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Less than two weeks ago, Jim Edmonds was lobbying his old employers in St. Louis to help him return to baseball in 2010. He signed a deal to do just that with a National League Central team, just not the team everyone expected, on Thursday. Edmonds signed a minor-league deal with the Brewers that gets him an invite to spring training and would pay him between $850,000 and about $3 million in 2010, should he make the team. Edmonds didn't play at all in 2009 though he played fairly well for the Cubs in 2008, hitting 19 homers with a .937 OPS in 85 games with the Cubs after a terrible start to the season with the Padres. Even though he'll turn 40 in June, nabbing him on a minor-league deal seems like a good low-risk move for a Milwaukee team that could use some left-handed pop.
Each of the Brewers' staring outfielders (Carlos Gomez, Ryan Braun, and Corey Hart) are right-handed, so that puts Edmonds into a competition with Jody Gerut and Joe Inglett to be the first lefty off the bench to spell any of the starting trio or to pinch-hit late in the game. If he's kept himself in good shape during his year off, there's probably a good chance of him taking one of those backup slots. He's got power that Gerut and Inglett don't have, and even at his age, his defensive reputation will probably score him points with the Brewers' front office.
At any rate, the Brewers don't lose anything if he doesn't pan out and they have to cut him. That makes it kind of hard to believe that it took Edmonds 15 months to find a job.
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