Brewers won’t go away

April 9th, 2008 at 04:26pm Matt Trowbridge

The Cubs look every bit as good as advertised, yet their chances of winning the NL Central have dipped slightly in the season’s first two weeks. That’s because one of the reasons everyone picked the Cubs  — because they played in baseball’s worst division, aka Comedy Central — turns out to be a flawed premise. The Brewers have the best young lineup in baseball. Closer Greg Gagne, whom the Brewers somehow paid $10 million to after a disastrous half season with the Red Sox, has blown two of his first three saves chances. The bullpen remains the Brewers’ biggest weakness. But if Milwaukee relievers don’t fall apart and ace Ben Sheets stays healthy, the Cubs will have to win more than 90 games to win the division. From here, it looks like the supposed worst division in baseball will be the ONLY division in the NL with a pair of 90-win teams.

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