2024 Major Publication Prospect Ranks

[PlayerHader]

Can somebody help me out? I can not find the BF fan vote prospect rankings on the site.

[sveumrules]

Just now, PlayerHader said:

Can somebody help me out? I can not find the BF fan vote prospect rankings on the site.

If you click the Forums tab there is a link for Prospect Rankings under the Brewers Resources header.

Here is a direct link.

Voting results thread can be found here.

[Matt]

Baseball Prospectus with their top 20 today. 

1 - Jesus Made, IF
2 - Jeferson Quero, C
3 - Cooper Pratt, SS
4 - Jacob Misiorowski, RHP
5 - Mike Boeve, 1B/3B
6 - Yophery Rodriguez, OF
7 - Braylon Payne, OF
8 - Josh Knoth, RHP
9 - Blake Burke, 1B
10 - Luis Peña, IF
11 - Eric Bitonti, 3B/1B
12 - Tyler Black, IF
13 - Bryce Meccage, RHP
14 - Logan Henderson, RHP
15 - Caleb Durbin, IF/OF
16 - Robert Gasser, LHP
17 - Luke Adams, 1B/3B
18 - Brock Wilken, 3B
19 - Craig Yoho, RHP
20 - Carlos Rodriguez, RHP

Won't include any of the write ups, but they seem to think Made's most likely position is at 2B, Pratt's at 3B, Boeve at 1B, Durbin at 2B, and Adams at 1B.

[markedman5]

That’s interesting about Pratt considering he won a golden glove this season at SS

[snoogans8056]

9 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

That’s interesting about Pratt considering he won a golden glove this season at SS

Just means Platinum Glove at 3B.

[ARobsBrewCrew]

7 hours ago, Matt said:

Baseball Prospectus with their top 20 today. 

1 - Jesus Made, IF
2 - Jeferson Quero, C
3 - Cooper Pratt, SS
4 - Jacob Misiorowski, RHP
5 - Mike Boeve, 1B/3B
6 - Yophery Rodriguez, OF
7 - Braylon Payne, OF
8 - Josh Knoth, RHP
9 - Blake Burke, 1B
10 - Luis Peña, IF
11 - Eric Bitonti, 3B/1B
12 - Tyler Black, IF
13 - Bryce Meccage, RHP
14 - Logan Henderson, RHP
15 - Caleb Durbin, IF/OF
16 - Robert Gasser, LHP
17 - Luke Adams, 1B/3B
18 - Brock Wilken, 3B
19 - Craig Yoho, RHP
20 - Carlos Rodriguez, RHP

In case anyone needed further confirmation that we know this system better than any of the major prospect publications, here you go.  My personal favorite is Gasser all the way down at #16 although Knoth and Meccage over Henderson is pretty funny as well.

[biedergb]

43 minutes ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

In case anyone needed further confirmation that we know this system better than any of the major prospect publications, here you go

Yeah. I was going to argue that they are basing it on pure projection - thus young guys or high draft picks. But Durbin at 15 ahead of Wilken and Adams nixes that. Yeah it’s a weird list. I’ll read their write ups this weekend and see if I can glean anything.  But it’s part BA high ceiling, and part name recognition it seems. 
Does anyone know when JB (Aram and Jack) will post their lists - I think it was early January last year?

 

EDIT: it was 1/7./24 for the Call Up podcast last winter.

[Playing Catch]

Looks to me like Baseball Prospectus, then, has four Brewers in their top 100, as I can't imagine they leave out Misiorowski, or include Mike Boeve.

[Playing Catch]

12 hours ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

In case anyone needed further confirmation that we know this system better than any of the major prospect publications, here you go.  My personal favorite is Gasser all the way down at #16 although Knoth and Meccage over Henderson is pretty funny as well.

To be fair, in this day and age, this forum is like a Metacritic aggregator on all things Brewers. Fallible, certainly, but also very up-to-date, and with information from a variety of outlets, and CONSTANTLY reviewing and criticizing our aggregate information. So, in a sense, this forum SHOULD be a better barometer than any single outlet.

The "danger," of course, being that we are probably 95% biased toward optimistic outcomes. Which should always be considered.

Also, in terms of Gasser, he will have lost nearly an entire season's worth of value as a prospect, and now has a significant injury history. For myself, I had him top 5 due to his successful big league debut, but there's plenty of reasons why someone may not like him as a prospect. I think all of these lists simply highlight the depth of the system. I mean, in another thread, we're talking about Luis Lara being out of the top 20. I think that's nuts! He's a sure-fire MLB CF, and has yet to "fail" with his bat, being sent to the AFL as a 20-year old! I have to think he's EASY top 10-15 in most other systems.

