The Brewers will not pick up Braden Looper’s $6.5 million option for next year, Tom Haudricort of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is reporting. They’ll have to buy his deal out for $1 million, and it’s all being done in the name of financial flexibility for the team to pursue more pitching on this winter’s free agent market, according to GM Doug Melvin.
That’s an understandable stance since Looper wasn’t great in Milwaukee in 2009 (he won 14 games, but had a 5.22 ERA and poor peripherals) but it really leaves the Brewers with Yovani Gallardo, Manny …
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