Before Gomez

There was Bowden, Lind, and Snider. As NBC Sports reports, Brewers were talking to the Red Sox and the Blue Jays before settling on Carlos Gomez. The Red Sox were willing to trade Michael Bowden, but the Brewers wanted either Buchholz or Daniel Bard. There's also this from Ron Gardenhire -

He irritates people. Sometimes me. We've been trying to get him to calm down and get him to control the situations, and sometimes the situation controls him. There are times when you're like, "Go-Go, you have to see what we're trying to do here." We just had a 25-pitch inning from our pitcher, and he goes up and falls down swinging on the first pitch.

Gomez will have plenty to talk about with Corey Hart in the dugout.