We’re already at the end of December, and I have the urge to talk baseball. Yes, that’s right, baseball. Spring training is only a few months away, as the Brewers look to win the National League Central title again. This article includes a list of the top prospects in the Brewers organization.
Some players listed are already on the team but didn’t get enough at-bats or innings pitched. The Brewers have a nice mix of young hitters at all different positions, and some power arms that might help them this year.
Let’s look at this list and discuss a few of these guys.
Jacob Misiorowski (RHP)
First up on the list is power arm Jacob Misiorowski. He started in Double-A and then moved to Triple-A to end the year. His fastball velocity is 96-99 MPH but topped 102 MPH. Jacob stands 6’7 tall, so he releases the ball at just over five feet off the ground. This has helped him to generate a Verticle Approach Angle of -4.1, an impressive number.
Misiorowski also gets an insane 7.4 feet of extension, which is in the 99 percentile in Major League Baseball, with his power, movement, and extension. His fastball looks about 3 MPH faster while hitting. Misiorowski will also mix in a good low 90 MPH slider that acts like a hard cutter instead of a classic slider. His slider is probably his best secondary pitch, generating a whiff rate of 16.7% at Triple-A.
His mid-80s curveball saw the biggest improvement in 2024. His curveball became his primary “out pitch”. At triple A his curveball generated a chase rate of 39.6% and a whiff rate of 41%. He also has a changeup that needs a lot of work, he didn’t throw it at all in 2024 because he lacks command with it although it has good downward rotation.
The Brewers were very cautious with him only pitching 97.1 innings between Double-A Biloxi and Triple-A Nashville. It remains to be seen if he will stay a starter or a reliever. His 14.39% walk rate at 5 walks per 9 batters is very alarming and still needs to be addressed. There’s no question he will be on the big squad in 2025 barring injury, but it remains to be seen when he will get called up. So look for him to start at Triple-A Nashville to begin the season.
Jeferson Quero (C)
Quero was signed in 2019 out of Venezuela. He was given the sixth-highest bonus in the Brewers class at $200,000. He is known for his makeup behind the plate and his ability to manage a pitching staff. He only had 1 at-bat last year due to dislocating his throwing shoulder, which led to a tear in his labrum, ending his 2024 Triple-A season and delaying his MLB debut.
Still only 22 years old, pitchers and coaches love his playcalling and his competitiveness. His pop-up time was 1.86 seconds and averages around 1.9 seconds, which would put him in the top 10 in the MLB last year. His injury was to his throwing arm but he still grades out well after the surgery.
He does have sneaky power-hitting and above-average contact. He hit 16 home runs in 336 at-bats in 2023 Double-A. In 2023, he was posting exit velocities up to 110 MPH. His 105.2 MPH exit velocity was the fourth highest for his age in 2023. He doesn’t walk a lot but will have to be more patient at the plate. He’s an aggressive swinger, swinging out of the zone at an above-average rate, but that shouldn’t be something to worry about. He has below-average speed which doesn’t matter at his position.
On defense, he tends to lose concentration. He allowed more passed balls than you would hope for, but with young catchers you see them lose concentration from time to time. He will need to cut down on some of the throwing errors. Coach Pat Murphy thinks those are youthful mistakes and a lack of energy. Quero is on the 40-man roster and could battle for the backup catcher job.
He will also be fighting for some DH at-bats if he shows he’s healthy. Playing behind William Contreras isn’t ideal but Quero will get his at-bats. It’s more likely he starts in triple-A. He will be knocking on the doorsteps of the majors this year. With his combination of improving defense and good power potential, he has the makeup to become a multi-time All-Star and top-five catcher in baseball.
Cooper Pratt (SS)
Pratt was drafted in the sixth round in 2023 at 22 years old and played for the Carolina Mudcats before getting called up to Double-A in Biloxi. He is a tall 6-foot-4-inch shortstop with great hands and very advanced actions. He also won the Rawlings MiLB Gold Glove award for the best defensive shortstop in the minor leagues. He has great range with an above-average arm. He’s also an above-average baserunner with good instincts, stealing 27 out of 30 bases last year. He could easily be a 20-base stealer in the majors and likes to take the extra base when he can.
Pratt has a great approach at the plate. Over a 668-pitch sample, Pratt had just a 12% overall miss rate and a 17% chase rate. His miss rate fell to 6% on pitches in the zone. He utilizes a small leg kick and quick hands to produce a smooth swing that keeps the barrel in the zone for a long time, allowing him to hit the ball with authority to all fields. He will have to develop more power, only hitting 5 home runs in 95 at-bats in Double-A. He maintains a low flyball rate of 28.2%, as he gets stronger he could hit 20 homers but 10-15 is more likely.
