BIG BAT: Milwaukee Brewers Missing Power—Will They LAND the Major Slugger Fans Crave This Offseason?

BIG BAT: Milwaukee Brewers Missing Power—Will They LAND the Major Slugger Fans Crave This Offseason?

The Brewers are looking for a big bat here in the offseason. They haven’t found him yet. We’ll get to that next here on Locked on Brewer. >> You are Locked On Brewers, your daily Milwaukee Brewers podcast, part of the Locked On Network. Your team every day. >> Everybody, welcome to Locked On Brewers, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. We are your team every day. Thanks for making us the number one locked on locked on part of the number one podcast in the world sports podcast. You get us everywhere. All the lockdowns and lockdown brewers. Thanks for making us your first listen to every day here on Lockdown Brewers. Brought to you by FanDuel. FanDuel, you want to be right in the middle of all the action. Get in the FanDuel. Check out their live bets on NFL games and all the games in fact all season long on FanDuel. Coming up on the show today, we’re going to talk to Jim Gohart from Brewer Fanatic. He’s going to join us here in a moment or two. Got some big things to talk about. The big bet, where is it for the Milwaukee Brewers? Who do they have their eyes on? Is there going to be one? Zerpa. Well, he’s been with the Brewers for six days now. Is he going to start come out of the bullpen? We’ll talk about that. And can indeed the number one question with the Milwaukee Brewers, will they be running it back this year? And we bring in Jim Gohart, proud Brewer fanatic, lifelong Brewers fan living in Massachusetts, which I think is outstanding. It’s funny, Jim, first of all, appreciate you coming on the podcast. Thank you. >> Thank you. It’s my pleasure. I’ve been uh looking forward to this. >> You know, Jim, it’s funny. I I mentioned a couple of um months ago during the the season. I said, you know, Brewers fans out there, I look at Packer fans as being a a nationwide worldwide brand. But I said, I think maybe Brewers fans, there’s mostly Brewer fans just living in Wisconsin. I never run into Brewers fans outside of the city who maybe didn’t have some sort of connection with Wisconsin. But then I heard from everybody, people calling me and telling me, “Hey, you know what? They’re texting me.” No, I am from Texas. I’ve been a lifelong Brewers fan. I’ve never even been to a game before. But Jim, you are from Massachusetts. You run this terrific website. Plus, you’ve been a you’ve got no connection to Wisconsin. How did you become a Brewers fan? >> Oh my gosh, Chuck, it was so totally random. Um my my dad was a big football and hockey guy and I was left alone to my own baseball influences, right? And um some for some whatever reason, I hadn’t migrated on to the Red Sox at that point in my life. I was a young nine-year-old maybe at this point. >> And I uh went to a lot of local, they called it variety stores back then. I’m dating myself a little bit here. >> I know what you’re talking about. >> They sold baseball cards, but in this particular day, they sold baseball pack of baseball stickers you could buy and whatever pack you got, it represented that team. >> So, it could have been totally random. I don’t, you know, I spent my 25 cents, whatever it was. opened up my pack and it’s Brewers this that and it was before the ball and glove logo but it was still cool and I made a little t-shirt out of it. Later that summer um my brothers and I I’m the oldest of three brothers were selling Kool-Aid on the local corner and the local newspaper guy comes by takes my picture with the Kool-Aid makes the front page of my local Massachusetts town paper and I get a letter from the editor yet about a week or so later. Jim, what’s up with the Brewers t-shirt, you know, because it was planted all over the front page of the the local paper. >> Sure. >> That just cemented in my um my knowledge somehow. And back then I just used whatever means possible. Um and I found out the Sporting News was a great source. And I think I shared briefly with you that um the Red Sox, we were in the American League East with the Brewers, you know, so I could watch >> the Brewers whenever they were on playing the Red Sox. I got a chance to see them and then of course um made trips to Fenway to see them and then the Yankees all the radio games a local Providence Rhode Island station carried those. So um I was even able to listen to the infamous uh Moose Has strikeout 14 Yankees >> 1978 >> in 1978 and I was listening on a transistor in my uh in my room. It wasn’t a night game. It was an afternoon game. remember it but um developed that Moose Has little a little homage to him and my Twitter handle but thanks for sharing that’s how it came about was very random and now for 50 plus years somehow they’re going to put I don’t want to I’m not pushing anything but um when I’m have a remembrance someday they’ll talk about this guy who was a Brewers fanatic literally and how much they meant to him but enough about me yeah cool >> that well that’s great because like I I don’t think of Milwaukee the Milwaukee