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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.

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.