AP: Ryan Braun adjusting to new home in LF

[Ryan] Braun is now getting ready for another adjustment—to left field. He made 26 errors in 112 starts at third base last year, numbers he has called embarrassing.
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“I’ve always been a team-first guy, and I obviously recognized that defense wasn’t one of our strong points last year,” he said. “So whenever you have an opportunity to bring in somebody like Mike Cameron that instantly addresses the issue, it makes us a better team.”
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“He can play third base, but it would be more of a development stage at the big leagues because he got to the big leagues so quick. We’re at point where we’re not prepared to develop at the big leagues now like we were two years ago,” [Doug] Melvin said. “I think he has a chance to be a very good, All-Star type outfielder. I don’t think you want to move him back and forth at this stage.”

At least early in his transition, Braun has looked comfortable, making a nice play at the wall in Tucson against the Rockies on Saturday and cutting off a ball down the line on Sunday.

“I think at times I’m a little bit surprised of my range. I think just my athleticism and instincts take over,” Braun said. “(That) ball hit down the line I would’ve thought would have been a double, and I was able to get to it, cut it off and throw to second base and keep the guy to a single. Things like that that I’m pleasantly surprised about.”

Plus he’ll get to hang out by Bernie Brewer in LF…
(It might take Bernie’s alcohol-ravaged brain cells some time to figure out that Geoff Jenkins didn’t change uniform numbers, though… that’s what years of hard living will do to you.  It probably took him until 1996 or so to realize that Gorman Thomas was long gone.)