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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.

Definitely worth the wait!

Speaking of your teen prospect series, when are you releasing part 3?

D. Bizarre offseason imo. Something is going on financially with this club for the OD payroll to be this low. Don’t understand why they couldn’t spend $5-6M and add a veteran 3B to raise the IF floor and allow them to finally jettison Monestario from the big-league roster. Agree with wiguy that this team is unbearably thin in IF depth.

And another reason this team’s domestic draft department is firing on all cylinders. From a 2023 draft-class most saw as superior right after the last signing to a 2024 draft-class panned by most that now is looking like one of the most underrated classes with Payne’s explosion, Dinges’s potential to catch with his hitting ability and a stable of pitching set to make their debut professionally after being worked with by the team’s PDS the last 6 months.

Not sure, but he said it’s a 6 month recovery time so I’d imagine he’d be playing games again April/May.

Boeve had labrum surgery in October and he likely will need more time before he’s 100%.

I’ll take the 2 years of Peralta’s performance plus the draft-pick over Kjerstad. We need his veteran experienced, #3 starter arm in our rotation the next 2 years to help us contend until 2027, when we have some of the pitching drafted over the last couple of years developed down below and ready to help the big-league rotation.

How can Made not be ranked so highly? We have a respected prospect-site (BA) say he’s a future potential #1 prospect, and 2 of their staff say he’d be the #1 pick in this July’s draft if he was eligible. Sometimes the talent is so overwhelming you just know. Different FO/International department that scouted & signed Gilbert Lara. Also, the current international department has evolved into maybe the best prospect-procurement department in all of baseball in the 5+ years since they signed Hedbert.

No. This team is focused on adding picks, not giving them up, especially for a #4ish starter.

My guess is the Brewers own internal projections show many more wins than PECOTA’s does for MKE. 81 wins would be a non-contending season and the team would definitely not tolerate that. I’m confident in 3 things: Firstly, that the team is not done improving the roster before OD. Secondly, the team is confident they can improve the roster in-season if needed. thirdly, this team will be serious contenders for another Central title when all is said and done.

Why would we criticize the best small-market team in the game? If you would just listen to the posters that have dived deep into the team’s system, or educate yourself by digging deep you wouldn’t be supposedly feeling the way you do about the team. One more time — Mark Attanasio has hired an award winning FO that has rostered winning seasons every full season since their fantastic one (1) year rebuild (with an assist from Doug Melvin) in 2016. They amazingly have done this WHILE AT THE SAME TIME completely rebuilding their infrastructure. That infrastructure has now been completed which has DIRECTLY LEAD to having one of the best prospect-procurement systems in the game, IF NOT THE BEST. They had the best draft in baseball (According to ‘Down on the farm’ a prospect site) in 2023. They had a top IFA class in 2024 (According to Baseball America). A vastly underrated class (According to me) in 2024. And a top 5 exciting IFA class in 2025 (BA). This has lead to the top “young” farm system in baseball and a year or so away from having the best system in the game. This system will be used to make the teams of 2027 and beyond as talented as any team outside of the Dodgers in the NL, this according to ‘Just Baseball’, and many of us “DEEP DIVE” Brewers fans. The current core is playoff worthy but more than a couple of upgrades from approaching the talent-level of more than a few teams, so trading away prospects now vs letting them develop is NOT WISE. My advice is to listen to the deep divers on this site who have knowledge of what’s happening “under the hood” with this organization OR dive in yourself. You will have a much more informed understanding of why our best in baseball FO is doing what they are doing.

You wish.

EMJ bats left-handed.

Why change what’s working? Internationally, go heavy $ positionally with some pitching sprinkled-in. Domestically, Heavy on the HS pitching, add some college pitching, some upside HS hitters, and a college hitter, two or three. The result is a system with as much young talent as there is in the game, that also fits the strategic upgrading replacement of the team’s current core over the next 2-5 years.

They also get the 68th pick for not signing Levonas.