With their crushing defeat at the hands of the Washington Nationals in last night’s National League Wild Card game, the Milwaukee Brewers watched their 2019 season come to a close. With it likely comes the end of the current tenure with the Beers of one Yasmani Grandal, who is expected to opt-out of his side of a 2020 mutual option and again become a free agent this winter.
Grandal ended up in Milwaukee on what will effectively be a 1 year, $18 million deal after wading through a murky free agent market last winter, reportedly turning down multi-year deals with lower average annual values while feeling something of a duty to the catching community to continue to press their contract limits forward.