[biedergb]

33 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

I mean, in another thread, we're talking about Luis Lara being out of the top 20. I think that's nuts! He's a sure-fire MLB CF, and has yet to "fail" with his bat, being sent to the AFL as a 20-year old! I have to think he's EASY top 10-15 in most other systems.

Good point, I completely missed that he is no longer on the list. And yes, these lists are just that a best guess at an organization, and with the Brewers it's tough, as there is a top 5ish, then a 6-30 middle where many players are all about equal and rated depending on how you personally rank (closer to bigs, ceiling vs floor, potential tool, prior track history).

And as an aside on the player, I mean I get that we are down on Lara after a just-OK season. But he was a 20-year old in high A, who had a down year offensively compared to his expectations, but he is an elite fielder, makes contact, and wasn't he also in the discussion of good swing decision and/or contact rates? His lack of power as a smaller player is the main negative - as we have plenty of defense first, solid contact guys like Frelick, Turang and we talk about them like it's a negative. But if he can get some gap power he can be a top 10 prospect again.

Of note, it seems that the organization, challenging prospects like him or a guy like Wilken hurts their ranking, not that the player or team worry too much. But Wilken. who is way down on many lists - but imagine if he started in high A like B. Taylor (prospect and #1 pick of the Rays in '23), and mashed, and then had a good month at AA, he'd be surefire top 100 prospect like Taylor, but struggling to hit AA pitching and having that facial injury makes him an after thought now it seems.

[snoogans8056]

Yeah that list is missing Letson, Baez, Lara, Arienamo, Adamczewski, Dinges, Woodward, Birchard, and any of the DCL guys who put up crazy stats outside of Pena and Made. Or any of the high school 11-20 arms that were drafted and given high bonuses.

I don't think we have a very good system when it comes to current top 100 guys, but we have more guys than anyone else that have top 100 potential in the next year. Bitonti in particular has fun write ups because they always have to end with them covering their butts for that exact scenario.

 

[SF70]

1 hour ago, snoogans8056 said:

Yeah that list is missing Letson, Baez, Lara, Arienamo, Adamczewski, Dinges, Woodward, Birchard, and any of the DCL guys who put up crazy stats outside of Pena and Made. Or any of the high school 11-20 arms that were drafted and given high bonuses.

I don't think we have a very good system when it comes to current top 100 guys, but we have more guys than anyone else that have top 100 potential in the next year. Bitonti in particular has fun write ups because they always have to end with them covering their butts for that exact scenario.

 

The Brewers have the best teenage prospect system in baseball. Period.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[SF70]

“May have the best farm system in Major-League baseball going into the 2025 season”.

Love these guys. Not afraid to tell it the way it is, even with one of the youngest farm systems in the game that doesn’t have impact talent close to the bigs. This system is special — incredibly deep, but also lots of potential impact talent. Wait until the pitchers drafted the last 2 years have more time to work with the PDS. And then we have next years draft with  record-breaking draft-capital  —  it’s hard to put into words how excited I am to be a Brewers fan the rest of this decade and beyond.

[TURBO]

Anyone concerned with Lara's height at 5'7"?  He could easily actually be 5'6" as I have stood next to him, he is SHORT!  Yes, I know, Jose Altuve, etc. etc. etc., but he is an exception.

O'Rae is another really short guy who seems to have fallen off the prospect radar.

 

[CheeseheadInQC]

4 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

 

If we extended the prospect poll out to 25, I feel like the 25 names here would be those 25 in some order. Maybe Baez sneaks in, but I can't guess over who (I've got him over Burke, but that just says more about my inherent distrust of college 1B prospects than anything else).  

[ClosetBrewerFan]

You want to be excited for this organization in the future? Listen to this podcast.  They could not be more enthusiastic about the Brewers org.

[snoogans8056]

7 hours ago, ClosetBrewerFan said:

You want to be excited for this organization in the future? Listen to this podcast.  They could not be more enthusiastic about the Brewers org.

They’ve got Pratt sneaking into the top 100, but they’ve also got him as our #6…

[Jim Goulart]

On 12/30/2024 at 3:23 PM, Jim Goulart said:

 

 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[SF70]

23 hours ago, snoogans8056 said:

They’ve got Pratt sneaking into the top 100, but they’ve also got him as our #6…

They both agreed the team would have 6 top 100 prospects. This along with saying the farm is the deepest in all of baseball.

 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Ro Mueller]

O Canada: Local MLB prospects Dylan O'Rae and Adam Hall preparing for spring training: 

 

[Ro Mueller]

 

[Ro Mueller]

Got some love for Cooper Pratt (defense) and Jacob Misiorowski (future closer) here, along with mentions of Jesus Made and Braylon Payne, and nostalgia for Jackson Chourio and Prince Fielder.