Brewers: Ryan Braun appreciative of All-Star berth - Madison.com
When — if — Ryan Braun steps onto the field at Great American Ball Park tonight in the 86th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, it will mark another milestone in what has become a strange and often unfortunate journey for the player once thought... Through his first five full major league seasons, Braun was a fixture in the All-Star Game and became the first Brewers player to make four starts. He earned the National League’s Most Valuable Player award after leading the Brewers to the NL Central title and within two victories of the World Series in 2011, leading owner Mark Attanasio to proclaim Braun would go down as one of the greats in... That was followed by a steadfast denial, a victory in the appeals process, a circus-like news conference after avoiding suspension and, ultimately, a season-ending 65-game suspension in 2013 after baseball investigated further and linked Braun to... When he finally returned to action last season, Braun was sapped of his power by a thumb injury that contributed to career lows across the board and an experimental procedure to cryogenically freeze a nerve in the thumb last October. “I think as you get older you have greater perspective on just how difficult it is to make one All-Star team, let alone multiple All-Star teams,” Braun told reporters Sunday before the Brewers fell 4-3 to the Dodgers in Los Angeles. Source: host.madison.com
