Milwaukee Brewers Top 47 Prospects

Made torched the 2024 DSL with one of the league’s more cartoonish all-time stat lines: .331/.458/.554, with 21 extra-base hits in 51 games. His underlying TrackMan data was even more absurd — 90% in-zone contact, 89% overall contact, 15% chase rate, 108 mph max exit velo, 104 mph EV90, 47% hard-hit rate — especially when you consider Made’s age. Some of these marks are comfortably two standard deviations above the big league average. At the start of 2025, Made ranked as the 38th-best prospect in baseball, the second-highest ranking ever at FanGraphs for an international signee who hadn’t yet played in the U.S. (Luis Robert Jr., who was slightly older, ranked 21st overall in 2018 after playing in the 2017 DSL). In just a couple months of stateside pro ball, he began to climb even higher, and he ended the year as the second overall prospect in the sport.

Though Made’s underlying TrackMan data from 2025 wasn’t as nutty as his DSL debut (76% contact, 81% in-zone, 105 mph EV90, 42% hard-hit), it was still incredible for a kid who was sent to full-season ball at age 17. Made is an incredibly talented hitter with eruptive bat speed. The verve and explosion with which his body whips around like the head of an owl throughout his swing is not normal, and what’s nuttier is that he’s capable of it from both sides of the plate. He can impact the baseball with lift in much of the zone (including when he’s crowded around his hands), and his swing has a gorgeous finish when he takes his best cuts. This is as electric a swinger and athlete as there is in the minors, and all of that talent is weaponized by Made’s plate skills and feel for contact, which is great for a switch-hitter his age. Though he lacks the overt physical projection of 6-foot-3 shortstops like Corey Seager or Carlos Correa, Made likely isn’t done growing and might have something approaching their power at peak thanks to his incredible bat speed, which might end up in Robinson Canó/Ketel Marte territory.

On defense, Made has unpolished talent but special long-term ceiling. His throwing accuracy needs to improve but his acrobatic range and athleticism allow him to make some incredible plays, especially when he has to throw across his body. His throwing accuracy needs polish. On several routine plays, his tactile feel for releasing the baseball is poor; he’ll pronate over the top of one and short hop it to the first baseman, while airmailing the next. This is absolutely something to monitor, but it isn’t a physical shortcoming and is likely to be cleaned up with reps. Made has a shot to be a five-tool player where everything is plus or better, a franchise-altering talent who might debut before he’s 20.

An $800,000 signee out of the Dominican Republic in 2024, Peña has quickly established himself among the best prospects from that year’s international class. He crushed A-ball as an 18-year-old, and while he found the Midwest League more challenging, 2025 was an unqualified success for him.

At the plate, Peña is a toolsy, if raw, hitter oozing with potential. He has plus bat speed and no trouble covering the plate from top to bottom. The length of his swing would problematic for a less twitchy player, but in this case it looks like a path to unlocking real power. His max exit velocity last season was over 113 mph, plus for a big leaguer and nuts for an 18-year-old infielder with physical projection remaining. His approach is messy, but time is on his side, and very good players and prospects miss (or missed) all pitch types more often than Peña does.

Matters are less clear defensively. Milwaukee’s stockpile of middle infielders, and Jesús Made’s presence specifically, has pushed Peña to other positions. In another context, he’d likely still be mostly playing shortstop, as he’s got the speed and enough arm to at least develop him there. There are weak points in his game that point toward a future at second. He hasn’t found a throwing stroke that works for him yet; he’ll often throw wildly when he drops down, or take an all-too-casual approach that both gets the ball out slowly and without enough mustard to reach its target on a line. He’s also subpar moving to his right at present, an issue exacerbated by fringy present arm strength but also his tendency to slide feet first on grounders in the six-hole. We’d like to see him get more reps at shortstop before throwing in the towel, though. There’s enough speed and a chance for another half grade of arm strength here, and we also want to give someone with this level of athleticism every chance to improve his footwork and throwing consistency before sliding him to second base.

Peña is not a finished product. We’d like to see him calm his tendency to chase elevated fastballs, lift the ball more often, and perform more consistently in all facets defensively. But while he doesn’t have Made’s ceiling, Peña is a great prospect in his own right, a promising blend of present skill and star upside if everything comes together. We try not to get reckless with comps, and he’s not an exact match physically or with his swing, but if this works, it could look a lot like Alfonso Soriano.

After missing nearly a year and a half with labrum and hamstring injuries, Quero returned this summer and reminded us why he was widely considered an impact prospect two years ago. At the plate, he has an intriguing blend of contact skill and game power. There’s plenty to like mechanically, as he stays in well, covers the plate, and has a connected swing that reliably produces solid contact. He swings a little more than you’d like, and can be lured out of the zone on low-and-away spin in particular, but he’s been more of an aggressive hitter than a reckless one so far. We think he’ll be a useful, power-over-OBP kind of bat.

The injuries did take a bite out of the profile here. Pre-injury, Quero’s arm was a weapon, with sub 1.9 pop times and rockets to second the norm. This year, his arm strength, accuracy, and mechanical consistency regressed, all of which combined to nearly halve his caught-stealing rate. The grade above reflects a blend of strength and accuracy — teams often grade those traits separately, but we’re simplifying here — the latter of which is especially concerning. Perhaps Quero will shake off the rust next season, and we’re projecting on the arm a little just to hedge, but his throwing has looked pretty messy in the Venezuelan Winter League this month. There’s a real chance that he just won’t be the same as he was before he tore his labrum.

Quero does enough to compensate elsewhere. He doesn’t always get himself in front of the ball, but he’s a good blocker when he does, and we’re projecting further improvement with maturity. We’re still figuring out how to weigh framing in an ABS world, but Quero’s at least a capable strike stealer, and does noticeably well lifting spinning breaking balls at and below the knees. While not a star, Quero projects as a solid regular, the kind of catcher who can hit seventh and keep the line moving while contributing defensively.

Henderson was a dominant junior college pitcher who punched 169 tickets in just 97 innings during his draft year. He’s been injured fairly often in pro ball; elbow issues kept him off the field for most of 2022, with elbow inflammation ending his season in 2025. But when he’s been able to pitch, Henderson has struck out roughly 30-35% of opponents and kept his walk rate in the single digits at every minor league stop, and he posted a sub-2.00 ERA in his 25.1 big league debut prior to hitting the IL in August.

Henderson has an excellent two-pitch foundation headlined by a mid-90s rise/run fastball and a nasty high-spin changeup, both of which he commands to effective locations. He so often relies on his changeup to get strikes that its chase and miss rates don’t properly illustrate its quality, while the inverse is true of Henderson’s fastball, which has inflated miss and chase because it’s usually used as a strikeout pitch above the zone.

