5 Brewers players who could be traded off the 40 man roster before 2024 Deadline

The trade winds are howling. Rumors are percolating. The Milwaukee Brewers, sitting in first place in the NL Central with a six game cushion could both buy *and* sell at the 2024 trade deadline.

We've already seen them act as buyers with the Aaron Civale and Nick Mears trades. But as the roster crunch grows with players returning from injury and external additions brought in via trade, the Brewers may be forced to sell off some pieces from their 40 man roster in order to make the roster math work.

For example, Bradley Blalock was on the Brewers 40 man roster when they included him in the deal to Colorado for Nick Mears. It's highly likely that before this trade deadline is over, the Brewers will trade a few more players from their current 40 man roster.

But who could those players be? Here are five possibilities.

1. OF Garrett Mitchell

The Brewers first round pick in the 2020 Draft has faced some tough challenges thus far in his pro career. After a great debut late in 2022, Mitchell missed all but a few weeks of the 2023 season with shoulder surgery, then he missed the first three months of 2024 with a broken bone in his hand.

Mitchell can be a sparkplug when healthy, and he has excellent prospect pedigree. Fansided's Robert Murray reported recently that teams were calling about Mitchell and that he could be included in a trade to get some starting pitching.

The Brewers do have a surplus in the outfield. Sal Frelick, Jackson Chourio, and Blake Perkins have all done extremely well this season, plus there's Christian Yelich. Yelich's injury may change the calculus on a potential Mitchell deal, though. The Brewers are seeking a left handed bat to help fill the void, while Mitchell himself is a left handed hitter and plays the same position as Yelich.

Either the Brewers are going to shut down trade conversations involving Mitchell in the wake of Yelich's injury or they can look to bring in a different left handed bat to help fill out the lineup and ship Mitchell elsewhere to get some pitching help.

That surplus means Mitchell is not the only outfielder from the 40 man roster who could find himself with a new team soon, though.