Among the least fun parts of watching a baseball season end is figuring out how the heck a team owned by a multi-billionaire is going to afford all of its players next season.
The small-market Milwaukee Brewers are always among the most prominent teams in those discussions -- cue the perfectly timed Freddy Peralta trade rumors -- and this offseason promises to be no different.
One of the few constant sources of payroll increase in Milwaukee is with arbitration-eligible players, of whom the Brewers have many this year, including Jake Bauers, Andrew Vaughn, William Contreras, Nick Mears, Trevor Megill, Garrett Mitchell, Blake Perkins, and Brice Turang.