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I’d put Payne-Pena in a 55 tier with Misiorowski. Made as the only 60.

The improvement he showed after working with Boston’s fantastic PDS combined with the ability of my team to identify pitchers they can improve gives me confidence we are getting a solid starter for our rotation for half a decade.

Your take assumes Priester at best becomes a serviceable backend starter. What if he ends up closer to a mid-rotation arm? 5-6 years of that is definitely worth what we gave up isn’t it?

The team has added 24 pitchers in the last 2 draft-classes, many of them teenage, so the system has lots of arms for the PDS to work with regardless of arms drafted in ‘25.

Yeah the pick & $3M is a bigger loss than YRod with the way this team has been manipulating the draft lately. After reading FG & BA articles on Priesters recent velo increase this spring after being worked with by Boston’s fantastic PDS since they acquired him last summer I feel pretty strongly in my team’s PDS being able to identify an up arrow SP prospect so I’m good with this trade. We have tons of teenage & 20 year old SP prospects that should hit MKE sometime after the 2026 season, and 3-4 upper-minors starters that could reach MKE starting next season, but outside of Patrick, no one that doesn’t still need work in the minors this year so the trade gets us help when we need pitching help the most — this season.

Yeah yet another Brewers teenage prospect to keep an eye on moving-forward. Really looking forward to seeing the pitching drafted last year make their debuts in the ACL and at Carolina. Travis Smith is up next I believe.

Brewerfan is right — we should be honoring Selig, not disparaging him. Just the determination it took for him to bring baseball back to MKE and the state of Wisconsin makes him a Wisconsin icon. Then to spearhead the building of Miller Park, saving the team from relocation makes him, imo, the most important sportsman in the history of Wisconsin. Then if that wasn’t enough, he gave up his team in an attempt to save all small-market teams with new stadiums and revenue-sharing. To convince the Steinbrenner’s of the baseball world to give up profit for the good of the game was an immense accomplishment. Was Selig perfect, no, far from it. Collusion was a terrible mistake, as was turning over the team to his daughter, but what he did as owner and founder of this franchise, and as commissioner of baseball in saving the SM franchise far outweighs the bad.

Listened to MLB radio with Cortes vs the Yanks and heard Tim Kurkjian say he talked to Nestor during ST and Nestor told him he was having an issue with his elbow again this spring. Hadn’t heard that info before from any of our beat reporters and now after reading your article the possible elbow pain could very well be the issue here.

The organization unquestionably made a mistake not protecting Smith. Many of us here knew that the day he was left unprotected. Most of the rest of us knew that when word leaked out that the Chisox were going to take Smith first overall in the R5 draft. Every organization makes these types of mistakes so we are not alone. Baseball life will go on. Happy for Smith getting his opportunity.

Team lost but Mis strike-throwing impressive. Maybe he can rotation after all. I’m sure the team is going to give him ample opportunity.

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.