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[Tedaldtada]

It’s incredible to see this come to fruition for the organization. 

I’ll stump for Andrew Fischer. These lists certainly expose some of the limitations of the “national prospect pundit”. Andrew Fischer belongs in the top 25 of any top 100 list but folks are spooked by the K rate. Normally that would track, but as we know from the recent interview Andrew did, nobody on the Brewers side of the fence seems too concerned. It’s practically by design, simply a byproduct of a new-age approach to swingmaxxing from Brewers offensive dev. 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

 

[biedergb]

Wow.  So the organization has anywhere from 5-7 top 100 prospects, with the general consensus #1 overall, and last years #1 pick still absent from these lists despite 20+ HR (is he at 24 or 26 total?) before 4th of July.  With 30 teams ~3 per organization would be normal, so this is clearly disproportionate and we have double the number of top 100 prospects than would be expected, and several who have a chance to make it (Fischer, Payne, Hardin, Dinges, Letson) if they progress or continue to do well and improve on the few flaws they have.

I still contend the 2001-2008 era was the golden age of Brewer prospects driven by a lot of high draft picks (Sheet, Hardy, Weeks, Fielder, Braun, Hart) all overlapping for a wonderful stretch of 2006-2011 when the team went from perennial last place finisher to >.500/borderline playoff club to NLCS particpants.

If that was the golden age, then 2021-current may be the Industrial Revolution of the Brewers player development since being top 5 organization with 5+ top 100 prospects is happening AFTER already seeing Chourio and Miz both graduate and become key players on the team already.

A lot of clubs have that "top system" award and then a couple of guys make it to the bigs and then they are top 10 and then fall lower.  This has been since 2022 on a consistent top 10 organization with multiple top 3 and no immediate sign of slowing down this year or probably next....  

[BrewerFan]

26 minutes ago, biedergb said:

Wow.  So the organization has anywhere from 5-7 top 100 prospects, with the general consensus #1 overall, and last years #1 pick still absent from these lists despite 20+ HR (is he at 24 or 26 total?) before 4th of July.  With 30 teams ~3 per organization would be normal, so this is clearly disproportionate and we have double the number of top 100 prospects than would be expected, and several who have a chance to make it (Fischer, Payne, Hardin, Dinges, Letson) if they progress or continue to do well and improve on the few flaws they have.

I still contend the 2001-2008 era was the golden age of Brewer prospects driven by a lot of high draft picks (Sheet, Hardy, Weeks, Fielder, Braun, Hart) all overlapping for a wonderful stretch of 2006-2011 when the team went from perennial last place finisher to >.500/borderline playoff club to NLCS particpants.

If that was the golden age, then 2021-current may be the Industrial Revolution of the Brewers player development since being top 5 organization with 5+ top 100 prospects is happening AFTER already seeing Chourio and Miz both graduate and become key players on the team already.

A lot of clubs have that "top system" award and then a couple of guys make it to the bigs and then they are top 10 and then fall lower.  This has been since 2022 on a consistent top 10 organization with multiple top 3 and no immediate sign of slowing down this year or probably next....  

Payne's now on the board(at least BAs). 

Seems kinda obvious now. 6'2 lefty with 70 speed hitting for that type of power. Did he go to Moeller High School in Cincy by the way or am I confusing him with someone else?

 

And yes, not only are they lapping the field, the fact that Frias is showing up on BAs list is... pretty incredible. He's just getting started!

[wiguy94]

2 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

Payne's now on the board(at least BAs). 

Seems kinda obvious now. 6'2 lefty with 70 speed hitting for that type of power. Did he go to Moeller High School in Cincy by the way or am I confusing him with someone else?

 

And yes, not only are they lapping the field, the fact that Frias is showing up on BAs list is... pretty incredible. He's just getting started!

Payne is from Texas. Believe he went to the same school as like Chris Carpenter

[liveforoctober]

5 hours ago, JoeyWiemerTruther said:

 

Frias being there is crazy. This feels like Made all over again ... having a DSL kid on the list (I know he graduated up)... I don't have access - how many other DSL players are on the list if any? 

[igor67]

There's definitely an impact on how fast Brewers prospects catch the helium based on our reputation now. We'd have heard noice about a guy like Frias 5 years ago, and 'keep an eye' comments, but no way he'd be in the top 100.