Brewers to attend Sheets session
Brewers GM Doug Melvin said he will dispatch area scout Jeremy Booth to the University of Louisiana-Monroe on Tuesday to watch former Brewer Ben Sheets throw for teams. Booth covers Louisiana and southern Texas for the Brewers.
Cost remains a major hurdle to a reunion between the Brewers and Sheets, who didn’t pitch at all in 2009 after undergoing elbow surgery. Melvin said he has not spoken with agent Casey Close about Sheets since the Winter Meetings last month, and indicated that Booth’s attendance at Tuesday’s showcase falls under due diligence.
“It doesn’t hurt,” Melvin said.
The Cubs, Dodgers, Cardinals, Rangers and Blue Jays are among the other teams planning to send scouts to watch Sheets throw off a mound.
“They’re going to like what they see,” Sheets told ESPN.com this week.
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Adam McCalvy
Hope Ben Sheets has both a great attitude and a great session.
Sometimes being two years out of the game and regenerate your arm and good things can happen. It is great that the Brewers will again take a look and evaluate Sheets as a possibility for 2010.
As you mentioned, his attached price tag might be the final determinator as to how many of those watching the event actually contact his agent.
Hopefully it is a springboard to seeing Sheets again toe the rubber in the MLB.
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