What Will Brewers Do After Losing Jake Bauers To Red Sox?
Boston Red Sox designated hitter Jake Bauers Jake Bauers has reportedly agreed to a four-year, $58 million deal with the Boston Red Sox, creating a huge hole in the Milwaukee Brewers' lineup.
Key points
- He can clearly be in the lineup every day, but the Brewers may want to add a left-handed first baseman to back him up and give them a platoon option.
- However, the Brewers clearly like him, as they benched team captain Christian Yelich for him multiple times in the postseason.
- Bauers led the team in home runs, walks and OPS last season and finished second in the National League in on-base percentage.
Either way, losing Bauers is a huge blow, but not one the team can't recover from.
The Brewers already have a replacement for Bauers, and it's Andrew Vaughn.
Additional details
- However, Bauers never cooled down and Vaughn's at-bats were less than anyone expected going into the season.
- The team still got Vaughn a ton of playing time by getting Bauers in right field.
- In the time he missed, Bauers proved to be too good to remove from the lineup.
- Since joining the Brewers, he has a.849 OPS and 15 home runs in 168 games.
- It's hard to even call Vaughn a huge downgrade from Bauers.
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