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It takes until the following season after the great year to see a large attendance bump because of season-ticket packages and group sales. I expect next year we see a nice increase in attendance although probably not to pre-Covid levels. As Brewerfan alluded to — a deep postseason run could add $20M or more to the team’s coffers. Agree with endaround — local TV $ being down and more importantly in flux moving-forward, along with the potential of a ‘27 lockout, could hold next year’s payroll down, and with the team as controlled as they are, shouldn’t need much salary added to have another tremendous team. I’m guessing Vaughn and Peralta are brought back with tenders to most of the rest of the team, but for maybe a reliever or two. Hoping for an extension with Turang as their big offseason signing. Potential lockout not withstanding — the team is in fantastic shape moving-forward with myriad options — from extentions of their best talent (Turang-Frelick-Made) to eventually running a moderately larger payroll post- new player agreement, along with more revenue from increased attendance and playoff revenue — which would give the team the ability to arby/extend their best without having to trade too much of their veteran talent off for salary purposes.
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Because the team said they wanted Gasser to pitch out of the pen in Nashville before they bring him up. Get some of the new routines of being a bullpen arm under his belt before the callup.
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Patrick is more than “organizational depth”. Hes been a solid mid-rotation starter (3.70 ERA) with nice peripherals in a little over 100 innings for this team and if (if) he can add another pitch (CH/CB) that has some more velo separation, imo, he can really be something big moving-forward for this team. But as is — he’s a solid starter for this WS contender moving-forward.
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Tue. 9/10 - And Then There Were Two (Regular Season)
SF70 replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Love the team’s aggressive promotion strategy taken with their best prospects. Letson-Hardin are on the fast track to MKE and I love it. The 2027 and beyond BL rotation is looking incredibly deep with solid or better starter arms, to the point, i think the team can forego spending on FA starters for as far as my eyes can see. -
Turang has been a 5 bWAR player without the power, and in his age 24, sophomore season, so to offer an extension that buys out at least 1 FA year is a no-brainer from the team’s perspective, imo. 7/100 is nothing for a player as talented as Turang, especially with his power-hitting gains. Next 4 years arby—$40M, leaves 3 FA years at $20M, both being really low $ estimates for a player as talented as Turang thru his peak prime-performance years, that then leaves him at 33 yrs of age likely too old for a big contract. As incredible as this team’s MI prospects are, it still takes 1-2 years of BL development to get comfortable facing BL pitching and to insert too many top prospects in the same time period isn’t optimal for a team that likely wants to remain the best team in baseball thru the rest of this decade.
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Don’t think Turang would go for a 7/100 extension because he wouldn’t get to FA until his age 33 season. Hes going to want the huge payday no later than his age 30 or 31 season. The most realistic extension, imo, would be to buy out 1 year of FA so he can get to FA at age 30. Give him more $ thru arby and a fair FA year salary and he might go for it. Even with all of our MI prospect talent, getting the extra year from Turang so he can play 5 more years with Chourio and likely 2-3 with Made really improves the team’s WS chances later this decade, and helps stagger the insertions the team will be making with their best in baseball prospect talent. Frelick is another I’d be offering an extension to. And get it done, like Turang this offseason before he adds power to his game. Getting a core of veteran, impactful talent locked for the next half-decade, all still within their prime-performance years would be huge for this team’s WS chances thru the decade and allow for an easier transition for the best of the potential impact prospect talent we have in our system (Made-Pena-Quero-Dinges-Payne-Pratt-Fischer) and others yet to be acquired. Incredible time to be a Brewers fan.
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Jesus MadeLuis PenaJeferson QueroCooper PrattLogan HendersonMarco DingesBraylon PayneRobert GasserAndrew FischerBrock WilkenBishop LetsonJosh AdamczewskiBlake BurkeEric BitontiLuis LaraLuke AdamsJason WoodwardTyson HardinMike BoeveBrady Ebel Remarkable number of injuries to many of the systems top positional prospects has kept this top system from really showing its true strength. Boeve still not right. Quero just now getting his stroke back. Both need an offseason of strengthening, and expecting big years from both in 2026. Same with Wilken-Adams-Dinges. Also looking forward to more pitching gains made with the systems incredibly deep stable of projectable starter arms. Getting Woodward-Galindez-Knoth-Knarr-Broughton pitching in ST will be huge. The best farm system in the game and next year they will seperate even more from the pack.
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This season matters less with a powerhouse organization that’s going to produce just as good if not better teams every year for as far as my eyes can see. Incredible time to be a Brewers fan.
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A Turang extension is getting more expensive by each bomb he hits. At this point I’d take an extension that only buys out 1 year of FA, so we get his age 26-30 seasons after this one. 5 more years with Chourio, 3 likely with Made.