Henderson definitely has starter-quality command, but he hasn’t developed a plus third pitch or proven that he has a starter’s durability. He’s never exceeded 100 innings in a single season, which bothers us, but in part because of the way big league starters are deployed nowadays, he isn’t far off from having what one could consider starter-quality stamina. Henderson has two different breaking balls — an upper-80s cutter that he uses against lefties and a low-80s curveball for righties — that have come and gone from his repertoire at different points in his development. Neither of them is particularly nasty, but he commands both of them to the edges of the zone. This should allow them to play well enough for Henderson to continue projecting as a team’s fourth starter. If not for injury, he’d have graduated in 2025 and might have been part of Milwaukee’s playoff rotation.

Letson sort of flew under the radar as a Purdue commit until he cracked 90 mph at Super 60 (a winter indoor workout and showcase for Midwest high school prospects) in his draft year. He signed for nearly half a million dollars in the 11th round as little more than a compelling mix of raw ingredients, but he developed enough over the next two years that he might be a Top 100 prospect right now had he not missed so much of 2025 with a shoulder injury.

Lanky, whippy and still projectable at 6-foot-4, Letson gets best-in-baseball extension at over seven-and-a-half feet, which adds a couple of perceived ticks to his heater. Because he pedals so far down the mound, he also has a low release height, creating bat-missing uphill angle on his tailing fastball. Off of that he bends in a low-80s sweeper that frequently shows plus action and plays as a back-foot weapon against lefties. Deeper in Letson’s arsenal are a cutter and changeup, both of which are crude and need the reps he lost to injury in 2025. This mix gives Letson pitches that finish in all four quadrants, and if he makes good on his physical projection and ends up throwing harder as he matures, he’ll have multiple plus pitches.

This is a limber, loose-bodied athlete with lots of room on his frame for more strength without losing any mobility. Letson will be a Pick to Click for us this offseason, a player who we expect will enter the Top 100 during the next 12 months, but because he’s only thrown about 100 total innings across two pro seasons, we’re not ready to windmill slam him into that stratosphere right now. He has All-Star upside, but is still mostly a developmental prospect.

Fischer toured the American South throughout his college career, with stops at Duke, Ole Miss, and then finally Tennessee for his draft year, during which he slashed .341/.497/.760 and moved into the first round. The Brewers made him the 20th overall pick and gave him a $3.5 million bonus, then sent him to High-A Wisconsin for the final three weeks of the season, where he posted a 141 wRC+.

Fischer has a big uppercut swing and is geared to pull and lift the baseball in the extreme. He averaged 18 degrees of launch at Tennessee in 2025 and a perhaps unsustainable 25 degrees in pro ball after he signed. He generates big leverage through effort and physical strength driven by his Popeye forearms, but he’s of medium build and his output is more about making consistent, hard, airborne contact than having enormous top-end raw power. Fischer’s approach makes him apt to swing over softer stuff, even when it doesn’t quite finish below the zone, especially changeups. Despite this issue, Fischer’s offensive skill set is pretty exciting, the sort that might yield an everyday third baseman if it turns out he can actually play there.

The roster situation at Tennessee dictated that Fischer played more first base than third base by a wide margin, but he played mostly third at Ole Miss, and also got experience at second base and in left field while in college. After the draft, the Brewers deployed him exclusively at third and he looked pretty good there. Aside from perhaps being a bit indecisive attacking slow rollers in on the grass, Fischer showed a little bit of everything on defense during his pro debut. He clearly has the arm to play third, he’s willing to lay out to maximize his lateral range, and he looked comfortable navigating the procedure at the position even though he was pushed directly to High-A. His hands are only fair, but he’s going to be a viable third baseman who gets to power. Though we’d be surprised if Fischer were to become a star, he looks like a potential everyday third baseman whose realistic floor is still that of a valuable, multi-positional player who mashes righties.

After being wooed at the last minute out of a Ball State commitment for a $252,500 bonus in the 15th round in 2023, Adamczewski barely played in his draft year, but he’s done nothing but hit since. He began to blow up during 2025 spring training, when he arrived noticeably stronger than he was in 2024, and with more thunder in his hands. SI joint irritation limited his 2025 regular season to 71 games, but he was still able to slash .320/.420/.490 in those and then .277/.415/.538 in 82 Fall League plate appearances after the season.

Adamczewski provides a great visual example of the way a smaller hitter can create tension in their body to produce big bat speed. Watch the attached video and note the way he’s rooted into the ground, and how his hands stay back while his hips start rotating and then finally explode when he decides to unleash them on the baseball. We think Adamczewski’s power might play down a tad in games because of his inside-out contact tendency. He’s going to bang a ton of doubles into the opposite field gap, but he’s less apt to turn on the baseball in a way that threatens the right field wall.

Adamczewski evokes Corey Dickerson in a number of ways, both in his ability to generate big bat speed despite his modest size and his likely left field-only fit on defense. Though he was drafted as an infielder, Adamczewski’s hands are bad enough that he was speculatively projected to left here at FanGraphs before he began getting reps out there in 2025. By the Fall League, he was playing left field almost exclusively, and we think he’s destined to play there permanently rather than rove. A big component of Adamczewski’s profile that differs from Dickerson’s is his plate discipline, which is plus. His breaking ball recognition is especially strong, which perhaps gives him a way to counter how lefties will likely attack him, and gives him more of a chance to be a true everyday player than we’re currently inclined to project. Here Adamczewski is forecast as a strong side platoon left fielder who we think will have a couple 20-homer seasons and be a valuable contributor despite adding little on defense.

Pratt was ranked 25th on the 2023 Draft Board but signed for an amount more consistent with a mid-second round prospect ($1.35 million) rather than head to Ole Miss. He had something of a breakout 2024 split between the two A-ball levels, with a .277/.362/.406 line. After just a month of High-A toward the end of 2024, the Brewers decided to accelerate Pratt’s promotion schedule, and he broke 2025 camp with Double-A Biloxi as a 20-year-old, then hit .238/.343/.348 there with 31 extra base hits and steals. It was a fair season reinforcing Pratt’s status as a solid prospect, though probably not a star.

The crux of Pratt’s prospect profile is his shortstop defense. For an athlete his size, he has good range and actions, and the arm strength to make accurate off-platform throws. It’d be too much to call him a Gold Glove-caliber talent, but he should be above average there at peak. Pratt has a more demure offensive skill set. He’s a precocious bat-to-ball hitter who has put up above-average contact rates the past couple of seasons (78% contact rate, 86% in-zone), but despite the 21-year-old’s impressive physicality, he hasn’t hit for great power. For two consecutive years now, Pratt’s underlying power data is a good bit shy of the big league average, and there are also some indications that his on-base skills are somewhat faulty. Pratt’s chase rate explodes with two strikes, as he goes from having a slightly below-average 26% mark to a rather concerning 47% rate (56% against secondary pitches). Every hitter’s chase rate takes a leap with two strikes (it’s strategically sound to expand your zone in that situation), but that’s a big jump and suggests that some of Pratt’s early-count takes are premeditated.

