"The on-base percentage is nice, but you have to hit, too," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "There'll never be a player that just walks. That's why Eddie Gaedel didn't make it."
Gaedel, of course, was a 3-foot-7 pinch-hitter for the St. Louis Browns who became the shortest player in Major League history when he worked a four-pitch walk against the Tigers in 1951. It was his only big league plate appearance.
"You have to do more than walk, and Colin will do more than that," Counsell said. "Colin's done a nice job. He swung at the first pitch [Friday] night.