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No to Anderson-Koenig. Yes to Zerpa. Koenig is washed. Anderson can be upgraded from. Zerpa will be like a great trade-deadline acquisition. Excited to see who the team brings aboard for bullpen possibilities. Holub-Wagoner will be in the shuttle mix along with upper-minors starter arms Kuehner & Wichrowski (should have been converted back to reliever long ago), Tender Megill and work towards this being the best bullpen in Brewers history.

The fans need to bring it this postseason, but especially vs the Padres. Murphy pretty much saying that without saying it.

Exactly, and with the bullpen’s being as strong as they are for both teams I want the 13th pitcher for extra innings.

I know I do. I want Harrison on the playoff roster and in order to make that happen for sure they need 13 pitchers. May-Drohan-Harrison will all be important to have available on the staff — much more than Lockridge or Naylor.

Besides the advantage the Padres have over our top 2 relievers, they have Rodriguez, who has been nails for an extended period of time and is a massive multi-inning weapon. Dotting the corners with his nasty stuff is going to be a problem.

SD is the 3rd best team in these playoffs and the Brewers are going to have to win at home to advance, imo. SD’s offense has been the best in baseball for an extended period of time and the Miz & Henderson need to pitch deep so MKE can use their top 3-4 relievers to close out their games, saving the rest of their pen for their bullpen games.

With the Biloxi playoff SP trio’s late-season ascension, suddenly the Crew has some good starting-pitching depth in their upper-minors. Sproat-Crow-Hardin-Kuehner-Letson-Knoth-Thompson-DeBerry-Torres give the team 9 starter arms that have the potential to pitch for the big-club in 2027. A few have a chance to be more than future backend starters. with a few more likely being future bullpen arms, but with the big-club having 6 controlled starters if we include Priester-Harrison and the team likely adding more SP thru trade/FA, imo, the team is in good shape heading into next year SP depth-wise and that buys time for the systems large group of lower-minors arms to develop over the coming years. Imo — the key to this team becoming a dominant force over the next decade like I believe they will is the development of the large volume of arm talent already in the system.

His previous velo & movement came back 2 outings ago. Yesterday his command took a step-up in the right direction. Of course he should make the playoff roster. His K potential vs hitters on both sides of the plate seperate him from most. We need him.

If we can’t recognize Yelich for being the consummate team player and leader then whatever. It’s NOT HIS FAULT that injuries have hurt his career performance and it’s a credit to him that he’s risen above it to do whatever he can to help his teammates excel. Just an eloquent talk he gave at the press conference. Tremendous person and deserves recognition for his helping his teammates improve, not being denigrated by some for no good reason. Ridiculous.

Letson announcing loud and clear tonight he wants to be a factor for the big-club next season.

I’d add Tate Kuehner to the list with Letson-Thompson & Knoth as possibilities at some point later in the season. Upper-minors SP depth has really taken a step-up the second-half of this season. The key to the team’s SP depth will be how Priester returns from TOS surgery (near 80% come back with same performance with a timeline of 6-9 months), and if the team can iron out Harrison’s issues. If 1 or both can be counted on that improves the depth greatly. They also will need to add from outside the org, imo, either thru trade or FA addition or both. 1. Miz 2. Henderson 3. Gasser 4. FA 5. Trade addition. 6. Harrison 7. Priester 8. Drohan 9. Sproat 10. Crow Upper-minors: 11. Hardin 12. Kuehner 13. Letson 14. Thompson 15. Knoth I’m keeping Patrick in the bullpen, which imo, is a great role for him and one he excels in. Never have enough SP depth, but if the team can nail the right FA addition and trade addition they should be ok until the trade-deadline.

I’m really liking the late-season pitching of the 3 Biloxi postseason starters. Letson-Thompson-Knoth are finishing the year strong and giving me a lot of confidence we have ourselves a nice group of upper-minors SP heading into next season.

Both have options so neither need traded. Harrison proved to be ace-like with his pre-injury arm angle. They have all offseason and ST to get that back so he’s not going anywhere. Sproat hasn’t shown anything compared to Harrison, but has the raw stuff to be good if they can refine his mechanics to improve his command.

Yes the future is bright. What Attanasio & the Brewers FO have built over the last decade in baseball’s smallest-market is nothing short of historic. They have an organizational juggernaut of epic proportions that will give them another decade plus of consistent WS contention and thanks to that extended contention — a likely WS title, and possibly more. Nothing is guaranteed, especially in baseball, but, another decade plus of 10%-15% yearly WS odds should come pretty close to that WS title-winning certainty. Just an incredible time to be a Brewers fan.

Can’t stop dreaming of a Mitchell with a higher launch-angle.