2025 Brewers Minors/Prospects thread - Andrew Fischer - FRP

[WeekapaugGroove]

The Brewers were giving out the equivalent of 5th-7th round money to convince guys taken in the mid to late teens to forego their commitments. It's a good amount of money, but I can see how a free ride to a contender like Florida is enticing. Spend two or three years on campus, hopefully turn yourself into a guy who commands millions.

I get why someone would take the money and I also get why someone would elect to go to college. I'm just saying I don't think NIL specifically is much of a factor in the decision making process in baseball.

I would be curious to see how much an impact starter on a SEC contender goes for. I've heard of some LSU players getting $1 million. That's a huge outlier I'm sure but

$1mil for a college baseball player? Holy hell the boosters in the SEC crazy bastards.

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[ReasonablySober]

Round 20 - Henry Brummel - Prep RHP

Ht: 6'4" | Wt: 190 | B-T: R-R

Age: null

School: Pontiac (Ill.) HS Commit/Drafted: Indiana
Age At Draft: 18.4
Brummel is a 6-foot-4, 190-pound righthander who was pitching in the upper 80s and touching 90-91 in 2023 but took a step forward in the 2024 spring season. He has a quick right arm and throws with plenty of intent—which includes significant head whack and recoil—but has pitched more in the 91-92 mph range and has touched 93-94. He spins the ball well and might get to a plus breaking ball with a pair of different shapes shown this spring. He also has a low-80s changeup. Brummel has extreme reliever risk because of his delivery and well below-average control but his stuff and arm speed are exciting. He’s committed to Indiana.

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[ReasonablySober]

Gonna be fascinated to see who from day three signs. Hoping to see at least half.

[Matches Malone]

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That's a whole lotta pitching. Love it

[trwi7]

Round 19 - Noah Wech - Prep RHP

Manitowoc kid.

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Seems signable.

Oh hey der, that's my dad's alma mater.

[Kerb Hohl]

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That's a whole lotta pitching. Love it

Random (and not making any sort of argument, just made me think of this), but remember this draft?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.fcgi?team_ID=ANA&year_ID=2021&draft_type=junreg&query_type=franch_year&from_type_hs=0&from_type_unk=0&from_type_4y=0&from_type_jc=0#draft_stats

The desperation draft not going well for the Angels.

[MVP2110]

I am curious about their strategy to draft so much pitching this year considering how many breakout pitchers they've had in the minors this year.

[ReasonablySober]

I am curious about their strategy to draft so much pitching this year considering how many breakout pitchers they've had in the minors this year.

They could actually use an influx of good pitching at the lowest levels. Complex/rookie level pitching has mostly been pretty brutal.

[Brewster]

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Looks like we got our first signing.

[Kerb Hohl]

I am curious about their strategy to draft so much pitching this year considering how many breakout pitchers they've had in the minors this year.

They could actually use an influx of good pitching at the lowest levels. Complex/rookie level pitching has mostly been pretty brutal.

Right...breakout pitching in the majors and the higher levels can cover you through 2028 or 2029...some of these younger arms may not make a dent in the majors until 2028 or 2029.

[ReasonablySober]

The Brewers got their own section in Fangraph's recap.

The Brewers’ Draft
The Brewers followed up on their high school-heavy 2023 draft with an even younger group this year, and it reveals an interesting strategy. Their first round pick, Braylon Payne, was generally seen as a second-round prospect. His bonus is likely to be well below the $4.5 million slot value of his pick, with some amount of the excess pool space diverted to the high school pitching prospects they selected in the second and Comp B rounds, New Jersey high schoolers Bryce Meccage and Chris Levonas. They also popped high schoolers in rounds nine and 10, and then took several on Day Three. Not all of these guys are going to sign but several of them will. Recall last year that Brewers got Cooper Pratt’s deal done for $1.3 million in the sixth round and then also signed multiple high schoolers for between $250,000-$550,000 on Day Three of the draft. Day Three picks don’t have bonus slots that reduce your team’s pool if the player doesn’t sign, so aside from a little opportunity cost (the college guy they’d have otherwise taken in round 14 or whatever), the Brewers can now negotiate with a bunch of higher-upside high school players between now and the signing deadline and decide what combination of bonuses and players gives them the best overall class.

Several teams do a version of this every year, but nobody does it to this degree. Whether it was precipitated by the nature of this particular draft class or just how the board fell in the first round (i.e. the Brewers didn’t like who was left on the board, so they pivoted to this strategy), we just don’t know.

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Would be nice if he could finish the season strong. He's been fine(ish) in his first professional season.

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First two picks left them with $1.692 million to play with so far.

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Adamczewski played 2B and Bitonti played 3B. Both killed it this season.

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Bunch of draft signings have come through and not a ton of savings on Day 1 and 2. Rumors out there that their Competitive Balance pick Chris Levonas is going to head to college. That would be a huge blow to this class.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Bunch of draft signings have come through and not a ton of savings on Day 1 and 2. Rumors out there that their Competitive Balance pick Chris Levonas is going to head to college. That would be a huge blow to this class.

That would be relatively crazy right, especially in recent times? For a guy picked that high not to end up signing.

[ReasonablySober]

Bunch of draft signings have come through and not a ton of savings on Day 1 and 2. Rumors out there that their Competitive Balance pick Chris Levonas is going to head to college. That would be a huge blow to this class.

That would be relatively crazy right, especially in recent times? For a guy picked that high not to end up signing.

It'd be a shocking miss. Last year only one draft pick in the first 10 rounds didn't sign, a 10th rounder and #305 overall.

[MVP2110]

If they don't sign him they get another pick next year correct?