Doug Melvin has already traded for Shaun Marcum, a solid pitcher, to bolster the Brewers starting staff. Melvin has said he plans to go get another starter. In that case, one down, one to go.
While drastically improving the starting rotation is a huge step, that isn’t the Brewers’ only roadblock to competing with the Reds and Cardinals for the NL Central in 2011.
Let’s examine 12 things that the Brewers must do in order to get where they need to go.