add me to their organisation.<\/a> It did that, which was awesome.\u201d <\/p>\nWhile he ends this season as part of the World Series-winning franchise, a disrupted year saw him fall down the depth chart with the Brewers and he watched the World Series unfold from home. <\/p>\n
Despite not playing in the World Series, Koenig did feature in MLB for the Brewers this year and is expected to receive a ring as he contributed to a championship-winning team.<\/p>\n
There are no set rules on who gets a championship ring and it comes down to the discretion of the owner, but almost always, any player who suited up in at least one MLB game for the team will receive a championship ring. <\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I would have liked to have been there and playing, but to be a part of that team and everything is still a fortunate blessing to have,\u201d Koenig said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still awesome. Like, you get to be a part of that. That\u2019s every kid\u2019s dream. Obviously, you want to be one playing on that team when you get the chance, but I mean, I contributed over the last three years to the team and did a lot for them, and so I think I did my part to help build that and help that team reach that goal in the long run.\u201d <\/p>\n
Overall, the season was a challenging one for Koenig. An elbow injury saw him sidelined in April and, while he made his MLB return in late June, he was ultimately sent down to Nashville Sounds \u2013 the Brewers\u2019 Triple-A minor league affiliate \u2013 where he finished the season. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t keep me around for the playoffs, which was frustrating in itself, but it is what it is, and that\u2019s the business side of the game,\u201d Koenig said.<\/p>\n
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Jared Koenig spent the last three seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n
\u201cBut watching from [home], it was fun to watch and see them go out there and compete. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was pulling for my bullpen guys to be dominant, and they did exactly that. They dominated to basically win most of those games for the teams … especially the close games when the hitters were finding a way to scratch across a couple runs, which they did when it mattered especially.\u201d <\/p>\n
Koenig\u2019s season ended on a note of uncertainty, with the Brewers outrighting him to their Nashville affiliate.<\/p>\n
It is an option teams can make to free up space on the 40-man MLB roster, though it leaves the player available on waivers for 48 hours for any other team in the league to make a claim for. <\/p>\n
Having cleared waivers, perhaps surprisingly given the impact he made for the Brewers in the two previous seasons, Koenig opted to enter free agency, likely ending his time with the Milwaukee franchise as he seeks an MLB opportunity elsewhere. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to have it end that way,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d like to go out and do well for the team and everything, but it is business, and that\u2019s what they decided. I mean, I still was a part of a championship team, and that\u2019s pretty special to have in general.\u201d <\/p>\n
Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Koenig made just six appearances for the Tuatara before being scouted and signed by the Oakland Athletics, eventually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,22065,63,4034,5131,8813,8842,408760,5587,1899,77046,521876,521874,36436,5130,591,38633,9493,9672,85,4987,319,521875,8289,38937,1720,3205],"class_list":["post-954310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-champion","tag-decided","tag-differently","tag-from","tag-have","tag-jared","tag-koenig","tag-koenigs","tag-might","tag-milwaukee","tag-mlb","tag-play","tag-road","tag-series","tag-sports","tag-things","tag-to","tag-tuatara","tag-turned","tag-very","tag-world","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}