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Otto Lopez is nice addition, good utility piece going to make a run but not a guy who changes the lineup in big/impactful way as everyday SS. Good to have if Joey falls back off & rotate into lineup. if you were to trade a Pratt, it needs to be for a legit stud. Lopez is solid but I don’t look at him & see SS of the future while he is under control. Bat improves over Ortiz but I will take Joey defensively. He’s been lights out & every game makes 1 wow play. Lopez is a part time SS currently (switches back & forth from SS to 2B)

System is so loaded with pitchers for R ball to MLB. Trade from your strength. Feel Pitching, Catcher, Corner OF would be spots were depth is stronger in system. Fell MIF & OF are pretty thin already & you avoid moving from that area if you can. Areinamo is pretty intriguing of other teams. Is sandwiched between Pratt & Made. He’s a top 10-15 kid in system who can flat out fit & tapping a bit more into power.

Not letting Cubs get much better offensively in addition to elevating Brewers is the 2 birds 1 stone reason to do it

Coaches (def MLB) kids with real talent & upside are always perfect to me. Fundamentally you know they will be strong. Work ethic strong as well as coachability. Then being able to understand the grind to make it & mind set to attack it is going to to be there. Nice frame to fill out. Think 3B will be nice spot for him down road.

Ginger cookin! Locking up two of her HS arms already.

I strongly dislike all the changes to Rookie ball last few years. Give me back R+ & full summer of ball.

Draft is too different now. Most guys you are hoping for are kids who are 11-20 selections now. If they have high evaluation in round 1-2 & not drafted there, most teams won’t take that shot unless they are confident their numbers are right, have the savings, & know what that kid will actually sign for. Big bonus pool is stretch after trade with Boston. Have to go pretty underslot with your top picks to really capitalize on. It’s not like having top 5 pick where you can easy save 3 million reaching down board a bit. Pratt was pretty upset with self. He played hard ball too strong with signability. Lucky for Brewers, 1) They were confident in their numbers & savings 2) they had really good relationship with Pratt & felt they knew actual amount needed & the interest for him to sign. You got to be really confident those before picking signability kid. Could rant about conscience boards but probably could just ask our New England & Midwest scouts how much cold weather territories are left out & pushed down boards. Right now Brewers are making a killing in those areas that other teams & national scouting services just don’t invest in much effort. Ginger is out here pulling kids straight from HS, getting them sent to AZ where off bat they are looking like they were 1st or 2nd round bonus babies.

Observations: See a little Doug Melvin era (Jack Z & Seid) last few years in the no clue where this kid can play defense or if he can at all but boy I like the bat. A little more shift from the C, SS, CF good defenders with advanced approach & hit tool that you hope bat/power clicks for they mostly were doing. Curious how all it pans out since Pat isn’t tolerating of poor defense. Lot of guys who could find themselves at 1B or DH (luckily an option now), LF & 2B they use to be able to hide guys but again, they win by playing elite D in non shift era. Hard to do that hiding sub par defenders there. I think they have really found confidence in their HS pitcher development. Seeing an uptick there past few years from originally being really 4 yr college or Juco heavy. I mean 11-20 They have always attacked HS talent but they avoid top 10 rounds mostly. Feel they have always liked prep bats with advanced hit tool & plate discipline. That has continued.

prototypical leadoff of hitter. 70 grade speed. Good contact ability & approach. https://www.perfectgame.org/articles/View.aspx?article=23326

Great Article here! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6476189/2025/07/08/daniel-dickinson-mlb-draft-lsu-baseball/ Kid played every game for a month with a broken hamate bone this season & still produced barely being able to grip a bat. Walk on to smaller more local college & worked up to being a leader for National Champs LSU. This is a Murphy kid! Had surgery right after CWS. Should be good to go not long after signing. Will be 22 next season (first full season in pro ball would be 23 if he returned next year). So unless lowballed, coming back probably won’t help greatly.

Tod Johnson’s staff has shown they don’t care about the injuries. If they like the arm & fits their model, they will bring you in. One it saves money early on. Two confidence that they can get you healthy & on track with their rehab program, Then let that arm talent shine. You are getting a 2nd round talent cheaper & in the 5th. Great value when you have high functioning rehab & pitching lab to accomplish the goal

See the strategy forming. Lake Central kids give Brewers their real number & price themselves out with all other teams to keep feeder system rolling!

Lake Central HS becoming an amateur farm system from the Crew. Good results so far, keep going back to the well! Enjoy how Milwaukee doesn’t shy away & scouts hard in cold weather states. A lot of underrated talented with less wear & tear on arms. Midwest/New England is there sweet spot right now with HS arms & results have been promising!

Got Flores for ya!

With any draft, MLB, NFL, etc it’s hard for me to buy in on theories of “reaches.” Mocks & rankings are entertainment. They work on a fraction of the information of scouting departments. BA & so on do not have analytical models crunching large sums of data on every player to guide their boards like a Brewers data driven board does. They aren’t meeting kids & their families. Talking to coaches to know these kids at deeper level. They work with available information, film, and what they hear from pro scouts. That info can be smoke & mirrors at times. Like mentioned, Payne seemed like a reach due to lack of information from national services but there were teams right behind Crew gunning for him. Then throw in money aspects that change where kids fall on boards. In any draft, outside of the obvious Top 5-10, a pro scouting departments board looks very little like a national media board. The ones that do, often are not great departments.