his allotted pitch count. “All year in the minor leagues, my pitch-count max was set at 85, but for some reason when I had gotten to Australia, the Brewers had dropped it to 75,” said Sheets. “So I was pretty disappointed about that, because I was hoping they’d bump it up to 90 or 100 for the Olympics. So I called the Brewers office back in Milwaukee from this little cell phone we had while we were training on the Gold Coast, and Dean Taylor bumped it back up to 90 for me.” Sheets had been
