The big storyline of this year’s National League Championship Series — whether it was actually true or not — was that the Brewers simply couldn’t hang with the Dodgers because LA’s starters had the ability to pitch deep into games theirs were unable to provide.
That will likely be a perception of the Brewers heading into this offseason again, with quite a few people likely to claim the Brewers need to add a starting pitcher to put them over the top, but that ignores the one big takeaway from the NLCS: the Brewers need offense.