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  1. SF70
    Mears didn’t even make our NLCS roster. He regressed badly late-season especially with his command. If the choice is between Mears and Yoho in 2026 I’m taking Yoho. I loved Bukauskas’s stuff prior to his lat injury, and IF (IF) his stuff is all the way back he will be a valuable pen arm for this team.
  2. SF70
    Mears is EASILY replaced. And yes I do want to sell Megill and yes it’s 100% because of injury concerns. That’s his second flexor Strain and I don’t want to see another elbow problem while he’s with the Brewers. IF Bukauskas gets his stuff back, he’s a great bullpen option and Yoho improved his command after he was optioned in August and should be another great pen option. They also has myriad starter options they can move to the pen.
  3. SF70
    Henderson & Pratt & Peralta might do it, depending on what they think of Henderson-Pratt. The Tigers are a playoff team so replacing Skubal with Peralta, while a downgrade, still gives them a #2-3 type starter they can use for their ‘26 rotation. Pratt is a top 50-75 prospect that would give Detroit their SS of the future, and Henderson another starter for the ‘26 season. If I’m Detroit and want to sell high on Skubal, this would be a tough offer to turn down. If I’m the Brewers and can absorb Skubal’s $20+ salary for the ‘26 season I’m making the trade. A playoff rotation of Skubal-Woodruff-Misiorowski-Patrick gives the team an incredibly good chance to win a title. Made is the SS of the future anyhow and the team has tons of controlled starter depth moving-forward so they can afford to lose Henderson.
  4. SF70
    And Forbes has them at $137.6M year-end, 40-man payroll for 2025.
  5. SF70
    I want Megill traded because of injury concerns. Saving 4.4 million is an ancillary benefit. Mears Can go — we don’t need him. That saves another 2M+. That’s $6.4M that can be used at the trade-deadline. If the team needs to shed more, then Peralta can get traded for the best return, that saves another $8M, provided the return is pre-arby or prospects. Potentially $14.4M saved less $2.4M for 3 pre-arby replacements. Losing Mears won’t matter at all, and Megill can be replaced by Uribe. The team is as good as there is in this game at finding good bullpen arms and they have starter arm options internally that they can use throughout the season there plus Yoho and Bukauskas, who was a nice leverage arm before his lat injury. Peralta would potentially be a bigger loss with his veteran leadership and likely 170 innings of mid-rotation or better performance. But with Ashby returning to starting and the large number of controlled starters plus Woodruff, they should be able to get to the trade-deadline in good shape rotation-wise and if not, they have an enormous amount of prospect-capital of which to pull-off another Priester-like addition.
  6. SF70
    It’s total payroll for the year that matters and if the team needs to shed a little now to be able to add at the deadline then so be it. I’m hoping they trade Mears & Megill (injury risk) and if they trade Peralta that means they got what they wanted in return. Matt Arnold & co will figure it out.
  7. SF70
    Agree on the mostly stand pat. This coming year’s trade-deadline could get interesting with a Brewers farm likely to get closer to the bursting level of prospect depth (provided the team stands mostly pat this offseason). The team could decide to use some of that extreme prospect depth in an attempt to become a monstrous juggernaut entering the postseason with a looming lockout ahead. At least I’m hoping to see that.
  8. SF70
    I’m adding Mark Attanasio to the list. Thankful that he wants to keep his team in baseball’s smallest-market, and thankful he’s smart enough to hire the best executive talent in the game over the last decade and also listen to what that talents asks you to do to become the best organization in all of baseball.
  9. SF70
    Get used to it. Over the coming years this team will be trading from that pitching depth. First with low minors arms and then after they have the uppers loaded, they will trade from there and eventually the big-club. With the team’s skill in finding amateur pitching talent I’m not seeing them change their draft strategy and with the big-club now having 7 starters with 4-6 years of control left, the time for trading some of that excess pitching is getting closer. A true pitching factory ahead.
  10. SF70
    The pitching brought in from this class is special. Broughton-Dubanewicz-Smith-Renz-Meccage-Hardin-DeBerry-Holobetz — wow. Did I miss anyone? Really looking forward to seeing a healthy Broughton make his debut.
  11. SF70
    Well actually it was. The team did after-all win 97 games and finished 3rd in RS. The team isn’t going to replace a GG-caliber SS this offseason without giving him until the trade-deadline to see if he can improve his offense. If Steamer is right and he gets to a 95 wRC+, he becomes a 3 WAR player. But even if he can get to 85, he probably eliminates the need for an outside acquisition.
  12. SF70
    I don’t think Arnold pulls the trigger on that return. Not for a backend starter (Early) and bullpen arm (Perales), even if that pen arm ends up in HL. Early might be ready next season, Perales probably not. That trade weakens the Brewers 2026 BL team considerably, imo.
