Brewers Prospects

Fangraphs does a round-up of Brewers prospects over the last year using this criteria -

Prospect ranking season is here. Top 10 lists will be arriving shortly and in preparation for that, we present an intro series looking at some of the players who deserve mentioning but probably will not be appearing on their teams’ Top 10 lists. The series is back for a second year.

They have some nice things to say about DiFelice and Josh Butler. They talk about Lorenzo Cain's struggles, too. So far it looks like Cleveland made the right move grabbing Brantley instead of Cain, granted it wasn't that difficult a choice to make.

Fangraphs also has a post up showing how underrated Mike Cameron truly is by comparing him to Jason Bay -

With the season over and the clock ticking towards the beginning of free agency, you’re going to see a lot of rankings of the available players. I would imagine that every single one of them will have Jason Bay slotted in as the #2 position player on the market, behind only Matt Holliday. And there’s every reason to expect Bay to pick up the second biggest check of any free agent position player this winter.

However, there’s another right-handing hitting outfielder on the market that is a better player than Bay and yet will still demand a fraction of the price. That player? The chronically underrated Mike Cameron.

Did you know that, since 2002 (the first year we calculate WAR for), Mike Cameron has been worth +29.6 wins, or about the same as David Ortiz, Aramis Ramirez, and Jim Thome? Or that Cameron has posted a WAR of +4.0 or higher in three of the last four seasons? Yet, due to a slew of factors that include accumulating a large portion of value on defense, spending most of his career in extreme pitchers parks, and posting a low average with a lot of strikeouts, Cameron has never gotten the recognition he deserves.

If we get a top quality starter with the money we save on Cameron then I'll understand grabbing the cheap Gomez, but the Brewers are definitely taking a hit by not keeping Cameron, and it's disappointing that I think not many people are going to recognize it.