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I’m fascinated to see how the big-armed TJ’s fare this season. Woodward-Knoth-Broughton & Galindez all have soooooo much potential upside, and all should be healthy and ready to go in ST or early in the year. The upper-minors should be loaded early on with top positional prospects. Quero-Wilken-Lara-Adams-Pratt at AAA. Made-Burke-Adamczewski-Boeve at AA with Fischer & Pena joining the group early on. Hard to imagine any team with that kind of top-end positional talent in the uppers. But for me it’s the pitching throughout the system including the aforementioned 4-some in the first paragraph and pitchers yet to debut from the ‘25 draft-class that has me intrigued like never before. Boatload after boatload of talented arm talent that should give the team as much breakout pitching talent than any team in baseball.

Blasting Lathund like you did just touched a nerve with me since he’s always been nothing but respectful in his perpetually smart and reasoned takes.

100% agree. The most important thing an owner of a small-market team can do is hire the very best talent to run his team and Attanasio has hit it out of the park in that regard with Stearns/Arnold/Klentak/Johnson and all of the assistant GM’s he’s hired over the last decade.

Ben Badler knows the Brewers system as well or better than any evaluator or scout I’ve read or listened to. Arem is right there as well. His article the other day describing the Brewers advantage over the rest of baseball with their drafting & signing of HS players was great to read, although he didn’t differentiate between pitchers and positionals, with at least 16 of the 18 listed HS’s signed since ‘21 being pitchers.

Yeah, seems to have been doing a lot of strength training since his surgery. Quero is back to his pre-injury self offensively and with his extra strength should be able to impact the baseball better than he ever has. The arm strength is a work in progress, but he still has GG potential receiving skills, game-calling abilities and the intangibles that Murphy loved so much he called Quero his favorite Brewers prospect ever 2 ST’s ago. Start him off in AAA until he forces his way to MKE.

I drop a thumbs down on posts and don’t explain why. Next time you might want to PM someone and request an explanation instead of publicly trying to embarrass him like you just did. Lathund is one of the best posters on this site and has reasoned opinions that I just about always agree with and if he gave you a thumbs down on a post of yours I’d probably re-think your take.

They seem to have an advantage over most, if not all of baseball with being able to scout-out and identify HS pitching that they can develop into quality pitchers and because of this advantage I believe they continue this trend indefinitely. Thanks to the last 3 drafts, they have tons of pitching talent throughout the system like never before imo, and will soon have the ability to trade-off some of this pitching when it gets to excess. And with the controllable starters now on the 40 man and in the rotation, that excess will be here sooner than we think.

This FO is too smart to add any $20M/year player on a long-term contract where every year is in his post-prime performance years. Not happening. Adding a salary like that absolutely will hurt the team moving forward when they have second, third and even 4th year arby (Turang) they would want to give to their talented, prime-aged core. The team will want to have salary room to hold select talent from our core so they aren’t forced to sell-off that talent. Contreras-Frelick-Turang-Vaughn will get expensive over the next 2-3 seasons. Even Chourio’s salary will start to get up there. Plus we have Yelich’s salary the next 3 years. Financial flexibility is critical to the future success of this team. They also will want to preserve flexibility for an extension or two. Lots of thought needed ahead for a small-market team with an incredible future.

Patrick, with his new slurve has #2 starter upside. He’s also the rare pitcher that gets better with runners on base. Under pressure situations he rises to the occasion like few others. Future game 1-2 or 3 playoff starter.

Cabrera is a budding ace and as such is worth far more in return than the players listed. Duran’s arby cost the next 3 years could approach $40M. Do you really see the Brewers taking on that much $? No super 2 additions for this team imo.

Waayyyy too much risk for small-market MKE. 1 more season of Woody in his age 33 season 2 1/2 years from his surgery makes sense with this team a serious WS contender and a host of young starters in need of building innings and experience.

Adamczewski is still one of our most underrated prospects. His swing is special and looking forward to seeing what he can do in AA next year. O’Rae at best a utility. Maybe some team wants his speed in their farm system and we can package him off at some point. LHP’s with deception and good secondaries a must follow.

Woody-Peralta-Miz-Patrick-Priester-Gasser-Henderson-Ashby-Myers-Hall. Probably the best 10 deep the team has ever had.

If he accepts the QO he can’t be traded until June 15th, so he’s likely here for the season. No way the team trades him at the deadline. I would argue the team can’t make a more impactful addition this offseason than retaining a Brandon Woodruff, who is primed for a monster season. If he turns down the QO, we get a pick for our — among the best in baseball, amateur draft-department. Either way it’s a win-win for the team.

Not seeing the Brewers give up what it would take to acquire Duran (a lot) especially with his $7.7M arby salary for this year. ~$12M next year and 18-$20M in his final year likely making him a 1 or 2 year player for this team.