Brewers as being a national brand. I mean, let’s face it, they’re never on national TV. And I’ve detailed all this. And I I just never go anywhere where I see a Brewers shirt anywhere. You know, again, I’ll see Packer stuff and all that, but never a Brewers. But that’s awesome. Growing up, yeah, the Brewers back in the 70s, well, in the 80s, too, in the 90s, but back in the 70s and 80s, we had a heat rivalry. The Red Sox, the Yankees, the Orioles. Bulls were three of the best teams in baseball at the time and then later on the Blue Jays. >> American League East was just so dominant over the West at that point. And uh it’s a shame. I think the younger folks if they only realized if the wild card in any format had been in play during those years beyond >> 1987, 1992. Um but yeah, we would have >> would have had much more of a postseason history than we actually Yep. Two teams from each league made the postseason back then and uh you had to be a division winner. Yeah, there 78 79 they won 95 games. They probably would have gotten then 1980 they had upwards of 80 some odd wins. So Oh, absolutely. Well, that brings us that brings us to 2025 and into 2026. Hey Jim, uh what the Brewers need right now and if you read all of like the national publications or anybody, what do the Brewers need here in the offseason? A big bat. Now the big question is costs money for a big bat and it cost resources. So far no big bat. I don’t know if they’re going to get themselves the big bat that everybody hopes for. >> Are there any how many big bats are even left out there? unless trade none >> right it is a um a tough commodity for sure and I think there’s a confluence of of things that are happening here in terms of >> there’s not a really exposed gap in the lineup right now where you absolute >> must upgrade and not only that but there’s a upgrade available with a power bat. Um, people talk about third base and can we shuffle around um to, you know, move Terrain to shore and and move Caleb Durban to second, blah blah blah. And it’s like, okay, I there was a post by the Brewers yesterday celebrating the Durbanator kind of out of nowhere. Let’s celebrate Caleb Durban, everybody. It’s December 18th and let’s make sure that you remember what a great year he had. Well, it was a good year. Um, I I like to say that for all the bub hub about the Brewers rookies, it was a down class overall for rookies in the National League. So, we get pumped up that the Brewers had such a good representation among the top 10 rookies, but Chuck, I’m I’m with you. I think that um it’s a forlorn feeling. You want to see those balls fly over the wall and it’s just it’s tough to grab. It really is. Um where I listen to your show faithfully and I do listen to you when you talked about Kyle Schwabber, Peter Lonzo, the Brewers could have done that. >> 150. >> Yeah. And that’s my problem, Jim. I’m like, why can’t we be like the St. Louis Cardos? Why can they spend 150 60 million a year and we’re down there in 117 most of the time? I think it’s going to be like 132 this this year from what I understand maybe. But um yeah, we not even close to what the Cardinal spend. It’s such a huge commitment and it’s such a one way or the other thing because there’s almost no in between because then you’re kind of settling for somebody that might be able to provide that power and it’s like okay we have some guys here that might be able to do that 20 you know between Shurio increasing his count um crossing every finger possible on um you know Mitchell it’s just um it’s a matter of are there other sources that can build us back up in that regard. But as far as that, I know you’re you’re pining for that one >> huge slugger. I think I was on the Reese Hoskins train with you >> because it was close to being what we had hoped and then it just fizzled and it didn’t work out. >> I remember sitting here that night when they got him. I just got back from my high school basketball game and I got the news and I’m like, “Wow, this is going to be exciting.” And it didn’t work out like I expected. In fact, there’s rumblings he’s going to sign with the Yankees now on a one-year $7.5 million deal. But Ree didn’t work out here. And I thought he’d be that big bat to hit 35 home 40 homers. >> I wish there was an answer beyond what we’ve already discussed. But the fact that people aren’t buzzing about all the options out there, it leads us to believe that really >> it’s it’s not the year quite yet. I Let me tell you a couple of things here. In honor of my Bvard County manatees, I’m breaking out. No. No, >> an old school. >> Yes. >> In 2008, I believe was the last season. So, the Boulevard County Manatees before they went to become the Timber Rattlers. >> Yep. >> Um, this hat has seen some wear, believe me. But I will let you know that, um, write down the name Andrew Fischer. Um, he’s the first round pick this year. He’s got so much Ryan Brawn in him that I see. >> Um, and I know it’s 20th overall pick versus fifth overall pick. How would this guy have slipped all the way to 20 if he is what he is? Um, I think when we’re sitting here talking next year at this