MILWAUKEE -- As club officials ponder how much prospect capital to spend on improving the roster by next week’s Trade Deadline, the first-place Brewers have emerged from the All-Star break playing some of their best baseball. 

In just the past five days, the Brewers have won four of five games, Hunter Renfroe has smacked four home runs and Luis Urías has delivered two walk-off RBIs, the latest with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning Tuesday to beat the Twins, 7-6, at American Family Field. 

With the Deadline -- Aug. 2 at 5 p.m. CT -- now less than a week away, the Brewers pushed 10 games over .500 and three games up on the second-place Cardinals in the National League Central.

“It's certainly been a dramatic homestand,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “You fight to get the wins.”

The first-half Brewers often looked like they could use another bat or two. But the second-half Brewers, following a hitters’ meeting on Friday in which Andrew McCutchen and others talked about the need to be better and to trust each other, have averaged eight runs in their four victories with improved at-bats. They coaxed 32 pitches from Twins reliever Jhoan Duran before stranding the bases loaded in the eighth inning on Tuesday, then 25 more pitches from Tyler Duffey in a ninth-inning rally that began with McCutchen’s one-out single and continued with walks from Kolten Wong and Renfroe before Urías’ winning fly ball to right field. Brewers hitters lead the Majors with 4.09 pitches per plate appearance this season.

“I think everybody is having better ABs than in the first half,” Urías said. “That’s the success of the offense lately.”

Urías’ postgame Gatorade bath had a familiar feeling. He delivered a 13th-inning walk-off single on Friday to beat the Rockies in the Brewers’ first game out of the break, then had another chance for a walk-off with the bases loaded on Monday night, but lined out hard to second base in a 2-0 Brewers loss.

A day later, he got a third chance and came through again.

“I feel like you have to be really tough to play this game,” Urías said. “You control what you can control. Show up the next day and try to do better. And like I said, keep it simple. I think that’s the best thing you can do in this game.”

The question now facing Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns, senior vice president and GM Matt Arnold and their staff is more complex: Where to bolster a team that finds itself in a good place at the moment.

By FanGraphs wins above replacement, the Brewers entered Tuesday ranked 24th in production from center fielders. That’s one potential area of improvement. They were 19th in production at first base and have been linked by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal to Washington’s Josh Bell. The infield depth was thinned over the weekend by the loss of versatile Jace Peterson to an elbow injury. The bullpen is annually reinforced, it seems, though last year’s Deadline additions (Daniel Norris and John Curtiss) reflect the risk there, and the Brewers already picked up veteran Jake McGee while the likes of Jake Cousins and Luis Perdomo are on rehab assignments.

The starting rotation, too, keeps getting deeper, with Freddy Peralta making progress toward an August return and top pitching prospect Ethan Small rejoining the big league club on Tuesday to pitch into the fourth inning of his second Major League start. After allowing three earned runs on four hits and four walks in 3 2/3 innings, Small conceded, “There’s also still a ton of things I could be better on.”

Arnold declined to declare whether the Brewers have a priority on adding hitters versus pitchers, though they surely have internal ideas about that. It will become clearer within one week.

“We want to be responsible stewards of the franchise here,” Arnold said. “We don’t want to do anything super short-sighted, but at the same time, we’d like to try to improve this squad. They’ve earned it.”

What about Nationals outfielder Juan Soto, who reportedly is on the block?

Everyone Arnold talks to these days asks that question, he said.

“He’s a great player, but the asking price there is pretty wild,” Arnold said.

Even with just one week until the Deadline, there are teams still on the fence about buying, selling or standing pat. Part of that, Arnold and Stearns both said, is the new baseball calendar, with the Draft coinciding with the All-Star Game. Executives had some preliminary discussions in early July, but those were largely put on hold for the week of the Draft and have now resumed.

The Brewers definitely want to add.

The question is who.

“It’s a fun time of year,” Stearns said. “This is the time of year where if you do what we do, you want to be in this position. We have a team in the playoff hunt -- for us, a team that is in first place -- and you want to make it better.”