2024 Major Publication Prospect Ranks

[Jim Goulart]

 

[wibadgers23]

5 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

 

Interesting...they have Luis Pena quite high and Misiorowski near the bottom 10.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[markedman5]

MLB pipeline executive poll ……. Brewers with lots of praise for how they’re doing business 

https://www.mlb.com/news/front-office-executives-poll-for-farm-systems-2025

 

[snoogans8056]

1 hour ago, markedman5 said:

MLB pipeline executive poll ……. Brewers with lots of praise for how they’re doing business 

https://www.mlb.com/news/front-office-executives-poll-for-farm-systems-2025

 

It genuinely feels like we are on to something big.

[Playing Catch]

18 hours ago, markedman5 said:

MLB pipeline executive poll ……. Brewers with lots of praise for how they’re doing business 

https://www.mlb.com/news/front-office-executives-poll-for-farm-systems-2025

 

It's hard for me to take this very seriously. I usually really like informal polls from anonymous "experts," but this one just looks like typical patting-the-small-market-on-the-head kind of piece. Like after reflexively answering, "The Dodgers," the exec says something like, "oh yeah, and that plucky Brewers club got Chourio, they must be good at signing Internationals".

I mean, "Most Underrated Farm System??"

C'mon.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[snoogans8056]

Just Baseball had a new podcast episode today, in the first 5 minutes they are asked about which prospect is most likely to jump from outside the Top 100 into the Top 25, their answer was Eric Bitonti.

 

[jay87shot]

On 1/7/2025 at 10:17 PM, wibadgers23 said:

Interesting...they have Luis Pena quite high and Misiorowski near the bottom 10.

Those rankings are a dynasty view, I think that is kind of for a specific fantasy baseball. If I understand right basically a dynasty view only really looks at the players ceiling.

[Ro Mueller]

This isn’t a ranking, but maybe winning Winter League Reliever of the Year in Puerto Rico merits a note for Justin Yeager here: 

 

[Ro Mueller]

 

[Joseph Zarr]

On 1/13/2025 at 12:07 PM, Ro Mueller said:

This isn’t a ranking, but maybe winning Winter League Reliever of the Year in Puerto Rico merits a note for Justin Yeager here: 

 

Awesome! Congrats, Justin. He's been Saving many a game for the past year plus. You love to see it.

[ClosetBrewerFan]

On 1/10/2025 at 9:45 AM, snoogans8056 said:

Just Baseball had a new podcast episode today, in the first 5 minutes they are asked about which prospect is most likely to jump from outside the Top 100 into the Top 25, their answer was Eric Bitonti.

 

If you make it through the whole podcast (or skip ahead if you want), they list the Brewers as the third Best future of any org. That surprised me since I would think the financial situation (smallest market, no money to spend) would limit them.  But hard to argue a 93 win team with a top 5 minor league system (Aram repeated he thinks the Brewers have the #1 minor league system) and a well run organization.

[SF70]

34 minutes ago, ClosetBrewerFan said:

If you make it through the whole podcast (or skip ahead if you want), they list the Brewers as the third Best future of any org. That surprised me since I would think the financial situation (smallest market, no money to spend) would limit them.  But hard to argue a 93 win team with a top 5 minor league system (Aram repeated he thinks the Brewers have the #1 minor league system) and a well run organization.

Not surprised at all actually. Aram is super sharp and has done his homework studying up on this team’s FO, prospect-procurement systems, farm system and the rest of the team’s infrastructure.

Some of us don’t understand why more evaluators don’t see things the way he does. He’s ahead of the curve, without a doubt.

[snoogans8056]

1 hour ago, SF70 said:

Not surprised at all actually. Aram is super sharp and has done his homework studying up on this team’s FO, prospect-procurement systems, farm system and the rest of the team’s infrastructure.

Some of us don’t understand why more evaluators don’t see things the way he does. He’s ahead of the curve, without a doubt.

I think he’s also banking on that 17-20 year old group (which there are seemingly 50 prospects) having like 5 of them explode.

