ANAHEIM -- It did not take long for Brewers general manager Doug Melvin to pique the interest of the club's presumptive new owner.
"On my way down here, Doug said he wanted to talk to me about a guy who could throw 100 mph," said Mark Attanasio, who visited with club officials at the Winter Meetings while his bid to buy the Brewers remains in the approval process. "That even caught [my son's] eye."
With a nod to the future, the Brewers traded their All-Star closer to the Atlanta Braves for one of baseball's top pitching prospects. Dan Kolb is on his way to Atlanta for right-handed starter Jose Capellan and a player to be named later.
The Brewers got another young arm who will compete for a spot in the starting rotation, while the Braves ensured that they will still have a top-flight closer. Their incumbent at that position, John Smoltz, will return to a starting rotation depleted by the losses of free agents Russ Ortiz and Jaret Wright.
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