Pratt’s swing also has an intermission; he loads his hands and they come to a dead stop before he fires them toward the ball. It requires a ton of effort for him to do this, and he sometimes loses sight of the baseball in order to swing hard. These are the traits of a hitter who we worry will be late against big league fastballs and have a dip in overall performance. Gobs of doubles and a good shortstop glove should still carry Pratt to a valuable role, just with production south of what is average across the league.

The lilliputian, fleet-of-foot Lara is another of the Brewers’ talented young international signees who they put on an accelerated program after a great DSL debut. He slashed .257/.369/.343 as a 20-year-old at Double-A Biloxi in 2025. Lara’s carrying tool is his sensational center field defense. Not only is he a plus runner who covers huge ground when he’s going full tilt, but he has bold, acrobatic ball skills and will make spectacular plays diving into the gaps, or contorting himself at the wall. He was second among all pro outfielders in defensive runs saved and top 20 in outfield assists in 2025, per TruMedia data. We’ll stop short of calling Lara a future Gold Glover because his reads and routes are still a little crude, and at times he makes overzealous and ultimately errant throws to the bases, but he’s only 21 and has that kind of pure ability.

What’s tougher to project is Lara’s offense. He’s a plus contact hitter from the left side, but a lack of size and strength has caused his hit tool to play down due to poor contact quality. He takes a pretty good rip for for a guy his size (from the left side, anyway) and can manipulate the posture of his body to make flush contact. You can see him moving the barrel around in such a way that he might have surprising game power if he can get stronger. Lara’s athletic foundation and body composition are both exciting in this regard, but he’s just so, so small. Cedric Mullins is the precedent for someone with Lara’s size finding enough pop to be an impact player rather than a valuable fourth outfielder, but for every Mullins there are many more Victor Scott IIs who just don’t have a bunch of 4-plus WAR seasons in them, and instead are either nine-hole hitters who play everyday or luxury fourth outfielders.

The best prospect Milwaukee received in the Josh Hader trade with San Diego, Gasser is an athletic, low-slot lefty with an ultra-short arm action who hammers the zone with five different pitches. He was drafted in 2021, and by the end of 2023, he had worked over 135 innings in two consecutive seasons, the second of which came at Triple-A. He debuted in the majors in 2024 and made five starts before he blew out. A late-June Tommy John ended his season and kept Gasser out until mid-July of 2025, when he began his rehab assignment. He only made two big league starts in September, but he was still put on the Brewers’ playoff roster as one of their lower-leverage relievers. For the long haul, Gasser projects as more of an innings-eating no. 4/5 starter, a valuable regular season contributor who might again be relegated to the bullpen come October.

This is not a case of nominative determinism, as Gasser pumps low octane fastballs (four- and two-seamers) around 92 mph when he’s starting. He hides the ball well and creates uphill angle on his heaters thanks to his low arm slot, so they miss more bats than you’d expect given their velocity. Off of his fastballs Gasser bends in lots of big, long-arcing, low-80s sweepers, which is easily his best weapon from both a pure stuff and feel-for-location standpoint. A backfoot version of that pitch is his preferred way of attacking righties; his changeup has very little velocity separation from his fastball and plays like a below-average pitch against them. Gasser’s feel for cutter location was crude upon return from TJ, so that pitch also struggled. Overall, Gasser looked more like a high-volume strike thrower than a surgeon last year when he returned from rehab. He’ll likely play a meaningful role on Milwaukee’s 2026 pitching staff, competing for the fifth starter spot during spring training and, over time, rooting himself into the back of their big league group.

Thompson was a two-year starter at Vanderbilt who struck out 122 batters in 90 innings as a junior. He’s an athletic, well-conditioned, smedium-framed lefty with a deceptive arm stroke that helps impart vertical action on all of his pitches. His fastball played like a plus pitch at Vandy despite below-average velocity because Thompson’s mechanics hide the ball so well and generate uphill angle and ride on his heater, though his approach to pitching at the top of the zone with his fastball made him somewhat homer-prone as a junior; he surrendered 11 bombs in his 90 innings.

Thompson’s most-used secondary in 2024 was a mid-70s curveball, but he incorporated a low-80s slider in 2025. Those pitches have five ticks of velocity separation on average, but blend together around the 80-mph mark. Thompson’s vertical arm stroke helps add depth to both, and they’re more commonly located in the zone than for chase. Thompson’s changeup shows some of the classic markers of a vert slot guy; it’s tough for him to turn over consistently. Many of them sail on him, but he can occasionally create enough tailing action to miss bats. His rate stats on the changeup in 2025 were promising in terms of miss and chase, but some of that is because so few of them were in the zone that any swing was chasing it. Thompson didn’t pitch at an affiliate after the draft, but he did throw during Brewers instructs, where he sat 93-94 mph with his usual plus breaking stuff and no discernible changes nor improvement to his changeup. He’s a high-floored no. 4/5 starter prospect who could move quickly.

Knoth is an athletic 6-foot-1 righty with a lightning-fast arm. His drop-and-drive delivery is incredibly athletic, his low-90s fastball is seasoned by riding life, and he has a nasty, late-biting 12-to-6 curveball. His size, athleticism, and pitch mix evoke Sonny Gray. Knoth’s breaking ball is the Grim Reaper, an absolute yakker in the 78-80 mph range with huge downward break. He experienced a velocity boost in the spring of 2023 and moved from the early second round of the FanGraphs Draft Board into the first, before being drafted 33rd overall. He had a solid first pro season at Low-A — 21 starts, 84.1 inning, 26.6% K%, 11.1% BB% — then had TJ just before the start of the 2025 campaign, which kept him out all year.

Knoth doesn’t have prototypical starter’s size, but he’s a superlative on-mound athlete with mechanics that are as repeatable as they are electric. You can go nuts projecting on his changeup and a second breaking ball because of his arm speed and proclivity for spin, respectively. Knoth was also coming out of a cold weather location, and was only 17 on draft day. In 2024, he added a lateral, mid-to-upper-80s breaking ball, but he hasn’t added a changeup yet. He’s a post-TJ breakout candidate for 2026.

The son of former Dodgers farmhand and current Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel, Brady signed for slightly under slot with the 32nd pick of last year’s draft. He’s five inches taller than his dad, and is on the larger end for a middle infielder. That size feeds a well-rounded offensive projection, where there’s enough strength to project average impact but not so much lever length to think he’s going to have big swing-and-miss issues. The swing itself works, a mechanically simple cut with a short load and stride. The path can get a little long, but he’s also shown an ability to shorten it when he pulls his hands in on balls inside and can also flatten the barrel on pitches upstairs. Ebel isn’t especially twitchy, and the barrel feel is more good than exceptional, but this looks like a viable bat.

