One of the great traditions of the MLB offseason is big-market teams believing they can acquire the Milwaukee Brewers' top talent for pennies on the dollar. It generally starts the second the Brewers are eliminated from the postseason and persists until Opening Day arrives the following year, with the time in between filled with ludicrous trade packages that would have Matt Arnold and his team hanging up the phone before the opposing front office tentatively asks, "So, what do you think?"
Though not always the culprits, the representative that first comes to mind when thinking of other major league teams treating the Brewers as a "feeder team" is the evil empire that is the New York Yankees.