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Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Milwaukee Brewers. Scouting reviews had been compiled with info offered by trade sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column under: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means might be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects under additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning presents that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from varied sources) than this text and integrates each group’s checklist so readers can examine prospects throughout farm techniques. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Observe
Grouped by sort and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Excessive College Draftees on the Complicated
Ethan DorchiesRHP
Jayden dubanewiczRHP
Tyler RenzRHP
Griffin TobiasRHP
Hayden RobinsonRHP
The Brewers’ strategy to the draft has netted them a ton of mid-six determine excessive schoolers the final a number of years, and this contingent of fellows, largely from the 2024 class, is at present pitching on the complicated. Dorchies, a lanky, 6-foot-5 UIC commit from Cary, NC, signed for simply $162,500. He’s producing seven toes of extension and was sitting 92 in his outing previous to checklist publication. Dubanewicz ($665,000 within the sixteenth spherical, Florida commit) is a lanky, 6-foot-3 righty who was sitting 91-92 this spring and is a complicated slider executor. Renz ($852,500 St. John’s commit) is a lanky righty with an upper-80s fastball that, at occasions, has 20 inches of vertical break. He’ll flash a mean slider. Tobias ($247,500, Indiana commit) is a extra bodily mature 6-foot righty sitting 92 with a cutter and slider. Robinson ($347,500, Nicholls State commit) was a 2023 draftee who had TJ final 12 months and is slated to be again in recreation motion quickly. He was sitting 91 and dealing with a very good slider final 12 months.
Expertise-y Guys with Vanilla Stuff/Instruments
Melvin HernandezRHP
Raynel DelgadoINF
Eric Brown Jr.INF
Manuel RodriguezRHP
Juan Baez. 3B
Juan OrtunoSS
Hernandez is an 18-year-old Nicaraguan righty with beautiful touch-and-feel command of a tailing fastball and sweeper. He’s a smaller man with a decrease arm slot who’s at present pitching effectively in A-ball. Delgado was drafted by the Guardians in 2018 out of Calvary Christian Academy in Florida and reached Triple-A with them earlier than hitting minor league free company over the winter and signing with the Brewers. He’s acquired 40-grade contact and energy, and is a forty five shortstop defender, a high quality upper-level depth man who can play all around the infield. Brown is hard as a result of he’s not unhealthy, however he actually can’t play shortstop (he takes far too lengthy to set himself to throw — this occurs so much) and he doesn’t do sufficient on offense to be an on a regular basis second baseman. With out positional versatility facilitating a part-time position, he’s a Quad A kind. Rodriguez is a strike-throwing Mexican righty who, at simply 19, was having success at Excessive-A till he was shut down in late April. He sits 87-88 and instructions roughly common secondary stuff. It’s the look of a depth starter regardless of his wonderful outcomes. Baez has a present for contact however not fairly as nice of 1 as his aggressive strategy is at present demanding. He’s caught between missing each the projection for the facility to stay at third and the mobility to cowl an up-the-middle defensive place. Ortuno is a small Venezuelan infielder who’s beginning to put the ball in play in extra of 100 mph. He performed all around the diamond in 2024 however has been specializing in the center infield up to now in 2025.
Extra Potential Relievers
Blake HolubRHP
Sam McWilliesRHP
Will ChildersRHP
Micaas MercedesRHP
Ismael YanezRHP
Travis SmithRHP
Wande TorresLHP
Holub came visiting from Detroit in a swap for Mark Canha and is pitching in aid at Nashville. He’s a human trebuchet with a vertical arm slot, a naturally reducing 94 mph fastball, and a below-average slider. He lives off deception relatively than pure stuff and is on the 40-man fringe. McWilliams’ presence on prospect lists has now spanned a whole decade, as the previous projectable excessive schooler has develop into a Triple-A journeyman. He’s sitting 95 and producing plus miss together with his slider at Nashville up to now in 2025, and he ought to put on a giant league uniform in some unspecified time in the future. Childers has fairly normal aid stuff — he sits 95 and has a plus mid-80s curveball — however 30 management relegates him to the Honorable Mentions part of the checklist. Mercedes is a bodily 6-foot-3 Dominican righty as much as 96. He’s bending in some plus sliders at 2,800 rpm on the complicated, however his physique is fairly near maxed out. Yanez, 19, is a low-slot Venezuelan righty who’ll present you 97-98 at peak. He’s a wild pure aid prospect. Smith is a 6-foot-4, 220-pound righty from Kentucky who has been as much as 98 as a starter. He’s a crude strike-thrower with fringe secondary stuff, and is simply an infinite arm energy dev undertaking at this stage. Torres is a bodily, 6-foot-3, 20-year-old Dominican lefty who missed 2023 with harm, spent 2024 within the DSL, and has now been disregarded the home complicated and despatched straight to Low-A to start out 2025. He’ll contact 96 with round-down form and has a mean slider. Mechanical inconsistency offers him a lefty aid look.