time, Chuck, we’re going to be talking about this incredible left-handed power back that will be able to plug in to third a corner infield spot. And keep an eye on another name, another the pick they got for the Corbin Burns trade, first baseman Blake Burke. Okay, >> just a mammoth man. and he just broke out in the second half of last year with Beluxy. It’s not going to be 2026 for either of these guys, but just a little bit of patience. The power is on the way. Not every prospect. Matt Arnold kind of pulled a little shift a couple of years ago. Not everybody was a carbon copy of the South Relic mold in terms of 5’8, 5’9, speedy. >> Um, we’ve got some power, at least hopes on the way. And um I think we’ll be having a little slightly different discussion that’s really looking forward to them um come next spring, but we do have to kind of sift through 2026. Yeah, we do. >> We do. And obviously, I don’t think they’re going to bring any prospects up if they don’t have to because of the potential lockout and year of service. You know, I don’t think any of that’s going to happen. It’s going to be that’s why I think it’s just kind of an unusual offseason for some teams as well. Hey Jim, hang on one second. I’m going to ask you coming out of this break, we’ll talk about where the newest acquisition on Hell Zerpa Brewers got him the Royals last Saturday night. How he fits into the equation. We’ll get to that next coming up here on Locked On Brewers, part of the Locked On podcast network. We are your team every day. It’s an episode brought to you in part by Game Time. Hey, you want tickets for a Bucks game? Maybe you want to go to the Packers game, comedy show, you name it. 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And um I can understand because we this was a season of memorable moments, right? And there were um there were memorable moments that were authored by the players that were traded in this deal. Uh it was quite understandable, I think, that across much of the fan base. It was like, okay, wait a minute. We’re dealing uh our starting left fielder for most of the the season. >> Rookie. Yeah. Who gets on base rookie of the year candidate. And now we’re getting another left-hander and you try to read into I I try to consider myself as much of an a a combination of a casual fan who really follows every aspect of the game and those that follow the statistical and analysis pieces. Sometimes I see some of those uh pitching charts and whatnot and I just get a little dizzy sometimes, you know. But this this Zerpa um just apparently with the ground ball rate and he’s throwing hard obviously it’s just a matter of can the Brewers work their magic as they so often do and make it work. But did you say to yourself, well that was a real area of need? Not necessarily. Right. And now if even if they migrate him potentially to the to the starting rotation well you talking for 2026 or building up by next year because they do have multiple years of control over Zerpa. It’s a matter of for me. It was kind of like a shrugs shoulders kind of deal. It’s like okay you know >> they’re making their strength stronger here by getting they have a lot of pitching. They have a lot of good pitching >> and it’s like man they’re adding to it already and I get that but still there’s other needs of this team. I was hoping they’d use those assets. If they’re going to trade Collins, can we trade for I don’t know, somebody else’s power hitter who they might want to give up. I mean, and I thought I would say make a blockbuster. Throw Collins, throw Freddy, if you’re going to trade him, make a blockbuster move for somebody, >> right? Like for instance, there was a guy um Ward who got moved from the uh Angels to the Orioles this year. Mhm. >> Uh left fielder, 30 plus home run guy, could have settled into left field. Do you trade Collins and other pieces to get him from the Angels to begin the off season? That type of a deal because there aren’t a lot of spaces, we’ve already discussed where you’re going to plug in a power spot. Left field potentially would have been one, but now you’re talking about Chario’s your center fielder permanently. There’s a lot that goes into just the the finagling of this, but >> absolutely >> in terms of Isaac Collins and and Nick Beers, >> I wasn’t shedding a ton of tears on that. I mean, Collins, >> it was a significant drop off, Chuck. We know that. And you can say what you want. Um I think a lot of people are saying, “Oh, he had the the youngster um the new baby at home.” I I believe, if I’m not mistaken, that the wife and baby were in Colorado when he bakes home. So, it wasn’t like he was coming home every night and losing sleep because he was had this crying baby. Um, I’m sure there were things that he wanted to be with his family and that might have been part of it, but um they might have sold high on him as well and uh but did they use that asset properly? Um it kind of feels like you said they reaffirmed this an area of strength. Well, and maybe the market out there for Collins, we see Collins and we see, God, look at all the big hits he had and 28 years old and