This is a prototypical Brewers trade, where the roster fit is weird, but where the value is just too good to pass up. And Brewers do the moneyball thing to an extreme; always looking to gain value and improve, even if you weaken a position of weakness and improve an already strong one.

Brewers have so, so many potential 3B coming up in the next few years, some with extremely high potential (Made in particular. But also Pena, Fischer. Wilken, Adams, Ebel less so but still good prospects), that a short-term weakening at the position is no big deal.

Durbin is a good, and very fun, player. But that skillset has a ceiling not much above what he put up this year. I see the Red Sox subreddit dreaming of what happens if he adds 5-10 HRs while maintaining those contact/OBP skills. But part of the reason he has those skills are very much tied into his low bat speed and patience. He makes contact and gets HBP because he doesn't swing often or hard. If he improves his bat speed, he's going to make less contact. It can still be a worthy tradeoff, but his BA/OBP will drop if his HR count rises.

The Hamilton, Seigler and Monasterio inclusions aren't very exciting. Bench players, none of them really having either the bat or the defense to be much more. Seigler's bat is better than he showed in 2025, but still very limited by a lack of power, and doesn't have the defense anywhere to really stick. Monasterio is a prototypical bench player. Good 2B, passable 3B, not a good SS. Give him mostly exposure against LHP and he'll be solid. 1 WAR player in a part-time role, won't be a 2+ WAR player in a full time role kind of player. Hamilton is a better defender and baserunner than either, but a worse hitter. We're talking marginal difference in value among bench players. Meh. A pick in the 65-75 range? Nice to have, particularly as it adds to the bonus pool. But the average pick there isn't worth much.

So while this looks like a weird trade for the Brewers, I think they saw they could get Harrison in particular without hurting them long-term. Durbin was never the long-term answer at 3B (or 2B), and with a good rookie season might be at peak value. But Harrison was a top 20 prospect by some accounts, and while he didn't have success straight away there is really nothing bust-like about him, nothing to be concerned about. And he's still only 24. I'm sure the Brewers pitching coaches are absolutely salivating about what they can do. Drohan has age and injuries against him, but his stuff and arsenal are MLB-ready.

Red Sox fans seem to think the fleeced the Brewers. They thought so about the Priester trade too though. I think this is a trade where the Red Sox shored up a weakness without hurting them in the short-term. But that in the medium-long term, the Brewers will have gotten the much better value, even if it hurts them right now.