Grade the Offseason

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19 minutes ago, TURBO said:

My biggest issue is that while we have sat quietly the Cubs and Reds have not. I don't think anyone can look at our roster and say that we are comfortably on the top of the Central.

The Cubs finished ten games back and the Reds were sixteen games behind us last year, they needed to make moves to have any chance of closing those sizable gaps.

Nobody thought the Brewers were comfortably on top of the Central entering 2021, 2023 or 2024 either but they won the division by a combined 24 games in those three seasons.

Maybe part of the problem in the playoffs this decade has been that the Brewers won the division too easily and lost their edge heading into the postseason after clinching with a week plus to spare.

When they made it to G7 of the NLCS in 2018 they had momentum from fighting through the end of the regular season and winning Game 163.