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Absolutely. He mentioned getting pushback on twitter for his naming MKE the best farm in the game, but he said no team has the potential impactful prospects we do, Made-Bitonti, ect. For both of Aram & Jack to list us 3rd in the bright future category, ahead of the Stearns led NYM with their trillions, and the only small-market team, is gutsy and definitely ahead of the curve.

Not surprised at all actually. Aram is super sharp and has done his homework studying up on this team’s FO, prospect-procurement systems, farm system and the rest of the team’s infrastructure. Some of us don’t understand why more evaluators don’t see things the way he does. He’s ahead of the curve, without a doubt.

And Ethan Small, who this offseason has signed a minor-league deal with the SFG, but busted with MKE.

Right now the Brewers have a big bullpen advantage, but the Cubs have $40M yet to spend to touch the first tax threshold, which is where Ricketts said they should end up, but also said they could save room for additional payroll at the trade-deadline — so, I think they could add $30M in bullpen arms to close the gap between them and MKE in that regard. The Brewers should add 3B help before OD to shore up their only real weakness, and should have preserved financial-flexibility to be able to also add payroll at the trade-deadline if needed. When all is said and done this should be an outstanding race for the Central title between these 2 teams, with the Reds, depending on bullpen additions, also having an outside chance to be there at the end. I’m going with MKE because of their best in baseball front office.

This ownership group has invested untold millions into making our infrastructure as good or better than any in the game. This has lead to having the best international prospect-procurement system in the game which in turn has given us Quero-Chourio-YRod-Made-Pena and boatloads of potential impact positional talent. Our domestic draft department had the #1 rated class in baseball in 2023 with last year’s class having the top valued first round pick in the draft. In 7 months that department gets 5 top 68 picks and $17M+ to potentially have another franchise-altering draft-class that should then give us the deepest, most impactful farm system in the game. This is why the team is winning a WS or 2 over the next decade. Impact talent accumulation.

He’ll blow his elbow out soon enough, all Dodgers pitchers eventually have arm injuries. The X on the LAD uniform just keeps getting bigger.

This class hammers home just how elite our international department is. This is going to lead to an organization, later this decade, with positional talent the equal to, or even possibly surpassing the behemoth payroll teams. Chourio was the first, but won’t be the last, to accept extension offers from this team. The young ages combined with being from poor countries should lead to more key talent getting locked up thru all of their prime performance years and give the team 8-10 years of control. I’m in awe of what this team’s FO has been able to accomplish with their infrastructure in such a short time. I’m expecting the team’s domestic draft department to continue to add large numbers of projectable HS arms thru the draft that the pitching development system can develop into starter arms capable of forming an elite rotation that matches our elite position talent later this decade. Just need to be patient.

Yeah after ready BA’s scouting reports on our class, I’m totally stoked, especially with the OF’s and a couple of their pitchers.

With the team’s SOTA Dominican Academy, scouting system and contacts, I’m expecting another top class, maybe not the BIB like last years class, but up there with anybody’s. Like them signing athletic, power-hitting OF’s with their top 2 bonus picks, just what the farm needs for balance.

No it’s not an option. Arbitration hearings are all-out wars with the ruling all that matters. Contreras knows this so if he’s going to the hearing and can’t be a big boy about what he hears, then it’s on him, just like it was on Burnes, who couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

Without a trade, they’d probably have to option Perkins to get Grichuk’s lefty-killing bat in there

I’d like the team to just continue to be smart with their money. Not sure if there’s a FA worth adding that can move the needle with the team, but sure maybe a Grichuk or Moncada addition would work if both can be had on 1 year deals. Otherwise, preserving financial-flexibility throughout the season/trade-deadline to potentially add payroll should be a priority along with investing in infrastructure, where we get the best bang for the buck.

Absolutely love the top 2 prospects being OF’s with power potential, the most glaring organizational weakness, at least positionally, imo.

Brewers just starting to get recognized for their powerhouse infrastructure is nice to see since it’s in its early stages. I think over the coming years we’ll see MKE dominate most of these categories with more great classes added along with the lag diminishing.

They get Gasser back 100% by OD of ‘26. Between Hunt-Patrick-Henderson-CRod-Wichrowski they should get the back end of the rotation filled out at worst, and maybe one becomes more of a 2/3. Myers is solid and they have upside if one of Ashby-Hall-Misiorowski breaks-out. That doesn’t include the 23 pitchers brought in from the last 2 draft-classes currently being developed, most of which are starters, or any potential high-draft picks from next July’s draft-class they could add. Then of course there could also be trades that bring in SP from outside the organization. Bottom-line — this FO knows pitching better than most teams and I just don’t see them without a well better than average starting staff moving-forward.