that maybe the Brewers or maybe us guys think >> more of him than the execs around Major League Baseball think and that he just had a that maybe Collins was just on a great run there. >> He was and uh we enjoyed every moment of it. And as I said, this was a season of moments. When you’re a 70- win team, you your chances are you’re not a season of moments. You win 97 games and the fans are involved. Um the ratings were at their all-time high. Everybody’s remembering these. They get played over and over again on social media, which maybe wasn’t the case not that many years ago where everything gets reinforced now. And you’re like, “Oh, Isaac Collins.” And then he’s in the postseason conversation for some of these awards. >> But on the surface, you just have to realize that it wasn’t trading away gold. You know, this wasn’t a a significant loss in terms of oh my gosh, how did they do that? This wasn’t a that kind of moment for me and but apparently it was for other fans and it’s understandable. We don’t know a lot about >> Anel Zerpa except now we know how to pronounce his name >> and he wore number 61 with the Royals. >> Yes. >> So, and uh the Brewers obviously are targeting him as a guy who they feel still has got a great upside. Jim, hang on. Can the Brewers run it back? We’ll get to that coming up next here on our final segment with Jim Goulhart, Chuck Freeman. Here on Lockdown Brewers, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. We are your team every day. 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And um what was odd about that and I mentioned this on one of my first podcast that I going in the locker room after the game to do my work. Uh it was not a locker room that had lo looked like it had lost its last best friend. Um there was it was a locker room there was it seemed like a little bit of celebratory that hey you know we overachieved. We did as far as we could go and um man, we gave it our best shot, but this was we ran into a a team that we ultimately figured we couldn’t beat. One of those things. >> Yeah. Um like they were resigned to the fact that this was going to happen almost. >> You said it. >> But but I still come back, we talk about moments. How about some postseason moments? Um I still come back to Bryce Terang. Please don’t get out of the way in the top in the bottom of the ninth in Milwaukee in game one out of that pitch. >> And uh what would have happened? It might have been four games to one when all is said and done, but wow, there would have been a little national buzz going into game two and all that. How fun would that have been? And just in the back of the Dodgers mind, even as they headed back to LA, okay, you know, this this little Rugrat team, they really do have some magic going on there. So, first of all, I I’ll get past it because that play that near hit my pitch. It resonates almost as much with me as the Chris Taylor catch in 2018. >> Sure. And and I I can’t believe I watched it again recently just to see how insanely crazy that play was with Trent Gisham versus the Nationals in that the play that 2019 >> Yeah, I was in Washington for that. >> So those two plays >> for me the hit by pitch isn’t quite at that level, but it’s almost there. >> The hit by pitch, Jim, I can’t really blame him on that because >> No, that’s That’s instincts right there. >> It is. Um, at the same time, um, it’s almost as if I think I posted this online, maybe got a little bit heat for it, but it was almost like, you know, if you’re anybody in that dugout as he’s approaching the plate at that point, you’re putting that in his putting that in his ear at least. You know, um, hey, uh, we’ve got a slider that, you know, this guy’s a slider pitcher. He’s something’s going to happen there. So, we’ll see what happens. But let’s let’s go past that for a second. Yeah, it was tough uh to relegate ourselves to just being accepting of the fact. >> Well, you remember Gabe Cheurio had a lead off home run and I’m like, we’re back. >> We’re back. >> We’re back. Ended up not going their way. You know, the playoffs started in such great fashion for the Brewers, too, because they put up like a five or six run first inning against the Cubs. >> Yeah. after the Cubs had put up a three spot and the Brewers came right back and they hit him with >> Yeah. like nine to one or nine to five >> this high and of course um the game five versus the Cubs. >> Oh yeah. >> Talk about talk about a mustave. But they must did and they did. >> So but and then you see Toronto but just let’s not pretend that Toronto is the poor boys of the the neighborhood either, you know. And they’re spending money again this offseason >> and they are and but they met the challenge >> and it made all of us think well they met to a challenge up to one pitch away right but uh they met the challenge to to the point where I think it just we had a chance to represent I say we I shouldn’t use that term the team had a chance to make an impression nationally at that point globally at that point because now all the Japanese fans are watching the the little Brewers that could against their mighty Dodgers