That strategy would make us dangerously thin at basically every position. You'd be looking at likely a ton of starts from Ronny Rodriguez and Ben Gamel when someone inevitably got hurt. That right there would be Doug Melvin style team building. Those teams under his tenure had so many starts from reeeeeeeeally bad players despite having basically an all star at every position when healthy. As currently positioned, we can sustain injuries to multiple players at every position except catcher and not really miss a beat(unless of course one of those is yelich).

All of the above doesn't even touch on whether he even wanted to come here, whether he would have taken the same $, whether the Angels would have bid more to make sure they got him. Also doesn't touch on his significant injury history, or the fact that he's significantly less valuable than Yelich yet paid on average $6 million more per year compared to Yelich's new money. Also, for all we know the Brewers analytics simply didn't deem Rendon to be all that valuable. Maybe they view him as very likely to regress quickly, especially considering his significant injury history.

There's so much more to the whole GM thing than sticking a square peg in a square hole.