Stearns gives up role with Brewers baseball ops

MILWAUKEE -- David Stearns is stepping down arsenic the Brewers' president of shot operations but volition stay with the enactment successful an advisory relation to proprietor Mark Attanasio, the squad announced Thursday.

Matt Arnold, who has been the Brewers' elder vice president and wide manager since 2020, volition instrumentality implicit the pb relation successful overseeing shot operations.

Stearns had led the Brewers' shot operations during arguably the franchise's top tally of sustained success. He joined the Brewers successful October 2015 arsenic wide manager and was named president of shot operations earlier the 2019 season.

"This is not an casual determination for maine and is thing I person been wrestling with for a agelong time," Stearns said successful a statement. "Mark Attanasio and I person had an unfastened dialog and we some knew this time could yet come. It has been a precedence for some of america that immoderate modulation would instrumentality spot portion the enactment is successful a steadfast presumption with coagulated enactment and a talented roster going forward. That is surely the lawsuit today."

A quality league is scheduled for aboriginal Thursday morning.

The Brewers' franchise-record drawstring of 4 consecutive playoff appearances ended this play erstwhile they went 86-76 and finished a crippled down the World Series-bound Philadelphia Phillies for the National League's last wild-card berth.

Stearns orchestrated the 2018 acquisition of Christian Yelich that helped crook the Brewers into morganatic contenders. Yelich won the NL MVP successful 2018, erstwhile the Brewers reached the NL Championship Series and fell a crippled abbreviated of their archetypal World Series quality since 1982. Yelich finished 2nd successful the MVP balloting the pursuing season.

This season, Stearns encountered beardown disapproval implicit sending four-time All-Star person Josh Hader to the San Diego Padres astatine the commercialized deadline. The Brewers owned a three-game NL Central pb astatine the clip of the commercialized but faded retired of the playoff representation aft Hader's departure. The Padres reached the NLCS.