Welcome to our new February Daily Questions series. We’ll be posting question articles every day throughout the month in hopes of starting some more conversations within the Brew Crew Ball community. To begin, we ask ourselves, “What is the strongest reason to believe that this season will not be a waste?”
Now, I’ll be the first to say that “rebuilding year” isn’t in the Brewers’ (and especially Matt Arnold’s) vocabulary. But it almost seems too good to be true that Milwaukee might not have any rebuilding seasons for nearly a decade. That’s typical for high-payroll franchises like the Yankees and Dodgers.
But that’s exactly what Arnold & Co. have done. The Brewers haven’t played virtually any “meaningless” baseball since 2017 — the only season they’ve missed the playoffs since 2018 was in 2022, when they stayed in wild-card contention until the final series of the season and ultimately finished just one game behind the Phillies for the final playoff spot.
They can’t keep getting away with it, can they?
With Freddy Peralta just the latest “sacrifice” in a long line of trades to reload Milwaukee’s prospect depth, can Arnold, Pat Murphy and the Brewers work their magic again? Is there reason to believe that this is the year of rebuilding, or will the “bites of the apple” approach continue to work?
Weigh in in the comments and join us all month long as we continue these conversations into spring training.
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