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Heading into the first full week of September the Brewers remain very much in striking distance of first place in the MGL, in spite of a couple of tough losses against the lowly Aces at Brooklyn Grounds.
And with 75 wins in hand and 23 games left it is likely that the team can achieve its owner mandated goal of finishing with a winning record.
With roster expansion, the club welcomes back Andrew Kennedy, Miguel Campos, Oscar Vargas back up from AAA Chester. They also see Tanner Yurek return from his extended hamstring injury and a short rehab stint at Chester.
In addition, Dave Harder, one of the team's most talented relief pitching prospects, also came up from AAA, much to the pleasure of the owner who has been insisting that the team needed a local player to add to fan appeal. (Harder is Denver-born and bred.)
Perhaps most surprisingly, the team reached down to AA Nashville to bring 1965 first-round draft pick Jaden Francis up to the big league club for the first time. Francis has had uneven, and often disappointing, minor league numbers, but the scouting staff believes that he has made major strides in development during this 1968 season. And he acquitted himself pretty well in his first appearance with the Brewers, performing mop-up duties in a brutal loss to Brooklyn, working 3 1/3rd innings.
Likely Francis will spend most of 1969 at AAA Chester, but there is a good chance that he will also be first in line to fill-in any injury-created gaps in the Brewers bullpen.
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