Last off-season, Milwaukee Brewers GM David Stearns made a point of adding some left handed hitters to balance the right handed heavy lineup. He accomplished that in adding Eric Thames and Travis Shaw. The lineup is also rounded out with lefty additions Eric Sogard, Stephen Vogt, and Brett Phillips. Now that the lineup is balanced it’s time to do the same with the pitching staff.
The Brewers have been short of lefty pitching for seemingly forever. The last regular member of the starting rotation that was left handed was Tom Gorzelanny in 2013. The last time Milwaukee had two lefties in the rotation was 2011 with Randy Wolf and Chris Narveson.