Defensively, he projects as a reliability-over-range shortstop. Ebel’s hands and footwork are clean, if a bit slow at times. He tends to field most of what he reaches, and he’ll surprise you with how far over he can get in the six-hole. His crispest throws are nearly plus already, and he’s very accurate when he gets his feet set. We project a plus arm all factors included, which should solidify a future at short barring significant physical development. Ebel’s got everyday ceiling there, though there are enough outstanding questions about how much game power he’ll have, and how much swing-and-miss could come with it, that we’ve left him down in this FV tier for now.

A brawny 6-foot-3, Burke is a big guy who generates plus-plus power without much effort. There’s a late bat wrap in his load, but it’s not too deep, and his hands are quick enough that he’s been able to cover the upper part of the zone thus far. He also shows an ability to adjust off the fastball, even against lefties — his dinger off a Hagen Smith slider speaks to this, and if he can do that type of thing more reliably, there’s everyday upside here. He’s not especially flexible, and some of his swings on pitches down or away look a little awkward, but he mostly covers the plate and he’s a terror on pitches on the inner half.

The trendlines are positive here. Burke is aggressive, though not helplessly so, and his chase rate was actually a bit lower in pro ball than at Tennessee. After good, if unimpressive, production in the Midwest League, he destroyed Double-A down the stretch, slugging nearly .600 in six weeks of action. He’s also remained competitive against lefties. He didn’t hit for a ton of power against them — his swing often looks a tick more tentative in those spots — but he’s done enough to dream on a potential regular for now. Bat-only guys really have to hit, so there are questions Burke won’t have the opportunity to answer until he sees better pitching: Will he catch elite fastballs up? Can he tread water against big-league southpaws? The safe guess is that his approach will dampen his OBP enough against better arms to make a platoon fit more palatable than a true everyday role, but the arrow is up a bit here, and it’s not out of the question that Burke can hit in the middle-third of an order.

Defensively, he’s a step-and-a-dive guy, adequate but not special; his arm is good enough to maybe steal a couple outs over the course of the season. It’s all about the bat here, and Burke will go as far as his takes him.

As noted in last year’s write up, Hardin’s transition from college reliever to professional starter has gone extraordinarily well. Too wild for the rotation at Mississippi State, Hardin is now pounding the strike zone, and he posted a walk rate barely above 1.5 BB/9 last season. Even with so many strikes, hitters are having trouble squaring him up. While his fastball velocity is just adequate, the pitch’s shape and release angle are helping him avoid barrels and generate chase upstairs, and his secondaries give him enough variety to keep hitters honest. Milwaukee’s getting all of this out of a 12th-round pick; it’s a huge win for the organization.

Still, it’s important not to go overboard on the stat line here. Hardin’s a good example of a guy whose control is ahead of his command. Nobody’s command is truly pinpoint, but watching his outings, it’s notable how often he winds up in a different lane than where his catcher set up. Hardin may have another grade of command growth in him — he’s still pretty lean for a 24-year-old, and further strength could help — but he’s more of a great strike-thrower than a marksman at this point. That will come into play more against better hitters, as the stuff is more average than special. His slider is fairly long and sharp, but not to the degree that he’s going to miss a ton of bats. He needs to tighten his cutter if he wants to reliably miss barrels, and while his change flashes, it too remains a work in progress. He’s a good pitching prospect, and a no. 4 outcome is certainly in play, but right now Hardin looks like more of a back-end/hybrid arm. It’s worth emphasizing, again, that that’s a huge credit to him and the Brewers’ PD group.

Payne held his own at Low-A Carolina, with an above-average batting line and several moments on both sides of the ball that demonstrated why Milwaukee made him a surprise first-round pick in 2024. A premium athlete, Payne is twitchy and a plus-plus runner. His max exit velocities are already big-league average, and there’s a chance he grows into plus power. Watch him race a ball down in the gap or turn on a pitch on the inside corner, and you can dream on a future star.

But the rawness that made Payne such a risky pick remains a significant part of the equation. His swing is messy. He starts closed but pulls off the plate significantly with an early hip leak that limits his ability to cover the middle of the plate — his 25% whiff rate on pitches in the heart of the plate was among the worst in the org — much less the outer third. His swing path itself is very flat. He ran a 50% groundball rate, and he’s practically tomahawking pitches above his hands. Moments like that get to the heart of the conundrum here: It’s not an ideal way to swing, but it’s kind of freaky that Payne can even do it at all.

This is a volatile profile, but Payne’s athleticism gives him a puncher’s chance of reaching his sky high ceiling. You’re not going to bat 1.000 or anything close just betting on athletes, but guys with this level of speed, twitch, and power have breakout potential far in excess of their less athletic peers. If you want another reason for optimism, Payne’s approach is actually fair, a bit passive but with better swing decisions and feel for contact than his strikeout rate suggests. There’s a lot of work to do to actualize those offensive projections, but the speed and defense gives Payne a big league floor, and there’s plenty of upside if everything clicks.

Crow was drafted by the Angels and then later traded to the Mets for Eduardo Escobar during the last (understandable, if misguided) gasp of the Halos’ Ohtani era. The timing of various injuries — elbow inflammation early in 2023 that led to TJ in August of that year — meant that Crow never pitched a game for a Mets affiliate before he was again traded, this time to Milwaukee for Adrian Houser and Tyrone Taylor. He was back in action for the 2024 Arizona Fall League and broke camp in 2025 with Double-A Biloxi, where Crow looked great into mid-June before injuries began to pop up yet again, first a hip issue and then a right elbow flexor strain that ended his season at just 50 innings. The Brewers still added Crow to their 40-man roster after the season.

Crow can spin a baseball with the best of them. His low-90s fastball averages upwards of 2,600 rpm, which is notable for any fastball, let alone one with below-average velo. All of his breaking balls routinely exceed 3,000 rpm and have different shapes, and all of them have plus length and bite. Crow will bend great upper-70s curveballs into the zone, and both his slider and cutter lack depth but still move a ton laterally. Crow’s fastball command, fastball playability, and overall athleticism look like that of a starting pitcher, but he’s predictable against lefties (backdoor curveballs, elevated fastballs) and needs an arm-side weapon to be a complete starter. He hasn’t been able to carry a starter’s load of innings since 2022, and his injury history forces us to project him in the bullpen, but we think there’s a chance he’d be a really good reliever if it turns out he can sit 95 for an inning at a time.

Yoho won a high school state championship as a shortstop and began his college career as an outfielder at Houston. He had TJ as a freshman in 2019, didn’t play in 2020 due to the tail end of his rehab and the pandemic, and then transferred to Indiana and had a second TJ in 2021, followed by surgery to repair a dislocated kneecap that winter. He pitched just 37 career college innings during one healthy season in Bloomington. Even though he was about to be a 23, Yoho still had college eligibility left because of all his injuries and the pandemic, and he was committed to transfer to Arkansas for the 2024 season when he was drafted and agreed to sign with Milwaukee for just a $10,000 bonus in 2023.

