The Milwaukee Brewers, to the surprise of many outside of their own market, won 93 games and repeated as National League Central Division Champions in 2024. Prior to the season, many believed Milwaukee would experience a down year following their trade of 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles and manager Craig Counsell skipping town to take the same position with Chicago Cubs.
Of course, there was no regression. Instead, the Brewers found immense [regular season] success with their young core of homegrown talent. Brice Turang and Sal Frelick each won a Gold Glove Award, and Turang took home the NL’s Platinum Glove as well. Jackson Chourio, formerly baseball’s second-overall prospect, became the youngest player in Major League history to post a 20-20 season with 21 home runs and 22 stolen bases.
Indeed, the future is bright in Milwaukee already due to the young players that have already arrived in the Majors, and it would seem that it is even bright still based on their farm system ranking.
ESPN Says the Milwaukee Brewers Have the 8th-Best Farm System in Major League Baseball
Recently, ESPN ranked each MLB team’s farm systems from best to worst. Milwaukee came in with the eighth-best minor league group, garnering much-deserved high praise for their drafting and scouting abilities:
“The Brewers are the envy of baseball in some ways: productive international operations, skill in valuing in all parts of the draft, and ability to develop middling prospects into contributors for a perennial contender despite a bottom-10 payroll.
“Jesus Made was the top prospect in the Dominican Summer League, going from midtier international signee to the middle of the top 100 in 51 pro games. Current major leaguer Jackson Chourio is also pretty good as a representative of their past international classes.
“The Brew Crew have found a draft strategy that works for them, and they don’t have much competition pursuing it: Identify Upper Midwest prep prospects for under $1 million bonuses, largely after the 10th round. Top 100 prospect Cooper Pratt was the result of some good, old-fashioned outscouting of the competition, and 3B Luke Adams and RHP Bishop Letson are the best finds so far from the Upper Midwest strategy.”
ESPN also notes that the Brewers have four prospects ranked in MLB’s top-100. These players (not all mentioned in the excerpt above) are (according to MLB.com) Jeferson Quero (47), Jesus Made (56), Cooper Pratt (57), and Jacob Misiorowski (100).
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