Jose Cardenal1

LaVel Freeman

Daryl Hamilton

Jeff Cirillo?

Ding Ding Ding Yes it was Jenkins.

One more hint and then I am offline until the morning The above player accumulated 41% of his career WAR in his first two full seasons in bigs. After that he never could quite replicate those numbers for a full year with the exception of one good year in the middle of his career.

Greg Vaughn is a really good guess but not quite right.

Good guess on Glen Braggs. I wish I had thought to do him. My guy had a much better ML career. Good not great. But he teased great at times.

OK I'll give it a try. Age Level 20 Rk/A+/AA .279 / .358 / .435 .793 21 A+/AA .326 / .418 / .516 .934 22/23 AAA .272 / .336 / .475 .811 A Brewer "legend". By the way this player had more AB's in AA his age 20 season than his other two stops. Funny how his Age 21 season was a tease of a truly great player, just like much of his time in the bigs.

Jacob Odorizzi

I agree with you that the Rangers (and the Cardinals) are the blueprint for what Milwaukee should be doing and a complete evaluation of the entire organization needs to be done. However I still believe your current state of mind on the team is being over-influenced by a really (historically) bad month. The organization needs to change for sure, but we all need to take a breath and let this play out more. Your talking about very long range organizational changes in one breath and then pointing to very short term results as the reason. If the Brewers would have gone say a medicore 12-15 this month, would you be writing about the terrible shape the organization is in and all the changes that should be made? Probably not, yet the long term problems would still be there. Sometimes big problems get masked and small problems get magnified in the short term. btw I am not an idiot. Of course Braun is a better comparisson to Stanton on the field. My use of Segura for comparisson was becasue he looks to be a Franchise player, very early in his career and cheap. Stache you know way more than me, I am just trying to talk you off the ledge.

Stache, while I share your frustration with the current state of both the big league club's results and the minor league's lack of stars, your forgetting one thing. Neither the Marlins or the Astros have any talent to speak of at all at the Major League level, while the Brewers have almost as bad of record, they do have good talent on the club. Take the Marlins. At the ML level they have one proven stud (abeit hurt) in Stanton, but that is it. I am going to say that for the Brewers you could say that Jean Segura is the equivelent of Stanton. That means if we really only cared about building the farm system (since we are going nowhere at the ML level) we could trade away Braun, Gomez, Aoki & Ramirez. How many top 100 prospects you think we should get back in those trades? I say 7. Braun - at least 3 (including at least one top 10), Gomez - 2 (the contract extension helps) and one each for Aoki and Ramirez. At that point we would have just an awful ML team (Marlinesque), but we would have a stocked farm system to go along with top 5 picks in the next couple drafts most likely. I am not saying we should do this but if all you care about is the state of the farm system when the ML team is scuffling, there is your answer. My point? It is easy to say the sky is falling right now. It is never as bad as it seems and never as good as it seems either. This extends to your view on the ptiching prospects. I trully believe that by the end of the year you will have high hopes on at least a couple of Brewer pitching prospects. Too many of them to not have a couple sneak through. And while you alluded to better recent results for Jungman your failed to mention the May numbers for Pena or T.Wagner or Nelson's full year.