World Series Hope in the future

[Mickster9]

WE MADE IT Y'ALL!!! 

Going to pose a question and wondering if and I mean IF we win the world series, what do you think the chances are of repeating? If not next year maybe in the few years like the Giants did in the 2010's?

 

Especially with the batch of players in our farm system, with Made', Pena, Fischer, Burke, Williams (Jett), Quero, Tyson Hardin, Payne, could go on and on especially with Josh A in Left Field. Do we stand a chance especially if there is an cap (and possibly floor) by the time they come up?

 

It's as good of a farm system as there is in the Minor league so just posing the question, do you think we stand a chance of repeating with some of the core group we have now and with the next batch of players to come up? GO CREW!

[Brian]

Mr. October? Who has it been so far?

[Mickster9]

Without a doubt Bauers

[BruisedCrew]

Usually I would wait until the team wins one before talking about repeating in the future. 

I’ve often heard fans getting into this about two days after their team wins a championship because it helps to fill the void created by the end of the season. 

I was in Florida right after the Cubs won in 2016 and overheard some Cubs fans talking about how with Schwarber returning  and key players like Rizzo and Bryant they should have more titles in the coming years. 

[cragi]

i was just talking about this with my son today, killing the time. On paper, Brewers should be every bit as good the next few years as this year. I personally think the new CBA should benefit a team like Milwaukee.

Teams are onto brewer-ball now and making adjustments. Then you have the money teams figuring out how to regroup. The Brewer position players had an unusually healthy year. So, there are some stars that aligned and baseball will respond and some teams will have bigger budgets to unseat us

But on paper today, yeah, the next few years of the Miz window should be really strong

[thebruce44]

This had definitely come up in my head, but I don't think now is the time to talk about this.

I'll get off my soapbox now and please continue the conversation without me.

[SF70]

Yes, we will win multiple titles.

We have the best FO, Infrastructure and farm system in the game. We have the most control over the most talented roster in the sport. We have the best coaches and manager in baseball. 

With the WS appearance we will have the revenue to increase payroll for the ‘27 season. 

Everything is in place to go back to back if we can win it all this season. 

My long-standing prediction of baseball’s first Small-Market Dynasty will become a reality. Book it.

 

[MrTPlush]

Assuming Miz stays healthy and Henderson or Harrison solidifies as a strong #2, they should have plenty of strong chances to return. But who knows what baseball looks like, history hasn’t been kind to small markets.

It will be tough even with a ton of promise. Brewer-ball still has the fatal flaw of lacking HR power. Which is a problem come October.

[Playing Catch]

Yes, they will still be good in the future.

Yes, this thread should be locked lest the baseball gods smite us for daring such hubris.

[SF70]

45 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

Assuming Miz stays healthy and Henderson or Harrison solidifies as a strong #2, they should have plenty of strong chances to return. But who knows what baseball looks like, history hasn’t been kind to small markets.

It will be tough even with a ton of promise. Brewer-ball still has the fatal flaw of lacking HR power. Which is a problem come October.

The Brewers have no “fatal flaw”. If it’s not obvious by now they are the best team in baseball then I don’t know what to tell you.

They just got done out-homering the “powerful” Dodgers 7-1 for cripes sake. 

They are now a team with playoff experience that’s coming into their own with baseball’s 5th youngest roster that hasn’t even reached their peak-performance years. 

The NL is in transition with the LAD lineup aging out, Same with the Phillies. The Padres are losing most of their rotation. The rest of the behemoths are years from being a factor. Same with the upstarts like Miami, Washington, St Louis and Pittsburgh.  Even the Cubbies will have a hard time improving upon last years team. 

The Brewers are set to dominate the NL next year and maybe for another year after that until the competition gets better.

 

[Thurston Fluff]

I don't know if we will or not but one benefit of the 'more bites at the apple' approach is it makes it more likely. But lets win one first.

[MrTPlush]

1 hour ago, SF70 said:

The Brewers have no “fatal flaw”. If it’s not obvious by now they are the best team in baseball then I don’t know what to tell you.

They just got done out-homering the “powerful” Dodgers 7-1 for cripes sake. 

 

*casually looking for where I said that*

Also we are talking about future years, not the 2026 Brewers.