and to just fall so flat offensively over the four games um leaves a bit of a stink that it’s going to carry over at least from the national perspective and it’s just something that it’s it’s an obstacle to overcome and why not >> before I let you go >> sure >> 97 wins maybe not that total but can the Brewers will the Brewers a lot of offseason left run it back and win in this division again. >> Reds will be better. Pirates have to be better. >> Mhm. >> Cardinals will not be. Cubs will Cubs have a lot they’re going to do between now and spring. You watch. >> Maybe. >> Maybe. The pocketbook says they will. >> Are they Are they Are they alligating alligator ring arm? >> They got short arms going in those pockets. >> Exactly. Right. I can’t reach my pockets. >> Yeah. which is good for us. >> So, so 97 is such a a such a high mantle. Um, let’s just make I’ll say 92 without knowing even a fraction of what’s going to happen between now and then. A fourth. Can you imagine, you know, Chuck, we’re kind of the same generation. And I’ll mention that um when I’m talking to the younger kids, whether it’s in my workplace or whatever, hey, I’d love to have 30 years of my life back, you know, to live those moments, you know, and I’m glad with where I am and when I grew up where I did. But then I think to myself, geez, if I got those 30 years back, I’d be a Brewer fan in the late 90s, early 2000s. That wouldn’t be the best place to be. >> Well, 27 years of adulthood, they didn’t go to the postseason straight years. >> And I was watching from afar. I was watching that whole stretch and it was it was it was wild. >> I was covering it unreal. >> I appreciate what you’ve been doing here with Lockdown Brewers. Um I make it a point to always um you know give you the shout out and and include all all the the links that I provide over at Brewer Fanatic. kind of a little niche little niche thing that I’m not sure there’s any other fan site out there that does that um across the board to provide um even in during the off season a place for fans to go to get their fill and uh it’s it’s it’s been fun to be able to contribute to the fandom uh over the years. >> Well, I appreciate that and I you know you guys do great work, Brewer Fanatic and all your writers. I I I I tune in every day. I I >> thank you >> download um your website every day and take a look at it and of course follow you on Twitter as well and uh you know I appreciate I told you this privately. I appreciate you putting our link up there all the time and and what you do for this Brewer community of ours. Right. >> It is uh come back and see me in the spring. we uh we’ll fire up the old minor league link reports which uh Jim Powell gave us the love back in the day and here I am a quarter century later somehow still still following the kids on the farm and a lot of times those kids make it up their way to the the big leagues and we’re we’re seeing the Bryce Terra and the South Felix and how much fun is that we are in a really really good spot >> I my my story with Jim and I love Jim we were up in Minneapolis I was up with our Minneapolis cover the game Brewers and Twins And Jim was working his rear end off on the stairmaster. And I said, “Man, Jim, you’re going at it hard.” He goes, “Yeah, ate a full pizza last night. I’m coming back with a big workout and a salad today.” And he wasn’t one of these guys that was overweight, but he just >> It was funny. You know, he was working away on that stair master like, “Yeah, had a big pizza tonight before he said, >> “All right, Jim. Appreciate it. Good stuff. Have yourself a great holiday, too, my friend.” >> Please. You too. >> You too. >> Um, Sta, we’re so uh we’re so thrilled that you you jumped on board with this whole lockdown experience. You added a lot >> a lot to it, both for veteran fans, for myself, and I I know that there’s a lot of younger younger folks out there that are like, “Oh, wow. This is this is great. >> That’s awesome. Hey, we’ll catch up in the new year, my friend.” Okay, >> take care. >> Jim Ghart from Brewer Fanatic. It’s going to do it. Have yourself a great weekend, everybody. You got shows coming up next week as well. 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Milwaukee Brewers search for power continues as big bats remain elusive and offseason questions loom. Can the Brew Crew find the offensive spark needed to compete with NL Central rivals or will they once again rely on a deep pitching staff.

Chuck Freimund and Jim Gouhart From “Brewerfanatic” dig into the Brewers’ offseason challenges, exploring trade rumors, missed opportunities with sluggers like Pete Alonso and Kyle Schwarber, and the outlook for rookies such as Caleb Durbin and top prospects Andrew Fisher and Blake Burke. Conversation covers the strategic value of recent trades, Isaac Collins’ departure, and how Milwaukee stacks up in a heated NL Central against improving teams like the Reds, Cubs, and Cardinals. Can the Brewers run it back for another playoff push, or is a retool inevitable with payroll and prospect considerations swirling?

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