"In less than one week, the Milwaukee Brewers' pitchers and catchers will report to spring training in Phoenix. Manager Ron Roenicke's first year with the club was a tremendous success, with a club-record 96 victories, the Brewers' first National League Central crown and first postseason series triumph in 29 years. As Roenicke prepared for the start of his second spring camp as the Brewers' skipper, he took time to answer 10 questions from Journal Sentinel baseball writer Tom Haudricourt.

Q. As your second spring training as manager of the Brewers draws near, what is primary in your thinking? What is on your mind the most?

A. After having a good season, I don't think there will be a lot of changes in what we do. In talking with the coaching staff, we felt pretty good with the way spring training went last year, how it was structured. We do have some new faces. I think our extra people (on the bench) will be quite a bit different. Some of them probably will be young guys, which is fine. It's more just getting everybody used to what we want done, how we want to go about our business, how we want to play. I know (new hitting coach) Johnny Narron has some things that I've been interested in a long time, offensively, and we'll try to bring some of that into it to see if we can try to create some more runs."