Re: the trades. I was starting to do a write up like this of the 2017 era on. When the brewers accelerated the rebuild by being competitive in 2017 a year or two ahead of the plan.
I am traveling now, but off the top of my head, Grisham for Urias/Lauer was a bad trade because of the years Grisham has had since 2020. Lauer had an amazing season split over 2 seasons, and Urias had a great 2021 - and yet to see if Blalock becomes anything. Close but a loss. Kelly for Bush was a disaster, and Kelly has not made a MLB debut so time will tell, but Bush was such a negative. Same for Peters for Rosenthal, who amounted to nothing and Peters is hitting. Fry and Olson were just big time misses. Those will happen, and Adames was a win. But the Tellez trade was a wash.
Re: Yelich extension. His extension looming in 2022 may have hampered deals in 2021 to get the team some offensive help in ‘21 and ‘22. His rebound last year and hopefully this year make it easier to take. But that looming contract with down years did hurt the chances of playoff success in ‘21, and along with the Hader trade helped submarine the ‘22 season in my opinion.