Feel free to look up my post history. You will see where I said before the postseason ever started, “The Brewers don’t need to be one of the top HR teams in the regular season, they just need to pretend they are one of those kind of teams for about 19 games”

Guess who leads the postseason for home runs as a team? Any team can catch lightning in a bottle and have a short power surge. However, who is more likely to do that in a more macro sense year over year? The 2nd worst team for HRs or one that is Top 10? How often will a low power team out homer their opponent in the postseason 3+ series? Especially when the opposing team will typically have notably more power on paper? How many times have two bottom half power teams met in the World Series?

HRs matter and we don’t hit many of them…and it may be worse in the coming years. That is a big flaw for postseason success. I’m going to go out on a limb and say we probably aren’t going to magically become a homerun mashing team in October every year.

Could a true Brewer-ball low HR output team make the World Series? Possibly, I think this years team could have probably gotten there even if we subtracted off a few homers, but so many of those homers were massive momentum swings in games. A lot of them solo in nature too.

That lack of power is going to make postseason success tough in future years, doesn’t mean it is impossible, but it will always be big hurdle to overcome and once again may depend on some uncharacteristic power output. I don’t think there is anything crazy about that take.

[SF70]

46 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

*casually looking for where I said that*

Also we are talking about future years, not the 2026 Brewers.

Feel free to look up my post history. You will see where I said before the postseason ever started, “The Brewers don’t need to be one of the top HR teams in the regular season, they just need to pretend they are one of those kind of teams for about 19 games”

Guess who leads the postseason for home runs as a team? Any team can catch lightning in a bottle and have a short power surge. However, who is more likely to do that in a more macro sense year over year? The 2nd worst team for HRs or one that is Top 10? How often will a low power team out homer their opponent in the postseason 3+ series? Especially when the opposing team will typically have notably more power on paper? How many times have two bottom half power teams met in the World Series?

HRs matter and we don’t hit many of them…and it may be worse in the coming years. That is a big flaw for postseason success. I’m going to go out on a limb and say we probably aren’t going to magically become a homerun mashing team in October every year.

Could a true Brewer-ball low HR output team make the World Series? Possibly, I think this years team could have probably gotten there even if we subtracted off a few homers, but so many of those homers were massive momentum swings in games. A lot of them solo in nature too.

That lack of power is going to make postseason success tough in future years, doesn’t mean it is impossible, but it will always be big hurdle to overcome and once again may depend on some uncharacteristic power output. I don’t think there is anything crazy about that take.

“Brewer-ball still has the fatal flaw of lacking home run power.”

Those are your words I quoted from your post.

This team has the ability to hit homeruns but they choose to put the ball in play in ways that are unique to the other 29 teams in the game of baseball which have been documented in many posts and articles over the last few weeks. They slug with doubles & triples, steal bases, and take extra bases at a higher rate than any team in baseball. They score lots of runs and hold the opponent in check better than any team in baseball. 

And since power is the last tool to be realized, this team, because of their young aged roster will only continue to increase their power production from their core players.

Turang-Chourio-Mitchell are the 3 that come to mind, with others like Pratt-Ortiz and even Lara likely to increase their power production.

We have the best team in baseball, with the best 5 year future in baseball. I’d be surprised if we don’t win multiple titles in these next 5 years.

[TURBO]

25 minutes ago, SF70 said:

We have the best team in baseball, with the best 5 year future in baseball. I’d be surprised if we don’t win multiple titles in these next 5 years.

Every team's fans, in every sport says the same thing when their team wins it all, yet repeating is never a given, and rarely happens, especially in bunches.

I think it's time to slow down, and just enjoy what we have now, today.

This thread was doomed from the start, and is way too premature...

[SF70]

1 minute ago, TURBO said:

Every team's fans, in every sport says the same thing when their team wins it all, yet repeating is never a given, and rarely happens, especially in bunches.

I think it's time to slow down, and just enjoy what we have now, today.

This thread was doomed from the start, and is way too premature...

Why do I need to slow down? Why can’t I just call it like I see it? 

I’m tired of Brewers fans sandbagging this incredible team and organization. We are, without question the best team in baseball and we absolutely have the best 5 year future in baseball. And it’s ok to say it.

