Yeah I saw that too. I mean three or four years ago I'm sure some fans brought it up, but it wouldn't have been a realistic option with his contract. The Brewers would have got nothing in return and the only thing he could have been traded for is some salary relief.
Yeah this is kind of where you want to be right now. Games are still meaningful but they're not in any immediate danger of falling into 2nd place. I'd be more worried if they had an 11 game lead right now which would mean they wouldn't have another meaningful game for three weeks.
Either way, the odds would be over four trillion to one on the Brewers missing the postseason. And that would be assuming every game is a 50/50 coinflip so in reality the odds would be much longer than that. So it's not really worth it to research it and find out if they're wrong.
If we were to assume our current bench consists of Perkins, Bauers, Seigler, Jansen, Monasterio. They have a combined bWAR of 0.9 this year. The Colorado Rockies entire baseball team has a bWAR of -3.8 for all position players combined.
San Francisco would have to go 15-7 just to tie them with the Mets also going at least 11-11 and the Padres at least 10-12. Or replace San Francisco with Cincinnati going 16-6 or St. Louis going 16-5.
And mind you, this is with the Brewers not winning a single game the rest of the way.
What if they win the WC series? Then they would be in the same spot as they would if they got a bye. Either way they have to win the NLDS and NLCS to get to the WS. There is no way around that no matter how these last 21 games go. Every team's chances of winning a postseason series against any other team is going to be close to 50%.
Then that would be one of the worst guesses I've ever read in my life. Take a look around the league and tell me which teams have a bench full of great power hitters and guys batting .300.
Sure but the first actual national championship game was played in 1999. Before that, the best thing they could actually win on the field was the Rose Bowl.
The Brewers would likely clinch a postseason spot even if they lost every single game in September, anyone worried about that just doesn't understand math.