Here are the Brewers’ 2023 Top 30 prospects
There’s enjoying to your strengths, and there’s what the Brewers did within the first sport of Cactus League play this yr. Going from left to proper, the membership began Sal Frelick, Garrett Mitchell and Joey Wiemer in its spring-opening lineup. Put one other method, Milwaukee’s No. 2, 4 and 3 prospects, respectively, had been a part of the identical outfield group.
“Looking at the lineup card and seeing they’re on my left and my right was really cool,” Mitchell instructed reporters, together with MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy, after the Feb. 25 contest, through which he homered twice. … I really feel prefer it’s one thing the Brewers must be excited for as a company. Hopefully, it’s sooner quite than later.”
Intentional or not, the message was clear – the Brewers’ farm system is loaded on the grass as MLB Pipeline’s up to date Top 30 prospects checklist makes clear.
The group’s high 4 prospects, together with all three Top 100 representatives, play the outfield, headlined by 2022 breakout star Jackson Chourio. The Venezuela native surged three ranges in his age-18 season, displaying off plus energy and 70-grade velocity on his technique to changing into the No. 8 prospect within the sport. Frelick additionally climbed three ranges in his first full season, and the 2021 first-rounder could have saved the perfect for final at Triple-A Nashville, the place he hit .365 with only a 7.4 p.c strikeout charge in 46 video games. Wiemer began to faucet extra into his prodigious pop again in 2021, and regardless of some hit-tool questions stemming from his noisy swing, the 24-year-old nonetheless profiles as a probably prototypical proper fielder with an absolute cannon of an arm.
All that stated, it’s Mitchell who’s trying like he’s in pole place to be the Brewers’ Opening Day heart fielder. The UCLA product exhibits top-of-the-line velocity and is usually a particular defender in the course of the grass, however his Major League strikeout charge and continuous points with elevating contact stored him out of the Top 100 for now. No. 5 prospect Brice Turang, whose athleticism has been on show at a number of spots, might be one other MLB possibility in fast time.
The Crew is a bit gentle on pitching, however there’s hope on the horizon there too. Jacob Misiorowski – the group’s second-round decide final yr – can contact triple digits and has some really feel for spin with an above-average slider he displayed on the junior faculty degree.
Biggest soar/fall
Here are the gamers whose ranks modified probably the most from the 2022 preseason checklist to the 2023 preseason checklist.
Jump: Chourio (2022: No. 9 | 2023: No. 1)
An eight-spot soar may not look like the most important leap in a complete Top 30, however contemplate that Chourio wasn’t even in Top 100 consideration a yr in the past and is now a common Top 10 prospect. The right-handed slugger hit .288/.342/.538 with 20 homers and 16 steals in 99 video games at Single-A, High-A and Double-A, and his velocity helped ease his transition into changing into a powerful defensive heart fielder. As loaded as this outfield group is, nobody else comes near Chourio’s immense ceiling.
Fall: Joe Gray Jr., OF (2022: No. 13 | 2023: NR)
After lacking vital time early in his profession, Gray loved a 20-20 season in 2021, although issues about his penchant for strikeouts held him again from being a Top 10 expertise coming into ’22. Those worries had been validated final season when he hit simply .193 with a career-high 33.6 p.c Ok charge and 76 wRC+ in 123 video games at High-A Wisconsin. He enters his sixth yr in Minor League Baseball with out expertise above A-ball.
Best instruments
Players are graded on a 20-80 scouting scale for future instruments — 20-30 is nicely beneath common, 40 is beneath common, 50 is common, 60 is above common and 70-80 is nicely above common. Players in parentheses have the identical grade.
Hit: 70 – Sal Frelick
Power: 60 – Jackson Chourio (Joey Wiemer, Jace Avina)
Run: 80 – Garrett Mitchell
Arm: 70 — Mitchell
Defense: 60 – Mitchell (Brice Turang, Jeferson Quero, Robert Moore, Eduardo Garcia)
Fastball: 80 – Abner Uribe
Curveball: 65 – Joseph Hernandez
Slider: 60 — Uribe
Changeup: 60 – Ethan Small (Logan Henderson)
Control: 55 – Janson Junk
How they had been constructed
Draft: 16 | International: 10 | Trade: 3 | Free agent: 1
Breakdown by ETA
2023: 12 | 2024: 6 | 2025: 8 | 2026: 3 | 2027: 1
Breakdown by place
C: 2 | 1B: 0 | 2B: 3 | 3B: 0 | SS: 6 | OF: 9 | RHP: 8 | LHP: 2
