one foot in batter’s box at all times.

Thomas Schroeder - No DH.

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Major League Baseball will use a pitch clock this season at the minor leagues’ Triple-A and Double-A levels. Commissioner Bud Selig made the announcement at the conclusion of baseball’s owners meetings. He said the decision followed a successful experiment with the clock in the Arizona Fall League. MLB offi cials said details of how much time will be allowed between pitches and an announcement on other measures to be tested in the minors to speed up the game will come later. The MLB is negotiating with its players’ union on what speedup measures can be tried at the major league level. Selig wouldn’t divulge details of what’s being considered for the majors because those talks are ongoing. Copyright 2015 by The Associated Press

The Offi cial Newspaper of the 2015 Milwaukee Brewers Fantasy Camp Wednesday, January 21, 2015Volume 9, Issue 4

TODAYA fi rst look at the Camp standings, yesterday’s game results, and batting average leaderboard.

From Scott Wachter:Camp photos are posted on CAMP.Sportseye.com throughout the week for friends and family back home as well as for campers.

DID YOU KNOW?‘Rock’ was honored by Fox Sports Wisconsin last season for his 20 years of broadcasting service with a video tribute on the September 11th Brewers pregame show. During the 8 1/2 minute video featuring clips of his time in the booth, current Brewers players, former teammates, and partners in the booth, praised and roasted ‘Rock’ while Kenny Rogers’ “Through The Years” played in the background. Search for “Bill Schroeder tribute” on YouTube to view.P

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