[Mickster9]

The only reason I started this is due to the farm system and the amount of talent we have. This was a future world series team, after we're going this year. In the initial post/start of the thread was if we were going to go to another world series in the future, not if we were automatically going to win it because that's not reality.

 

Going with what TPlush said we have some real boppers in the farm system and we could have some serious power coming up with the talent that we have in the major league, including obviously Fischer, Payne, Burke, and I can tell you already that Made' will be a 15-20+ homer dude already. I think we make some trades either in the offseason (lockout looming) or in the trade deadline for a bopper we can secure for years to come. It's fun talking about this stuff

[Ewitkows1]

I'm worried on the SP front. Does Priester come back like he pitched last year, can Harrison pitch like he did the first half. I'm not sure there's another TOR guy in our system at the moment and that's going to be an issue over then next few years.

[Brian]

[cragi]

11 minutes ago, Ewitkows1 said:

I'm worried on the SP front. Does Priester come back like he pitched last year, can Harrison pitch like he did the first half. I'm not sure there's another TOR guy in our system at the moment and that's going to be an issue over then next few years.

Neither of those guys contributed to this playoff run, so that really is more upside that hasnt been tapped yet. 

[Brian]

14 minutes ago, Ewitkows1 said:

I'm worried on the SP front. Does Priester come back like he pitched last year, can Harrison pitch like he did the first half. I'm not sure there's another TOR guy in our system at the moment and that's going to be an issue over then next few years.

We do not play 13 games in 2 weeks any more. 

[MrTPlush]

I think I’m more worried about Miz pulling a Paul Skenes regression or Henderson coming crashing back down to earth than I am of whatever Harrison/Preister can do.

In the end I think our rotation ends up good, just not sure who actually makes that up and how good the top of the rotation is.

[BrewerFan]

9 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

Assuming Miz stays healthy and Henderson or Harrison solidifies as a strong #2, they should have plenty of strong chances to return. But who knows what baseball looks like, history hasn’t been kind to small markets.

It will be tough even with a ton of promise. Brewer-ball still has the fatal flaw of lacking HR power. Which is a problem come October.

Yeah, it's a fluky game and, with talk about defending... we'd REALLY better win it this year!

Someone else said this was the start of the "Brewers Dynasty." I think it was Trevor Plouffe... from that Jomboy media channel. 

I don't know, I certainly thought just zooming out, our best chance was in a year or two, but I thought the same thing in 2010 with the Packers. 

When(if) we finish this one off, I'll be much more inclined to start talking about the NEXT one. 

I am kinda excited about throwing Cameron Wagoner in the pen next year. Lots of other arms and bats as well, but that dude has an electric arm. 

[BrewerFan]

3 hours ago, Ewitkows1 said:

I'm worried on the SP front. Does Priester come back like he pitched last year, can Harrison pitch like he did the first half. I'm not sure there's another TOR guy in our system at the moment and that's going to be an issue over then next few years.

I think Letson and Knoth have TOR type stuff. Moreso than Priester. Hardin has good stuff, though not TOR. 

I think we're pretty good though. This staff is very young and has a lot of team control left. 

[Playing Catch]

The Brewers are well-positioned to be a playoff-caliber team in the coming seasons, yes. Winning a single playoff series is basically a 50/50 proposition regardless of the quality of the team due to regular factors such as health and luck, so having a great team merely gives a team better odds.

But the real elephant in the room is the upcoming CBA and an expansion draft within 4 seasons as well as any other new ownership groups that demand a commissioner that guarantees profit on those investments. Baseball is changing, and could change quickly for the betterment, or to the detriment of the Brewers.

It's a tricky thing to predict right now.

[SF70]

30 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

The Brewers are well-positioned to be a playoff-caliber team in the coming seasons, yes. Winning a single playoff series is basically a 50/50 proposition regardless of the quality of the team due to regular factors such as health and luck, so having a great team merely gives a team better odds.

But the real elephant in the room is the upcoming CBA and an expansion draft within 4 seasons as well as any other new ownership groups that demand a commissioner that guarantees profit on those investments. Baseball is changing, and could change quickly for the betterment, or to the detriment of the Brewers.

It's a tricky thing to predict right now.

The Brewers brainpower will allow them to adapt to the new CBA and the beat will continue on.