Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio met with the press to discuss his expectations for the 2024 season. One line that he used was, “I hate to lose… I really hate to lose”. He also touched on the sustained success of the organization throughout the years.
Mark Attanasio likes the Brewers chances of winning the division and expects it to be competitive.
“I think the division is clearly better this year. We talk about our young players, the Cubs have a ton of great young players. And the Cardinals are always good. They ran into some bad luck last year, among other things. The Reds have maybe the most exciting young players on the field of anyone, including us at this point, and the Pirates have gotten better.”
“So, I think it’ll be a fun division this year because it’ll be more competitive division this year. …I think competition is good for baseball and even for the playoff format, with the teams that have the runaway trains in their division, there’s ways you can get into the playoffs. And that’s good for baseball.’’
Four Milwaukee Brewers veterans were identified as pillars of the team.
“[Yelich], Willy Adames, [William] Contreras and, frankly, Rhys Hoskins are four pillar veterans that we’re going to build off of on the field. His leadership isn’t only his performance, which as I said was like a four-win player last year, but he’s out there every day. He really keeps himself in condition so that at 31 years old, or whatever it is, he can be out there every day. That’s a really good example for the next generation of players who look up to him.”
-Mark Attanasio
The organization has been “knocking on the door of a World Series Championship”.
“We don’t get to hang a banner in the outfield for having the No. 2 farm system in baseball, but we do get to do is hang banners for winning. In my tenure, we have seven now for playoff appearances, division championships and whatnot. We don’t have the real one we want, which is a World Series championship, but we’ve been knocking on the door.’’
-Mark Attanasio
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