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• Brewers make flurry of roster moves

  04-11-2024 23:40 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Rea, Montas, Bauers among players involvedWith the deadline approaching for players and teams to make option and qualifying offer decisions, the Brewers made a series of roster moves today. Included are the following:Colin Rea cleared waivers, and the Brewers exercised the $1 million buyout on his contract, making him a free agent.
  Frankie Montas declined his end of the mutual option in his contract, making him a free agent.
  Kevin Herget was claimed off of waivers by
  
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• Is the rotation a divisional strength for the Brewers?

  02-01-2025 20:32 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers pitcher Tobias Myers and catcher Gary Sanchez | Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Where do the Brewers stack up against their division foes? The Milwaukee Brewers still have some questions, but what about the rotation? This group looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. If there’s any uncertainty about the lineup being an elite group, will the rotation be able to carry the load?The Brewers will aim for yet another division
  
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• Brewers announce agreement with FanDuel Sports Network for 2025 season

  31-12-2024 22:22 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers pinch hitter Jake Bauers | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers’ new telecast rights agreement keeps them on TV for another season Brewers fans now have clarity over their viewing options for the upcoming 2025 season.
  On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Brewers and FanDuel Sports Network announced their telecast rights agreement for the upcoming season. The network was rebranded from the Brewers’ former home, Bally Sports, and will produce the broadcasts for this year’s games.There wi
  
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• Brewers announce agreement with FanDuel Sports Network

  31-12-2024 22:22 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers pinch hitter Jake Bauers | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers’ new telecast rights agreement set for 2025 Brewers fans now have some clarity over viewing options for the upcoming 2025 season.
  On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Brewers and FanDuel Sports Network announced their telecast rights agreement for the upcoming season. The network was rebranded from the Bally Sports network and will produce the broadcasts for this year’s games.There will be an additional option on the Amazon Prim
  
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• Brew Crew Ball’s most-read articles of 2024

  31-12-2024 15:00 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images We’re closing out 2024 with a list of our most popular articles With 2024 just about in the rearview mirror, we’re here to provide you with a list of the most-read articles (in terms of total engaged minutes) on our site this year. In all, we published 791 articles (which makes this article 792), so that’s nearly the top 1% of articles (1.26% if we’re being exact). Let’s take a look,
  
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• New Year’s Resolutions for the Milwaukee Brewers

  30-12-2024 15:00 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel How everyone on the Brewers can improve their 2025 outlook As the year ends and we turn our attention to 2025, we often find ourselves thinking about how we can improve our lives in the coming year. I’ve applied the New Year’s Resolution concept to the Milwaukee Brewers and determined a baseball-related resolution that (almost) everyone who figures into the Brewers’ major league plans in 2025 can think about to have a fulfilling and productive season.
  
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• How did former Brewers’ rookies perform in their second season?

  29-12-2024 20:18 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images As Jackson Chourio approaches his second season, we take a look at how other Brewers performed in their second years In 2025, Jackson Chourio will enter his second full season in the league. He’s already made waves around baseball with his debut, finishing third in last season’s NL Rookie of the Year vote. That leaves us wondering what Chourio will have in store for his encore in his second season.
  To get an early look at that, let’s look back at so
  
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• What’s the upside for the Brewers’ infield?

  26-12-2024 16:39 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers second baseman Brice Turang | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Without Willy Adames, will the infield have enough offense? The Milwaukee Brewers will enter the new year without Willy Adames. What does that mean for their offense?
  The infield is overflowing with defensively gifted talent. The fact that there are multiple options to fill in at shortstop and give the team another shot at the team Golden Glove is a luxury. But the team needs offensive production to take the next step.
  There are young
  
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• Rapid-fire look at Milwaukee’s offseason acquisitions

  23-12-2024 17:17 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Brewers haven’t made any huge changes outside of the Devin Williams trade, but the roster will still look different in 2025 While the 2024-25 MLB offseason has been extremely active across the league, the Brewers are among the quieter teams (though it should be noted that most of their NL Central foes join them in that boat).
  Still, Milwaukee will have a new-look roster in 2025, particularly with the losses of Willy Adames (signed with the Giants) and Dev
  
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• A post-Winter Meetings look at the Brewers’ roster

  20-12-2024 14:30 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Imagn Content Services, LLC Milwaukee has not been especially active, but we can make some projections As we approach the holidays, it’s worth taking a glance at the Milwaukee Brewers’ roster to where they still have holes and how those vacancies might be filled. There’s still plenty of time left in the offseason and the Brewers are notoriously patient when it comes to free agents, so there will certainly be changes between now and
  
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• Ranking the five worst Milwaukee Brewers games of 2024

  18-12-2024 16:36 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The most frustrating and depressing games of the year It’s said that you can’t enjoy the best moments of life without experiencing the other side. That’s true in baseball as well. Well, that’s at least what we want to tell ourselves. Here are the games that went so badly for the Brewers this season that they made us appreciate the best games that much more.
  5) April 27 - New York Yankees 1
  
