What's the ideal way things shake out defensively for this team over the next few years?

[SoCalBrewfan]

The 2020 list is interesting because as much as it's dismissed above, there are two 10+ bWAR careers on there (Turang, Rasmussen), plus Devin Williams who is 8+ and Tyrone Taylor who is close. Ashby has value, and we'd like to think has good years to come. For a bottom of the barrel system with no top 100 guys, there's some value there. Add Lucas Erceg while we are at it (caveats noted here). In addition there's a couple of other decent pitchers in the system at that time that didn't even make the list in Reese Olsen and Bowden Francis. Jeferson Quero is still a top 100 prospect who was very young at the time of the list.  (E Garcia still has some hope as well.)

It was a weird part of Brewers recent draft history with the likes of Lutz and Joe Gray and Caden Lemons. Hopefully our current approach to prep draftees is more productive.

Dismissing some of these guys because they had success elsewhere doesn't make sense to me. If you say Rasmussen didn't help the Brewers, you're ignoring the fact that he was a key part of the Adames trade. And Olsen helped us get ... okay let's dismiss that, after all. Too painful to think about.

If the point is simply that taking the current top prospect list and penciling them all into a near-future lineup is a bit silly, well, sure. And yet BA, among others, does it every year. It's a fun exercise that hurts no one. We have a top rated system again, it's ok to dream a bit on a dreary January day.