Yoho rocketed through the minors in 2024 and reached Triple-A, striking out 42.4% of opponents and posting a 0.94 ERA across three levels. Though he was again dominant at Triple-A Nashville in 2025 (Yoho again had a 0.94 ERA in 47.2 innings), he struggled to throw strikes in his 8.2 big league innings and was left off Milwaukee’s playoff roster. He’s one of only a couple Brewers relievers who has multiple option years left entering 2026, so it stands to reason that he might be up and down again because of the depth and flexibility that affords the club, but over the next season and a half, we think Yoho’s changeup quality and deceptive delivery will allow him to grow into a key relief role.

Yoho has a four-pitch mix but leans heavily on his screwball-style changeup, which has 15 mph of velocity separation off his 93-ish mph heater. It has ridiculous tailing action that can run off the hip of lefties for looking strikes, or be buried below the zone for whiffs. This changeup is the foundation of the east/west nightmare hitters must reckon with as they face Yoho. His nearly sidearm slot (his forearm and hand turn over super late) creates uphill angle on his tailing fastball, and he’ll mix in 88-90 mph cutters to present a different look. Yoho’s curveball has above-average depth but is only 76 mph or so, and its lack of power makes his ability to locate it (which is mixed) important to its success. All of these pitches have functionality, but they play down a bit due to Yoho’s command, which is well below average. He’s a unique bullpen weapon despite his inefficiency and has one of the weirdest, coolest-looking deliveries in the sport.

Wichrowski has a good arm and flashes a plus sweeping curveball. But even though he’s a decent athlete, things haven’t really clicked in a way that suggests he can start long-term. The arsenal is shallow — he’s toyed with a few other pitches, but he’s primarily fastball/slider/curveball — and his command, and his execution of his breaking stuff in particular, is not very consistent. His rock-and-fire delivery can put him off balance, and he’s prone to missing uncompetitively when he’s out of sync, particularly to the arm side on spin. Combined with some round-down traits on his fastball, this looks like a reliever.

But for all the pessimism in that first paragraph, Wichrowski could be pretty good in short stints. He’s holding 93-96 mph in his starts, so he should have another gear if he really airs it out in relief. If the velo comes, you could be looking at two plus pitches and just enough strikes to work in a leverage role. In a system overflowing with starting pitching depth, Wichrowski stands out as a guy who could move quickly if he’s converted to relief.

Milwaukee’s second-rounder out of a New Jersey high school in 2024, Meccage did not allow a hit during his senior year. He’s a physical and relatively polished pitcher, every bit of his listed size and possibly a little bigger now. He’s a slower twitch guy, a fair athlete without much physical projection, and his velocity actually declined a tick over the course of a full-season’s workload. The delivery and stroke are clean enough to develop him as a starter, though he’s more of a “hit a region” than a “hit a spot” guy.

Meccage can rear back for 98 mph, but over his longer outings, he sat around 93-95 with enough life to miss bats when he locates well. His slider is his best pitch, a two-plane offering with variable depth that could play plus in a relief role. His newfound curveball is identifiable out of the hand and projects as a strike-stealer. He’ll also throw an occasional changeup, and gets enough sink to think it could be average at maturity if he keeps playing with it. There’s backend starter upside here, but also relief risk if Meccage can’t consistently hold his stuff as he stretches out further.

Dinges began his college career at Tallahassee Community College, where during his sophomore year he developed Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH for short), which is a potentially fatal autoimmune disease where white blood cells are produced in excess and attack tissues and organs rather than an actual invader, like a virus. For weeks, Dinges had a fever of 105 or so and was literally fighting for his life, in and out of different hospitals before he was properly diagnosed and treated by, ironically, a pediatric rheumatologist and professor at the University of Florida. Dinges recovered and transferred to Florida State (hence the irony) for his junior year. He had a .998 OPS and more walks than strikeouts in his lone Division-I season, and was drafted in the fourth round. He stood out during his first Instructional League for his twitch, athleticism, and fairly loud tools. Throughout his 2025 full season debut, Dinges was walking more than he was striking out at Low-A and was quickly promoted to Wisconsin, where he spent most of the season. In total he slashed .300/.416/.514, walked at a 15.5% clip, and hit 13 homers in just 77 games, limited by a hamstring injury. Dinges went to the Fall League, but only played in two games before he was shut down with another hammy issue.

Dinges looked noticeably bigger and stronger by the end of the 2025 calendar, something we wanted to see out of him during the last list cycle, when he was much more slender than the typical pro catcher. He has exciting tools and twitch for a backstop. His swing has real verve and huge finish, he’s agile, and his pure arm strength is impressive. He’s still a very crude receiver, pitch framer, and ball blocker, and there are times when Dinges mishandles his exchange and never gets a throw off. His swing is also really long. He struggles to turn on the baseball at all and peppers right field with an overwhelming majority of his airborne contact. The tools of a potential primary catcher are here but not the size or technical acumen, at least not yet. For now, Dinges continues to project as more of a backup.

Cairone, who was signed away from a Coastal Carolina commitment for just over a million bucks, is a breakout candidate in this system. The smooth-operating southpaw has a gorgeous delivery and fairly projectable frame, and Cairone’s fastball velocity has been climbing steadily throughout the last year and a half. During the summer after his junior year of high school, he was sitting about 86; post-2025 instructs (in a casual, short-outing setting), he was 91-93. Cairone (pronounced like “Tyrone”, some Erykah Badu jokes were made during the completion of this prospect list) throws quality strikes with his fastball and showed similarly advanced feel for his 80-ish-mph slider. That pitch is better in the zone than as a finisher right now. We’re skeptical of the sustainability of new velocity like this when it’s seen in well-rested, one- or two-inning spurts like Cairone’s was in the fall, but we can’t help but be excited by his overall stuff, feel, and athleticism ingredients, and are giving him fairly aggressive placement here.

DeBerry flew to Double-A and had success there in his second pro season. Below-average arm strength and a pedestrian draft profile and bonus have kept him off the radar, but he has a bunch of interesting ingredients lurking beneath the surface and, perhaps, a path to a real breakout.

Let’s start with what he’s already doing well. DeBerry is a long-levered, low-three-quarters release guy who gets out over the rubber and generates above-average extension and thus a pretty flat approach angle. His fastballs play ahead of the number and while neither is great, they’re viable parts of a deep pitch mix. Where it gets interesting is everywhere else. DeBerry’s curveball, cutter, and especially his slider all have big, sharp break, and each is capable of missing bats. Impressively, he’s able to hit both sides of the plate with the slider and cutter, pitchability that will let him get by without overexposing his fastballs.

