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Going to be an interesting offseason with virtually the entire team returning but for Woodruff-Hoskins-Quintana. Guessing payroll will be near the same or less so not expecting the team to add a higher priced FA with Arby raises, including Vaughn’s $6-7M, eating up most or all the savings on Hoskins. The team having the best and deepest farm system in the game will come into play at some point and that time could be next offseason that adds controllable talent if needed. Next year’s team should be a WS favorite with having a mostly 3-4 years experienced, prime-aged, peaking team positionally with boatloads of controlled SP, and another potentially great bullpen.

It wasn’t a hit that was needed to advance last season — it was Williams just doing his job. The evidence of our FO being the best in this game has reached critical mass this past year. Another executive of the year award on top of last year’s EOY, should, but probably still won’t silence the critics. Unbelievable.

This is my favorite class maybe ever. The pitching added is better than in ‘23 or ‘24, my opinion, and the 2 positionals taken early have good hitting upside with power potential. HS pitchers watching what this team has been doing with their pitching development have to be salivating over the prospect of being drafted by this organization. Convinced the team is going to continue to draft pitching each and every draft until they have so much organizational pitching they can’t develop them all. A true pitching factory. They can supply teams around the game with some of their pitching in exchange for positional talent we need.

Read Liveforoctober’s post. Explanation pretty clear.

Trade Quintana. His command just isn’t good enough. His moxie & grit is commendable, but he doesn’t have the upside of Cortez.

Disagree on your potential lack of depth take without Underwood. Getting the 2 lefties from the early rounds and Flores adds plenty of upside pitching, imo, to an already stacked upper and lower minors system. Arm talent in this system is as deep as any team in baseball, imo.

Not at all, some of us can look past the trees and see the big, beautiful forest. Matt Arnold earned executive of the year last season on behalf of the MKE Brewers for the 2024 season. He and the team are trending to earn it again for the second year in a row, which would be an unprecedented feat. You have no retort for this that will make any logical sense because there isn’t any. This alone makes the MKE Brewers THE best organization in baseball. Mark Attanasio has done the most important thing he can do as the owner of baseball’s SMALLEST-market team — hire the right people to run it, listen to what they want you to do (massive investments in infrastructure), and stay out of the way. The best FO in the game resides in MKE and as such doesn’t deserve criticism from its fans. They deserve patience from their fans for having a grand plan and a process for that plan. It’s taken a decade for most fans to see that this plan is coming to fruition slowly but surely. We now have as good or better infrastructure as any in the game. We have as good of a farm system as there is in this game. We have more solid or better, 5-6 years controlled BL starting pitching as any team in baseball. We also have a 3-6 years controlled, playoff-worthy positional core. We have everything a team needs to have as good of a 5+ year future as any team in baseball. Patience is all that is needed. Patience to let our elite FO do what they think is needed to win a WS in the near future.

While not signing Underwood is disappointing, that should potentially leave enough money to really go after Cadiz, a player that the system imo, needs more than another pitcher. The pitching signed thru the first 10 rounds is already stronger than what we signed in the last 2 drafts 1-10. Cadiz, Hughes & Lauridsen would make for a nice trio of talent.

Anyone following this team has to now know we are THE best organization in baseball. Period. And as such, this FO doesn’t deserve criticism from its fans, not when each and every year the organization gets stronger. Just shush, and let them do their thing. They obviously know what to do or we wouldn’t be the best organization in baseball, now would we. Mr Big Red — stop complaining about the past and just sit back, relax, and this team’s FO continue to school MLB, and appreciate what we have and where we’re going.

Yes, they are the best organization in baseball. And with their combination of controlled BL core, BIB prospect-procurement and development, monstrous farm system, and elite FO, it’s likely to stay that way for a while. This next 5-10 years is going to be a blast.

Jesus MadeLuis PenaCooper PrattJeferson QueroLogan HendersonAndrew FischerBraylon PayneMarco DingesRobert GasserBrock WilkenBishop LetsonJosh AdamczewskiLuke AdamsEric BitontiBlake BurkeMike BoeveLuis LaraBryce MeccageBrady EbelJason Woodward This is a farm system that should help make an eventual WS champion. Absolutely monstrous.

This is a year to spend prospect capital to improve the BL team with the bye and home field advantage throughout the playoffs within reach. Agree the team has tons of organizational SP depth that they won’t miss. They also have tons of minor-league IF depth they also won’t miss. Rental upgrades seems like the way to go. 1B-3B-utility IF-HL bullpen arm. Either or even all of them can be addressed without gutting the team’s minor-league system.

Then keep Peralta and go with a ‘26 rotation of: Peralta-Misiorowski-Ashby-Hall-Henderson -Patrick or Myers-Priester-Gasser-Kuehner-CRod and a handful of solid options in the upper minors. 10-15 deep should be enough depth.

