Mark Grote

The problem was the Brewers had a wildly successful season in 2018 that kind of stopped it.

You know, Mark, you remember this.

That was when Javi Baez and Christian Jelic were going neck and neck.

And then we saw Yellich pull away and just have a month of September that was outrageous.

Then they play that game 163.

I was there for that.

And I had to go into the Brewers locker room afterward in their clubhouse.

Happy Milwaukee people.

The reason I say that is because if these guys just play to the back of their baseball cards, according to last season,

With Alex Bregman being healthy enough to play, let's say, 150 instead of the 117 he played last year, that's a 30 home run season for him.

Yeah.

You can make the argument that this team will be the best since that World Series team because they just have more guys.

Remember, Seiya Suzuki has not stepped on the field, and we don't expect him to be on the field for another week or so.

Seiya's offense would have helped yesterday.

anybody's offense would have helped on a day where you get four hits total.

But I think overall, to look at this team and understand what the weakest points of this team are and to be encouraged by the weak points, if you will, and that's, to me, Matt Shaw and Moises Ballesteros so far, but I expect those guys to hit.

Your guy.

There's another piece of this contract that reminded me of the one Ian Happ signed when it came to the loyalty that the Cubs gave Ian Happ and just the vote of confidence.

And that was the no trade clause.

And that was also brought up.