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Hoping to not see Monasterio in MKE this season. Do-Not-Trust-His-Defense. Last year he was terrible, this spring pretty much the same, and now this in the opening game.

4-seam up a half-tick this early in the season is nice to see. It’s all about the command with CRod anyhow and he certainly had good command of most of his pitches in his first start. Such a huge year for our upper minors starters with the big-club likely losing 4 starters going into next year. CRod-Patrick-Henderson-Hunt-Wichrowski will be fascinating to watch throughout the season. CRod-Patrick & Hunt without overwhelming stuff, but 5-6 pitch mixes that with better command can still get thru a lineup without much damage. Can they improve their command? Henderson and his 3rd pitch? Can Wichrowski command his potentially plus stuff?

Selfishly I don’t want there to be major changes to the financial structure of MLB. The Brewers have figured out how to become a powerhouse organization thru the building-up of their infrastructure to the point that if they continue to stack superior prospect classes they will become a perpetual powerhouse for as far as the eyes can see. Anyone studying what this organization has done structurally since Stearns/Arnold took over late in 2015 can see that this is absolutely where this thing is going. Even if the superior classes stopped today, the last 4 classes have made the farm system the biggest sleeping giant in the game. With the best teenage prospect talent in baseball maturing over the next 3 years merging with a 3-5 years controlled playoff-worthy big-league core, forming the future powerhouse Milwaukee Brewers. Arem & Jack see it, which is why they picked MKE 3rd in baseball, behind Boston & LAD with the best 5 year future. It’s going to happen, it’s just a question of how long the powerhouse can last. As is said earlier, if they can continue to scout internationally like they currently are doing and continue to stack extra draft-capital gathering extra picks for their drafts, this thing could go on for more than a decade+. Right now having an elite prospect procurement system favors this team with them getting the competitive balance pick every year and extra international pool money. Going to an international draft could very well hurt this team’s current advantage in that realm. Another great draft ahead in 2025 with the team having 5 of the top 68 picks/$17M+ in pool money could give the team a top farm for multiple years after graduating impact to the bigs over the next 3-4 years. The best SM FO in the game will also have some from this current BL core that will need to be traded to make room for the incredible prospect talent that will be maturing, forcing their way to MKE. What will this team get in return for 1-2 years of Contreras? 2-3 years of Turang? 2-3 years of Ortiz? Maybe we see prospect trades from the best farm in baseball that adds veteran, impact, controllable talent. So many options for this great FO of ours . Hard to have the patience waiting for all this to happen.

If Anderson makes Carolina that’s 6 teenagers in the starting lineup, including the youngest player in A ball, Made. Then with Meccage and some of the ‘24 HS pitching signings likely to reach Carolina at some point during the season this team has to be one of the youngest “A” teams in baseball if not the youngest. The youth of this system is extraordinary.

88-74. This is a better team than last year because of their young positional core getting better through development but the division is better, particularly the Reds & Cubs, and the NL is incredibly strong. 3 team Central race most of the year, with the Brewers & Cubs going to the wire. Toss-up who wins.

The following pitchers from the ‘24 draft-class yet to debut that should hit the ACL/A-: Dorchies-Holobetz-Dubanewitz-Renz Then in 2026 we get Broughton-Knoth & Woodward back from TJ rehab. The team has drafted 24 pitchers the last 2 drafts, with many of them from the HS realm so I think the system has a pretty good spread throughout the affiliates. Add another draft-class in July to this system and at some point in 2026 I think we’re looking at one of the best farm systems in baseball, if not the best.

While a second opinion on a sore elbow many times leads to TJ, it hasn’t been announced yet what the exact injury is, so couldn’t you have waited for this post until we get official word on the injury?

The systems teenage positional talent on full display this spring. Following the team’s minor league system the next few years is going to be something special.

Because every season is “precious”, I’m not seeing the team sell-off Peralta even this offseason since they will need his veteran experience to compete for the Central title again next season, after losing Woodruff-Civale-Cortez to FA. The team’s burgeoning powerhouse farm and universally praised prospect development system doesn’t need help at the expense of the current team, imo, and with their current prospect-pipeline can ride their best big-league talent all the way to FA for the pick and their performance. That’s the advantage of having a prospect-procurement system among the best in the game.

3 BB in 6.2 IP with only 2 hits allowed and 9 K’s. 98-100mph, and made Ohtani-Betts-Freeman look silly. By the way he only walked 2.8/9 the entirety of last season and 3.2/9 in 2023. Command & control hasn’t been an issue. His velo has ticked up and has completely changed his future outlook.

I don’t think so. Worst team in baseball can stash a raw, inexperienced arm like Smith as long as he’s touching 100mph like he is currently.

I think there’s a good chance they keep Peralta all the way to FA. It will be difficult if not impossible to trade Peralta and get back what they would need to win during the 2026 season — a veteran #2ish starter. His cost ($8M) + value to the team, likely supercedes the prospect-return we’d receive by trade. The team’s farm system going into the ‘26 season should be chocked full of prospect talent coming off another likely superior draft-class (2025), so the future isn’t the issue that the present would be without Peralta for the ‘26 season.

