Bill Hall News

Baseball's Rookie of the Year Award winners will be unveiled Monday, but Brewers third baseman Casey McGehee won't be sitting next to the phone.

Last week the Brewers did the inevitable, trading J.J. Hardy to open a permanent position for Alcides Escobar .A The move instantly made fantasy owners across the country happy, as Escobar has long been heralded as one of the best prospects in the game.A Will he actually be able to make a major impact in 2010, however? Before we answer that ...

Oct. 26, 2009 1:03 p.m. The Houston Astros have claimed outfielder Jason Bourgeois on waivers from the Brewers.

The dawn of the Brewers infamous "Return to Relevance" season April, 2007. Anyone in baseball could clearly see the Brewers were about to embark on something special.

Alcides Escobar, SS - Without announcing it as such, the Brewers began the transition from J.J. Hardy to Escobar as their starting shortstop on Aug.

Ken Macha was told Sunday that he'll be back in 2010. Willie Randolph, if he doesn't get a managerial job this winter, has been invited back, too.

We are into the final week of the regular season and the Mariners have made great strides in 2009.

The season isn't ending quite the way veteran shortstop Jack Wilson envisioned. "It has been a very tough year mentally and physically and I'm glad to have it be over," he said on Wednesday.

Breakout Brewers third baseman Casey McGehee should get a better idea Monday whether he'll need offseason knee surgery, and he's not the only banged-up Brewer set to spend the team's final off-day at the doctor's office.

Injuries and underachivement plagued his team in 2009, but manager Ken Macha expects to remain standing heading into next season.

Prince Fielder notched three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in three, as Milwaukee rocked Houston, 12-5, in the middle contest of a three-game set from Minute Maid Park.

Some of you have wondered about Bill Hall and why the Mariners insist on playing him every night.

The news hit one year ago today. On a day off in this city, it was announced that then-manager Ned Yost had been fired by the Milwaukee Brewers with 12 left in the season and replaced by third-base coach Dale Sveum, now the team's hitting coach.

Scott Kazmir is ready for a special meet-and-greet on Tuesday night at Angel Stadium.

Felix Hernandez, who's been lauded as the second coming of really, finally looked the part tonight, blanking the Angels on four hits in a thoroughly depressing game that has the scent of what the Halos will face in the upcoming postseason, assuming they make it that far.

Bill Hall may be considered a veteran in the baseball world, but the 29-year-old is far from ancient.

Have you ever opened a sports web site and read something that made you wish you could scream at the top of your lungs so that everyone could hear you? It happened to me a few days ago when I realized that another bizarre situation was stirred involving my favorite baseball franchise.

Interesting lineup for today's series finale against the Angels and left-hander Scott Kazmir.

Every time J.J. Hardy dissects his situation, he comes up with one question. Whenever he is sitting in his minor-league hotel room and dwelling on how it all went down, the same inquiry pops into his head.

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, is a game of numbers. Whether used to help define a player's level of talent, to document records or to tally how often Prince Fielder says "You know" in an interview, numerals and mathematics in general prove increasingly important elements to contemporary baseball.