No matter what else happens, these depth signings need to happen and I'd be more concerned if the Brewers weren't doing any of those kind of moves, either. If Pablo Reyes pans out -- and I hope he does -- then great. If he's pretty blah, oh well, and we just hope that occurs at AAA rather than in MIL -- and if it happened in MIL, it'd mean a multi-layered injury situation that's getting close to rivaling the Vikings' 2020 cornerback situation.

The Mets pulling off a major trade the same day the Brewers sign an AAA/depth guy is mere coincidence and doesn't prove anything.

If we pull off a significant move (though I have a hard time imagining right now who/how that might be) and the Mets don't make any moves with a day or so either direction of it, would that prove the same concept in reverse -- or are we as Brewers fans just conditioned to ignore those moments? If the Mets didn't make a move in the same 24-hour period we traded for Yelich & signed Cain, should they have been labeled failures?

I don't care much for slow offseasons or winters when so much of the player movement seems extremely delayed. It's disappointing when it's another day & we don't see a major or seemingly meaningful move made. But I'm far more concerned about a winning, playoff-bound season than "winning" the offseason, and I'll take a good move or a non-move over a bad move anyday..... Take Cincinnati last year. Moustakas, Gray, Castellanos, Miley, etc. They sure spent tons more money than we did. Yet with most every Brewers batter grossly underperforming their career norms (to put it lightly), they won all of 2 more games than we did -- and now they've already started dismantling last year's team.