Unless you're a Brewers fan. They apparently can do no wrong. Fantastic pitching. Solid hitting all around. Good defense. Not a single significant injury.
It's not Matt Olson's fault. He's an excellent baseball player and has been the second best 1B in the sport since we got him. That 2023 season was incredible. Sean Murphy is a top 5 player at his position and take out 2024, he has been very good. So, it's not a criticism of them. And I sort of get the logic of getting younger at 1B. But if they just sign Freeman and keep the prospects, they then would have been able to strengthen the team (get a starter, get a long-term SS after Dans left, get a LF) and really been better positioned to win a title in 2022-2024. It really is the starting point of the failures of this organization. Instead of using assets to improve the team, they just replaced positions that they already were good at with 1B and C when they had holes at SP, SS and LF the last 2-3 years. And when you consider Willy/Shea cost half of what Murphy does, and Freeman only makes $5M AAV more than Matt. They didn't even save any money.
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