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Trade candidate. In a way too early look at the systems IF prospects I have — Pratt at SS and Made at 3B for the next 7-10 years. Pena at 2B if the team decides to trade Turang in a couple of years. Then Ebel & Frontado. Frontado seems to have more upside so…..

Agree the Brewers arby Vaughn next season as their full-time 1B. Then they have Burke & Fischer behind Vaughn. No way Adams is a better prospect than those two. I would argue Adams has the most trade-value from among the blocked prospects. Between him and Jett, which is why I listed them together in a trade-package the team could use to acquire a player that improves the team at this year’s trade-deadline or next offseason.

Running out of words to describe this team’s minor-league system. I’ve been following the team’s farm’s systems for over half a century (sporting news back in the day) and I’ve never seen it more full of real prospects, and on both sides of the ball. ’Just Baseball’ is right — this system is twice as good as any in the game.

Want so badly to see Williams & Adams in a package for a HL reliever or starting pitcher. Realistically, neither has a future with MKE, imo, but should have nice surplus trade-value.

Frias 2-3 thru 5 in today’s 7 inning game. This has to be his last ACL game, doesn’t it?

Alexander Frias is just dominating ACL pitching. 4-4 so far with another PA or two yet in this game. He needs to be challenged.

DSL blue has been putting on a power display of epic proportions in the early going. Frontado looking like a future star.

Antunez K-rate — 35%. Frias K-rate —17%. Not saying you’re wrong in liking Antunez over Frias but the swing and miss disparity between the two is rather staggering.

God I love this team.

Agree on this DSL group being the deepest we’ve ever had, at least positionally, but outside of the first pick, an entire draft of pitching seems a little extreme. Pitching-centric I agree with. Hoping to see a Levonas-type swing in the early rounds with the usual HS 11-20.

Jack & Aram have always been the highest on the Brewers system and ahead of the curve even going as far as a couple of years ago naming them with the 3rd best 5-year future in all of baseball just behind large-market team’s LAD & Boston. Some think they over-hype and are the polar-opposite of Longenhagen and there is some merit with that opinion but they have been pretty darn accurate in predicting the greatness of the Brewers system as a whole.

The team has been able to mine at least 1 elite prospect from each of their last 5 classes. Chourio-Lara-Rodriguez-Made & Pena-Frias and now we have what looks like a positional class that rivals what we had in ‘24. It’s obviously early, but the 2030 team could have 5-6 regulars from their international system — amazing.

With this FO I’ve been a big proponent of the no window, perpetual contention strategy — but — having a starter that is as unhittable as Miz is right now changes things for me. His health is all that matters and right now he’s healthy and if that’s still the case August 3rd, I hope my team does everything in their power to add Skubal in an attempt to win a title this year. The D-backs did this 25 years ago with Johnson-Shilling and Miz-Skubal would arguably be even more dominant.

I’m willing to trade any of our prospects but Made. We have drafted and mined internationally better than any team in baseball over the last few years which has created the deepest group of prospects in baseball — that, in combination with a young and controlled, extremely talented BL team, affords us the opportunity to win now without jeopardizing the future. We have another extremely talented DSL group along with a really talented ACL team, so more waves of prospects are on the way. And even if we don’t continue to procure amateur talent like we have recently, we have lots of BL pitching talent we can sell off down the road to restock. i’ve never felt better about spending prospect capital to improve the big league team than I do right now.

Miz right now is the most dominant starter in BL history and is not only a tier above ‘21 Burnes but every starter who has ever pitched. Add Skubal and this team will be virtually unbeatable in the postseason with a Miz-Skubal-Harrison trio of starters. I’d add a closer-type arm as well and win this thing with pitching. The timing for these moves seem right to me — Miz is healthy and will be protected by the team to the best of their ability to get him to the postseason healthy. A pitcher of Skubal’s ilk that can get acquired by this SM team is extremely rare and imo, warrants an overpay in prospects, of which under normal circumstances I’m loath to do, but this seems like a “perfect-storm” season in which to spend the prospect-capital and the $10/11M.