2025 Brewers Minors/Prospects thread - Andrew Fischer - FRP

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Wiems is hitting 3-for-37 (.081) since the trade. Combined .216 with 3 home runs and 22 runs batted in across 227 at-bats. That's a real rough season for a guy who looked pretty decent in the bigs during the first half last year.

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Yoho:

"There is literally no pitch like it in the major leagues. It’s a complete outlier, quite literally off the chart."

Misi:

"That’s an easy plus-plus fastball, with well above ride given his low release angle, with borderline elite extension at well over seven feet and elite velocity, touching 100 and averaging 98.5 mph. The big difference was the consistency of the shape coming out of the pen rather than as a starter, as well as another tick of fastball velocity.

Letting Misiorowski air it out in a relief role is a strong signal that the Brewers are going to add him to their bullpen for the stretch run. Along with Devin Williams, Craig Yoho and a returning Trevor Megill, it will give them a fearsome playoff pen that will be even more impactful given the more frequent off days.

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Bring him and Yoho up for the stretch run.

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You want to talk about the volatility in MLB playoffs, check this blurb at the bottom of an ESPN article on Tennessee giving their manager a record breaking contract.

When Vitello was hired in 2018, his original contract paid him $493,000 annually. He has taken the Vols to five NCAA tournaments and won two of the past three SEC tournaments. They became the first No. 1 overall seed to win the national championship this season since Miami in 1999. Tennessee had four players selected in the first two rounds of the MLB draft this year, a program record, and two were first-rounders -- Christian Moore and Blake Burke.

That's crazy.

Hope Burke makes his way to Milwaukee soon.

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Must read.

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Ranking best players at every age from 16 to 25

ESPN ranking has some Brewers mentioned all over the list.

2000:
Tyler Black (player to watch)

2004:
1 - Jackson Chourio
9 - Cooper Pratt
Luke Adams (player to watch)

2006:
8 - Luis Pena
Braylon Payne (player to watch)

2007:
1 - Jesus Made

Made is on a list of guys mostly made up of dudes who haven't even been drafted or signed yet. McDaniel mentions the guys directly below him are potential #1 overall picks in 2025 AND 2026.

Long way to go for him, but having another potential Chourio (a switch hitting shortstop version at that) is exciting.

[Thunder Muscle]

Is it a dumb, or even viable strategy, that the brewers are potentially doing to take a bunch of comp picks they'll get next year to trade for quality team controlled pitching? How many comp picks are we in-line to get?

I believe they'll have six in the top 100ish.

Round 1
Competitive Balance A or B
Compensation pick (Adames)
Round 2
Compensation pick (Levonas)
Round 3

The only pick they'll be able to trade is the Competitive Balance pick.

Another long shot is I think if Hoskins opts out (maybe?), Crew offer QO (doubtful), and he gets 50M+ deal, we’d get another 1st. I don’t think Chourio will win ROY over Skenes or Merrill, so that hope is gone for yet another 1st.

Did that kid from Manitowoc, Weck, ever sign?

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Cool. Shane Smith's a great story and the move to stretch him out as a starter is looking brilliant. Guy is a legit prospect now.

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BA updated its Top 100 today.

#49 - Quero
#62 - Misiorowski
#83 - Made

The 17-year-old switch-hitting shortstop was the talk of the Dominican Summer League in 2024 as he hit .331/.458/.554 with 6 home runs and 28 stolen bases. Made shows exceptional plate skills with potential for plus power at peak. No prospect has more helium heading into the offseason than Made.

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Bitonti also got a nod in BP's email blast this morning.

Eric Bitonti, 1B, Milwaukee Brewers (Low-A Carolina)
I can already almost hear the groans of our readers upon discovering that they are taking time out of their Tuesday morning to learn about a first base-only prospect who is currently playing in Low-A. “Wasn’t this guy a shortstop when he was drafted?” they might be asking, “his full-season numbers are not even that good,” they might be saying. These are both accurate pieces of information, but there are several traits indicating a legitimate prospect profile despite the above.

Most obvious is the double-plus power—Bitonti wields a hefty lefty swing with significant loft and leverage, and a fast enough bat to make the most of it. The 2023 third round pick commands the zone well, hunting pitches to hit and looking to drive them, resulting in towering shots from right field to left-center. Listed at 6-foot-four, the 18-year-old is strong and muscled up (hence the cold corner limitation), so future upside gains will have to come from the hit tool. Bitonti shows an ability to get on top of high pitches despite the swing path and long levers, which is promising, but more evidence will be needed with regard to his handling of good secondaries located down in the zone. He unsurprisingly dominated the complex—.320/.451/.580—and has already popped seven homers in 108 Carolina League plate appearances as of Sunday morning, albeit while carrying a .200 average, .278 OBP, and K rate over 30%. There will be much left to be revealed when he begins his first full A-ball campaign next spring, but Bitoniti will be firmly ensconced in discussion about the Brewers offseason top ten list.