Energy Bats
Hedbert PerezOF
ENGEL PAULINOOF
Hedbert has a little bit little bit of life, as he’s swinging tremendous duper laborious proper now and producing louder contact than he did all of final 12 months. Thus far in 2025, as Perez repeats Excessive-A, his strikeouts have come down a bit in comparison with 2024. Will this persist as he climbs? Given how a lot effort it’s taking him to provide above-average energy, in all probability not. But when he does this all 12 months (one thing like 72% contact, 108 mph EV90, 50% hard-hit charge, which he’s hovering round proper now), together with for some time at Biloxi, he’ll have earned a re-evaluation. Paulino is a muscular 5-foot-9 outfielder in Arizona. He’s constructed like an SEC security. He takes a wholesome rip however goes to strike out a ton.
The Injured Guys
Quinton LowRHP
Tyler WoessnerRHP
Will RudyRHP
Enniel CortezRHP
Low was initially developed as a two-way participant, however it turned clear his future was on the mound when he began working within the higher 90s. He hasn’t pitched since 2023 and is once more on the complete season injured checklist. Woessner has touched the higher 90s in aid, however his stuff was method, method down firstly of 2025 and he was shelved. He’s throwing bullpens once more and is on observe to be again in video games as quickly as subsequent week. He had a 40 FV reliever look when wholesome. Rudy was a JUCO draftee in 2022, an athletic and comparatively projectable righty with a very good breaking ball. He’s progressed as a strike-thrower and labored 113.1 innings at Excessive-A in 2024, however his stuff continues to be solely honest. He was sitting 90 final season and had TJ this spring. Cortez, 19, is a Nicaraguan righty with superior command of three pitches. His fastball solely sits about 91, however it performs due to traits and placement. He had TJ late final 12 months (early September) and is on the complete season IL.
System Overview
The Brewers system is among the many greatest in baseball because of their scouting in Latin America, and their means to synergize the home draft with their participant improvement processes. Within the span of some years, the Brewers have signed two superstar-level worldwide abilities in Jackson Chourio and Jesús Made. Even when issues by some means go awry for Made, his bat velocity is his bat velocity, and his energy is his energy. The flexibility to determine and/or develop indomitable traits in simply a few gamers can change the course of a whole franchise, and the mere probability that Milwaukee has accomplished this twice briefly succession is exceptional, and really unhealthy information for the remainder of the NL Central.
The Brewers, for probably the most half, don’t put all of their eggs into one basket on the worldwide entrance. There isn’t a $3.5 million participant occupying the vast majority of their pool house. As an alternative, they have a tendency to have a number of $1 million to $2 million gamers, and people gamers are likely to have the heuristic qualities (switch-hitting infielders, shorter-levered gamers) that analytically inclined groups just like the Rays and Guardians goal, with barely extra physicality or projection than is typical for that participant demographic. Casting a wider web in that market permits the Brewers to diversify their threat and subject two rosters value of gamers within the DSL. Homegrown gamers are so necessary to smaller market groups, and this provides Milwaukee extra probabilities to seek out some.
The speed and velocity at which the Brewers enhance the pitchers they draft is among the many greatest within the trade. There are such a lot of generic faculty relievers on this checklist who haven’t solely improved, however who’ve a shot to be huge league starters. For some time, the Brewers hammered junior schools, however the switch portal has made these much less dense with expertise. Now they’re unearthing guys who had 8.00 ERAs at huge colleges and making them good throughout their first offseason. It’s not like different groups don’t scout Mississippi State; the Brewers aren’t turning over rocks within the Dakotas to seek out gamers, although they do scout the Midwest very effectively. Guys like Tyson Hardin and Ok.C. Hunt had all of the sources of an SEC program, however their time in Starkville nonetheless didn’t make them particularly good.
And the Brewers give themselves plenty of probabilities to use their participant dev ideas to many gamers. They work out their bonus pool math in such a method that they maximize what number of highschool gamers they’re drafting, signing 15 of them (!) mixed the final two drafts. Highschool gamers have extra athletic projection, with extra time and alternative to develop than faculty gamers, and once you’re including six or eight of them to your system yearly, you’re including the chance for homegrown ceiling to an org that wants it to tilt with the likes of the Dodgers and Phillies. It’s conceptually primary however tough to execute. It takes your scouting workers correctly gauging signability in a bizarre slice of the novice market, specifically excessive schoolers whose expertise places them within the $250,000 to $600,000 bonus vary, and who’re prepared to signal for that. It’s such a particular tier of expertise to care about, and the org has to have non-data intel on every of those people with a purpose to execute the technique.
