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#OnlyBrewersFansRemember I don't get it. Isn't it true? Or is this supposed to be about Lawrie telling the organization which position he was going to play? When we traded him he was a bat-first player with no position and huge questions about his defense. To the extent that it's comical to think of him as a glove-first 2B/3B. Unless I'm completely mistaken...

lol at this sentence in the MLBTR article: #OnlyBrewersFansRemember

I certainly hope that Santana doesn't get demoted before Davis gets traded. No offense to Khris, but he's the antithesis of what we need as a rebuilding team. Send him to a contender as a solid regular in LF (or a DH), and let Santana develop in the majors.

International signings who are teenagers are rarely ranked very high unless they are marquee prospects like Lara ($3M+ signing bonus). It sounds like these guys, or at least 1-2 of them, are a step below a guy like Marcos Diplan. Diplan signed for $1.3M, I think at least one of these guys was closer to $800k. Does that mean they're not good? Well, by some accounts Diplan has ace upside and he is currently our #21 prospect according to MLB. The truth is it will take a few years to see whether these guys are busts or are the future generation of top prospects. I trust absolutely nothing I read about them, from BA or otherwise. The fact of the matter is we just don't know. Have to trust in Stearns and our scouting department. It's worth noting that he had other offers on the table, so this wasn't an instance of taking the first thing that came to us.

No, it's bad. We won't be competing for a few years (the only time these mega-contracts are actually worth it), so I would have preferred that Chicago and St. Louis sink themselves with albatross contracts for 3+ years from now.

If they're going for it, they might be a possible landing spot for Segura and/or Lucroy.

Whether Lara and/or Gatewood are forced to move off SS is a separate question, but I hope we don't diminish their value in such a way just for the sake of trying to field an all homegrown team. There's nothing wrong with plugging in free agents at 3B if we have to. And, in any event, if Lara/Gatewood develop into top SS prospects and are blocked by Arcia or whatever, they would be more valuable than if they were 3B prospects and could be traded for an even better pure 3B (in theory).

Red Sox are going to be pretty atrocious if David Price isn't the best pitcher in baseball the next few seasons. The next couple seasons, they are spending $100,000,000 just on Price, Rick Porcello (4.92 ERA last year), Hanley Ramirez (-1.8 fWAR last year), Pablo Sandoval (-2.0 fWAR last year), and Allen Craig (-0.9 fWAR last year, recently outrighted off the 40-man). Simply incredible.

Why do they even publish these lists? Wasn't Brandon Diaz in the top 50 or something a couple season ago?

I'm extremely excited about Demi, but the fact of the matter is he only walked three times all of last season (144 PA), which is obviously unsustainable once he faces better pitching. He's still a very rough product in terms of being a well-rounded hitter, as was always expected. That isn't to say he doesn't have huge upside or that his excellent hitting last season should be ignored, but some people are getting a little carried away I think.

No, probably not. But Ramon Flores was ranked what, >20 in his own organization? I don't like the return, especially at a position as easy to fill as OF/1B. Hopefully Stearns views Flores as being wildly undervalued and he proves me wrong.

A .657 OPS at Colorado Springs does not strike me as the number a "solid" prospect would put up. Flores could be a very useful bench bat. He and Peterson have all three outfield positions and first base covered. I'm thinking a young Gerardo Parra. Not a bad asset at all. Heck, Flores even had very brief stints at shortstop and third base (granted in the low minors, but if there was a time desperate enough to put him at third or short, nice to know he'd be a desperate measure option). Yes, he had a bad season as a 22-year-old. That entirely negates his former top-100-prospect status, the fact that he was largely the centerpiece of the Gallardo trade, and that he is a good defensive SS/2B. Glad we have a bench corner OF now, just what we needed!

Matt Skole has been left unprotected and hit .238/.357/.457/.814 at AAA last season. Might be worth a shot if we trade Lind, why not.

