Ben Sheet talks about regaining his arm slot. You would think they could look at video and figure it out, but that didn't help Ben:

"You'd think it would be an easy thing to remember but it's not," he said shortly after his outing. "I went all of last year, and I pitched well at times last year, but I went all of last year without getting in it. We searched and we searched and we searched, but I never found it."

But Sheets discovered this past winter pitching isn't necessarily rocket science and all the research in the world isn't necessary to discover the feeling of success.

"There's no reason why I found it other than I just stumbled on it," he said. "I started throwing it from there and it ended up being what I wanted. The ball has so much life at the end of it.

"I was just throwing by myself against the wall. I don't know why or how. I wasn 't looking for it. I researched it all last year. (Pitching coach) Mike (Maddux) would say it looks good but I couldn't find it. Everybody goes through it, fighting their mechanics.

"It does 't make sense. ... But it 's just muscle memory and if you lose it, it's hard to get it back at times."

This would be very good news for the Brewers and bad news for NL hitters.

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