Ishikawa IS a waste of a roster spot, he never should have been signed to begin with, he is WW fodder for a reason... Which goes back to my original question which guy in AAA is a better infield option? Especially for a bat off the bench. The Brewers aren't blessed with a bunch of spare good hitters lying around, as I said Ishikawa has OPS'd .740 at the major league level, not seeing any other bench guys available in AAA that have done that and Ishikawa has done just as much as Green in the minors while actually producing at a ML level hard to claim Ishikawa is waste of a roster spot given the alternatives this team has. Especially going back to the beginning when some thought Brooks Conrad was some obvious choice that the team was stupid to not have on the roster out of camp. Then the team was stupid for using him and congratulated for dumping. The bench weakness was pretty obvious from day one. Ishikawa is a 1B only. At the start of the year he was a left handed 1B backing up a lefthanded starting 1B. That is why people(myself included) wanted Conrad instead. Conrad is not as bad as he played for us. That made Izturis our only backup at SS, 3B and 2B which is bad roster construction.