It could end up saving far more than a “few hundred thousand “. A half million saved this offseason would lead to possibly double that next year with compounding. I think we see a compromise of some sort with the parties agreeing to fair deal for both sides.

Looking forward to Durbins sophmore season. His defensive improvement from early in the season was amazing. Wouldn’t surprise to see him add a little more power moving-forward.

It took nearly a decade for the team to complete their infrastructure re-build and have that infrastructure acquire and develop homegrown talent on both sides of the ball that can now compete with the behemoths. That talent is maturing each and every year, gaining experience and improving. IMO, the golden age of Brewers baseball is just beginning. We now have an organization that can compete with any team including the Dodgers.

I don’t understand how any Brewers fan would want to suffer thru missed seasons for there to be changes to baseball’s economic structures. We are so far ahead of every non-Dodger team in this sport it’s amazing and it’s wonderful. I’ll take a powerhouse Dodgers team every year for the next decade because we are also going to be right there with them, most years, for at least this next decade, but probably longer. The thought of losing 1 full championship season, let alone multiple seasons in an attempt to destroy the players union is asinine. The damage to the game could take decades to overcome if ever. And why? For a hard cap? No — Continue to make gains that make the soft-cap stronger. Stronger penalties that hurt the infrastructure AND pocketbook of the behemoths, and transfer more money to the small & medium market teams. More international $ for the SM teams. Another competitive-balance pick as well. This is the realistic way to even things out and can be done so the game and fans don’t suffer because of a union-busting attempt. Brainpower vs $ Yes the Dodgers have brainpower and $, but MKE has even more brainpower than the LAD and now an infrastructure every bit as good as them, maybe even better. The most talented team doesn’t always win the WS. Too much variance to the game. Top 5 talent with a top 1-2 FO over an extended period of time will get it done.

Hopefully he can add a few ticks moving-forward so with his pitchability and moxie he can really be something special.

Two different humans. Players that don’t hustle after balls put in play — and multiple times, I don’t want on my team — ever. Anti-Brewers culture player.

No thanks. Too much risk with his past non-hustling play. Yes he plays for a terrible team and moving positions in-season not ideal, but once a problem always another potential future problem.

The Brewers have taken advantage of their incredible PDS with their unique draft strategy of the last 3 years — sign more projectable HS pitching than any team in baseball and develop them like no other. But it’s their entire pitching system that is separating itself from most or all of the MLB world — The amateur scouting and evaluation is off the charts elite, and the combination of the two is going to lead to a system bursting with solid or better starter arms over the next few years that will allow them to trade from their excess like no team in the game, maybe even no team ever — I know that’ sounds like a hyperbolic statement, but that’s what I see ahead. When a team has among the best, if not the best, multiple pitching departments in the game they should continue to use that advantage in a dogged attempt to roster the most talented team in the game and for the longest time possible. I don’t see the team changing this draft strategy any time soon. As far as future potential TOR-type starters are concerned — Peralta-Woodruff-Burnes weren’t high draft-choice signings but became TOR starters with the help of the team’s PDS, which is what is going to happen all over again because of the boatloads and boatloads of talented arms the PDS has to work with. Having six, 5-6 years controlled starters with BL experience, (Miz-Patrick-Priester-Henderson-Gasser-Myers), all of them with the potential to be solid or better rotation mainstays has changed everything for this team. They can now take their time developing their minors arms, first adding depth, with options, stashed in the uppers, then trading off the excess.

I’m right there with you. The pitching this organization is going to unleash on the baseball world starting next year is going to be incredible. 10 HS arms brought in from the ‘23 & ‘24 drafts will have had multiple offseasons working with maybe the best pitching lab/PDS in the game. Then there’s 6 more HS arms and 2 upside college arms yet to make their official debuts. Then on top of all that projectable arm talent we have the rest of the 27 arm’s brought in from the aforementioned ‘23 & ‘24 draft-classes including 2 big arms from the ‘23 class now ready to pitch again after missing time from TJ, Woodward-Knoth. And then we get Galindez back from his TJ, and I haven’t even mentioned international arm talent like the aforementioned Melvin Hernandez. I can’t imagine any team in the game that has more solid or better arm talent in their organization than this team.

1. Made— Chourio-like extension will be offered as soon as he shows defensive consistency at SS. 2. Misiorowski— Read team was interested in extending Miz. Hoping they get 2 FA years so when he needs the inevitable TJ they can still get 6+ years of performance. 3. Pena— If he’s not traded for a haul. Having 8+ years of Made-Pena and 6-7 years of Chourio-Made-Pena would give the team a trio of impactful talent on par with any team in baseball.