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Reminds me of a certain Tommy Boy scene. Edit: Oops, meant Big Daddy.

How often do you see big trades made for unranked prospects?

That's why I thought a GIF was the best reply.

No, we aren't. Not even close. You're dreaming. Which franchises have better Major League talent than Milwaukee? Off the top of my head? Washington. Los Angeles. Detroit. Boston. Baltimore. Texas. St. Louis. Atlanta. I'd take the Major League talent those franchises have over Milwaukee any day of the week. If we're talking organizational talent, that list grows quickly. Braun, Gomez, Peralta, and Lucroy are stars, or are stars in the making. Segura and Davis have potential. Segura showed it in the first half last year, as did Davis. They're struggling in their second go round. Time will tell if they can figure it out. Ramirez and Gallardo are nice players, but both are on the decline. Ramirez can't stay healthy anymore. Gallardo is having a nice start to the season, but his velocity is down. Who else do we have that is so talented? We have nobody at first or third anywhere else in the organization that one can point to and say "they're coming". Jimmy Nelson could be good. Tyler Thornburg has shown flashes. Tyrone Taylor and Orlando Arcia are the two guys in the minors I really want to see in two years. But compare those guys against a team like the Marlins. Even Miami compares favorably to our team. Giancarlo Stanton is the best power hitter in the game. Jose Fernandez is the best young pitcher in the game, and will be when he comes back from Tommy John. Christian Yelich is a stud, and he's going to win batting titles. And they are loaded with young talent-Marcel Ozuna, Jake Marisnick, Andrew Heaney, Justin Nicolino and Colin Moran. No, we did not have a bad farm system. Keep reading, and be enlightened. Hiandtight mentioned the following players: Wily Peralta Brett Lawrie Jeremy Jeffress Mat Gamel Jake Odorizzi Alcides Escobar Here is where they have been ranked in the Top 100 Prospects in baseball, per Baseball America (bold designates ranking with another organization): Wily Peralta 69 (2011), 56 (2012) Brett Lawrie 81 (2009), 59 (2010), 40 (2011) Jeremy Jeffress 100 (2009) Mat Gamel 34 (2009), 89 (2010) Jake Odorizzi 69 (2011), 68 (2012), 92 (2013), 67 (2014) Alcides Escobar 19 (2009), 12 (2010) Also: Matt LaPorta 23 (2008), 27 (2009) Manny Parra 72 (2008) So, again, I bring this quote back into play: Between 2008 and 2009, the two years before our trades for Greinke and Marcum, we had six players that ranked in the top 100 prospects in baseball. Your contention that we had a bad farm system is patently false. In fact, we had 4 elite (top 50) prospects in Matt LaPorta, Alcides Escobar, Mat Gamel and Brett Lawrie. see my post to hiand tight above. http://www.sportsbet.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/bth_Judge-Judy-Shake-My-Head-Gif_zps3e0e5a33.gif

Unless your name is Kendrys.

The NL OPS+ is 94 right now and the Brewers as a team have a 94 OPS+.

There is almost always a last guy in the pen who seldom pitches. Might as well be somebody like Wang.

He is probably a better option than Wang to put in a game but not a better option than Wang to have on the roster.

Exactly. They can't demote him. Needed to be done last year. Now that I think about it Bill Hall was asked if he would go to AAA. He refused. JJ was sent down for the minimum amount of time just before he would have made 5 years.

What are you even talking about here? When we traded for Marcum and Greinke we had a pretty well rated farm system. Peralta was a well regarded prospect while he was in the minors.

Weeks needs 600 PA this season. The Brewers have to pay $1m if he makes 400 PA and they want to void his contract.

Do you have a link talking about this? I remember stories about him playing the infield with Prince in a little league touring team. I think he's played 2B his entire life. He is also no longer terrible at 2B. That may be part of why he doesn't want to move. He's worked really hard for many years to become adequate defensively. Maybe he doesn't want to put in more hard work to move. He was adequate at 2B for a few years but not since 2011 when he busted his ankle.

I thought Soriano moved in the offseason as well. If they asked Weeks sometime early in Spring Training and he refused that's one thing. If they asked him a few weeks ago that's something else entirely. I don't think there is much from Weeks standpoint to be gained by playing LF right now unless he is a good defender out there. There is a lot to lose by not playing well in the outfield. If he fails he will be looked at as a 2B only who plays bad defense at 2B. At least if he doesn't play LF there is the possibility he could be at least average out there. We got a good close look at what happens to a guy who switches positions and doesn't play good defense in Francisco. Being unknown is better than being known to be bad.

No, just no. We had Yuni last year. Edit: Unless you expect a Carlos Gomez career arc for him.

To be fair that particular player was even worse at 3B than Weeks is at 2B. He also had the whole offseason to prepare for a position change. Also the switch from LF to RF isn't that big of a deal compared to moving from 2B to LF. Especially midseason.

Exactly. They can't demote him. Needed to be done last year. No, they couldn't demote him after 2010. About halfway through the season. After 5 years you can't send a player down without their agreement. Just ask JJ. What do you mean it's all BA driven? He has a decent split between BA and OBP.

Good. I would rather have Davis or Gindle in LF anyway. I don't think it's in Weeks' or the Brewers best interest for Weeks to play LF.

There was a lot of positive freaking out at the end of April when everything was rainbows and lollipops.

I wish our manager went with his gut on bunting a bit instead of being so predictable.

We are still unclear what "normal" is for Segura.

Gah it went straight from winter to raining for two weeks and now it's muggy.

I don't think anybody was to worried that Juan was dumped. It was the fact he was dumped for Overbay.

That was when closers were actually used correctly. They would be brought in earlier in the game and go multiple innings. I would have no no problem with a pitcher like that winning MVP.

I haven't read all the way through yet but that order makes a lot of sense.

Start with episode one. Watch them all in order and you may not be as jaded about 1-3 as most are.