Milwaukee Brewers Trade Deadline Preview

With a number of attractive assets, the Milwaukee Brewers could be big sellers at the trade deadline. Who can we expect to see on the block in the land of beer and cheese?

Though the throwback uniforms they wore this weekend were straight fire, the Milwaukee Brewers are in the unfortunate position of sharing a division with three of the best teams in the National League. Playing 57 games a year against the likes of the Cubs, Pirates, and Cardinals isn’t the sort of thing that helps out the winning percentage for a team that has spent the past four seasons in a sort of baseball purgatory after its last trip to the postseason in 2011.

Entering an off day on Monday before beginning a six-game homestand against the Oakland Athletics and New York Mets, the Brewers are sitting five games under .500 at 26-31 and more than a dozen games out of first place. It is already “waiting for next year” season in Milwaukee.

The Brewers could be major players at the MLB trade deadline, though, as a number of their players could be very attractive to contending clubs. Milwaukee made a number of moves during the last year, including unloading guys like Carlos Gomez, Francisco Rodriguez, Mike Fiers, Adam Lind, Khris Davis, and Jean Segura, which threw its rebuilding efforts into overdrive. The result was a farm system that went from being one of the worst in baseball to one of the best. Adding another round of highly-prized prospects via trades, plus four of the first 82 picks in this week’s draft (including No. 5 overall), could set the franchise on a course to be competing in the division once again much more quickly.

First year general manager David Stearns has already made two extremely minor moves, trading former first round pick Jed Bradley, a left-handed reliever who has never panned out, to Atlanta for a player to be named later or cash considerations and returning Rule 5 draft pick Colin Walsh to Oakland after designating him for assignment on May 31st.

But the big splash from the Brew Crew is still to come. Let’s take a look at who the team could move at the deadline as it continues to look towards the future.

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