At the end of this campaign, the free agent market will open up. And this season’s vintage will not go down in history.
So much so that, if we forget Shohei Ohtani, the most coveted free agent may not be a player.
Who are we talking about?
From one of the best managers in all of MLB, that of the Milwaukee Brewers Craig Counsell, who will see his contract expire at the end of the season.
Counsell became manager of the Brewers on May 4, 2015, and helped his team set a franchise record by reaching the playoffs four years in a row from 2018 to 2021. And as of early September, he has 97% of chances of participating in the fall dance after missing it in 2022.
If the 53-year-old, who resides in his hometown of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, decides to leave the Brewers or if they want to break ties, all MLB teams with a need for this position will be in the running. to purchase his services.
But it will not be without putting his hand in his pocket, since Counsell could become the highest paid manager in major league baseball and could cross the five million dollar mark per year, which does not seem to be the case for anyone in the world. MLB right now.
And when you think of the bidous and the needs, the two formations of New York immediately surface.
Counsell’s most obvious destination may be the Mets, who may soon hire his former Milwaukee boss, David Stearns, as president of baseball operations. And we still don’t know the future of the skipper Buck Showalter in a possible reconstruction.
For the Yankees, it could be a marked improvement over current manager Aaron Boone, even if the Bombardiers claim loud and clear that Boone is their man and that he will not move from there. We must never forget that the Yankees are as transparent as a brick wall.
Either way, if Counsell were to leave Milwaukee, the Brewers would certainly fall below their standards of recent years and the team that snares him will surge forward.
