It’s already worked-out.
They have 2 of the top international prospects in baseball. 10-13 (depending on the site) of their top 30 prospects are international signings.
Your narrative is 4-5 years too late.
My suggestion isn’t to wallow in the past Gilbert Lara era any longer, and join the fun.
Bravo to Johnson & co.
Imo, the farm system prior to this draft lacked power bats, and power arms — boom done.
Wilken & Bitonti both have big power. Pratt at present is hit over power, but at 6’ 4” should add power eventually and the best part, be able to stay at SS. Boeve could follow the same path as Black and also add power. That’s 4 potential power bats from 1 class.
Knoth is a power arm starter. Birchard the proverbial Brewers JC power arm. More pitching signed as well.
I can’t remember being this excited over a Brewers draft — ever — and that’s going back 53 years with me.
Boeve was mentioned and he hasn’t signed yet. I’m going to assume the team is signing their first 11 picks.
I’ve read a number of evaluators that think Pratt can remain a SS because of his extraordinary body control. It’ll be interesting to see if he can stay at short.
No idea why Bitonti isn’t talked about as the team’s 3B of the future? He profiles as a good fielding 3B with power and a cannon arm. I think realistically, it’s between Adams and him at 3B, long-term.
I like MKE’s farm positionals, with the 4 recent draft-picks added. The farm likely loses Frelick over the next year or less, but that’s probably about it, and during that time they have enough high-end prospect depth for there to be numerous breakouts, with 3-4 joining the top 100.
I’m sticking with Quero over Salas, but certainly understand you going with Salas. He’s off to a great start and certainly has the pedigree and the hype.
Quero is trending to become the #1 catching prospect in baseball. Chourio is trending to become the best OF prospect in baseball. Misiorowski is trending to become the second-best pitching prospect in baseball (Skeens is on another planet).
Imo, with the 4 recent positionals added from the ‘23 draft, this farm has the strongest crop of positional prospect talent in the game.
It’s top heavy with elite talent (Quero-Chourio-Frelick-Black) but the real depth of positionals lies in Carolina-Arizona and the Dominican Republic.
Absolutely waves of positionals.
Just at low A & the complex—
Carolina with Lara-Hall-Guilarte-Adames-Barrios
Arizona with O’Rae-Baez-Norman-Severino
Then add the 4-some of Wilken-Boeve-Bitonti & Pratt
Not even including the DSL, that’s 13 absolutely must follow positionals just at 2 leagues. Wilken could start at Wisconsin and Boeve possibly as well, but I’ve never seen the lower minors this stacked with the volume of talented positionals that we have right now.
If the team can eventually get power from Boeve, and get Bitonti to hit spin, they should get 4 positionals to the bigs with impact. Big ifs, but it’ll be fascinating to monitor moving-forward.
Well I guess that takes care of selling Burnes to the highest bidder at the trade-deadline.
The team will need to make room for Gasser at some point in the second-half, and I’m hoping it’s the rotation and not the bullpen, and will need to make room for Woodruff as well, so I’m hoping a trade of Houser is on the horizon.
6’ 4”, 6’ 5”, 6’ 4”, 6’ 2”, big-time size added to the corner IF. 5 of the top 80 amateur prospects in the country added. Power bats added, power arms added. If Johnson & co. pull this one off starting with the 18th pick, wow, just wow.
This is nuts.
Quero’s trajectory is the top catching prospect in baseball and eventual top 10 prospect in the game, which makes him untouchable just like Chourio.
Adding Goldschmidt/Alonzo pretty much forces the team to go for it next year as well, which eliminates getting top prospect talent for the big 3 through trades.
Hiura has made adjustments to his swing and is not the same hitter he was prior. 23% K-rate for the year with Nashville, 22% since he returned from injury. Prior to injuring his knee, he had cut his K-rate to 17/18% for a 50+ AB stretch.
His post-injury stroke isn’t quite where it was pre-injury, but more reps should get him back eventually. Hiura has to be back in the team’s plans with his reduced K-rate and is only a matter of time before he’s called-up.
No.
BrewerFan is right, the team is on the precipice of being able to transform the offense with prospect talent for the first time under this FO.
A year from now things will be different. Progress will be seen.
If the bang I think you’re referring to is winning a WS, Fangraphs has us at a 1.7% chance, currently.
Those odds scream sell to me, so accumulate as much prospect talent as possible and develop that talent over the next 2-3 seasons to a talent-laden, half-decade controlled team that would during a majority of that time period, have the financial-flexibility to add key veteran talent to finish-off the team.
Yeah I think it’s going to be a very long road to travel for Misiorowski, the Brewers, and Brewers fans to see Misiorowski end up in a rotation for MKE.
Baby steps — with innings, pitches and type of pitches thrown. They seem to want him to command two pitches first before letting him throw CB’s and or introducing another pitch he hasn’t thrown much up to this point in his career.
Its fascinating to me, watching the team and how they develop this guy.
In 53 PA’s, Turang is sporting a 17% K-rate, so a little lower than last year’s K-rate of near 20%. So he’s hitting the ball harder, without increasing his K’s, at least in the early going.
His 4 errors in the field is what’s surprising, since he had zero with MKE.
I’m not talking about the Reds of the last 12 games, I’m talking about the Reds post-winning streak. They have THE MOST athletic and fast team in baseball, more so than Arizona. They have incredible positional depth, and versatility. Their lineup has no weakness.
They can limit Greene’s innings if they want to and Abbott’s as well, especially if they decide to trade for 1-2 of Bieber-Giolito-Lynn-Scherzer-Verlander.
They have so much prospect IF depth in their farm, they can get multiples of any pitchers they want put up for sale at the deadline. Their depth is such they won’t be mortgaging their farm.