David Stearns steps down as Brewers president of baseball ops

MILWAUKEE — David Stearns is stepping down because the Brewers’ president of baseball operations however will stay with the group in an advisory function to proprietor Mark Attanasio, the crew introduced Thursday.

Matt Arnold, who has been the Brewers’ senior vp and common supervisor since 2020, will take over the lead function in overseeing baseball operations.

Stearns had led the Brewers’ baseball operations throughout arguably the franchise’s best run of sustained success. He joined the Brewers in October 2015 as common supervisor and was named president of baseball operations earlier than the 2019 season.

“This isn’t a straightforward determination for me and is one thing I’ve been wrestling with for a very long time,” Stearns mentioned in a press release. “Mark Attanasio and I’ve had an open dialogue and we each knew this present day might finally come. It has been a precedence for each of us that any transition would happen whereas the group is in a wholesome place with strong management and a gifted roster going ahead. That’s actually the case in the present day.”

A information convention is scheduled for later Thursday morning.

The Brewers’ franchise-record string of 4 straight playoff appearances ended this season after they went 86-76 and completed a recreation behind the World Collection-bound Philadelphia Phillies for the Nationwide League’s closing wild-card berth.

Stearns orchestrated the 2018 acquisition of Christian Yelich that helped flip the Brewers into reliable contenders. Yelich gained the NL MVP in 2018, when the Brewers reached the NL Championship Collection and fell a recreation brief from their first World Collection look since 1982. Yelich completed second within the MVP balloting the next season.

This season, Stearns encountered robust criticism over sending four-time All-Star nearer Josh Hader to the San Diego Padres on the commerce deadline. The Brewers owned a three-game NL Central lead on the time of the commerce however pale out of the playoff image after Hader’s departure. The Padres reached the NLCS.