Milwaukee Brewers: 4 major question marks for 2020
By Kenny Jilek
The Milwaukee Brewers have seen plenty of roster turnover this offseason. After losing two All-Stars in Mike Moustakas and Yasmani Grandal, there are many questions around the diamond on how their replacements will perform.
Guys like Chase Anderson and Zach Davies that were mainstays in the starting rotation have been shipped out and replaced, the infield looks very different than it did just two short years ago when the Milwaukee Brewers made their run to the NLCS, and the bullpen has been transformed as well.
There are a lot of guys on this year’s roster who have had up and down seasons during their careers. Obviously, every guy has had ups and downs, but we’ve seen extreme highs and extreme lows from almost everyone on the team.
One of the only guys that doesn’t come into the season with a question mark is Christian Yelich. He will almost definitely be an All-Star again and hopefully compete for another MVP award. This team needs him to be their leader, or they don’t have much of a shot at the playoffs anyway. Also, newly acquired Avisail Garcia is coming with a hefty price tag of $7.25 million this season and $10 million in 2021, so he better produce.
On the pitching side of things, the only real guys without any questions around them are Josh Hader, who will need to once again be Superman in the back-end of the bullpen, and Brandon Woodruff, who will be the team’s ace and will need to at least put up the stats of a solid number two on a team like the Dodgers or Yankees.
In my opinion, every other spot on the roster comes with some sort of question on how they will perform. So let’s dive in, starting with two guys who we know can hit, but their defense has left something to be desired.