Let's Go All In?

[tmwiese55]

I of course see the argument here.  But what's missed in the 'go for it' mindset is there is nothing that can be done to move them say 10ish% to win right now to anything more than 13ish% just due to the nature of baseball playoffs and the Dodgers existing.   Thus, there is just as logical an argument that true "going for it" is to keep being good every year to keep having the 10ish percent every year rather than sacrificing a few 10% years to get an extra 1-3%, but in return you get several 0% chance years.

Also, Brewers did go for it a few times. Sabathia trade, Greinke/Marcum trades, the attempts at the '18 deadline.  And one has to give a reminder on what 'going for it' can do. The Padres would currently have James Wood, CJ Abrams, and Makenzie Gore on league min deals, instead they went for it.  That said, no way MKE management is dumb enough to give up our elite talents, but then we can't be mad at them for it and act like they're not trying to win it all. 

Generally speaking, I like their overall plan of attempting marginal moves at deadlines that don't cost big prospects. But man, they sure have whiffed on several of those the last few years. Just have to do better at it.  And if things continue the way they have with RF, CF, SS, 3B you likely have to add 1-2 competent bats via trade