Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Milwaukee Brewers. Scouting stories had been compiled with info supplied by business sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth yr we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the yr a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook 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 will be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview will be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning affords that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from varied sources) than this text and integrates each staff’s checklist so readers can examine prospects throughout farm methods. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Observe
Grouped by kind and listed so as of desire inside every class.
Excessive Faculty Draftees on the Complicated
Ethan Dorchies, RHP
Jayden Dubanewicz, RHP
Tyler Renz, RHP
Griffin Tobias, RHP
Hayden Robinson, RHP
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, principally 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 ft 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 sophisticated slider executor. Renz ($852,500 St. John’s commit) is a lanky righty with an upper-80s fastball that, at instances, has 20 inches of vertical break. He’ll flash a median 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 yr and is slated to be again in recreation motion quickly. He was sitting 91 and dealing with slider final yr.
Abilities-y Guys with Vanilla Stuff/Instruments
Melvin Hernandez, RHP
Raynel Delgado, INF
Eric Brown Jr., INF
Manuel Rodriguez, RHP
Juan Baez, 3B
Juan Ortuno, SS
Hernandez is an 18-year-old Nicaraguan righty with attractive 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 properly 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 bought 40-grade contact and energy, and is a forty five shortstop defender, a positive 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 sort. 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 ability 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 to date in 2025.
Extra Potential Relievers
Blake Holub, RHP
Sam McWilliams, RHP
Will Childers, RHP
Miqueas Mercedes, RHP
Ismael Yanez, RHP
Travis Smith, RHP
Wande Torres, LHP
Holub came to visit 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 chopping 94 mph fastball, and a below-average slider. He lives off deception quite 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 turn out to be a Triple-A journeyman. He’s sitting 95 and producing plus miss along with his slider at Nashville to date in 2025, and he ought to put on an enormous league uniform in some unspecified time in the future. Childers has fairly commonplace 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 unlimited arm power dev mission 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 left out the home complicated and despatched straight to Low-A to begin 2025. He’ll contact 96 with round-down form and has a median slider. Mechanical inconsistency offers him a lefty aid look.
Energy Bats
Hedbert Perez, OF
Engel Paulino, OF
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 yr. 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 yr (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 Low, RHP
Tyler Woessner, RHP
Will Rudy, RHP
Enniel Cortez, RHP
Low was initially developed as a two-way participant, however it grew to become 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 approach, approach 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 breaking ball. He’s progressed as a strike-thrower and labored 113.1 innings at Excessive-A in 2024, however his stuff remains to be solely truthful. 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 site. He had TJ late final yr (early September) and is on the complete season IL.
System Overview
The Brewers system is among the many finest in baseball due to their scouting in Latin America, and their potential to synergize the home draft with their participant growth 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 one way or the other go awry for Made, his bat velocity is his bat velocity, and his energy is his energy. The power to determine and/or develop indomitable traits in simply a few gamers can change the course of a whole franchise, and the mere likelihood that Milwaukee has finished this twice in brief succession is outstanding, and really unhealthy information for the remainder of the NL Central.
The Brewers, for essentially 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 a substitute, they have an inclination to have a number of $1 million to $2 million gamers, and people gamers are inclined 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 price of gamers within the DSL. Homegrown gamers are so necessary to smaller market groups, and this offers Milwaukee extra probabilities to seek out some.
The speed and velocity at which the Brewers enhance the pitchers they draft is among the many finest within the business. There are such a lot of generic faculty relievers on this checklist who haven’t solely improved, however who’ve a shot to be massive 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 massive 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 properly. 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 a number of probabilities to use their participant dev ideas to many gamers. They work out their bonus pool math in such a approach 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 fundamental however tough to execute. It takes your scouting employees 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 keen to signal for that. It’s such a selected tier of expertise to care about, and the org has to have non-data intel on every of those people in an effort to execute the technique.
