Here’s a few safe investments for the Milwaukee Brewers in the offseason:

1. The Brewers need a manager who will take away the team’s fascination with warning-track power and replace it with the ability to manufacture runs with baserunners. Their interim manager has a World Series ring, wants to teach small-ball and has the name Dale Sveum. What more do you need in Milwaukee?
2. Thank Ben Sheets for all he’s done and let him go. Give CC Sabathia your best offer now. If they are both gone, shore up the pitching rotation in the free-agent market early in the offseason. The CC Fund could pay for about 10 mortal pitchers, right?

3. Milwaukee is a young, talented team but its core is still missing something. If it’s true the Brewers have finally caught up in the farm system with a herd of potential, bring up top prospects Mat Gamel and Alcides Escobar and let the big-money guys earn their spots.

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