Milwaukee Brewers Organization Discussion

I’d flip them and make them both B guys, but they’re both in that general range.

The thing about the brewers organization is that they are so focused on being a competetive team that they will ship away prospects for veteran players without remorse. They completely disregard the importance of high ceiling prospects and have too much pride to admit that they need to rebuild starting from the farm sysyem. Now although they did make it to the NLCS, their eagerness to ship away prospects may bring long stretches of mediocre seasons.

Downgrade Fielder to Gamel and Greinke/Yuni to Hudson/Escobar, and that could very well have cost the team six wins. Or if you undo the Marcum deal instead of the Greinke deal (totally hypothetical…), who knows if a) Lawrie develops the same, or b) when the Brewers bother to call him up.

Even if they make the playoffs, I’d bet that that team most certainly does not topple Arizona in the first round - this is speculation, of course, b/c w/ Hudson in Milwaukee, who knows what happens with Edwin Jackson in Arizona… D-backs certainly don’t need Colby Rasmus with their outfield. Still, even if you just assume Arizona keeps Jackson, it’s not like Hudson had a good start in the playoffs.

That downgrade for Milwaukee and possibility of Arizona getting a better Game Two start could mean that Arizona takes it from Milwaukee and the Brewers don’t have a chance to make the World Series right now.

And an increased chance to make the World Series is plenty of reason to gut the farm. And, of course, you’re completely forgetting the two compensation picks (even if one is a second-rounder, they’ll get a very high comp round pick) that Milwaukee will receive for having Fielder depart in free agency. I really don’t think you can fault Melvin for making a run at the World Series. He did a darn good job of building this team for the window they had while Prince was around.