BREAKING: Craig Counsell is leaving the Milwaukee Brewers for the Cubs.
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A source told MLB.com that the Brewers had a longstanding, multiyear offer on the table that would have made Counsell the highest-paid manager in baseball, as reported Monday by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Precise terms of the offer were not known, but it would have been in the neighborhood of $5 million per season, considering that retiring Cleveland skipper Terry Francona was the previous leader with a $4.5 million salary in his final season in 2023.
Kind of shitty if he did not even bring offer back to MKE to even give them chance to matchAttanasio said, “Craig has lost us and lost our community, I can’t imagine somebody wanting to be somewhere else.” He also said, "When he first told me, I said ‘are you messing with me?'"
Kept Brewers front office in the dark it appears. Unfortunately, it was about the money and the Cubs overpay.