2025 Major Publication Prospect Rankings

[Matt]

The BA top 100.

4. Jesus Made
5. Jacob Misiorowski
20. Luis Pena
33. Cooper Pratt
45. Jeferson Quero
93. Logan Henderson

 

[Playing Catch]

11 minutes ago, Matt said:

The BA top 100.

4. Jesus Made
5. Jacob Misiorowski
20. Luis Pena
33. Cooper Pratt
45. Jeferson Quero
93. Logan Henderson

 

I can hear the boardroom-style conversations over there in recent days...

"Holy crap, did you see Misiorowski's two starts?! Where is he on our list? WHERE?? Have we just ignored the Brewers or something, who else is too low??"

"Quick! Get an update out there so we don't look stupid!"

I'm not actually that cynical. I'm sure they are looking at performance and simply changing their numbers on the scouting scale. But I do harbor a lot of cynicism for the lists themselves, and their creating false equivalencies in our minds (i.e. the 50th ranked prospect looks 50% better than the 100th ranked prospect, and 50% worse than the #1). I realize that most of us here know better than to look at rankings that way, but most of us resort to such mental shortcuts from time-to-time.

The bottom line is that the Brewers have a dozen guys that could be on someone's "Top 100".

Also, I thought it was interesting that BA's list only differs from BF's by switching the places of Made and The Miz.

[biedergb]

12 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

You just listed a bunch of guys who were ~4 years older than Payne and are performing better this year as a result

Yup, agree.

Not to mention if we took one of those other players, we may not have signed Dubanewicz, Renz, Broughton for example (not all three maybe one or two), but that savings at the top spot and still get a top 3 round talent, while adding 5th-10th round talent is very important to build quality depth. Having so many younger pitchers is good since we don't HAVE to rely on a Knoth or Meccage developing (while I still want them to obviously) but having Letson, Hardin (yes college arm I know), Dubanewicz among Renz, Robinson and who knows what with Broughton, allows flexibility. One or two of that group develop and viola we have a successful draft, but don't identify, draft and sign some of those arms, and we have to rely on the top names to succeed.

But Payne could be the next EBJ draft pick, or another Turang/Frelick (or even better) as a former Brewer 1st rounder who may have a nice career in the Bigs.

[BrewerFan]

7 hours ago, biedergb said:

Yup, agree.

Not to mention if we took one of those other players, we may not have signed Dubanewicz, Renz, Broughton for example (not all three maybe one or two), but that savings at the top spot and still get a top 3 round talent, while adding 5th-10th round talent is very important to build quality depth. Having so many younger pitchers is good since we don't HAVE to rely on a Knoth or Meccage developing (while I still want them to obviously) but having Letson, Hardin (yes college arm I know), Dubanewicz among Renz, Robinson and who knows what with Broughton, allows flexibility. One or two of that group develop and viola we have a successful draft, but don't identify, draft and sign some of those arms, and we have to rely on the top names to succeed.

But Payne could be the next EBJ draft pick, or another Turang/Frelick (or even better) as a former Brewer 1st rounder who may have a nice career in the Bigs.

Yeah, Payne has a to of upside. He's not Jay Buhner out there, but he has a frame that could add a lot more power, he's been a solid player thus far, but he hasn't scratched the surface. 

He COULD easily end up the next Turang, Frelick type, he could end up...an Anthony Gwynn Jr type of player, but the upside is 20HRs and an elite Defensive CF. 

He's not even 19 and holding his own in A ball. 

 

I also found the "impossible" Made is 18 comment to be comical! as well as the "worst talent in 5 or 6 years," in A ball to...be just as silly. I don't know if that was the Carolina League as a whole of the Biloxi team, but... it doesn't matter. 

[ecjimg]

Baseball Americas first half top 75 RoboScout hitters includes 7 Brewers in the top 46!

2- Luis Pena, 5- Jesus Made, 8-Luke Adams, 30- Brock Wilken, 31 Braylon Payne, 43-Cooper Pratt, 46- Eric Bitoni

[wallus]

1 hour ago, ecjimg said:

Baseball Americas first half top 75 RoboScout hitters includes 7 Brewers in the top 46!

2- Luis Pena, 5- Jesus Made, 8-Luke Adams, 30- Brock Wilken, 31 Braylon Payne, 43-Cooper Pratt, 46- Eric Bitoni

I don't know what RoboScout is but I'm glad we are cleaning up

[BrewerFan]

6 hours ago, wallus said:

I don't know what RoboScout is but I'm glad we are cleaning up

It's just some fantasy....ranking based on stats. 

