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Brewers Could Acquire NL Cy Young Winner From Marlins In Bold Trade
Are the Milwaukee Brewers ever going to abandon their frugal ways?
It’s a question that will arise once again this summer as July’s trade deadline approaches, especially if Milwaukee looks like a contender with reason to add a big piece.
The Brewers entered Sunday with an 8-7 record, an impressive feat considering they’ve been without almost their entire pitching rotation to start the season.
Not all of Milwaukee’s lineup is performing up to snuff, either. Former National League MVP Christian Yelich and last year’s No. 5 vote-getter for NL MVP, William Contreras, are both cold at the plate to begin the year.
Jackson Chourio, Brice Turang, and Sal Frelick have been mashing, though, and Milwaukee’s manager Pat Murphy is once again presiding over a winning culture, regardless of his depth chart issues.
Murphy has shown he is a master of maximizing whatever personnel he’s given, but on the other hand, the Brewers will only go so far in the postseason with their current roster.
Milwaukee’s pitching staff, in particular, could use an infusion of high-end talent to allow this club to compete with loaded rosters like the Los Angeles Dodgers when push comes to shove in the fall.
Freddy Peralta is an ace for the Brewers, but the jury is still out on how effective Brandon Woodruff and Aaron Civale will be once they return from the Injured List.
Wouldn’t it make sense for Milwaukee to stick its neck out on the trade market and snag another top-notch starter?
Pairing Peralta with another ace-type arm — in tandem with either a solid Woodruff or Civale return (or both) — would give the Brewers a World Series-type rotation.
And if Yelich and Contreras eventually wake up and join the party Chourio, Turang, and Frelick are enjoying to start the season, Milwaukee would have a potent offense to go along with their dangerous staff.
The question is, would the Brewers front office be bold enough to deal for a guy like Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara?
The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner is still less than two years removed from Tommy John surgery, and he’s making $17.3 million per year this season and next, followed by a $21 million club option in 2027 (per Spotrac).
Alcántara looks like he’s on the way back to top form. He is 2-0 through three starts in 2025 for the Marlins with a 4.70 ERA and 12 strikeouts (15 1/3 innings pitched).
The two-time All-Star hurler picked up a win on Saturday versus the Nationals after an 11-day break from the team to celebrate the birth of his second child.
It’s not hard to imagine the Marlins becoming sellers this summer and opening up a sweepstakes for Alcántara.
But would the Brewers join that sweepstakes? They should. This is an exciting team that is one big move away from being in the mix for a world championship.
Alcántara and Peralta would be a dynamite one-two punch at the top of Milwaukee’s rotation, and if everyone stayed healthy, the Brewers would become easy favorites to win the NL Central once again.
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Milwaukee Weather – Frosty and cold morning, sunny day ahead
MILWAUKEE – Forecast from FOX6 Meteorologist Lisa Michaels
Frosty Monday morning with temps in the teens inland to low 20s near the lake.
Mostly sunny to sunny skies on Monday. Highs in the mid-40s inland, upper 30s near the lake.
A total lunar eclipse will happen Tuesday morning, total eclipse from 5-6am. It may be tough to see due to increasing clouds.
Increasing clouds on Tuesday with highs in the low 40s. Chance of rain and storms possible Wednesday through Friday with warming temperatures.
Today: 39 Lake. Mostly sunny.
High: 44°
Wind: SE 5-10
Tonight: Partly cloudy this evening, mostly clear overnight.
Low: 27°
Wind: SE 5
Tuesday: 39 Lake. Mostly cloudy.
High: 43°
Wind: E 5-10
Wednesday:41 Lake. Chance for scattered showers and t-storms.
AM Low: 32° High: 45°
Wind: E 5-10
Thursday: 39 Lake. Mostly cloudy. Chance storms.
AM Low: 37° High: 42°
Wind: NE 5-10
Friday: Chance for showers and t-storms Warmer. Warming at night.
AM Low: 37° High: 57°
Wind: SE 5-15
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with AM rain showers. Blustery with falling afternoon temperatures.
AM Low: 47° High: 53°
Wind: NE 5-10
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Four new community-powered fridges open on Milwaukee’s North Side
Community members and city leaders celebrated the opening of four new community-powered fridges on the North Side of Milwaukee. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Friday, Feb. 27, at Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, 3624 W. North Ave., to mark the occasion.
The effort to fight food scarcity by opening community-powered fridges comes after several grocery stores closed in the area, creating a food desert.
District 15 Ald. Russell W. Stamper II, who saw several grocery stores in his district close over the past few years, served as the event’s emcee.
“We could either complain about the problem, or we could come together to find a solution,” Stamper said.
In July 2025, a Pick ‘n Save on the North Side closed, prompting the opening of a community-powered fridge at Tricklebee Café in the Sherman Park and Uptown area. Since then, several other grocery stores have closed in the area.
This led Stamper, FEED MKE, Metcalfe Park Community Bridges and One MKE to open four more community-powered fridges.
Christie Melby-Gibbons, executive director of Tricklebee Café, talked about the organization’s community-powered fridge. About a week ago, the fridge was empty for the first time since its launch, so staff turned to their online community for support.
“Within 20 minutes, a woman came in with bags of food and filled the fridge for less than $100,” Melby-Gibbons said.
The community-powered fridge network is run by residents on a take-what-you-need, leave-what-you-can model. Taking a grassroots approach to solving food insecurity in the area, community members provide fresh produce and other healthy food options to ensure that their neighbors have access to nutritious foods.
“Everybody deserves to eat. I can’t go to sleep at night knowing my neighbors are hungry,” said Melody McCurtis, deputy director of Metcalfe Park Community Bridges.
Here’s a list of all the community-powered fridges:
Metcalfe Park Community Bridges
3624 W. North Ave.
Rooted & Rising- Washington Park
3940 W. Lisbon Ave.
Sherman Park Community Association
3526 W. Fond du Lac Ave.
Dominican Center
2470 W. Locust St.
Tricklebee Café
4424 W. North Ave.
Jonathan Aguilar is a visual journalist at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service who is supported through a partnership between CatchLight Local and Report for America.
This article first appeared on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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