We are also adding a huge draft class, a huge IFA class, and two years worth of some random 11-20 pick pitchers that nobody seems to factor in until we see them.

Like in The Big Short, he’s “not wrong, just early”.

[SF70]

1 minute ago, snoogans8056 said:

I think he’s also banking on that 17-20 year old group (which there are seemingly 50 prospects) having like 5 of them explode.

Like in The Big Short, he’s “not wrong, just early”.

Absolutely.

He mentioned getting pushback on twitter for his naming MKE the best farm in the game, but he said no team has the potential impactful prospects we do, Made-Bitonti, ect.

For both of Aram & Jack to list us 3rd in the bright future category, ahead of the Stearns led NYM with their trillions, and the only small-market team, is gutsy and definitely ahead of the curve.

[Brewcrew82]

11 hours ago, SF70 said:

Absolutely.

He mentioned getting pushback on twitter for his naming MKE the best farm in the game, but he said no team has the potential impactful prospects we do, Made-Bitonti, ect.

For both of Aram & Jack to list us 3rd in the bright future category, ahead of the Stearns led NYM with their trillions, and the only small-market team, is gutsy and definitely ahead of the curve.

Definitely has a track record, too. He was the first to put Made in his top 100 this summer. 

[wiguy94]

22 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Definitely has a track record, too. He was the first to put Made in his top 100 this summer. 

Aram just puts a bunch of young unproven players in his Top 100. If there are two things Aram loves more than most it’s youth upside and chase rate. The Brewers farm has a bunch of youth and the Brewers both target and develop players to not chase. Basically our system is very in line with how Aram views the game which is why he’s extremely high on it. Luke Adams being in the Top 100 is an example of his love of chase rate. I think Aram is a little overboard on the chase rate stuff. Low chase is good but there’s also low chase to the point of being passive and it doesn’t seem like he agrees with that. 

[Brewcrew82]

1 hour ago, wiguy94 said:

Aram just puts a bunch of young unproven players in his Top 100. If there are two things Aram loves more than most it’s youth upside and chase rate. The Brewers farm has a bunch of youth and the Brewers both target and develop players to not chase. Basically our system is very in line with how Aram views the game which is why he’s extremely high on it. Luke Adams being in the Top 100 is an example of his love of chase rate. I think Aram is a little overboard on the chase rate stuff. Low chase is good but there’s also low chase to the point of being passive and it doesn’t seem like he agrees with that. 

I appreciate that he's willing to push his chips in on guys before they become more consensus among the mainstream sites. He'll miss on some, sure, but I think he's had a fair share of hits, like Made and Hope. I don't necessarily think his focus on chase and age is a bad thing, considering those are two of the biggest predictors of prospect success. 

Agree Adams was bad, though. Patently obvious his swing and hyperpassivity will run into trouble against higher level pitching. 

[jay87shot]

Mlb.com has Boeve as the #10 3B and Bitonti as the keep an eye on player according to Dykstra. The top 7 are probably top 100 prospect, so he is likely top 125-150.  Notably Wilken was 8 and Adams was 10. Likely that means 4 3rd baseman in probably the top 15-20 in the league unless he has Wilken falling alot since the end of the season. 

Quero was #5 catcher, no one in top 10 for 1B or 2B. Black fell out of top 10 after being #6 at the end of last years 1B prospects.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[markedman5]

Well well

 

[wibadgers23]

Wow, quite the rise for Made. I absolutely cannot wait for the season to start.

[snoogans8056]

1 hour ago, wibadgers23 said:

Wow, quite the rise for Made. I absolutely cannot wait for the season to start.

I don’t think it’s crazy to say that we have more than a couple guys that could make a similar jump.

I think scouts are going to flock to see Made and walk away with 5 other guys that jumped out (Bitonti, Payne, Pena, Adamczewski, a couple of the other DSL kids, and the higher bonus HS pitchers from the past two years).

[sveumrules]

1 hour ago, wibadgers23 said:

Wow, quite the rise for Made. I absolutely cannot wait for the season to start.

Already got me looking at the Carolina schedule trying to figure out a week in May or June to take a Zebulon trip.