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• Brewers name Julio Borbón as new first base coach

  17-12-2024 17:55 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Borbón rounds out Pat Murphy’s 2025 staff, which features minor turnover with Al LeBoeuf, Eric Theisen joining Borbón as new hires The Milwaukee Brewers have named Julio Borbón as the team’s new first base coach, according to a team press release from this morning.
  We have named Julio Borbón as our new first base coach pic.twitter.com/zYkuiVPAxW— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) December 17, 2024
  Borbón replaces Quinti
  
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• Ranking the five best Milwaukee Brewers games of 2024

  16-12-2024 21:53 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich | Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images The standout, memorable games of the year The Brewers put together yet another season, and another division title, in 2024. The team’s impressive body of work was highlighted by a few key games. What were the Brewers’ best games of 2024?
  5) Opening Day - Milwaukee Brewers 3 @ New York Mets 1
  Where else to start but the first game of the year? The Brewers kicked off their season in winning fashion as Jackson Chourio
  
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• Brewers trade Devin Williams to Yankees, Nestor Cortes, Caleb Durbin headed to Milwaukee

  13-12-2024 18:40 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Williams’ tenure with the Brewers is over The Milwaukee Brewers have traded closer Devin Williams to the New York Yankees, receiving left-handed starter Nestor Cortes and infielder Caleb Durbin in the return, according to MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch.
  Confirmed: Yankees acquiring 2-time All-Star RHP Devin Williams from Brewers for LHP Nestor Cortes, IF Caleb Durbin and cash considerations— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) December 13, 2024
  More details to
  
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• The Next Brewers Hall of Famers (and a Hall-of-Fame Rabbit Hole)

  13-12-2024 15:00 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images I have thoughts. On Sunday, former Brewer All-Star Dave Parker was one of two players (along with Dick Allen) inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, via the Era Committee’s Classic Baseball Era (formerly known as the Veterans Committee) ballot. I’m a Hall junkie, so I had a million thoughts, some of which I will share. But the thought that will guide me: who will the next Hall of Famer who played for the Brewers be? Or, more appropriately, who will the
  
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• An updated look at the free agent market

  12-12-2024 22:25 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images The market is thinning, but there are still plenty of names out there The free agent market has been highly active as of late, between MLB Winter Meetings and a fairly active weekend leading up to it. With so many names off the board, let’s take a position by position look at the top names (anybody with positive WAR) remaining. Each player’s 2025 seasonal age and their WAR total from 2023 & 2024 is included in parentheses.
  Catcher
  Carson Kelly (30, 1.9
  
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• MLB Winter Meetings Wrap-Up: Day 3

  12-12-2024 01:20 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Day 3 featured the Rule 5 Draft, a big trade, and a signing by the Crew Entering day three of the Winter Meetings, here’s our wrap-up from days one and two. Wednesday was a bit quieter than Tuesday, but there was a major trade that involved a player Milwaukee was rumored to be inquiring about, and the Rule 5 Draft ended in the afternoon. Here’s a round-up of what happened on the third day.The biggest deal of the day came when the Red Sox swung a trade for le
  
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• MLB Rule 5 Draft Recap: Brewers pick up a pitcher from St. Louis

  11-12-2024 23:29 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Brewers pitcher Connor Thomas | Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Rule 5 draft saw the Brewers both acquire and lose some players MLB’s Rule 5 Draft took place on Wednesday with several players in the Brewers organization heading elsewhere, while some new faces join the fold. The Brewers added a pair of pitchers and outfielder with interesting track records in the minors. They lost Shane Smith, who had reached Triple-A this year, and Miguel Briceno, a young short
  
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• MLB Winter Meetings Wrap-Up: Day 2

  11-12-2024 02:29 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Tuesday brought a little more heat to the winter meetings. After a somewhat quiet day one of the Winter Meetings, action picked up more on day two. More deals and trades started coming in, including another high-profile free-agent signing. The day also included the MLB Draft Lottery. Here’s a round-up of what happened on the second day.The big move of the day came by the Yankees (no surprise there). They agreed to an eight-year, $218 million contract with left-han
  
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• MLB Draft Lottery takes place, Brewers set for 20th pick

  11-12-2024 01:33 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Kyle Schwab-USA TODAY Sports Following the draft lottery, the Brewers spot in the 2025 draft is set As part of the MLB Winter Meetings, the MLB Draft Lottery took place for the 2025 draft. The Washington Nationals came out as the winners there, taking the top spot for next year’s draft. The Angels and Mariners took the second and third spots to round out the top three. The Nationals had the fourth-best odds at 10.2%. Meanwhile, the teams tied for the top odds (Rockies and Marlins at 22.45%
  
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• Matt Arnold named Baseball America’s 2024 MLB Executive of the Year

