The Brewers led all of baseball by non-tendering five players before Monday’s deadline, cutting a bunch of payroll that they may or may not use all of in the coming months.
Those moves also freed up a slew of 40-man roster spots and created some very clear areas of need. Of course, the Brewers weren’t the only team to non-tender quality players -- there were more non-tenders this year than ever before -- meaning there is a group of new free agents on the market that could end up helping the Brewers, even if their old clubs didn’t value them enough to give them a raise.