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The best offense of John Briggs’ career occurred in the four seasons and change he played with the Milwaukee Brewers.  He would have two seasons where he would hammer 20 Home Runs, and his lowest production in that metric (for a full season anyway) was 17.  He would finish his run with the Brewers with 492 Hits and 80 Home Runs.
Rickie Weeks would have a long run with the Brewers, though it was mostly an up and down career.  Weeks’ best season was 2011 when he had 175 Hits with 29 Home Runs, leading the AL in Plate Appearances.  Weeks would smash 20 Home Runs in a row in three straight seasons and had over 1,000 Hits with Milwaukee.  He would be ranked higher had he not suffered defensively; five times he led all National League Second Basemen in Errors.
Richie Sexson was only with the Milwaukee Brewers for three and a half seasons but this was where he had his greatest offensive output.  Sexson had two 45 Home Run seasons as a Brewer and put together three straight seasons accumulating over 100 Runs Batted In.  He would also have a Slugging Percentage over .500 every year in Milwaukee.

As a Brewer, Sexson would go deep 133 times with a .536 Slugging Percentage.
Rollie Fingers would become a baseball Hall of Fame Relief Pitcher predominantly for what he accomplished with the Oakland Athletics but his lone Cy Young Award took place when he played for Milwaukee.  As a Brewer, Fingers would win the Cy Young and the MVP in 1981 and arguably had the most dominating season as a closer in Brewers history.

Milwaukee would be the last team that he played for in the Majors, and with the Brewers, he had 97 Saves with an ERA of 2.54.  Fingers was inducted into Cooperstown in 1992, and Milwaukee honored him further by retiring his number 34 the same year.