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Maybe a short tour around the Brewers minor leagues might be good about now.
As you might have noticed on the team home screen above the AAA Chester Big Stick are having a good season and are in first place. This is admittedly largely due to the efforts of veteran players with major league experience who the team signed to minor league contracts as free agents. This includes 41-year old Jim Wright who was brought on to provide leadership to young pitchers. Wright threw a no-hitter in the 1965 season for the Baltimore Lords. For Chester he is 8-3 with a 3.88 ERA and a 1.45 WHIP. There is nothing to suggest he has major league talent anymore but in an organization that struggles on the mound, he provides some stabilization. It seems likely he will pack it up and retire at the end of the season.
Another veteran having a great season for Chester is 32-year old shortstop Jordan Rivera. It is unlikely that he will ever be a Brewer.
The Big Stick player most likely to have an eventual impact at the big league level is centerfielder Pat Rondeau, who has blossomed at the AAA level this season and will likely get a taste of the bigs when rosters expand on September 1st.
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