BrewerFan

The upside to a farm system like this and I think it'll just keep getting stronger. Next year you'll have Fischer, Burke... Adams, probably Made, Pena, maybe Payne, guys like that who'll be waiting for their turn and there shouldn't be much roster turnover. Jett Williams may replace Hamilton... or Hamilton holds him off.

Lockridge was... a pretty mediocre hitter who had a 6-11 with 1 BB and 1 XBH in the 4 games before he got hurt that brought him to a .710 OPS... with a nice BA/OBP, but a few hits really changes with the small sample size. He also had a BABIP that was .420. He's also pretty redundant with what we have with our OFers. Lara's up... I'd rather add Adams and obviously Uribe and when JoJo is ready, they'll be up. I'd love to see Burke get hot, but... that'd be a long shot. He needs time you'd burn another 40 man spot.

There are plenty of high upside arms when the Brewers are drafting in the first rd, the 2nd rd... There were like 8 pitchers taken in the 10 picks after our 1st rd pick this year. You had guys like Gage Wood, Marcus Phillips, AJ Russell, Riley Quick, Kruz Schoolcraft... and plenty more. Also, if the worst case is a guy doesn't make it to the majors... we're going to have a lot of worst case outcomes every year irrespective of position.

Feels like a lot of people have really written Adams off when he's just consistently hit for a poor average, but gotten on base and done some damage. You have to add him to the 40 man either way, so... might as well see what you have this Sept. Next year you'll potentially be without Sanchez, Vaughn, maybe Contreras(though I doubt that).

It seems pretty clear they see him on the left side of the IF, most likely 3B. His glove at SS is good, but they signed Pratt. They don't really have a 3B. He's got good hands, not great, but plenty good, a cannon for an arm and they're about 3 deep at every OF position(a big hyperbolic, but not much). I'd be shocked if they were considering HIM for the OF. Pena... maybe as there might be a year or 2 that he's backing up Turang or doesn't really have a position, but I'd guess Made is a 3B.

I don't really think the Dodgers 2022-2024 home grown pitchers say much about the Brewers. We did just fine with Burnes, Peralta, Hader, Woodruff, Williams. I think we're a lot more careful with our young arms. Woody didn't have an issue until his service time was up. Any of them could have TJ at any time, but that's not unique to any team. I just think the Dodgers had abnormally bad luck... and also didn't need some of those guys. Ryan Pepiot or River Ryan. They're not exactly waiting with baited breath for those guys to come back. They're fine just trading them and letting someone else wait on them because... they don't need them. They also don't mind signing guys with injury concerns because they only need them healthy for a few months.

Ok, but that's not really similar to the Dodgers rotations and or pitchers that have kinda fallen by the wayside. You had guys who were in the top 5 in Cy Young voting, Buheler was throwing in the upper 90s and looked like their next ace putting up a 7+WAR season Urias, he had a 21-3 season with a 2.12 ERA. Gonsolin was 16-1 with a 2.14 ERA Bobby Miller was a top 20 prospect who could hit 100 and had a VERY good year as a rookie going 11-4 with a 3.74 ERA Brusdar Graterol threw ~70 IP at a 1.20 ERA as a SU man in '23 I think you could go on, there were a number of other arms they had who were top 20-30 pitching prospects. I don't think DL Hall or Gasser who threw in the low 90s are... particularly comparable to those arms. Dustin May coming up was averaging 98 MPH on his FB and was in the ~88th or higher percentile in Ground Balls. It's obviously difficult to have sustained success, but the Dodgers weren't doing it with smoke and mirrors, they had a stable of home grown flame throwers who all had great starts and then just kinda... petered out... and the fact that the Brewers have completely turned over their staff since 2024... that speaks to the Brewers ability to find arms(even while losing Priester and Woodruff this year) but with regard to the Dodgers, it speaks to their ability to spend their way out of it. Glasnow, Ohtani, Snell, Yamamoto... they signed Tanner Scott and Edwin Diaz. It's not really an argument, it's just an observation(though, the argument would be the Brewers do more with less and are... incredibly well run... even though I do not think we should have traded Frias).

Yeah, you tend to see the rich get richer at the deadline, but there's been less trading in the past few years than ever before, the extra wild card and then the exclusion of the Waiver wire trades, it's become even more pronounced, but I think a better question would be do the teams that are in the post-season or within 3 games of the WC play better in the 2nd half. Find some cut-off where you judge teams are still competing and trying to make the playoffs and use that as a starting point(that's way too much effort for me though). I don't think that's consistently the case, but I'm not positive. Good teams are good so they win a lot, but I DO think you'd find the Brewers have been particularly good the 2nd half of the year. It was even more pronounced under Counsell. Some of that may have been because they started out poorly, but we had some incredible runs in Sept. For this team in this particular year, it'll be nice to have some off-days. This team is beat up and not playing well... and still winning. I also wonder if having a younger team helps you play better as the season goes on. We've seen Yelich struggle with more playing time.... presumably the nagging injuries get him. I wonder if there's a correlation with age?