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Fri. 8/29 - Gasser, DeBerry, Letson Scheduled, That'll Do
SF70 replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Yeah, really looking forward to Quero getting another offseason past his surgery and further strengthening of his shoulder coming into ST. Same with Boeve. -
Yeah like next year again. Injuries have kept him from rotationing. Health-willing they should try again next ST. His stuff lends itself to starting — 4 plus pitches — extreme GB rate. Command is always the last to come and it should eventually with consistent starts. Without command he’s still a mid-rotation starter, with it, a #1 starter.
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Both of your retorts to me were condescending. I must have really struck a nerve, huh? I’ve already explained my reasoning behind my take on the Cortez trade, and in detail, so I’m not going to re-state what I’ve already said. Time for me to move on.
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Really like your posts over the years and agree with just about every one of them but disagree with your take here. Also, really don’t like the tone you took with me — rather confrontational imo, and unnecessary. Bottom-line for me — either you trust the FO on this one or you don’t — I do and you don’t and that’s fine.
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Guessing Nestor wouldn’t have been too happy pitching out of the team’s bullpen. Don’t think the team wanted to disrupt the current rotation to make room for Cortez. I’ll take Patrick over Nestor as the team’s 6th starter anyhow. Besides, his elbow is a ticking time-bomb. You are also ignoring why the team targeted Lockridge in the first place. They needed a CF that could play for the big-club the month of August with Chourio down, Frelick dinged-up, Collins planned paternity and Perkins still not running at full speed. They deemed Quintana expendable. The need for today with this WS contending team supersedes retaining a prospect, at best, 4 years from the bigs, and at worst, too large a hole in his bat to ever get to the bigs as more than a utility player. Surprised at the lack of deference to the best FO in the game by some over this trade-deadline move.
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Agree with your take here. Organizational needs take precedence and with so much young prospect talent and unusually large numbers of injuries to top positional prospects that has left rosters short-handed at times, but that’s ok in the grand scheme of what the farm is for — development of prospect, talent for the big league team.
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No one can top what Selig did with creating the Brewers and then saving the franchise getting MP built and revenue-sharing for the small-market teams, so I agree with your take here completely. For Attanasio to forgo naming-rights revenue seems too much to ask of him anyhow.
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Imo, the team decided Lockridge was more important NOW to the team with Chourio down, Frelick dinged-up and Collins planned paternity. They wanted the BL OF depth (CF ability) and were willing to part with SS prospect depth. Immaterial was probably a poor choice of word. IMO, Quintana was always going to be a trade-chip (with Made-Pena the same age and much better SS prospects) and Preller was enamored with Quintana. Lockridge is now useful CF depth for not just this time down OF’s but for the next year or two as well.
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Well for whatever reason the Brewers didn’t think Oliva was Lockridge’s “near clone”. If Cortez makes it to the postseason healthy, I doubt he even makes the Padres playoff roster. Quintana is immaterial with the team’s among the best in baseball minor-league SS depth.
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While Turang’s power should increase moving-forward, his defense & BR could continue to regress some. I think a 5-7 WAR Turang thru his prime is a fair projection.
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Assuming you meant Pena, not Perez. While both or one of Made-Pena could be ready in 2 years, you also have to account for a year or two of big-league development that would need to take place and the team might want a fully developed Brice Turang as one of the leaders of the late-decade Brewers. SS/3B are also options for Made-Pena.
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2026 International Free Agent Market
SF70 replied to Jake McKibbin's topic in MLB Draft & International Signings
Pipeline city. Despite the disappointment of the big bonus signings from this last class (Fenelon-Antunez-Acosta), there is still some nice performances on both sides of the ball that can still make the ‘25 class a success. The ‘24 class was a once in a generation class and no class can stand up to that one. Looking forward to seeing this next class from baseball’s best international system. -
He looks like a #3 pick in the draft to me. Hitting talent is starting to show itself. I’m going to assume we now have a power bat in the middle of our lineup for the next 2+ years — fixes our biggest roster hole (big bat) and at a price we can afford. What a time to be a Brewers fan.
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So excited for the next 5-10 years of Brewers baseball. The ‘26 team should be tremendous with Turang-Frelick entering their prime, Chourio his junior year, Collins-Ortiz-Perkins, another years experience, so positionally very strong. The young starters will have less innings restrictions, the depth, impressive. Bullpen should be typically strong will myriad options. WS contender.
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Yeah Quero needs to play in AAA and then a full offseason strengthening his shoulder before he sees MKE. Hopefully he’s all the way back entering ST next year and can start the season out in MKE.
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“I never heard such a continuous roar during a regular season game” — Bob Carpenter. I was also at that game and the crowd was standing and yelling throughout the entire bottom of the 9th. This was something Brewers fans took pride in during the first 20-25 years of the team. Standing and yelling in an attempt to will the team to victory. Sorry to say that’s been lost, for whatever reason. Fan enthusiasm (at the games) has waned over the years for whatever reason. Too bad, because it really does get the team fired up and performing better.
