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Somebody needs to check in on the Milwaukee Brewers‘ front office. Has anyone seen them this offseason? They have done almost nothing since the end of the regular season to get ready for 2016.
Let’s look at what they wanted to get done. They wanted to get some starting pitching help to aid top prospect Zach Davies, which did not happen. They have four solid starters, but it doesn’t look good in Milwaukee. They needed to add a No. 1 or 2 to protect Davies and be what Matt Garza used to be. They also needed to get replacements for Carlos Gomez and Aramis Ramirez. They signed Will Middlebrooks to a minor league deal, but that isn’t really finding a replacement for Ramirez. Right now backup shortstop Jonathan Villar is penciled in to start at third base.
Then there’s what they did get done. They signed Chris Carter to play first base after trading Adam Lind and Jason Rogers for prospects. They traded for Ramon Flores and signed Alex Pressley to battle Domingo Santiago for time in center field. That’s it.
The Brewers may yet trade Garza for some help at third or in center. They could go out and sign an impact starter like Wei-Yin Chen or former Brewer Yovani Gallardo. The fact of the matter is that most of what the Brewers set out to do is under the wanted-to-do or yet-to-get-done list. That’s not the way to run a baseball team.
It’s difficult to judge an offseason of mostly standing pat for a bad team. They did sign Carter, but the Brewers created the hole by trading away two first basemen. Brewers fans are in for a few long seasons.
Grade: F+
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