  13. SF70
    And didn’t even mention our 3 big-armed TJ’s, Woodward-Broughton-Galindez, all 3 back pitching at varying times this season.
  14. SF70
    Woody will enter ST 100% healthy, 28 months post-surgery. He showed what he can do last season with reduced velo — #2 starter stats including peripherals that match. He has an opportunity to re-gain a tick or two and with his new and improved arsenal — become better than ever — a true playoff ace. And you can bet the team will do what it can to make sure he gets to October healthy and now that the predicted lat injury is out of the way, I’m predicting he gets there. There is no move (0) this team could have made that adds more impact than adding Brandon Woodruff to the 2026 team.
  15. SF70
    Steamer has Joey up to a 95 wRC+ for next season and if that comes to fruition — we have ourselves one valuable SS. No way this team is going to replace Joey this offseason with his GG-type defense at the most important defensive position on the field, especially with this team’s belief in run prevention. My guess is the team’s internal projections have him closer to Steamer’s projection’s than his hitting of last year. Let’s see where things stand at the trade-deadline.
  16. SF70
    I’m interested in the young pitching throughout the system. Do you agree with me that the pitching is ready to explode? I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on the TJ’s that missed last year’s season rehabbing. Knoth? Woodward? Galindez? Broughton? Are they all on track to be good to go entering ST? With this being Woodwards 2nd TJ, and him being R5 eligible next offseason do you see MKE bullpenning or rotationing him? Thoughts on the pitchers signed and brought in from the 2025 draft-class. Who’s your favorite arm? Sleeper? Personally, I like the left-handed arms they added. Went from a system weakness to potentially a strength if we include Broughton who should finally make his debut next season.
  17. SF70
    Maybe, but Woodward has a starters arsenal with multiple plus pitches. My guess is they rotation him, but we’ll see.
  18. SF70
    Anyone not named Made-Pena for the right upgrade to the lineup and or rotation. I want the team to do what it can, without being reckless, in an attempt to win a WS in 2026, especially with a lockout looming the following year. Trade-deadline could be the right time to do some damage. We should know by then if we need to upgrade SS, and if the team needs a power upgrade, big-armed starter and or bullpen upgrades.
  19. SF70
    Just shows how incredible our last 4 drafts and IFA classes have been. Top system with depth galore, just about all from those aforementioned classes, of which we don’t need to protect yet. Next year it’ll start getting tougher, although, I’m hoping to see some trades soon that can thin some of the extreme IF depth the system enjoys.
  20. SF70
    I’m fascinated to see how the big-armed TJ’s fare this season. Woodward-Knoth-Broughton & Galindez all have soooooo much potential upside, and all should be healthy and ready to go in ST or early in the year. The upper-minors should be loaded early on with top positional prospects. Quero-Wilken-Lara-Adams-Pratt at AAA. Made-Burke-Adamczewski-Boeve at AA with Fischer & Pena joining the group early on. Hard to imagine any team with that kind of top-end positional talent in the uppers. But for me it’s the pitching throughout the system including the aforementioned 4-some in the first paragraph and pitchers yet to debut from the ‘25 draft-class that has me intrigued like never before. Boatload after boatload of talented arm talent that should give the team as much breakout pitching talent than any team in baseball.
  21. SF70
    Blasting Lathund like you did just touched a nerve with me since he’s always been nothing but respectful in his perpetually smart and reasoned takes.
  22. SF70
    100% agree. The most important thing an owner of a small-market team can do is hire the very best talent to run his team and Attanasio has hit it out of the park in that regard with Stearns/Arnold/Klentak/Johnson and all of the assistant GM’s he’s hired over the last decade.
  23. SF70
    Ben Badler knows the Brewers system as well or better than any evaluator or scout I’ve read or listened to. Arem is right there as well. His article the other day describing the Brewers advantage over the rest of baseball with their drafting & signing of HS players was great to read, although he didn’t differentiate between pitchers and positionals, with at least 16 of the 18 listed HS’s signed since ‘21 being pitchers.
  24. SF70
    Yeah, seems to have been doing a lot of strength training since his surgery. Quero is back to his pre-injury self offensively and with his extra strength should be able to impact the baseball better than he ever has. The arm strength is a work in progress, but he still has GG potential receiving skills, game-calling abilities and the intangibles that Murphy loved so much he called Quero his favorite Brewers prospect ever 2 ST’s ago. Start him off in AAA until he forces his way to MKE.
  25. SF70
    I drop a thumbs down on posts and don’t explain why. Next time you might want to PM someone and request an explanation instead of publicly trying to embarrass him like you just did. Lathund is one of the best posters on this site and has reasoned opinions that I just about always agree with and if he gave you a thumbs down on a post of yours I’d probably re-think your take.
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