This is a better team than last year’s team. Better in every way. They seem to have a solid 3B and utility IF between Dunn-Durbin-Capra. Numerous sophomores & Juniors that as a whole should show improvement as they get closer to their prime years. Starting pitching is deeper and better, with a bullpen so deep they can’t even fit a 100mph arm like Uribe in it. All this and they might not win 93 games like they did last year because the division is vastly improved and with a NL a monstrous gauntlet.

While other teams waste incredible sums of money trying to put a bullpen together, this team scouts out an arm that looks like he can pitch multi-innings, with dynamic stuff, out of an already stacked pen and for no money. Amazing FO.

Capra’s not going anywhere after blasting 4 HR’s and making great plays on the left side of the IF. Monasterio’s days are numbered and I can’t wait. No offense to him but Capra is a better ballplayer.

First Matt Klentak and now Billy Eppler. Klentak failed as a GM with Philadelphia, but hired here and sent to help with the international department 2 years ago. Look at that department today. Not saying it was because of him but he obviously helped improve that department. Looking forward to the same type of help to the system as a whole in some form from Mr Eppler.

Keep stacking FO talent. Eppler has a talented eye for talent. Was a big reason the Angels were able to recruit Ohtani to Anaheim.

The team should be playing Black at OF everyday in Nashville and hoping he excels so they either have nice upper minors OF depth or a nice trade-chip come deadline or next offseason.

Agree. The system has as much balance as I’ve ever seen it. They have a good thing going with international giving them future impactful position prospects and the draft giving them projectable higher ceiling HS arms. I think they continue to draft like they have the last 2 drafts, taking another couple of boatloads of arms to continue this balance of positionals/pitching. The Arnold-lead draft strategy has completely re-vamped the teams farm and has lead to a burgeoning powerhouse organization.

Add ‘Prospects Live’ to the growing list of prospect sites praising the Brewers organization, more specifically their scouting, prospect-procurement, player development and farm system. With the team having the best teenage prospect talent in the game, adding more superior prospect classes to this team’s burgeoning powerhouse farm system has me thinking we could see this team with not only the best farm system in the game, but by a lot, and not just for a bit, but for an extended period of time. Incredibly excited July’s 5 top 68 pick, $17M+ draft, and looking forward to the team continuing to add draft-picks that give the team the ability to stack great draft-classes. Hoping for great season’s from Woodruff-Cortes-Hoskins with the team wanting to QO and making the ‘26 draft special with extra capital as well.

Monasterio’s defense was really bad last season and his combination of poor defense & poor offense makes him unrosterable, imo.

I could care less about what Attanasio says. He’s already done great by me with his hires, and investments in infrastructure. His spending is in line with other comparable revenue teams and he listens to what the FO wants to do and doesn’t interfere. I actually agreed with most of what you posted prior to the last couple of days, oh well. Attanasio has already done what he needed to do for this team to eventually win a WS by hiring Stearns and retaining Arnold. Attanasio’s words yesterday mean nothing regarding the future of this team. The team’s exciting young core is still there. The powerhouse infrastructure, still there. The best young farm in the game, still there. Nothing is going to stop this team from their true destiny — winning a a WS or 2, along with an extended period of time as baseball’s only small-market dynasty.

We have a good owner. He’s smart enough to hire the best people to run his team and then listen to those people, which is THE most important attribute for a small-market owner. We have the best SM FO in baseball thanks to him. We could have an owner like the Pirates owner that hired Ben Cherrington over Matt Arnold (who interviewed for the Pirates GM job). Look how that has gone. Thank the baseball gods for that error in judgment. Our owner is not an outlier spender as compared to other similar revenue teams. That also matters. He listened to Stearns when he said the team needed a massive infrastructure upgrade. Look at what we have now, 9 years later. A revamped Maryvale complex with a state of the art pitching lab that has helped the team directly with improving their pitching development. 3 of the best prospect-procurement departments in the game. International-Domestic & UDFA. Hitting development that has recently gotten rave reviews from prospect-sites like BA. And earlier upgrades in analytics & professional scouting. To bash our owner because one cannot see the forest for the trees is shortsighted and just wrong.

Can’t wait to see Meccage-Dubanewicz-Renz & Smith from the ‘24 class make their pro debuts and then of course Broughton in 2026 a full 21 months post TJ. The lower minors pitching is really going to be something special to watch next year.

I hardly have words for this endeavor of yours. The depth of the dive you’ve made here is extraordinary. Incredibly well done. Absolutely agree with your conclusion of our system having the best teenage talent in the game thanks to our extraordinary depth and also agree with the Dodgers and Guardians, 2-3. The Brewers & Guardians are mirror images of themselves in many ways. Prospect-procurement-Bullpen building-Defensive philosophy-Team speed-baserunning. Definitely 2 of the best small-market FO’s in the game. Cant wait for all this young talent to develop and for the team to continue stacking superior young talent with their future classes.