Brewers owner laments 'brutal' start to 2015 campaign

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio was admirably candid Wednesday when he assessed his club's disastrous start to the 2015 season, aptly characterizing the squad's 2-12 record as "brutal."

Despite his team's inauspicious start, though, Attanasio said he's confident improvements are coming.

"You turn on the TV every night and expect to see something different, and I know one of these nights we will," Attanasio told MLB.com's Adam McCalvy.

Amid a rash of injuries to several key players - Carlos Gomez, Jonathan Lucroy and Scooter Gennett, among them - and underperformance from most others on the roster, the Brewers are already seven games behind their division leader and boast the worst run differential in baseball.

“It’s always a challenge to harness your emotions," added Attanasio. "Sometimes when you get emotional you make a good decision, actually. So you always try to balance between, ‘Am I being too measured,’ and, ‘What should we be doing here?’ We have a lot of people looking at this, a whole team of people looking at this. Most importantly, we have a whole clubhouse of guys who are expecting to play well any day now. We would like that to be tonight."

The club's early-season woes didn't relent Wednesday at Miller Park, either, where Mike Fiers surrendered grand slams in consecutive innings against the Cincinnati Reds en route to a 16-10 loss, their seventh consecutive defeat.

The Brewers have provided few reasons for optimism throughout the nascent stages of the season, but general manager Doug Melvin mentioned Wednesday that he and Attanasio haven't discussed the possibility of firing manager Ron Roenicke.

“Mark and I talk every day. We haven't talked about Ron at this point,” Melvin told Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. “We've talked about the players. Why are the players not performing? Our goal is to get the players to perform.”