What’s really unusual, though, is that he’s also able to get plus tail on his changeup. Most guys can generate horizontal movement one way or the other, but DeBerry does both. And even though he hasn’t thrown it a ton, both his feel for and chase rates on the change are really promising.

All of that would be good for a write up in any case, but even though he’s already 23, there may be more coming. Like a number of pitchers in this system, DeBerry has room to strengthen his lower half: Pull up some video, and you can see how his front leg stays bent through release, a sure sign that there’s room to build strength. We can’t sit here and predict that it’ll come — player development is hard, man — but the dream is that DeBerry might have another tick or three to unlock. The ceiling involved in that sounds almost too irresponsible to write, so we’ll back off and just say that if you’re looking for a sleeper in this tier, DeBerry may just be the guy.

Wilken has stagnated at Double-A. His back shoulder collapse and tendency to drift toward third are limiting his ability to cover the upper and outer halves of the plate, and both his swing-and-miss rate and batting average are a real concern, particularly for a major-conference player repeating Double-A. If anything, these mechanical tendencies are trending in the wrong direction, as he used to hang in a little better. Wilken also isn’t hitting for the same level of raw power he produced with a metal bat. He still has juice, but not so much to think that he can have Russell Branyan’s peak. His ability to play a serviceable third base gives him a shot at a corner infield platoon role.

Rodriguez had a breakout 2022 and has spent the last couple of seasons in the upper levels, throwing strikes with modest stuff and holding low-90s velo across just shy of 130 annual innings. A forearm strain curtailed his 2025 workload, but when healthy (including during his second big league cup of coffee) Rodriguez’s stuff continued to look like that of a backend starter across his 93.2 combined innings.

If Rodriguez made progress in 2025, it was with the quality of his changeup’s location, which was more on the edge of the strike zone than in the heart of it. This is a pitch where the data disagrees with itself. It’s considered below-average by the Stuff+ model, but it was able to generate plus miss and chase against Triple-A hitters in 2025. Our visual evaluation of the pitch is a little south of average right now, and though Rodriguez’s feel for locating it definitely took a leap, he’s tended to run double-digit walk rates and isn’t an especially great athlete. Righties see a lot different breaking balls across a 15-mph velo range from Rodriguez, the best and most consistent of which is a low-80s slider that he leans on in most key counts and situations. The Brewers have now used two of his option years and Rodriguez has struggled to establish himself in a big league role. Milwaukee’s depth means he’s nearing a time when he might either move to the bullpen or be traded to a team that needs an innings-eating fifth starter.

Instead of heading to Michigan State, Adams signed for a little less than $300,000 as a 2022 12th rounder. Over the next 18 months, he became a lower-minors third base performer of note by virtue of his elite plate discipline and brawling, 6-foot-4 frame. Adams owns a career .424 OBP because of his hyper selective approach, as well as his masterful ability to put his elbow guard in the way of the baseball. In basically two full seasons of plate appearances (1,350), Adams has been hit by 94 pitches. That’s roughly 7% of his plate appearances, whereas the average big league walk rate is 8%, and HBP kings like Derek Dietrich and Ty France get beaned at a 4-5% clip. There are instances when Adams was definitely going to get hit by a pitch anyway and simply finds a way to spare himself by getting his elbow guard to the spot, but there are also times when he does it on purpose and dares the umpire to say so, as well as times when teams retaliate for him having done that (Montgomery pitchers twice hit Adams in the head last year following sketchy HBPs). That Adams stands right on top of the plate trying to pull everything gives him lots of opportunities to utilize this skill.

While Adams stays on time enough to pull the ball regularly, this is a hitter with medium bat speed, comfortably below the huge explosion of an impact first baseman, the position he has played more and more frequently as he has climbed the minors. The data (Adams had a 38% hard-hit rate in 2025, below the big league average) supports the visual evaluation in this case, though Adams was limited by a shoulder contusion in 2025, and it’s possible that impacted his power. Adams executes his mistake-hunting approach really well and gets to the power he has, which is about 45-grade raw. Though Adams’ soft skills definitely season his profile in a meaningful way, we don’t expect he’ll be able to sustain the 25% BB+HBP rate he’s had so far against big leaguers. We think he’s a big leaguer, but with this kind of power, we anticipate he’ll end up toward the bottom third of his peer group across a multi-year window.

Dickinson transferred from Utah Valley to LSU after two consecutive years with cartoonish stats for the Wolverines, and followed those with a .315/.458/.525 line as a junior in the SEC. Twitchy, explosive, and with rare capacity for movement, Dickinson’s body unfurls beautifully as he swings. Though he passed the test of hitting in a big conference with a 13.8% strikeout rate, his underlying power performance was underwhelming, forcing us to consider whether Dickinson’s swing is actually explosive or just pretty. In college, he posted a peak exit velo (110 mph) in line with the big league average , but his hard-hit rate (38%) and EV90 (102 mph) were closer to the college average, and that’s with composite bats. Dickinson is best when he’s torching elevated fastballs to his pull side, but a lot of them are just well-struck singles even though he looked bigger and stronger in 2025.

Dickinson played all over the place in college, including on the Cape, but was second base-only at LSU. Added bulk while in Baton Rouge seems to have cost him some mobility on defense. He has acrobatic body control and makes some great throws across his body, which often bails him out of plays made tougher by a lack of range. Dickinson also looks most comfortable throwing when he’s moving toward first base (which you do less often at second), so third base might be the best pro option for him, but he only played second base during instructs. He’ll probably need more power to profile as a regular second baseman, so positional versatility might be an important part of Dickinson’s development. This is an eventual utility profile for us, likely at a mix of lesser positions.

Fenelon is a tooled-up center field prospect with a chance for plus power and speed at maturity. As you’d expect from all but the bluest chips out of the DSL, though, there’s a lot of hit tool risk here. His swing is steep and only geared for pitches down and in right now. He also looks utterly lost on breaking balls. We encourage you to take an 18-year-old’s splits with a boulder of salt, but Fenelon’s bottom-of-the-system whiff rate on spin speaks to this problem. We’ll have to wait and see how this skill matures. We really like the athlete and have him on the shortlist of the system’s most volatile players.

Antunez remains all projection. He’s a plus athlete and runner with a chance for above-average power, and although not much of that found its way into games last summer, we’re focusing on the tools at this point. Antunez has a sweet, if long, swing, and while his leg kick can get him off balance against spin, he has the kind of cut and physical foundation we want to stay on. For now, we’re holding steady on him.

Kuehner has sufficient stuff, arsenal depth, and arm strength to start, but perhaps didn’t get enough of the magic dust the Brewers give their guys to help them throw strikes. He’s not recklessly wild, but he’s a “hit a region” guy and the quality of his secondaries isn’t good enough to compensate for the number of deep counts he runs and free passes he allows. It’s not uncommon for guys to see their control take a step forward in relief, and whether or not that happens here will determine if Kuehner is a club’s first or second southpaw out of the ‘pen.

