Brewers trade Thornburg to Boston

[Transmogrified Tiger]

It looks like at the moment the return is Travis Shaw, Mauricio Duhon, and Josh Pennington. I'm not super well versed in other team's prospects, but for those looking for a Cubs comparison, that's probably something like Vogelbach, Happ, and Cease.

[David]

(If the Cubs still had Vogelbach)

[Bryants Disco Ball]

It looks like at the moment the return is Travis Shaw, Mauricio Duhon, and Josh Pennington. I'm not super well versed in other team's prospects, but for those looking for a Cubs comparison, that's probably something like Vogelbach, Happ, and Cease.

 

Wow. If that's the comparison, that's a good trade for Milwaukee.

[UMFan83]

Brewers positioned to be pretty damn good in 2018

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Brewers positioned to be pretty damn good in 2018

 

I would still be surprised if they are pretty damn good in a year. They will be depending on a bunch of young guys to produce right away. We got spoiled that it worked out perfectly for us.

 

ETA: but it does put them in better position to trade for Mike Trout.

[Cubswin11]

Brewers positioned to be pretty damn good in 2018

I still don't see a ton of AS/upside level guys in their system. They all seem like really nice pieces and decent prospects but not cornerstone guys. Idk, I'm not a prospect guy so maybe I'm off but that's my impression.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Brewers positioned to be pretty damn good in 2018

I still don't see a ton of AS/upside level guys in their system. They all seem like really nice pieces and decent prospects but not cornerstone guys. Idk, I'm not a prospect guy so maybe I'm off but that's my impression.

 

Yeah, that's the problem with the full teardown, is that you need star level players. To use Steamer as a quick illustration, right now the Brewers have 2 guys projected at 2 WAR, Guerra and Davies, both guys who have pretty much no upside beyond that. That doesn't mean those guys won't come, you never know where the next Rizzo or Arrieta is going to come from(to use examples that weren't expensive to acquire), but they're still a long ways from realizing that progress.

[champaignchris]

They might be good in a couple years, but they are really going to be a special kind of awful this year.

 

Fangraphs is projecting their position players to put up a 6.5 WAR combined. And that's before they inevitably trade Braun.