The Milwaukee Brewers recently hired Pat Murphy as the team’s new manager and there are many personnel decisions they need to make for the 2024 season including shortstop Willy Adames. Adames will have one more year on his contract and become a free agent after the 2024 season.
He is 28 years old. In 149 games with Milwaukee, he had a .217 batting average with 24 home runs and 80 RBIs, along with five stolen bases and three caught stealing attempts. Willy Adames also had a .310 on-base percentage.
According to Anthony Franco of mlbtraderumors.com, Adames is ranked third as a possible trade candidate this offseason and his teammate starting pitcher Corbin Burnes is ranked second. Franco wrote about the possibility of Adames being traded from the Brewers this offseason:
“Burnes and Adames are tied together with good reason. They’re each one year from the open market and projected for a noteworthy arbitration salary — $15.1MM for Burnes, $12.4MM for Adames. Milwaukee is reportedly open to offers on the majority of the roster.
A former Cy Young winner, Burnes may be the best pitcher available in trade. The right-hander posted a sub-3.00 ERA each season from 2020-22. His 3.39 mark across 193 2/3 innings this past season wasn’t quite so dominant but is still high-end production. Burnes struck out just under 26% of opposing hitters. While his lowest mark since his rookie season, that’s still an above-average figure.
Adames is coming off a less impressive year. The 28-year-old hit .217/.310/.407 through 638 trips to the plate. That’s slightly below-average offense, although he still connected on 24 home runs. Adames is an excellent defensive shortstop with plus power in an offseason where there are essentially no free agent shortstops of note. Even with a mediocre on-base percentage, he’d generate plenty of interest.”
If the Milwaukee Brewers Traded Away Willy Adames They Have No One to Replace Him With
One of the worst decisions that general manager Matt Arnold could possibly make this offseason is to trade Adames. It would be one thing if they traded Corbin Burnes because they could get a nice haul of prospects back for him and have some internal pitching options to replace him.
There are no internal options at the moment for Willy Adames if they move off of him. It would be 100 percent silly to trade him or even think about trading him. They would have to find someone via trade or free agency if they went that route. This MLB trade rumor about Willy Adames is silly but the Corbin Burnes one is more reasonable.