Can the Brewers stay in the fight to finish?
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No matter how the last few weeks of the 2017 season shake out, the Milwaukee Brewers exceeded even the most optimistic of preseason expectations. It was just a year ago that the team was one of the most rapidly deconstructing teams in the game, looking tCan the Brewers stay in the fight to finish?
No matter how the last few weeks of the 2017 season shake out, the Milwaukee Brewers exceeded even the most optimistic of preseason expectations. It was just a year ago that the team was one of the most rapidly deconstructing teams in the game, looking to sell off any and everything from its high-priced former core. Simply put, the Brewers were a team was past its collective prime. Still possessing remnants of the group that won the franchise’s first division title since 1982 and reached the National League Championship Series in 2011, the eroding roster was unable to keep up with the pace of the neighbors in the NL Central, excluding a Cincinnati squad enduring a similar dilemma. It was time for price slashing and roster reinvention, and the Brewers definitively cashed out of the competitive picture and began stripping their roster. It was a prolonged rebuilding effort that began more than a year before, one that was still under construction as 2017 rolled in. Accordingly, expectations were not hig Read more