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--LHP Brian Shouse avoided salary arbitration by signing a one-year
deal for $2 million, an increase of $975,000 from last year. Shouse
made a career-high 73 appearances in 2007, compiling a 1-1 record and
3.02 ERA. He retired 52 of 73 first batters faced (71.2 percent) and
stranded 60 of 78 inherited runners (76.9 percent).
--SS J.J. Hardy, LHP Chris Capuano, RHP Dave Bush and RHP Claudio
Vargas are the four remaining players on the Brewers' roster eligible
for salary arbitration.
--C Andy Bouchie was invited to the Brewers' spring training camp as a
non-roster player. Bouchie, 22, was a seventh-round draft pick in 2006
out of Oral Roberts University. Last season, he batted .216 with seven
homers and 46 RBIs in 82 games with Class A West Virginia.
--RHP Salomon Torres, acquired in December in a trade with Pittsburgh,
will get his formal introduction to Milwaukee by attending the team's
"Winter Warm-Up," an event designed to spark interest in the upcoming
season.
--INF Chris Barnwell, who had been in the Brewers' system since being
drafted in 2001 and appeared briefly in the majors in 2006, signed as
a six-year minor league free agent with the Florida Marlins.
BY THE NUMBERS
63 -- Starts made by injury-prone RHP Ben Sheets in the first three
years of his four-year, $38.5 million contract.
QUOTE TO NOTE
"He'd still be a regular player. And it's not like he's totally
unfamiliar with third base." -- GM Doug Melvin, on moving center
fielder Bill Hall to third base.
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