What you said is true right now but to be fair the Brewers have done well. You have to count home grown players like Jackson Chourio, Tobias Meyers, Aaron Ashby and Garrett Mitchell developed by the Brewers. Also our trades. We traded Corbin Burns away for a whole bunch of very good players. Also, the trade that got Contreras over here to the Brewers. Look at the Chicago Cubs, there payroll is over double the Brewers and that is not even counting Craig Counsell's 40 million dollar contract.