Derek Van Ryper

It's just story after story like that.

It's not always the flashy guys up top.

It's guys they draft.

It's guys they trade for.

It's secondary pieces in those trades.

It's just unbelievable the work that Matt Arnold and that front office have done really now over the past decade, kind of spanning back even into the David Stearns era.

I mean, I think it's good scouting.

I think a lot of teams have reduced the amount of scouts they have.

I think the Brewers are one of the teams that have more robust scouting groups.

I think that's gone a long way.

I think within player development, they just have a buy-in now.

I mean, I imagine now if you get acquired by the Brewers, you're very attentive to what they're suggesting to you on the pitching side, right?

I think in the case of Kyle Harrison...

Sometimes you just get really lucky in terms of another team's depth and their internal views of a player, right?

I mean, the Giants traded Kyle Harrison as part of the Raphael Devers trade.

And I think we can sit here today and say, no matter how good Kyle Harrison is now, that still actually made sense in that moment, even if years from now we're worried about what Raphael Devers looks like as a hitter.

But the fact that they were able to go to the Red Sox and turn a guy that was a secondary piece in the Devin Williams trade in Caleb Durbin with a couple other guys that

are nice kind of bench pieces, to turn that into two very usable, one very good starting pitcher is incredible.

And with Harrison, the interesting thing that just came out in a story today from Kurt Hogue of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, they saw something when Harrison was pitching for the Giants.

Brewers hitters were talking about this, where they knew his slur would only be a strike if it kind of popped out of his hand a certain way.