  10-12-2024 20:35 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images This is Arnold’s third such award this season, following awards from The Sporting News and MLB Milwaukee Brewers Senior Vice President and General Manager Matt Arnold was named Baseball America’s 2024 MLB Executive of the Year, according to a press release from the team Tuesday afternoon.
  Arnold, who was previously named Executive of the Year by The Sporting News on Oct. 25 and by MLB on Nov. 4, helped bu
  
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• Winter meetings wrap-up: day one

  10-12-2024 02:09 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jerome Miron-Imagn Images The fireworks came yesterday. What else is happening? Baseball’s winter meetings got underway on Sunday with the announcement of Baseball’s Classic Era Hall of Fame ballot, and then the party really got started last night when Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets for a mind-boggling $765 million. Soto’s signing on the eve of the official start of the meetings felt like it could be a sign that a lot of major moves could happen this week while the los
  
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• MLB Winter Meetings Wrap-Up: Day 1

  10-12-2024 02:09 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jerome Miron-Imagn Images The fireworks came yesterday. What else is happening? Baseball’s winter meetings got underway on Sunday with the announcement of Baseball’s Classic Era Hall of Fame ballot, and then the party really got started last night when Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets for a mind-boggling $765 million. Soto’s signing on the eve of the official start of the meetings felt like it could be a sign that a lot of major moves could happen this week while the los
  
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• Dave Parker, Dick Allen elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame by Classic Baseball Era Committee

  09-12-2024 02:30 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Tom Lynn/Milwaukee Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC Parker was an All-Star for the Brewers in his lone season in Milwaukee in 1990 The Milwaukee Brewers will have another former player in the Hall of Fame come next summer.
  Outfielder Dave Parker, who played one season in Milwaukee back in 1990, was one of two players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on this year’s Classic Baseball Era Ballot, joining fellow veteran Dick Allen.
  Parker received 14 of 16 votes (87.5%) whil
  
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• Willy Adames signs with San Francisco Giants

  08-12-2024 00:05 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Mark Hoffman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The popular shortstop ends his tenure in Milwaukee Willy Adames, the popular shortstop who became the clear second-best player at the position in Milwaukee Brewers history, has signed with the San Francisco Giants, ending his tenure in Milwaukee after three-and-a-half seasons.
  Adames and the Giants have agreed to a seven-year, $182 million contract. Since the Brewers extended a qualifying offer to Adames, they will receive a compensation draft pi
  
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• Can the Brewers get an upgrade for the outfield?

  06-12-2024 22:37 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Brewers outfield is crowded, but could they still find an upgrade this offseason? The outfield for the Brewers is currently in a very strong position. They are entering the 2025 season with five regular players to cover three outfield spots: Christian Yelich, Jackson Chourio, Garrett Mitchell, Sal Frelick, and Blake Perkins. Even mixing in some time at DH for the good players on offense (Yelich, Chourio, and Mitchell), it’s going to be a struggle to
  
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• 2024-25 MLB offseason hot stove open thread & transaction log

  06-12-2024 22:33 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images With Winter Meetings set to begin on Sunday, the hot stove is about to heat up (or so we hope) With the MLB offseason well underway and the Winter Meetings set to begin on Sunday, Dec. 8, we’re leaving this open thread up for Brewers fans to discuss all the happenings around the league.
  We’ll also keep track of all of the MLB-level transactions this offseason with all transactions involving the Brewer
  
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• Brewers All-Time Team: Relief Pitcher

  05-12-2024 16:00 via brewcrewball.com
  
  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK We fittingly “close out” our All-Time Team with a reliever This is it: the last spot on the Brewers All-Time Team, where we’ve taken the best single season at each position (excluding the designated hitter, and without repeating players). Here’s what we’ve got, a group that spans 50 years from the Brewers’ first season in Milwaukee to a player on the current squad:
  Catcher: Jonathan Lucroy, 2014
  First Base: Prin
  
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• 2024 MVBrewers #1: William Contreras

  04-12-2024 15:30 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images For the second consecutive year, Contreras wins team MVP We’re concluding our rankings of the Brewers’ 10 most valuable players in 2024 with catcher William Contreras. Contreras finished the season with 4.9 bWAR and 5.4 fWAR, both good for best on the team.
  The selection of Contreras as the team MVP shouldn’t come as a surprise, as Contreras led the team in not only WAR, but also hits (167), runs (99), doubles (37), batting average (.315), on-base perc
  
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• Brewers All-Time Team: Starting Pitcher

  03-12-2024 15:00 via brewcrewball.com
  
  Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images Choosing the best of several great contenders We have now completed the position player portion of our Brewers All-Time Team (links to all of which can be found here). As I explained in the Molitor essay, we chose not to go with a designated hitter, so that just leaves two spots left: a starting pitcher and a relief pitcher. We’re only going to choose one of each, so this is going to get a little bit Thunderdome-y. Our old rules don’t really apply here (pret
  
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