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Here's your first professional look at the Brewers' latest first round slap hitting speedster.

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Heading to the Timber Rattlers playoff game Thursday. Their first playoff game since 2016, should be a fun time

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[Thunder Muscle]

Wiems is hitting 3-for-37 (.081) since the trade. Combined .216 with 3 home runs and 22 runs batted in across 227 at-bats. That's a real rough season for a guy who looked pretty decent in the bigs during the first half last year.

Yeah, doesn’t seem like it going to happen with Wiemer. He struggled with Reds’ AAA too, like under 600 OPS.

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With Made's DSL season over I thought it'd be fun to look at his age 17 season vs Chourio's age 17 season.

Chourio / Made

Age: 17 / 17 (Made was actually two months younger in their age 17 seasons in the DSL)
Games: 45 / 51
PA: 189 / 216
H: 47 / 58
SO: 28 / 28
BB: 23 / 39
HR: 5 / 6
R: 31 / 63
RBI: 25 / 28
SB: 8 / 28
BB%: 12.2% / 18.1%
K%: 14.8% / 13.0%
ISO: .151 / .223
BABIP: .323 / .369
AVG: .296 / .331
OBP: .386 / .458
SLG: .447 / .554
wOBA: .403 / .491
wRC+: 131 / .169

Chourio played 32 games in CF, 6 at 2B, and DH'd 7 times.
Made played 27 games at SS, 12 games at 3b, 9 games at 2B, and DH'd 4 times.

Made batted primarily as a LHB with 184 PA (1.036 OPS), but he wasn't bad at all from the right side (32 PA, .889 OPS).

A lot of surface level data here, but holy ****, right?

Chourio put himself on the prospect radar with that age 17 season, but he put himself on the superstar Best Prospect in Baseball track with his age 18 season, where he dominated Low A Carolina and held his own in A at Wisconsin before getting a cup of coffee in Biloxi. One of the stories of 2025 is going to be how Made performs when he gets state-side and if the Brewers are as aggressive with him as they were with Chourio.

It's nice that Made is getting looks all over the infield, because there's no shortage of prospects he's going to have to pass by. By my estimation, these are the guys he's going to be competing with:

Luis Pena, 17 (he also dominated the DSL)
Josh Adamczewski, 19
Cooper Pratt, 20
Jadher Areinamo, 20
Luke Adams, 20
Mike Boeve, 22
Brock Wilken, 22

Dark horse candidates:
Juan Baez, 19
Filippo Di Turi, 18
Eric Brown Jr., 23

[rayallenscalves]

With Made's DSL season over I thought it'd be fun to look at his age 17 season vs Chourio's age 17 season.

Chourio / Made

Age: 17 / 17 (Made was actually two months younger in their age 17 seasons in the DSL)
Games: 45 / 51
PA: 189 / 216
H: 47 / 58
SO: 28 / 28
BB: 23 / 39
HR: 5 / 6
R: 31 / 63
RBI: 25 / 28
SB: 8 / 28
BB%: 12.2% / 18.1%
K%: 14.8% / 13.0%
ISO: .151 / .223
BABIP: .323 / .369
AVG: .296 / .331
OBP: .386 / .458
SLG: .447 / .554
wOBA: .403 / .491
wRC+: 131 / .169

Chourio played 32 games in CF, 6 at 2B, and DH'd 7 times.
Made played 27 games at SS, 12 games at 3b, 9 games at 2B, and DH'd 4 times.

Made batted primarily as a LHB with 184 PA (1.036 OPS), but he wasn't bad at all from the right side (32 PA, .889 OPS).

A lot of surface level data here, but holy ****, right?

Chourio put himself on the prospect radar with that age 17 season, but he put himself on the superstar Best Prospect in Baseball track with his age 18 season, where he dominated Low A Carolina and held his own in A at Wisconsin before getting a cup of coffee in Biloxi. One of the stories of 2025 is going to be how Made performs when he gets state-side and if the Brewers are as aggressive with him as they were with Chourio.

It's nice that Made is getting looks all over the infield, because there's no shortage of prospects he's going to have to pass by. By my estimation, these are the guys he's going to be competing with:

Luis Pena, 17 (he also dominated the DSL)
Josh Adamczewski, 19
Cooper Pratt, 20
Jadher Areinamo, 20
Luke Adams, 20
Mike Boeve, 22
Brock Wilken, 22

Dark horse candidates:
Juan Baez, 19
Filippo Di Turi, 18
Eric Brown Jr., 23

Great post. While not necessarily against it, I've also questioned the Brewers drafting approach of so many up-the-middle guys. You can only have so many SSs and CFs. There are other positions to fill as well. Eventually they're going to have to start flipping some of these guys for positions of greater need. They already waited too long on Wiems, hopefully they don't do the same with some of these other guys.