Brewers' positive energy still thriving this spring

PHOENIX -- To watch the Brewers in 2017 was to be caught up in their joy and emotion. What if you went to a Major League Baseball game and a street party broke out in one of the dugouts?

Amid the bear hugs and dancing and laughter, there was an unmistakable vibe: These Brewers didn't just love playing the game, although that was obvious.

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They cared about one another, and in a long season, a season when players and teams get tested and tired and beat up and beat on, this kind of thing matters.

And so in this spring of high expectations and relentless optimism, Brewers general manager David Stearns was most interested in seeing if his team had…