Black is not a 3B.

Agree with you here. I think extension’s will get offered to the best and youngest of this team’s incredible teenage talent plus Quero, so financial-flexibility will be priority #1. To be blunt, I also think the FO can hardly control their excitement over this monstrous infrastructure they have created since late 2015. They already have the best farm in the game and all from their last 3 classes (‘23 draft), (‘24 IFA) & (‘24 draft). My guess is they expect another great IFA class in 2 weeks and another great draft next July with 6 top picks and $17M+ to spend. I think they plan on being the most talented team in baseball from 2027-2033. Hyperbole? No way, not with having created 2 of the best in baseball classes (‘23 draft-class & ‘24 IFA class) and maybe the most underrated class in baseball (‘24 draft-class), back to back to back. Aram & Jack are so right when they said this teams prospect-procurement & development is “like a well-oiled machine”

Try hard to trade some of their best in baseball prospect depth to upgrade the roster for ‘25 & ‘26. Lara-Areinamo-O’Rae-Baez-Guilarte-Black, even YRod can go for the right player. Everyone else but low minors SP’s not named Letson-Knoth-Woodward can also go.

They both agreed the team would have 6 top 100 prospects. This along with saying the farm is the deepest in all of baseball.

“May have the best farm system in Major-League baseball going into the 2025 season”. Love these guys. Not afraid to tell it the way it is, even with one of the youngest farm systems in the game that doesn’t have impact talent close to the bigs. This system is special — incredibly deep, but also lots of potential impact talent. Wait until the pitchers drafted the last 2 years have more time to work with the PDS. And then we have next years draft with record-breaking draft-capital — it’s hard to put into words how excited I am to be a Brewers fan the rest of this decade and beyond.

The Dodgers franchise value rose by over a billion dollars from ‘23 to ‘24 and now with their WS victory it’s anybody’s guess how much it will rise again. The team’s revenues are likely to skyrocket after the title and full year of Ohtani, so the $100M+ tax penalty will easily be absorbed with another revenue boost in addition to their franchise value increase. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Dodgers overtake the NYY in both yearly revenue and franchise value fairly soon.

His fault for going to the hearing. What did he expect would happen? IN MY OPINION — Burnes is a spoiled, petulant child. Happy he’s gone. Same with Hader, Lauer and now Williams.

Either would be great additions for the team with their big-game experience, especially come playoff time. Trading Civale & Payamps and using the $2M received from the Williams trade gets the team all the way there for Verlander and within a few million for Scherzer (if the estimates for both are accurate). Agree with you that the team has plenty of depth starter arms but lacking impact at the top which both could provide, especially come playoff time. Payamps would be a definite loss with his veteran HL/closing experience, but the team is extraordinary at building elite pens and I’m confident they will have myriad options of which to do so yet again.

My guess is the Brewers have a good 10-15 years left before enough of their best in baseball SM FO have been poached to see a decline in their infrastructure performance. Hopefully by that time there will have been meaningful changes in media revenue sharing among teams (Dodgers monstrous TV contract expires mid 30’s I believe). In the meantime, we are fortunate to be fans of the best run SM team in baseball that later this decade will have big-league talent the equal of any team in baseball thanks to their BIB international department & among the BIB, domestic draft department. How long these departments remain as elite as they are will determine how long this team will remain the best SM team in the game. With that incredible pipeline of talent flowing, the FO has decided to feed their domestic draft department with extra draft-capital with some of their trades and signings that allow their draft department to maximize their prowess in that area — the 2025 draft (5 top 68 picks/$17M+ pool money) has a chance to be as great as the 2023 franchise-altering draft-class that if it happens would give the team 3 of the best classes in the game since the ‘24 IFA class is considered the BIB, and all within a 2 year period of time that should lead to farm system not only the best in baseball, but by a large margin that will eventually transfer to the big-club. This is not fantasy thinking. This is the current trajectory of the team’s prospect-procurement. It really gets exciting when thinking about adding comp picks from Woodruff-Cortes (good health & good performance needed) for the ‘26 draft. If the team can extend some of this incredible young talent ahead, there’s your 10-15 year period of excellence.

The Brewers have the best teenage prospect system in baseball. Period.