The former option is in play. The lefty touches 97 in the early innings, and pretty comfortably sits in the mid-90s. As a lower slot guy, he generates above-average tail and should have no trouble missing barrels if he’s able to hew to the upper part of that velo band. He has two breaking balls, neither of which is great in a vacuum, but the deception he generates from that low slot gives left-handed hitters a hard time. He wouldn’t be just a LOOGY either, as his two-seamer pairs well with his change, and should help to limit his platoon splits. This is his 40-man platform year, so unless he’s gangbusters in a length role out of the gate, it might make sense to think about a relief conversion sooner rather than later.

Morrison is a strike-throwing behemoth who comes from an athletic Michigander family, as his mom (basketball), dad (football) and sister (volleyball) all played college sports. He was recruited by a lot of local schools but was poached by Coastal, and after his first two seasons there were marred by home runs and a Tommy John, Morrison helped lead the Chanticleers to Omaha in 2025 by working deep into games and throwing a ton of strikes.

Morrison’s size and vertical arm slot create steep angle on his fastball, and his quick arm action helps him hide the ball from hitters, who look very uncomfortable facing him. His pure stuff isn’t overwhelming; his fastball only sits 92-93, and his 83-87 mph slider is short enough that you might consider it a cutter. But Morrison’s size creates some extra depth on that slider, he commands it, and his spike curveball gives him a way to attack lefties. Though he only has the one year of effective starter performance under his belt, Morrison threw 107 innings and is closer to proving he can start than a lot of other pitchers in this system. He’s a low-variance future backend rotation piece.

A small-dollar signing out of Nicaragua, Hernandez is a loose and athletic kid who badly needs to get stronger. He does plenty of things well: The delivery is clean, his arm action is downright pretty, he has changeup feel, he can move the fastball, and whether it’s from a slight pause in his delivery or something else innate, he has a knack for keeping hitters off balance. There’s even decent arm speed to project on here, but Hernandez is still small and thin, and the corresponding lack of strength is limiting his ability to throw gas. All of this was true 18 months ago as well, so the lack of development is a little concerning. We like Hernandez’s feel to pitch enough to still see backend starter ceiling, but the floor is pretty low.

Dorchies, a lanky, 6-foot-5 UIC commit from Cary, NC, signed for just $162,500 in 2024 and had a good first full season in which he reached Low-A and posted a 2.74 ERA and K’d a batter per inning in 82 total frames. This is an athletic developmental project who, for us, has separated himself from the other mid-six-figure bonus high schoolers from Milwaukee’s 2024 draft class by virtue of his delivery and physical projection. Dorchies gets way, way down the mound and generates over seven feet of extension even though he looks like a fairly generic athlete. His slider has promising depth but below-average bite at present due to a general lack of velocity. He has a shot to develop an impact fastball/slider combo at peak, but a lot of other stuff has to happen (third pitch, better command) for him to project as a starter. Those things are within the realm of possibility, but they’re still more in the deep horizon of his development than they are imminent.

Encarnacion has some hitterish traits. He uses the whole field, keeps his head still, tracks pitches well, and shows a feel for manipulating the barrel. Just 18, his top exit velocities are already nearly big-leave average, and while he’s not especially large or projectable, he is a good athlete who could grow into a little more natural pop. The approach is mature too: He has one of the org’s lowest chase rates and one of the highest swing rates on pitches in the heart of the plate. There’s a little mechanical funk in how he does it — Encarnacion has a big hitch down, which he didn’t have as an amateur — but this looks like a viable hitter. Encarnacion is primarily a corner outfielder these days, so we’re projecting more of a tweener than a regular, but that’s still another win for the Latin America scouting group.

Black is a square (jawed) peg in a round hole. He’s a boxy, somewhat ill-proportioned guy and also a plus runner. A good base stealer stuck mostly in left field and at first base. A high-motor player who patiently works the count. He’s got feel to hit yet rarely swings. He’s a first baseman with doubles pop. What the heck do you do with a guy like this?

In theory, Milwaukee is as well-positioned as anyone to take advantage of Black’s peculiar package, as the team has found valuable roles for all manner of misfits in recent years. The ideal scenario is probably one in which Black primarily plays against righties; he hangs in okay against southpaws but hasn’t hit for a lick of power against them as a professional. He may also need a caddy against elite velocity, as his muscly, high-effort swing isn’t ideally suited for triple-digit heat and hasn’t performed well against big league fastballs in limited action. Put in the right situation, his ability to work a count, use the whole field, drive a mistake, and take every last extra base should flourish, but there are limitations to consider.

It would obviously help considerably if Black could at least fake it at second, third, or in center. He didn’t see any game action at those spots last year, though the hamate injury he suffered last spring may have played a part in that. Whether or not Milwaukee revives those experiments will play a part in whether Black settles in as a 40 or a 45. We don’t see quite enough pop to carry a regular role here, but Black is a “find a way” kind of player, and he does enough things well to think he can carve out a role for himself on a big league roster.

Plus-plus raw power gives Bitonti a puncher’s chance to profile as a dangerous bat off the bench, though his propensity to swing and miss may expose him well before that point. He’s a slower twitch guy with a long swing, a tough blend for a stiffer athlete with limited ability to adjust his bat path and front side leak that pulls him well off the plate. He’s a good example of a player whose measurable bat speed (max velocity, which is high in Bitonti’s case) differs considerably from his bat speed in the way scouts have traditionally used the term (more like time from first move to contact point, which is slow). The data is alarming as well. Bitonti’s swing-and-miss rate on fastballs up is sky high for a big leaguer, much less someone facing A-ball velocity, and he also struggles to read soft stuff out of the hand. He’s young and his prodigious pop gives him runway, but this isn’t going to work if he can’t make considerably more contact. Bitonti will really need to hit, too, as he’s basically first base-only now and not especially spry around the bag.

Anderson has bat speed, gets to lift consistently, and could grow into plus power. That’s a good start, particularly for a guy who shows signs of being able to adjust off the fastball. His swing is grooved, though, and he tends to mishit a lot of what he reaches. An aggressive approach isn’t doing him any favors, as both his swing and chase numbers are pretty scary for a hitter at his level. There’s a short-side platoon ceiling here if Anderson can find a way to hunt pitches in his bat path, but it’ll require a sea change in how he goes about his business.

Frias signed for $350,000 as a projectable corner outfielder with hitterish traits. He has the frame to grow into above-average power, and he’s a sleeper to be the biggest overachiever in Milwaukee’s 2025 international class. He’s eons away, and has some things to clean up at the plate, but the early returns on Frias’ raw power and feel for contact give him an everyday ceiling in right field. He’s also got an absolute hose for an arm which, in addition to its obvious on-field utility, is another indication that we’re dealing with the kind of athlete who could break out in the next couple of years.

