As for no pitchers making it to the majors recently. Fine but the brewers haven't produced a lot of position players either Well, since 1993 in terms of position players, you have: Mark Loretta, Geoff Jenkins, Bill Hall, Ron Belliard, Corey Hart, Prince Fielder, JJ Hardy, Rickie Weeks, Tony Gwynn, Ryan Braun. In terms of pitchers, you have: Ben Sheets. Ouch. And just because we sucked at drafting and developing players in the past doesn't mean we are going to continue to be aweful at it. How about recently? Mike Jones, Manny Parra, Ben Hendrickson, Dana Eveland were all highly touted pitching prospects under this administration. Things haven't exactly worked out well in those aspects. And that doesn't even mention Mark Rogers, who's career never really got off the ground to the point where he was very highly touted to this point. What highly touted position players have flamed out? Dave Krynzel. I would rather stick with them and try to develop them than trade them away for instant satisfaction that won't really create that much of an upgrade. I guess that's where the conversation starts and ends, then. If you don't see Mark Buehrle as much of an upgrade over Claudio Vargas, or Adam Dunn as much of an upgrade over Jenkins/Mench, than I don't know what to tell you.