Pratt saw his walk rate fall from low A at 12.2% to high A at 4.2%, and his strikeout numbers went from 18.3% to 25.3%. These figures are all based on under 100 at-bats, something to monitor going forward. He’s regarded as a good fielding shortstop who needs to get better on balls hit to his backhand and also needs to read the ball a little quicker off the bat. He already possesses top-100 talent, by defending well and having great contact.
If he improves in these areas he could be a great asset to this Brewer team. He will most likely start in Double-A where he was promoted to last year.
Robert Gasser (LHP)
Gasser was a second-round draft pick in 2021 by the Padres as part of the Josh Hader trade. He threw 90-1/3 innings at High-A with the Padres. When he got to the Brewers they assigned him to Double-A Biloxi. He only had four starts in Double before he was promoted to Triple-A Nashville, where he spent the rest of the 2022 and 2023 seasons. In 2024, he battled elbow issues with just three starts before he was called up to the Brewers on May 10th, 2024.
He throws five pitches: a four-seam fastball, a sinker, a sweeper, a changeup, and a cutter. His sweeper is the pitch he throws the most.
He has a great delivery releasing the ball 4.96 feet off the ground on average, with a crazy extension of 6.7 feet. His sweeper tends to drop an average of three inches. He boasts a 34.5% whiff rate on a pitch he threw 32% of the time. The hitters only posted a .190 batting average against the sweeper and a .573 OPS. His fastball maxes out at 95 MPH but his low release point of -4.3 degrees makes it miss a lot of batters barrels. As long as he spots it high in the zone, it will be very effective for him.
He’s using his upper-90s cutter more often than he did with the Padres. He likes to use the cutter on right-handed hitters, especially if he can get it inside the hands of the hitters. His sinker was very effective at getting ground balls, doing so at a rate of 57.7%, leading to a .214 batting average against, and a .405 OPS. With over 15 inches of run on the pitch, it looks close to a sweeper, but he throws it 12-13 MPH faster.
His changeup command is phenomenal, with a 60% ground ball rate combined with an average exit velocity of 82.2 but also when hit batters had a .333 batting average against. His walk numbers were better in the MLB than it was in the minors, almost a full batter less than the minors.
Gasser needs to work on locating the cutter and generating a few more whiffs. His whiff rate in the minors was 29.1%, and 21.6% in the MLB over 28 innings. Gasser is good at generating soft contact and if he can get some more whiffs he could be a mid-rotation arm or back-of-the-rotation arm in the future. Gasser was just coming into a zone before undergoing Tommy John surgery last year.
He will likely be out all of the 2025 season. Look for him to be a part of the 2026 rotation.
Tyler Black (1B/3B)
The Brewers took Black with their Competitive Balance Round A pick in 2021. Black battled a neck injury in his first full season in 2022, but eventually broke out in 2023 and was promoted to Triple-A. He continued to put up decent numbers in 2024 and was promoted to the Brewers, where he spent time riding the active roster between Nashville and Milwaukee. He plays with great heart and energy, some players don’t have the emotion Black plays with every day.
In his last year at Wright State, he hit 13 home runs, with a max exit velocity of 102.2. Since 2021, Jacob Wilson and Black are the only two first-round picks out of college that had a 90th percentile exit velocity under 100 MPH. However, he has shown signs of power hitting in 2023 and 2024, batting 18 home runs and then 14 home runs in the minors.
He has a great eye at the plate with a 19.8% whiff rate in 2024, which was in the 90th percentile. He also limits whiffs at an above-average rate against all three main types of pitches (fastballs, breaking balls, and offspeed). He did the same at balls outside the zone with the same whiff rate of 19.8%. Those abilities helped him post a 13.2% walk rate and an 18.8% strikeout rate.
Black has above-average speed, swiping 75 bases in 2023 and 2024. He will need to develop more power, but because he has an ideal launch angle, it bodes well for his power and gap-hitting to keep developing. Because Black moved around defensively, he has yet to show consistent solid defense. He played second base, third base, outfield, and first base.
He struggled a bit at first base making some costly mental and physical errors but with more reps, you would think the consistency will be there. The Brewers are stacked in the outfield so I don’t see him playing there, and with no consistency in the infield, I see Black as a trade candidate for a team needing an outfielder. He will likely bounce around the minors and triple-A again this season.
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