… that you’re going to find a lot of people who frequent this site who care who it is you select in this mock draft on behalf of the brewers. If I’m wrong, good for you. Personally, I think you should probably examine your motives for this entire endeavor, not because what you’re doing actually matters to anyone but you, but because your actions suggest to me that you need therapy.

So, they have a pretty good all aound team this year? Which would, you know, mean they were built well?

That one dimensional team made the playoffs last year since ’82, is going for their third straight winning season, which would be the first time that has happened in Milwaukee since 1978-1980, and is currently in first place this year.

If it has worked for this long already, it is not a fluke.

Perhaps you think we need more major league hitters?

You don’t like the Brewers’ past draft picks. That’s fine, but you don’t get a re-do, so this is the organization you have, going into the draft.

So, regardless of what you would have done when Prince Fielder was on the board, your job is to pick players who are on the board now. Let’s have a conversation about that.

If the Brewers drafted Kazmir in ‘02 (maybe they should’ve got a crappy starting pitcher and traded for him in ‘04 like the Rays) and Maybin in ’05, would they have made the playoffs with Overbay and [stock 3B] as the heart of the order? Given the crop of prospects about to debut in the majors when Braun was drafted, picking a guy who wouldn’t arrive until 2010 certainly makes sense. I think operating on a shoestring budget may have influenced the Marlins into giving up that “Braun clone” to get Maybin anyway.

“So there are people out there that agree with the things that I believe and have been successful with them…He didnt like the guys other scouts/GM’s have liked.”

And yet Jack Z was successful, too, even if you and whoever those other scouts and GMs are don’t agree with all the things he believed. No, he wasn’t perfect, but who said he was? Instead you took another gratuitous shot at the Brewers organization. You don’t want a rah-rah guy running a serious mock draft, but excuse me for not being enthused about you doing it instead.

and i’d rather have a player who is producing here in the big leagues than someone who projects as something.

But would pretty much be another Ben Sheets where we just wonder when he’s going to get injured. Besides, he’s been doing awful this year.

  The last two years, Overbay has been pretty mediocre whereas Prince has hit 84 HR, had OPS+ of 156 and 128 (OPSing 1.013 in 2007!) and is one of the premier young hitters in the game.

And to sort of paraphrase you: “Maybin is still only 22” and still in the minors while not yet proving he can play in the majors, Braun has been one of the best and most explosive players in the game while being only 25 years old and who signed in 8 year, affordable contract because he enjoys playing with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Besides that, it isn’t necessarily that the Marlins thought enough of Maybin to trade Miguel Cabrera (and Dontrelle Willis). Sure they like him enough to do that, but they probably wouldn’t have made that trade if they could actually afford to keep their decent players other than Hanley.

Mark Rodgers has had injury problems, not talent issues and Jeremy Jeffress has been working out just lovely for the team seeing as he is their top pitching prospect.

Oh, and you really want to compare a overbay-not-prince Brewers team to the Tampa Bay Rays? The Rays just so happened to have a pretty awesome first baseman for the last three years. Did the Rays really keep a mediocre first baseman and trade an awesome one? Nope.

And to reiterate what TheJay said, who the fuck cares about what the other Scouts/Gms liked? Jack Z is the one who was the first non-GM to win executive of the year for a reason: Because he made fantastic picks and helped turn the Brewers into one of eight teams who made the playoffs last year.
73% of those other scouts and GMs who picked players in the draft apparently didn’t make good enough decisions to do that.

middle of last summer he was just topping out at 89, and he’s hit 93 this spring. It is hard to tell though, mechanics-wise, when you’re always watching from behind home plate rather than our usual tv angle.

He would throw in some really awesome(?) puns.

I’m not surprised. :)

And there is also the quesion of him being a bullpen or starter.

If he can be an entire bullpen, the Brewers will have done pretty well.