What A Difference A Year Makes in Green Bay

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Published: August 2, 2009

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... just been swept in a four-game series by the hated Cubs, the Milwaukee Brewers were thirteen games over .500 and had the second-best record in the National League.

Behind the newly-acquired CC Sabathia, the splashiest free-agent acquisition in club history, the Brewers would go on to win 20 of 28 games in the month of August.

This year, despite a weaker NL Central, the Brewers are two games under .500. The team hasn’t won a series in a month, despite playing the worst teams in       baseball—Pittsburgh, Washington, and San Diego—during that stretch.

And this year’s big trade?

The Brewers reacquired previously spurned teammate Claudio Vargas, the type of "blah" move typical of small-market, out-of-contention teams and hardly the sort of season-altering move that despairing fans and Ryan Braun had been hoping for.

The reliever showed his thanks to the Brewers by allowing a run in his first ...

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