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Hunt and Peck: Last Call for the Brewers

By Zachary Junda Oct 17, 2025 | 11:00 AM

In the ever changing world of Minor League Prospect rankings, future Card JJ Wetherholt is now the No. 5 overall prospect and new President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom seemed pretty adamant that Wetherholt will get a chance to earn a spot on the Opening Day roster once camp begins.

“He’s impressive and he’s got a chance to be really good,” Bloom said of Wetherholt. “We’re looking forward to seeing what he does in [Spring Training] camp, because he’s in a position where he can come in and make a really strong impression and start his big league career sooner rather than later. We’ll see how that shakes out, but he’s a really impressive player and he’s a really impressive, poised player.”


Offseason fodder isn’t in full swing just yet, but Bleacher Report lists the Cards as one of the two “Biggest Offseason Dominoes” along with the Minnesota Twins. The Cardinals could, according to B/R, really blow things up if that’s their prerogative and deal vets like Sonny Gray, Nolan Arenado, Willson Contreras, or Lars Nootbaar.

Likewise, the Cardinals find themselves in no man’s land after back-to-back years of doing next to nothing to pick a lane.

They could put Sonny Gray, Willson Contreras, Nolan Arenado, Lars Nootbaar and others on the trade block in the name of starting over under new president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom. Or they could keep that core in place while making a run at, say, Cody Bellinger and Michael King to help get them out of this .500-ish rut and back to the top of the NL Central.

Since the name of the game here is making predictions, my guess is that both teams do more selling than buying, but neither quite approaches completely throwing in the towel like the A’s did in March 2022. But if either team decides to go for it—particularly Minnesota, as the AL Central looks wide open again for 2026—we wouldn’t be terribly surprised.

Elsewhere in MLB…

The Dodgers are on the brink of a second straight pennant after putting the Brewers in a 3-0 hole last night in LA. Former Cardinal Tommy Edman broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning with a single to center, and later on in the frame Freddie Freeman scored on a pickoff error. Tonight (7:38 P.M., TBS/HBO Max/TruTV) Shohei Ohtani will take the mound and try and pitch Los Angeles to a second straight World Series appearance, while Milwaukee looks like they’re turning to Jose Quintana.

While the Dodgers have the Brewers in a 3-0 chokehold, the ALCS is up for the taking as the Blue Jays evened the series with Seattle 2-2 thanks to an 8-2 win. After being left off the Jays’ ALDS roster, Max Scherzer turned back the clock and limited Seattle to two runs over 5.2 innings.

So far the road team has won all four games of this American League Championship Series, and whoever wins tonight’s pivotal Game 5 (5:08 P.M., FS1) will be one win away from a (likely) date with the Dodgers in the World Series.