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Can’t be impatient. Need to trust the process. Slow and steady wins the race. When a franchise can’t buy talent, they have to develop it. This should be easy for all of us to understand as Brewers fans. No shortcuts. Keep accumulating prospect talent. Continue to develop the talent and eventually there will come a point where the big-league roster is talented enough with organizational talent that is deep enough that the team can “go for it” at the trade-deadline if it makes sense to do so — that time is not now. Fortunately, we are getting closer to that time thanks to the talent of our FO and infrastructure.

Doug Melvin is a gentleman of the highest integrity — but baseball has passed him by. It took this FO nearly a decade to complete the infrastructure rebuild necessary to be able to compete with the behemoths of this sport. Be thankful Attanasio recognized he needed to move on from Mr Melvin to have any chance to compete with the LM teams in this day and age with disparages in revenue of over $300M, and in the case of the LAD, $500M. The Dodgers have the ability, thanks to their massive revenue & geography, to build their team thru FA and trades. They don’t need to install their prospects like we do — they can just collect prospect talent and use the talent to acquire veteran talent, thus skipping the growing-pains of the medium & SM teams have to go thru finishing-off the development of their prospects. This team can absolutely compete with the Dodgers, just like an inferior Blue Jays team came within 1 pitch of upsetting the Dodgers in last years WS. We have a back-to-back 2 time executive of the year leading this organization to greatness. We have the best amateur prospect-procurement in the sport. We have outstanding player development and coaches. All we need is time — and patience to see this thru. I’m betting on Matt Arnold & co being able to do this.

The starter addition is as much a priority as the bullpen upgrades, imo. Crow is really the only realistic starter possibility in the uppers and he’s coming off injury and shouldn’t be counted on. I’d like to see 2 starter additions so we can option Sproat, gaining the extra year while he gets experience pitching out of the pen for Nashville so he can strengthen our postseason pen. The second starter addition protects from injury and allows for 5 and 6 day rest for our young starters the rest of the way. I’m hoping for Weaver. His addition along with Drohan and Sproat moving to the pen would give us a dynamic playoff pen.

For as disappointing as the organization’s pitching has been this season, Knoth has been anything but that. Hoping we still have him with the org Monday nite, but if not we’ll have a player that helps the big-club in their attempt to win a title this year.

Knoth got thru the 6th unscathed after giving up a couple of baserunners, one by error the other a single. Ended the inning with his 7th K. 86 pitches. Nice to see him get stretched-out some.

Nice seeing Josh Knoth going back out in the 6th. 5IP 2H 0R 1BB 6K. 67pitches.

Wacha would be a great addition. His combination of pitch-mix and outstanding command should age well. He pitches deep into games and would be a nice, veteran innings-eater for next year. KC can kick-in some $ for a better prospect package.

With the Blue teams 4 HR’s today they just overtook the Yankees in HR’s and now lead the league.

It’s so ridiculous, they push this farm system back into or near the top of farm systems post-draft, and that’s with Tampa having more than twice the pool $ in this last draft.

The Blue team is 2nd in OPS and slug, 3rd in HR. Gold team is 7th in OPS, 9th in slug and 5th in HR. Most if not all of the team’s ahead of the Blue team are older, some like the Yankees much older.

Yeah, it’s been a disappointing year for me with the pitching. I think the arms are there, once they get healthy, to breakout at some point next year. Episcope-Flores-Cairone are 3 big-armed talents I’m hoping to see excel. Same with Thompson, who’s stuff seems to be ticking-up, and Josh Knoth, who’s stuff seems to be back but needs innings. Wasn’t expecting Woodward to struggle so badly coming back from TJ but maybe it being his second time is slowing down his recovery. Also looking forward to some of the arms from the ‘26 draft-class.

The ‘26 international class looks to have given the team yet another future wave of impactful positional talent. The team’s international prospect-procurement abilities are so far ahead of the rest of baseball it’s beyond remarkable and approaching ridiculousness. No idea how they can be this good and frankly don’t care, just want it to continue for as long as possible. This last class will extend the Brewers minor-league positional depth to epic proportions, and has given the team the ability to trade-off from depth positions without hurting the future at all — totally agree with Fear The Chorizo — the team NEEDS to thin out certain positional depth throughout the system for the betterment of the system development as a whole. What a time to be a Brewers fan.

Thanks for clarifying. Had him mixed-up with one of the other trio of picks.

Super happy with this signing. Premium athlete, good size, great speed and a nice hit-tool to boot. Doesn’t hurt he’s a big Brewers fan as well.

Yeah, it’s been a disappointing year for pitching in the system. Before the year, I thought the pitching would take a giant step-up with just the numbers of young pitching prospects drafted in the last couple of years starting to breakout, but it just hasn’t happened up to this point, and for the reasons given. I think once the biggest arms from the ‘25 class get healthy, things should start to change and with some of the arms added from the ‘26 draft next season should be what I thought this season would be — pitching that balances out the system a little better.