User blog comment:Staw-p/When will the next Straw Hat come?/@comment-98.221.3.255-20121204002053

Kinemon would have been an interesting recruit, but he has obvious problems.

We can expect at least two new crewmates with a likely maximum of three. There's room to argue for four total, but three makes just slightly more sense and I'll be working from that assumption as it lets us slot the potential recruits into the three tiers already present in the crew. Jinbe takes up the monster tier. The next one can be presumed to be a character on the weakling tier, as the middle tier is always the last one to be filled up. We also have something in the range of ten years to go for the final half of the story.

My presumption, in that case, is that we'll recruit Jimbe during the Big Mom arc. Then we'll get a weaker crewmate within the next two arcs, and a final crewmember two or three arcs after that.