Brewers receive trade update on 17-home run All-Star outfielder with one major concern

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The Milwaukee Brewers are one of the best teams in the National League, but they lack power in the lineup.

Jake Bauers leads the NL Central club with 10 home runs. Besides that, no other player on the roster has more than Brice Turang's seven roundtrippers.

Adding power to manager Pat Murphy's lineup should be one of the areas of focus for the front office at the trade deadline, and likely will be.

ESPN's Jeff Passan linked the Brewers to a slugger from the AL Central, but there's a catch.

"Or, if that's not in the cards, Byron Buxton bringing his 17 home runs to the team with the fewest in the big leagues," Passan wrote Thursday. "It's not the move a disciplined team makes, but then this same team got dog-walked by the Dodgers in the NLCS last year, and it's not so myopic that it ignores what [Jacob] Misiorowski and [Kyle] Harrison are doing."

Buxton would be a great addition for Milwaukee's outfield, but the All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner would need to accept the trade to go through.

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The 32-year-old has a no-trade clause in his contract and has stated multiple times that he loves Minnesota and would love to play the rest of his career with the Twins.

Obviously, people's feelings change, and Buxton could have a change of heart if he decides he'd like to have an opportunity to chase a World Series before he calls it a career.

The Brewers would be one of the teams that can give him that opportunity, and it just seems like a suitable fit.

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