Perfect trade idea Jake. Baltimore needs controllable starting pitching more than just about any team out there so they are the perfect match for trading with. O’Hearn & Soto would give MKE a huge boost in talent and with a Willie Castro addition, make them a big-time WS contender, and potential WS favorite. O’Hearn & Soto to MKE for: Patrick or Myers & Crow Castro to MKE for: Areinamo & Dubanewicz

With Brock not signing, I’m hoping to get all 3 of the positionals left signed 11-20. Hughes-Mills & Cadiz. Cadiz might be a tough one, but positional upside like his might be more important to add to the system than a couple more pitchers with the state of the arm talent throughout the farm.

I picked dreaming of next years team. • A healthy Contreras • Less innings limits on their starters • Another years development from their young core • Potentially everyone back except Woodruff & Hoskins • A full offseason to fix weaknesses • A monstrous farm system with more upper minors positional talent than they’ve had since Turang-Frelick-Mitchell.

Counsell thought he was smarter than the FO. He lacked the vision to see the true greatness of Stearns/Arnold and what the infrastructure rebuild meant to the future of the team. He thought instead he could go south with an inferior FO, that he could more or less control, and would be able to coach $200M+ payroll teams to a WS. He better win one this season, because the Brewers future is fantastically better than the Cubs, and it’s going to be embarrassing to have his mentor win with half his payroll.

Absolutely, credit has to go to both Attanasio/Stearns as well. The most important attributes for a small-market owner are: • Spend similarly to other like revenue teams. • Hire the right people to run the team. • Listen to those people. Attanasio has nailed all 3 and because of that gets an A+ as the owner of this franchise. Stearns created the initial vision for this team which included the massive rebuild of the team’s infrastructure, which was as bad as any in baseball. His first hire was Matt Arnold, who has helped him every step of the way in building what could be the most efficient infrastructure in the game. Arnold has taken Stearns initial vision and kicked it up multiple notches imo, thanks to his scouting background. He has changed the team’s amateur draft strategy, with Tod Johnson’s help and the team has had back to back, among the best in baseball, draft-classes, with the latest, potentially as good or better than the last 2 classes. On the international side they had maybe the best IFA class (2024) since baseball went to pool money a little more than a decade ago. Currently, the team rivals any team in the game as far as prospect-procurement is concerned. Then we have the team’s pitching development taking another leap since Arnold took over. This team, imo, has never had the depth of solid or better pitching, system-wide, that they have right now. The pitching gains made just this year alone are extraordinary, and have set the team up for an easy 5 year run of success, again in my opinion, unparalleled in this franchise’s history. Attanasio A+ owner. Stearns A+ GM. Arnold A+ GM and currently the best in baseball, bar none, which is why I stated early on in this thread, he deserves a 10 year extension, and that wouldn’t even be long enough.

Yes real quick. Power bat for 5+ years.

After the year the Brewers PDS has had, maybe he just wants in, and as quickly as possible. It’s hard to imagine a team having the system-wide pitching gains this team has had the last couple of years, but especially this year.

If Woodruff finishes the year healthy we give him a QO. He likely turns it down and we get a top 35 pick in next years draft. Win win. If he accepts the QO (unlikely if healthy) we get a stronger Woody, another offseason from his surgery, likely without an innings limit.. An ace for 1 year for what’s looking like the most talented Brewers team in many years.

The Brewers nailed their draft-class for the 3rd year in a row. Doesn’t matter who specifically signs from their 11-20, because enough will for them to have another top, among the best in baseball draft-class. The 5 LHP’s drafted, fixes one of the systems 2 glaring weaknesses, the dearth of left-handed pitching. The other weakness, at least the way I see it, OF power bats, was not addressed in this draft, not with Ragsdale, who is a puzzling pick to me, but oh well, maybe next year they go OF heavy. What’s got me super excited is the Fischer pick. Some, including many Brewers scouts thought him to be the best hitter in the draft-class, bar none. And with his plate-discipline, strength and lofted swing, a potential middle of the order bat in the BL lineup and imo, sooner than later. I think he flies to the big-leagues. But again, for the 3rd year in a row, they will likely end up with N of 10 pitchers added, not a bad strategy when the team is as good as it gets with pitching development.

Hoping against hope the team can sign one of Brock-Cadiz. This team has so much organizational pitching depth, I’m hoping they spend a lot of their excess on one of the aforementioned positionals if it means they can sign one of them.

Fischer-Ebel are great positional adds to the system with both having at least future power potential, imo, a system weakness. The pitching added looks to be similar to the last 2 drafts, so likely superior yet again thanks to their incredible all things pitching department. The waves of future pitching should be large enough to protect the team from injury and still have excess to trade from. This team’s amateur draft process Johnson & co have put together is just incredible. It’s become as well-oiled of a machine as there is in this game. I’m in awe of this team’s infrastructure.

With the addition of 4-5 LHP’s fixing the dearth of lefties throughout the organization, that leaves OF’s with power upside as the only remaining system weakness in my eyes. Fortunately, we have 4-6 years of control over 6 BL OF’s giving us plenty of time to fix that singular weakness.