He's a 31-year-old journeyman who has a 1.5 Career WAR and 2.8 WAR this year. I think there's a pretty good chance he takes the 23M guaranteed next year and plays it out. And then you're left... hoping that he can replicate this year. I've been a big fan of Bauers even in his more limited role. As a very good defensive 1B, a guy who can draw walks and has some power before this year, but I think you just take this year, thank him and let him go on his way. I'm already seeing how Carlos Rodriguez is a option to replace Trevor Megill next year and how Ashby is too expensive at 7.7M. We have 1B options. I'd rather not bet 23M that Bauers can perform like this again. I also don't think he'd get a 50M deal from someone else. I think the top end would be 3/48 or so. 16M a year for 3 years? That seems like a very healthy deal. So I don't even know if you'd accomplish what you wanted via the QO and the compensation, but I know the risk. And that 23M... you could put that toward Made. Give the kid a big signing bonus to entice a long term deal. That should be our #1 priority.

Having players who play the same position is technically a "replacement." They're terrible options in many cases... like Bo Naylor, Matthew Wood and Damien Miller for William Contreras. Quero is a downgrade, but at least there's SOME hope there. His arm strength has mostly come back. His accuracy has not so... you could hope he continues to progress, but... Matthew Wood and Damien Miller... they've thrown out like 8 of 64 and 26 of 124 runners this year. That's going to be just an absolute disaster next year. Right. So he's not really a replacement since they're BOTH on the MLB roster. I'm ABSOLUTELY going to forget Carlos Rodriguez when talking about an All-Star closer. The Brewers are more likely to DFA Carlos Rodriguez than count him among the replacements for Trevor Megill. Wagoner didn't throw for 3 years and here, again, sure. He COULD be a replacement for Megill. A much-much worse one(though he's the one guy who... maybe steps up). You have a whole pen of guys though. And you have injuries. You're using Uribe as an example and... that's a great example. Uribe is out with a forearm. Maybe he's fine this year. It looks like he avoided a big injury, but just listing our AA/AAA pitchers does NOT make for adequate replacements. I mean, we have Eric Brown Jr, so we have a "replacement" for Turang by your definition. You can't just take established MLB talent and say we have players at their position. The farm system doesn't need a "recharge." It's fully charged. Let it develop and let the players FORCE their way in. Jett Williams has not done that. Jefferson Quero has not done that. Matthew Wood and Damien Miller damn sure have not done that. Braylon Payne was just in HiA. Fischer and Adams are very unlikely to play 3B at the MLB level(at least not as primary options, maybe in the way we've played Vaughn there out of necessity because we're short handed). What is the point here? Again, you're upgrading on the margins of the farm system by subtracting from the big league team. That doesn't make sense.

Kinda wild how young he still is and how that stable of young arms the Dodgers once had kinda fell apart(though they just went out and signed 4-5 aces). The Dodgers ~4-5 years ago had a stable of young overpowering arms on a 111 win team and most of them just liming along now(May is back, but it's been a while). Walker Buehler, he was dominant and looked like their next ace. Throwing upper 90s, great command. Urias... for obvious reasons, but just from a roster building standpoint, a 21-3 year, ERA over 2.16 May was a top 10-20 prospect Gonsolin, Bobby Miller... all pitchers who looked like TOR. Gavin Stone is another... I'm sure I'm forgetting others.

Probably a year too late to get the best deal from the Rockies. They actually hired competent people to run the team. Goodman would cost a LOT and I don't see the Rockies having any interest in Contreras... except to flip him. Turang... I guess he could be traded in a year. #1 priority is getting made to sign an extension. 10 years 180M, 10/`160. 8/130+2 TOs at 30M. Whatever it is, they have to lock him up.

7.7M for most teams is... a perfectly reasonable price for a reliever who can get strikeouts and ground balls. I don't think you'd have a problem dealing Ashby whatsoever and I hope we don't. We don't have a replacement for him.

Yeah... send him down to AZ and the lab. Then bring him straight back(meaning... you don't need to send him to AAA}) and having him work with Hook or Henderson or whomever. But get him straightened out. Drohan can go back into the rotation. I think 2 innings out of him in a game like yesterday is a bit of a waste. He's been really solid as a starter this year. I'd also like to see Cameron Wagoner brought up, but that's a separate issue.

????? You realize Nashville is AAA, right? Why would they be 2 years, a "minimum" of two years away when they're already in Nashville? One you hit AA, you could be called up, but certainly AAA, you're right on the door step. Barring an injury like Quero had, if you're spending 2-years in AAA, your value as a prospect is going to be... declining significantly... Fischer it'd be he continues to strike out 35% of the time and can't continue to hit for power. Burke it would be... I'm not really sure. Needs to get in better shape so he can field his position. That's probably a bigger concern with him at this point as he doesn't look to be taking care of himself like a MLB player should. His diet to be specific. But he's hitting. 2 years? You could have guys who are currently in Low A who are up in 2 years.