Rodriguez pumps mid-90s heat out of a low slot, but it’s his slider that lands him on the list, a 70-grade two-plane monster either side of 90 with very sharp break. High-A hitters were completely overmatched by it, whiffing on nearly half the swings they took. None of that will matter if Rodriguez can’t throw more strikes. For the second year running, he walked more than a batter per inning and things seem unlikely to change absent an overhaul to his delivery. As is, Rodriguez is a max effort guy with a huge drop and drive and one of the more violent head whacks you’ll find. It’s worth seeing how this all looks when he’s not trying to throw everything through a brick wall; for now, we’re in a holding pattern.

Birchard is a large, deceptive righty who throws straight over the top. His fastball gets 20 inches of vertical break with barely any tail, and it’s been a bat-missing monster against A-ball hitters despite pedestrian velocity. The heater pairs well with an overhand curve that flashes plus, and there’s a couple of other complementary pitches that wiggle and change speeds to keep everybody honest.

Control is the bugaboo here, as Birchard’s six walks per nine were actually an improvement over 2024’s output. He’s tightly wound, flies open, and has a pronounced head whack, all of which limit his ability to hit a spot and puts a ceiling on how much growth we can expect here. But Birchard’s around the plate more than the numbers suggest, and he’s not such a bad misser to think that a “throw it down the middle” approach couldn’t produce viable, if still well below-average, control. No guarantees of course, but there’s middle relief upside if Birchard can find the plate more often.

A glove-first utility player, Garcia is rangy enough for shortstop, though he’s less a wizard than a guy who takes care of all the simple things with aplomb. He gets himself in the right spots, reads the hop well, and makes accurate throws from all angles. He’d recently started playing center field at last check in, an experiment that’s going just fine. He’s still getting his sea legs, but looks comfortable enough given his lack of reps. At the plate, steady as she goes. He’s still got average power and can backspin balls out to all fields when you find his barrel in the lower third, but no matter how many different setups he tries — he cycled through a few this season — it isn’t the tonic for an over-expansive approach and grooved swing. He’s played well in the Venezuelan Winter League these past two offseasons, and while he may earn an up-down bench role at his stateside peak, in the long run he projects as a guy to be remembered down there.

Wood’s offensive output is heavily tied to his capacity for working walks and putting the ball in play. So far, so good, but the lefty’s fringy pop portends fewer of the former as he faces better pitching, particularly since he’s prone to getting passive. He rarely swings at the first pitch and his chase rate jumps with two strikes, both markers more of a guy taking advantage of pitchers who can’t hit the box reliably than one with all-world discernment. Wood is adequate defensively, a bit too noisy in his receiving to be a good framer but a guy with viable catch and throw skills. He continues to trend as an up-down catcher.

Di Turi hasn’t hit much since leaving the complex midway through 2024. He’s a patient hitter, so his walk totals have kept the overall line afloat, but he’s got a bad blend of below-average power and a lot of swing and miss. Part of that stems from Di Turi’s bat path, which is better suited for low-ball contact and lacks the requisite verve to consistently reach high heat in the upper part of the zone. His exit velocities remain well below league average, and given his lack of physical projection, there’s not much upside here unless he can find a way to put the bat on the ball more often.

There’s just enough stick to project him as a utilityman, because the glove is quite good. The talent on Carolina’s roster pushed Di Turi into a bit of a utility role where he played more third base than anything else, but he still projects as an up-the-middle defender. His hands, instincts, and throwing accuracy are all plus, and we see enough range to grade him as an average defender at shortstop.

One thing to monitor: Di Turi’s output cratered in the second half. After batting .262/.348/.456 through June, he fell to a miserable .141/.266/.167 down the stretch. He never missed time nor suffered the kind of surge in whiff rate or drop in measurable power that could easily be attributed to a big injury, but if he was playing through something nagging, our forecast on his bat could prove a tad pessimistic.

Flores is a physically mature teenage righty from the same high school as Josh Adamczewski. He’s a stocky 6-foot-1 athlete, but he has super long levers and will surprise you with bigger extension than that. This is a likely reliever who operates with more effort and violence than most starters do, and who throws too few strikes to project as a starter right now. But Flores has a shot to be good out of the ‘pen. He’s an open strider who gets to a vertical slot via trunk tilt, and he was parked in the 93-96 mph range during Brewers intrasquads in the fall. A plus-flashing slider with a gyro-style look is the cornerstone of Flores’ profile, while a sink-action changeup in the 85-86 mph range gives him a deep enough mix for the Brewers to run him out as a starter just to see how things progress. He’s a low-level prospect to monitor who we think will eventually be a solid middle reliever.

Episcope lettered in baseball and swimming at his Chicago high school, and posted a 70-to-4 K-to-BB ratio as a senior before metriculating to Princeton. He was one of the early spring’s pop-up draft-eligible sophomores, but he blew out four starts into 2025 and needed surgery. Episcope was up to 97 during his narrow window of health and was dealing multiple plus-flashing breaking balls. The curveball — 77-81 mph, 2,800 rpm — has a vertical attack and exciting depth, while Episcope commands his cutter/slider — 84-88 mph, 2650 rpm — in around the hands of lefties. We think he has a shot to be a starter in pro ball even without a better changeup thanks to the utility his curveball and cutter have versus lefties, and consider Episcope a high-priority scouting target for teams to go out of their way to see and understand prior to next year’s trade deadline.

Hostetler popped on the radar when he touched 98 in Milwaukee’s 2025 Spring Breakout game. He spent most of the year on the shelf, and his stuff, particularly his breaking ball, lacked that level of crispness when he did get on the mound. He was a trendy pop-up pick last offseason and he remains an interesting flier, but at this point, we need to see him throw more before we get too excited.

Hunt is about as stretched out as a Brewers prospect is going to get. He threw 121.1 innings in 2025, approached 100 pitches a few times, and had some success turning over the order multiple times. That’ll serve him well in the depth starter role he’s likely to occupy, as his arsenal depth is well-suited to length work and he lacks the standout secondary that might otherwise hasten a transition to relief.

Hunt’s three secondaries are distinct weapons that all play average or better. The curveball will be a pure steal-a-strike pitch against elite hitters, but the depth on it should allow him to do just that pretty reliably. His slider flashes above average and, in possibly the best development for him in 2025, his change now does as well, as increased usage seems to have augmented his ability to consistently execute the pitch. The movement isn’t special, but Hunt’s arm speed and feel for keeping it down help it play, and he’s correspondingly increased his usage of the change year over year. A pedestrian fastball limits his ceiling, as even with a fair amount of carry, it’s very vulnerable in the zone.

In some ways, Hunt is a throwback to 15-20 years ago, when you could stick a guy with this sort of mix at the back of the rotation without worrying he’s going to give up two homers an outing. He may still be capable of occupying that role in a big, forgiving outfield, but in most contexts, he likely fits better as a no. 6 or 7 starter.