The Brewers have interest in free agent slugger Pedro Alvarez, Jon Morosi of FOX Sports tweets. Alvarez would take over for the recently departed Adam Lind at first base. Alvarez is Brewers bench coach Pat Murphy’s son-in-law, Morosi notes.
The Pirates non-tendered the 28-year-old Alvarez after he hit .243/.318/.469 with 27 home runs in 491 plate appearances in 2015. Despite a proliferation of strikeouts, those offensive numbers were clearly fine, and Alvarez’s already-impressive power numbers might be even better in homer-happy Miller Park. Alvarez’s non-tender resulted largely from his struggles to learn first base — he made 23 errors and struggled to handle balls hit to his right, leading to a horrific -13.8 UZR and plenty of speculation that he would wind up as a DH in the American League. A Brewers team that doesn’t figure to contend in 2016 would have little to lose from playing Alvarez at first, however, and could conceivably trade him in July if he’s able to improve defensively.
Not a bad idea, really. If his shortcoming is defense… well, who cares if you’re going to lose 100 games anyway. Swing for the fence, hold down 3B, and showcase your ability in advance of a trade to the AL.
And brewer fans love dingers.
I would rather watch the Brewers score one run on an Alvarez second deck bomb than watch them score one run on a sacrifice fly.. So it does have its positives.
Please, please sign Pedro!!!
I can’t wait to see how frustrated his new team becomes with him at the plate.
The Brewers signing him to play 1B would be hilarious and I’d get to watch it first hand.
That would be so hilarious between the pathetic Brewers at Fatty K-dro.
Unless his defense improves it won’t matter if he stops striking out constantly. I can’t believe a NL team is even considering El Toro.
It’s Milwaukee, they have nothing. No good options at 1B and won’t pony up for a good one or trade for one.
Pedro, is not a National League Player period ! Can’t move and allows more runs than he Drives in,.
He worst than Adam Dunn !
Why would they sign him? They would’ve been better off keeping Lind. Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me
Brewers sucked in the 2015 season they need someone like him