I guess dynasty leagues where you can keep or stash minor leaguers. 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

Via the "Wisconsin Sports Daily Show" with Steve "Sparky" Fifer: "MLB Pipeline's Sam Dykstra breaks down MLB Pipeline's latest Top 100 Prospects."

[TheeAirbender]

Does anyone have the brewers ranked inside the new BP mid season top 50?

[wiguy94]

Just now, TheeAirbender said:

Does anyone have the brewers ranked inside the new BP mid season top 50?

Made at 3. Pena at 9.

[Jim Goulart]

Via MLB Pipeline: "It’s not a full-on rerank -- that will come in August with the 2025 Draft class folded in -- it’s a freshening-up of all of the lists. We’ve reranked every team's top 10 and then made room for any players who deserved to jump up or move down 10 or more spaces on their respective team rankings.

Brewers Top 30 List
"The organization already boasts six Top 100 prospects, tied for the second-most in baseball. It’s keeping the wheel turning with breakouts from 2024 picks Marco Dinges and Tyson Hardin, each of whom jumps into the top 20 for the first time. No matter how you line it up, this could be the deepest farm system in the game right now."

[Jim Goulart]

Via the "Wisconsin Sports Daily Show" with Steve "Sparky" Fifer: "Co-creator of Statline Scout Ross Jensen breaks down some of his favorite Brewers prospects at the midway point of the season. Ross explains which young Brewers should & shouldn't be on the trade block."

[wibadgers23]

MLB Pipeline updated their rankings today and have new draftees Fischer at #6, Ebel at 11, Thompson at 14, Dickinson at 23, and Cairone at 26 in the Brewers top 30.  Made at #5 overall and Pena at 16.

https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/brewers/

[Austin Tatious]

I’m admittedly too attached to prospects. But this top 30 looks incredibly impressive.  Every organization has highly regarded prospects that stall out at upper levels because they can’t adjust to certain things.  But, just playing the numbers game, I would wager we have a good number of quality MLBers on our top 30.  And even from 30-40 we have other guys with a real chance and who would comfortably be on other teams’ top 30.  

Regarding the rankings, Dickinson seemed high.  I didn’t see the attraction but maybe they liked his floor.  I don’t see top 30 yet when there is so much talent listed below him.  There were some other good insights though IMO.  

[ClosetBrewerFan]

Wilken at #17? That seems low.  I would not put Fischer (#6) above Adams (#8). Gasser at 18 seems really low as well.  Otherwise the list is not too bad.  It really is a stacked list of prospects

[Jim Goulart]

Do we know which players dropped off? It was at least five. They really should list those.

[umphrey]

Fischer at 6 feels high but I think they like to put the new draftees on the board 

[biedergb]

1 minute ago, Jim Goulart said:

Do we know which players dropped off? It was at least five. They really should list those.

I kept wanting to screen capture each update to track the changes throughout the year- but I forget to. Sorry 

If anyone has a prior list - or if anyone knows of the archive list please post here

[Spencer Michaelis]

1 hour ago, Jim Goulart said:

Do we know which players dropped off? It was at least five. They really should list those.

Believe it was just the following 5:

Carlos Rodriguez, Kenny Fenelon, Brett Wichrowski, Manuel Rodriguez and K.C. Hunt

[wallus]

3 minutes ago, Spencer Michaelis said:

Believe it was just the following 5:

Carlos Rodriguez, Kenny Fenelon, Brett Wichrowski, Manuel Rodriguez and K.C. Hunt

I would have all of those guys above Dickinson.

[Spencer Michaelis]

3 minutes ago, wallus said:

I would have all of those guys above Dickinson.

Definitely agree. Pipeline had Dickinson pretty high up on their draft rankings, so I am not surprised they're sticking to what they thought pre-draft, but it feels like an aggressive spot to me before he plays in pro ball.

[snoogans8056]

#1 ranked system at BA (with Miz), #4 on MLB (without Miz).

Still feels like we are underrated with all the teenage talent we have stockpiled that doesn’t even crack our top 30.

 

[mudbutt]

BA put the system weakness as being power, but obviously they have to pick a weakness even for their number 1 ranked system.  And they noted drafting Fischer helps with that issue.

[CheezWizHed]

On 8/11/2025 at 10:00 PM, Spencer Michaelis said:

Definitely agree. Pipeline had Dickinson pretty high up on their draft rankings, so I am not surprised they're sticking to what they thought pre-draft, but it feels like an aggressive spot to me before he plays in pro ball.

Remember the rankings are out there to produce clicks.  Sure, they want some accuracy to be considered credible (which keeps people clicking year after year), but there is no loss of credibility  to churn the back end of a prospect list when you can add a few new faces - even prematurely - which will produce more people to look at them.