I'm fine with Stearns getting rid of Melvin's guys for players Stearns likes better, but this one seems a little confusing. Sardinas is a solid prospect.

Yeah, like Carlos Gomez? Sports writers are uniformly idiots who should be ignored. We got a young guy who can start in the major leagues (even if he's below average) for a >30 organizational prospect. Hard to complain about that.

Taking fliers on pitchers like Chacin is a luxury we have as a non-contender in 2016. If he's good, we trade him for more prospects. If he's bad, who cares. The Cubs did exactly this in recent years and it worked out very well.

Point of information, I think Medeiros should be #1 prospect in the system and is poised for a breakout campaign next season. I don't understand how Tyrone Taylor continues to be ranked as highly as he does.

Does anyone else find it unbelievable that K-Rod has been with the Brewers since 2011 at this point?

My guess is the Pirates, but the Brewers are apparently one of the last teams standing not confirmed out.

Urias is probably the most untradeable prospect in baseball right now. With Friedman running the show now it's going to take a young, controlled superstar to get him. Trout and Harper are probably the only guys they would consider for him. Prospects are simply not that valuable, especially to teams with $300M payrolls. That said, I don't think 30+ Braun and mediocre-2015 Lucroy are what they would want for Urias.

That, to me, is a bigger sticking point than anything else. It's one thing for players to play and live in say Toronto for six months out of the year (well, actually 3 months, as you're on the road 3 months). But to live and play in Mexico City? I can imagine that would be a really tough FA draw, to be honest. I'm guessing just about every non-American player in MLB (and a portion of the American players) would rather live in Mexico City than Milwaukee. They wouldn't exactly be living in the slums.

I think that whenever the DH is universal this type pitching use won't be uncommon. Why wouldn't you already have it in the AL then?

I'm not a fan of the moves Houston has made over the last few seasons, but it's hard to peg those on this guy. I know nothing about him so the one thing I'll say is I like that Mark A went for a non-traditional candidate rather than an old/safe pick.

Except for having watched him pitch 10+ times and clearly stating my observations and opinions dozens times I'm sure I've been awful vague over the course of the season. I've said it before and I'll say it one last time because I'm incredibly tired of repeating myself ad nauseum on this stuff but FIP is completely worthless, those who champion it rarely understand how it's calculated... it's a stat derived not out of necessity but as proof of a concept that is inadequately understood at best and horribly applied at worst. It has even less value when applied to MiLB pitchers as their baseline changes rapidly from year to year for example the Jorge Lopez of 2015 is a much different than inconsistent young man who pitched for the Rattlers in 2013. If you've watched him pitch and would like to tell me where I've misread what I've watched and wrote about all season that's fine and I'd be happy to discuss Kodi from a professional growth standpoint. If you're going to blather on about rate stats and FIP then I have nothing else to say. Regardless either you haven't put in the time to read what I've written or aren't able to form a coherent counter argument because "No idea what you're talking about. " is about as lame and unnecessary a comment at this point as possible. Thanks for your rant about FIP, which I mentioned nowhere in my post. I've read your posts, I think you have unrealistic/misguided expectations for a teenage SP in A ball. The Brewers left him there for a reason, and will very likely promote him to A+ for a reason, just like countless other top prospects who had high BB/9 rates at that age/level. I don't think you actually have any interest in "discussing" Medeiros from a professional growth standpoint, but I'll leave it at that. Luckily, at the end of the day, the Brewers have an entire staff of professionals making these decisions so we will just have to wait and see what they do with him next season.

Most of those guys are not good enough prospects that they should be affecting how we handle Medeiros and his development. His BB/9 is not at all concerning for a teenager at A ball, and he had a fantastic season if you look past the ERA (which is relatively meaningless here anyways). He's too good of a pitching prospect to make him repeat a level just to work on "control" (compare Gallardo, just as a random example, who had a 3.8 BB/9 at A and was pushed up to A+/AA the next season - similar story for many top pitching prospects).