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Brewers 1B Prince Fielder has had a disappointing start after leading the major leagues with 50 home runs last year. Fielder was batting .222 with no homers and six RBI heading into Wednesday’s game against the Cardinals. “They’re (Fielder and Ryan Braun) going to play through it, you just hope that it doesn’t last too long,” manager Ned Yost said. “When you have years like both of them had last year, your tendency especially when you’re young is to come back the next year and even do better and you force it a little bit instead of letting it happen.”

Yost said both players can stop worrying about matching or exceeding their numbers from last year, and just to focus on taking good at-bats and helping the Brewers win. He was impressed with Fielder’s patience while drawing a career-best four walks on Tuesday. “He could have very easily not taken four walks and taken an 0-for-4,” Yost said. “If you’re not going to throw strikes to the guy, you have to have the discipline to take your walk and then as a team you rely on the guy behind you to make them pay for that.” Fielder still has plenty of time to turn his season around. Don’t forget, he slugged just six homers last April and had only three in July 2007 as well. He still managed to hit 50-plus homers for the season. (CBS Sports)

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