Milestone Watch, 2012: John Axford

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 13, 2012 1:00 PM CST in Conversation Starters

Here's John Axford on July 17, 2011 celebrating career save #50. There's a relatively good chance he'll record save #100 this season.

As the Brewers get ready to report to spring training, we'll be taking a look this week at various players who should, could or might approach notable milestones this season. We'll start today with a look at John Axford.

Axford, of course, set a franchise record and led the National League with 46 saves last season. He now has 71 for his career, which is fifth all time among Brewers. If he closes out 27 games this season he'll move into sole possession of second place:

Pitcher	Saves	Saves Needed To Pass
Dan Plesac	133	63
Rollie Fingers	97	27
Bob Wickman	79	9
Mike Fetters	79	9
John Axford	71	n/a

41 of Axford's 71 saves have come at Miller Park. He needs seven more to pass Francisco Cordero for that record:

Pitcher	Career Saves At Miller Park
Francisco Cordero	47
John Axford	41
Derrick Turnbow	41
Trevor Hoffman	33
Dan Kolb	28

37 of Cordero's 47 saves came as a Brewer, while ten more came as a member of the Reds. Axford and Turnbow are tied for the career record for saves at Miller Park as a Brewer, with 41 each.

Last season Axford became just the second Brewer ever to record 40 saves, and the tenth ever to record 30. If he passes 30 again this season he'll join Dan Plesac as the only Brewers ever to save more than 30 games twice.

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Lucroy

He looks like he’s preparing to trade long protein strands when he goes in for handshakes like that.

by mpbMKE on Feb 13, 2012 4:35 PM CST reply actions

If he doesn't get to 100 this year

I think we will be calling this season a disappointment.

But Ax is awesome. So he will probably lock it up in the first 27 games just to get the monkey off his back :)

by Whiffleball Tony on Feb 13, 2012 7:53 PM CST reply actions

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