Then we're sacrificing the season, and who knows what baseball will look like after the lockout. I know the Red Sox and Pirates were offering attractive packages, although I don't know names or prospect levels to compare to Pratt or Quero.
We have to trade talent to get talent, and we just traded away much of the marginal talent (Durbin, Collins, Myers) that helped us get to a certain level. Are we so engrossed by "The Brewers way" that we're just going let the team regress in order to maintain our own system? Worked out real well for the Packers, until it didn't.
Then again, Mark has priorities in his portfolio far above the Brewers, so I guess we're just moving pawns around the chessboard to maintain a steady level of profitability that doesn't get in the way of the fan bases' loyalties.