A STABILIZING FORCE
No major league manager makes better use of an overcrowded clubhouse than Craig Counsell.
For the second consecutive season, the Brewers’ homegrown manager took full advantage of expanded September rosters to do what seemed impossible at the outset of the month—lead Milwaukee to a playoff berth.
When you don’t have Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole in your rotation, or Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg, you do what is necessary to record 27 outs and notch a victory. For Counsell and the Brewers, that meant “bullpening” the heck out of games over the final month, using the extra arms provided by expanded rosters.
