Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Milwaukee Brewers are ready to ink a one-year deal with free agent deal Yasmani Grandal, pending a physical.
Tim Brown from Yahoo! is reporting that the deal is worth $18.25 million for the year. Grandal’s qualifying offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers was worth $17.9 million. Because the Dodgers offered him a qualifying offer that he did not sign, the Brewers will forfeit their round three pick in the 2019 first-year player draft. That’s the second 2019 pick the Brewers have given up in one way or another this offseason, after trading their Round A Competitive Balance pick to get Alex Claudio from the Texas Rangers.