3 Reasons the Milwaukee Brewers Would Consider Trading Josh Hader

The Milwaukee Brewers need some bats

For much of the season in key categories such as batting average, OPS, and runs scored — and there are others — the Milwaukee Brewers weren’t average or even slightly below average, they consistently ranked in the bottom third of the league–although credit to them, they did get up to 12th in runs by seasons end.

But despite a late-summer surge from the offense through September and certainly into their first playoff series with Atlanta, the bats were cold, and ultimately, that is why they were bounced in the NLDS.

In recent years, we’ve seen the Milwaukee Brewers have some of the largest payrolls in team history. However, with that said, this is still a small-market team that is uber-conscious of what they spend and they don’t have the deep pockets to go out and solve all of their offensive woes in free agency.

With Hader projected to make $10 million in 2022, that is going to be one of the bigger contracts on the books next season. And for a team like the Brewers, the best way for them to acquire some high-quality yet affordable bats is going to come via a trade–not free agency.

As we just discussed on the previous page, trading Hader this offseason would help them do just that as they would be able to net some high-end players in return and it would also allow Stearns and Co. to spend that $10 million on other needs.