2025 Brewers Minors/Prospects thread - Andrew Fischer - FRP

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17. Brewers — Jurrangelo Cijntje, BHP, Mississippi State
Cijntje’s name becomes more commonly discussed once we enter the second half of the first round. If teams believe he’s the next college arm up after Yesavage, he should have plenty of landing spots from 15-25 or so. All of the college hitters on the board could make sense for Milwaukee—Seaver King, Caleb Lomavita, Carson Benge, Tommy White—and I can’t stop myself from thinking about high school righthander William Schmidt as a fit for them, though the Brewers have taken college players in the first round in each of their last five drafts.

34. Brewers — William Schmidt, RHP, Catholic HS, Baton Rouge, La.

I wanted to pair Schmidt with the Brewers at 17 so if he’s still available here in the comp and waiting for an over-slot deal why not? This lands the Brewers the top prep arm in the class.

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Baseball America update their mock.

17. Brewers — Jurrangelo Cijntje, BHP, Mississippi State
Cijntje’s name becomes more commonly discussed once we enter the second half of the first round. If teams believe he’s the next college arm up after Yesavage, he should have plenty of landing spots from 15-25 or so. All of the college hitters on the board could make sense for Milwaukee—Seaver King, Caleb Lomavita, Carson Benge, Tommy White—and I can’t stop myself from thinking about high school righthander William Schmidt as a fit for them, though the Brewers have taken college players in the first round in each of their last five drafts.

Am I crazy or did the Brewers draft this kid last year and he opted not to sign?

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Baseball America update their mock.

17. Brewers — Jurrangelo Cijntje, BHP, Mississippi State
Cijntje’s name becomes more commonly discussed once we enter the second half of the first round. If teams believe he’s the next college arm up after Yesavage, he should have plenty of landing spots from 15-25 or so. All of the college hitters on the board could make sense for Milwaukee—Seaver King, Caleb Lomavita, Carson Benge, Tommy White—and I can’t stop myself from thinking about high school righthander William Schmidt as a fit for them, though the Brewers have taken college players in the first round in each of their last five drafts.

Am I crazy or did the Brewers draft this kid last year and he opted not to sign?

I know two years ago he was an 18th rounder by the Brewers.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Baseball America update their mock.

Am I crazy or did the Brewers draft this kid last year and he opted not to sign?

I know two years ago he was an 18th rounder by the Brewers.

That must've been it.

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He's having a solid season and he's going to be young for AA, but I still don't think he's much of a prospect.

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Nugget in ESPN's mock draft:

17. Milwaukee Brewers
Carson Benge, CF, Oklahoma State

I'm hearing Milwaukee is on Benge at this pick and he fits their type of hitter: up-the-middle fit, contact first, with some doable minor swing/approach adjustments to make. Rocket-armed righty Brody Brecht fits the Brewers' stuff-first approach on pitching (I think he's the second option at this pick), as does prep righty William Schmidt. College position players Malcolm Moore and Kaelen Culpepper also come up as candidates here. For later picks, prep SS Luke Dickerson comes up along with the players I mocked to them.

I'd be surprised with Benge. He strikes out a lot more than the guys the Brewers typically prefer.

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Mostly unheralded member of the 2024 International class.

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Hell yea no walks.

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I have nothing off-hand to back me up, but in my head I kinda feel the safer play in the higher rounds is to take position players. I just feel with the amount of arm injuries these days that maybe better off taking flyers in the later rounds in arms and maybe piling up legit hitters early. I know there is no guarantee a college/HS kid may translate to hitting pro ball but just feel like more likely long term the position player is the safer play. Like said, truly a gut feel and sure there is evidence against my thought process, haha!

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I have nothing off-hand to back me up, but in my head I kinda feel the safer play in the higher rounds is to take position players. I just feel with the amount of arm injuries these days that maybe better off taking flyers in the later rounds in arms and maybe piling up legit hitters early. I know there is no guarantee a college/HS kid may translate to hitting pro ball but just feel like more likely long term the position player is the safer play. Like said, truly a gut feel and sure there is evidence against my thought process, haha!

I agree. We do better at drafting pitchers later rounds. Burnes and Woodruff are great examples. We have had way too many bust with taking pitchers in the first round. Taylor Jungmann, Jed Bradley, Kodi Medeiros, and Ethan Small were all bust.

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Shane Smith keeps dominating since being converted to a starter.

On the mound, Shane Smith dominated in his seventh start of the season, recording seven strikeouts over 5.2 innings. He retired 17 of the 18 batters he faced, including each of the final nine.

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McCalvy has a story on the top prospects at each level.

Here's what Brewers staff had to say about Boeve:

The Brewers liked Mike Boeve, or they wouldn’t have drafted him 54th overall last year out of the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Once they got to know him at the club’s complex in Arizona, they liked him even more.

“He started impacting baseballs from the get-go,” said Brenton Del Chiaro, one of the Brewers’ Minor League hitting coordinators. “There was some chatter, like, ‘We may have missed this.’ We knew what we were getting from a contact perspective, but he had this other thing in his toolbag.”

Nothing has changed on that front this season, as the 22-year-old left-handed-hitting Boeve (the Brewers' No. 13 prospect per MLB Pipeline) has already been promoted to Double-A Biloxi with the best wRC+ in Milwaukee’s Minor League system (151) among hitters with at least 100 plate appearances so far.

He got off to such a remarkable start at High-A Wisconsin -- .553/.642/.632 in 13 games -- that he was quickly advanced to Biloxi on April 20, where he has been playing first and third base.

“This is a great topic to talk about because of who we thought we were getting coming out of the Draft,” said Del Chiaro. “A lot of the comps were that this was a Tyler Black-type of player before Tyler started tapping into his power. It was a high-contact, elite bat-to-ball and strike-zone-awareness hitter who hits the ball on the ground a lot.

“I love sharing this story, because we drafted Mike and he came to Arizona for the minicamp last July, and one thing [fellow hitting coordinator] Eric Theisen and I do when we meet new hitters is we find out who they think they are as hitters and what they do for their routines. So we [were] in the batting cage and I just asked [Boeve], ‘What do you think you do well? And what do you think you need to do better as a hitter?’”

Del Chiaro was floored by the sophistication and confidence of the response. Boeve knew he had an advanced feel for the zone and an ability to barrel a baseball. He also knew he had to hit it in the air more.

“To have that awareness made our jobs so much easier,” Del Chiaro said. “That’s the industry, right? How hard can you hit the ball in the air?”

Del Chiaro also loved that Boeve played 51 straight games before finally getting a day off last week. Boeve has been sidelined since then with a sore shoulder, but it’s benign enough that it is not expected to require a stint on the injured list.

Solves that mystery.

Other picks for best prospect include Black (AAA), Luke Adams (High A) and Cooper Pratt (Single A).

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Another good night.

May: 21 IP / 26 SO / 18 BB
June (so far): 18.2 IP / 19 SO / 5 BB

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Hopefully Boeve has a sore shoulder and not a "sore shoulder"

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