MILWAUKEE -- Having hit the reset button with three days off and two others as the Brewers' designated hitter, catcher Jonathan Lucroy will be back behind the plate on Friday at Miller Park to begin his stretch drive toward uncertainty. Will he still wear a Brewers uniform at the close of business on Aug. 1, the day of the non-waiver Trade Deadline? Or will the trade rumors that have swirled around Lucroy for months finally carry him elsewhere?
"I learned a lesson this offseason," Lucroy said this week in an empty dugout at the Oakland Coliseum.