4 budget free agent targets for the Brewers that would help them contend in 2025

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Despite the fact that they were shoved out of this year's playoffs earlier than hoped, the Milwaukee Brewers had themselves an excellent 2024 campaign. The club won the NL Central by 10 games, had one of the best rookies in baseball take the field for them every night, and their bullpen was utterly dominant all year long.

With a relatively short list of upcoming free agents, the Brewers aren't going to have many roster holes to fill next year. As things currently stand, Willy Adames and Joe Ross are the only two players that will become unrestricted free agents in the near future.

Outside of that duo, Frankie Montas, Wade Miley and Gary Sanchez all have mutual options that will likely lead to them hitting free agency. Devin Williams, Colin Rea and Freddy Peralta all have club options for the 2025 season but they're all going to be brought back. The only player option belongs to Rhys Hoskins, who recently hinted at his decision regarding that.

The Brewers put together a deep team this year and could lose only a few players to the open market. Their bullpen doesn't need to get touched in free agency, their offense only has a few small holes (outside of shortstop) to fill and their starting rotation could maybe use one more face in the picture in case Brandon Woodruff isn't fully ready once Opening Day rolls around.

Let's take a closer look at the list of upcoming free agents and see which players could fit the Brewers' mold this winter. As we know, the Crew doesn't have a bottomless payroll to work with, so we're going to just say now that Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Corbin Burnes, Alex Bregman, Anthony Santander or Jack Flaherty are not being taken into consideration.

The Brewers are a budget-friendly team, so we're going to focus on some budget-friendly players. Let's dive in and see where we land.

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