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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.

Love Freddy, but to extend him again likely means paying closer to market rates which this team should never do. The 2 years of FF performance along with the comp pick and pool money works for this team’s domestic draft-department, and also the clubs likely playoff-worthy team. 2 more years of control should work out well with the young pitching being developed in the system, some of which we should see make their debuts over that time giving the team starters that can rotation with Myers-Gasser-Ashby/Hall in 2027.

My guess is they save $8M by trading Civale, which would give them $16-18M to spend. Then possibly a Hoskins trade with a Goldschmidt signing could save $3M this year and the $4M next year, although that would mean some serious prospect-capital having to go with Hoskins. I think it’s more likely money would have to go with him with less prospect-capital. A Moncada signing should be affordable if the team doesn’t want to trade for the Lowe’s. Looking forward to seeing how Arnold & co finish off the team before OD.

With Cortes-Woodruff the ‘25 rotation has more solid starter options than they had going into last year, a year they went thru a record-breaking number of starters and still pitched well. They have SP depth at Nashville they just didn’t have last season as well.

I don’t see the team retaining Civale and his $8M salary. I think the team believes 1 of Ashby-Hall will rotation and will want to preserve shuttle flexibility for Patrick-CRod-Hunt-Henderson. 1. Peralta 2. Myers 3. Cortes 4. Woodruff 5. Ashby/Hall 6. Patrick 7. CRod 8. Hunt 9. Henderson 10. Duplantier 11. Ashby/Hall 12. Minor-league signing. 13. Misiorowski

No, the days of having to sell-off our best talent are over. Peralta’s performance and low salary are way more valuable to the team than adding more prospects to an already loaded system that has an amazing pipeline of prospect talent. Then adding the comp pick/pool money for this team’s domestic draft department and it becomes a no-brainer.

IMO the scales have been tipped to the now over the future when it comes to the teams recent trades and also in keeping Adames for his performance and the pick vs an immediate prospect return. This is because of the team’s rebuilt infrastructure providing elite prospect-procurement creating a young & controlled big-league core along with a burgeoning monster farm without trade-offs. Great position to be in as a small-market franchise, being able to act like a large-market team when making trades in prioritizing the now over the future.

Lux isn’t expensive, neither is Gonsolin, and Sheehan didn’t regress, he tore his UCL and had TJ and won’t be back until late in ‘25. No way the Dodgers give up Gonsolin & Sheehan in the same deal. Maybe we can get Gonsolin since he only has 2 control years left and should be ready to pitch in ST, although will probably have an innings limit coming off TJ. Sheehan, would be a tougher get, imo, even though he will miss most of ‘25, but will still have 4 years of control starting in ‘26, and at full strength is a potential TOR starter. The Dodgers won’t just give away these pitchers and are a tough team to trade with, with 14 GM’s and the largest army of analysts in all of baseball.

Agree with your take. Prospect-procurement is the best by far, currently, that this system has ever had. With that said, I’m adding Payne & Pena to Made as untouchable Brewers prospects. Far too much upside to trade at this time. Pratt can go for the right deal, so can Misiorowski and Quero, with Quero, for me, the most painful potential loss. The team has a decade plus of championship-caliber talent ahead and a team currently, with an additional big-armed playoff starter (Chrochet), 3B (Moncada/Bohm), upgrade at UIF (DeJong/Berti) and better 1B that can crush LHP (Goldschmidt) can make a serious run this year.

Continue to invest in infrastructure, prospect-procurement & development with avoidance of long-term FA contracts, gaining financial-flexibility and eventually with this team’s FO skill-level we will have talent that can go toe to toe with anybody. Patience required, because it’s going to take 3-4 years before we see the impactful talent in the bigs and then another year or two before they start to explode, but it’s going to happen if we stay the course.

Of the 3, I’ll take trade #2. The team needs a veteran 3B not one with serious development ahead of him. They don’t need a 6 years of control 3B when they have 2 of their top prospects potentially ready to play 3B in 2027. Black is redundant and Williams expendable. The team already has the best young farm system in the game with another likely massive haul ahead in next years draft. The future is beyond bright, the time to win is now.

So 3 of the 1st 37 picks? And 5 of the 1st 68. Another potentially franchise-altering draft taking shape?

They can have Peguero in the deal as well just to get him and Murphy away from each other. Peguero & Payamps works for me. Lowe for the next 2 years at 1B until 1 of Burke-Boeve is ready with Hoskins & prospects traded off to save money.

The Brewers have done their homework. They’ve seen the medicals, the size of the tear, the surgeons report, etc. and made the decision to spend $18M on Woodruff for the 2025 season. I’m expecting a solid starter early that gets stronger throughout the year leading to a game 1 playoff starter.

Meccage-Knoth-Wichrowski-Letson-Woodward and a host of arm talent drafted last year yet to pitch professionally gives the team a nice base from which to work with that can be added to Myers-Gasser-Henderson-Hunt-CRod and of course Hall-Ashby. over the next few seasons. I’m quite bullish that they have enough arm talent spread-out at each level of the system to develop a nice big-league rotation moving-forward even if Misiorowski ends up in the bullpen.

If things progress as they are currently, both will likely be offered extentions at some point ahead. Made could take the Chourio path and be our OD 3B in ‘27 with a 8-10 year contract.