It strikes me that Megill is the most "Cub" reliever they have. He's nowhere near as effective as a guy like Ashby. His numbers are really good though. It just feels like he's teetering on the edge.
But for now, he's on top of the world. The saddest thing for me today isn't that the Brewers won the World Series. It's that they have the secret sauce in place, we don't, and we don't have the leadership team to catch up. Even if we did, it would take years for that to filter through our system and into the majors. Nobody else in the division has it either, but it sucks that the Brewers figured this out, and it's not a one-off,
Milwaukee is the smallest market, dependent on the government just to exist ($1.1 billion and counting), and they've been winners for years in the current system.
I'm still for a common financial framework among teams. But the argument that a salary cap is needed because small market teams "can't compete" is in the dumpster at this point.