Milwaukee Brewers 2026 MLB Draft: Day 1 Thread

[Brock Beauchamp]

Draft Day is finally upon us! You've found the right place to follow along as the Milwaukee Brewers get to work in the 2026 MLB Draft. Consider this your home base for the day's events — you're all invited to be a part of the conversation, so pull up a chair, grab a refreshment, and let's watch what Matt Arnold & Co. have in store for us today. Unlike previous seasons, the Brewers have a much smaller draft pool, so if they plan to get creative, they're going to have a narrow band in which to work.

Feel free to make your thoughts known in the comments as the picks roll in. Whether you love the pick, hate it, or have never heard of the guy in your life, we want to hear from you.

How the Draft Works This Year

The 2026 MLB Draft is a two-day event held July 11–12 in Philadelphia, PA. Here's how it breaks down:

• Today (July 11): Rounds 1–4 — roughly 135 picks
• Tomorrow (July 12): Rounds 5–20 — the final 16 rounds

So today is the fun part. This is where the bonus money gets spent and the names you'll actually remember get called. Twenty rounds total, but the first four are where the real money and the real intrigue live.

Want the full logistical rundown — pick-by-pick slot values, the combine breakdown, and how the bonus pool math shakes out? We've got you covered in our 2026 Brewers Draft Primer.

The Brewers' Picks

Milwaukee holds ten selections in the first ten rounds, headlined by the 25th overall pick in tonight's first round. Here's the full slate:

Round	Pick #	Slot Value
1	25th	$3,696,000
2	66th	$1,353,100
3	102nd	$770,600
4	130th	$585,700
5	163rd	$425,400
6	192nd	$333,200
7	221st	$264,100
8	251st	$220,400
9	281st	$202,500
10	311th	$191,900

Bonus pool: $8,042,900 — 25th in MLB. Not exactly a war chest, so expect Milwaukee to be creative about spreading the money around. One note for the number-crunchers: the Brewers traded their Competitive Balance Round B pick (67th overall) to Boston in a prior transaction, so there's a gap between the first- and second-rounders you might otherwise expect.

As always, teams can exceed their pool by up to 5% without a real penalty (overages get taxed at 75%), and slot values ticked up 2.5% from last year.

Who Are the Brewers Taking at 25?

On our final aggregated mock draft board, this name popped up at pick 25: Carson Bolemon, a left-handed prep arm out of Southside Christian High School in South Carolina.

Our final mock draft has the Brewers grabbing him as "the most polished prep arm in the class". Here's the quick scouting snapshot:

• Fastball: Sits 92–94 mph, has touched 97, with the kind of command you rarely see from a high schooler
• Curveball: Upper 70s, plenty of promise
• Slider: Low 80s with strong spin
• Changeup: The one pitch that still lags behind, but there's runway there

The 19-year-old lefty was the standout arm on the U18 U.S. National Team and has a real shot to be the first prep arm off the board. He's committed to Wake Forest, so signability will be worth watching — but a polished, projectable lefty is exactly the kind of profile the Brewers' pitching development machine tends to turn into gold.

What Comes After 25

The mock has a few more names to watch later in the day:

• Round 2 (66th): Joseph Contreras, RHP, Blessed Trinity Catholic HS (GA) — yes, that Contreras bloodline, but also not that Contreras bloodline; he's the son of former big-league pitcher José Contreras
• Round 3 (102nd): Caden Bogenpohl, OF, Missouri State
• Round 4 (130th): Brady Harris, OF, Trinity Christian Academy HS (FL)

Follow Along

We'll be updating throughout the evening as the picks come in. For real-time tracking and the community's running board, keep these two tabs open:

• 2026 Brewers Mock Draft Board
• 2026 Brewers Draft Board

So — who do you want the Brewers to take at 25? Are you on board with Bolemon, or is there another name you're hoping slides to Milwaukee? Sound off in the comments, and let's enjoy Draft Day together. Go Brewers!

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[colbyjack]

Draft Day is upon us! Well, almost. Still lurking, still loving the Brewers and the draft, although I must admit I don't know the high schoolers as much as I used to. That's ok, the Brewers don't take them anyway...

A few thoughts following their recent history (again, college-centric):

If they fall (it always happens, thank you Sal Frelick, Garrett Mitchell, etc.): Liam Peterson, AJ Gracia, Sawyer Strosnider (Strosnider sounds like the most likely to be there, was considered a top 10-15 overall player entering the spring).

As it stands: Cade Townsend, Tegan Kuhns, Logan Reddemann. You just gotta believe the Brewers would love to add a power arm to the system given the wealth of bats (and their focus taking them in recent years).

A stretch but not ridiculous: Mason Edwards, Gavin Grahovac, Taylor Rabe. Metrically all these guys do things that most can't, and the Brew Crew loves those kind of players.

Some guys I like for rounds 2-4: Daniel Cuvet (huge power), Kade Lewis (great pure hitter), Evan Dempsey (2-way guy with ridiculous spin metrics), Carson Tinney (catcher with big offensive upside), Mulivai Levu (pure hitter that squares up the ball and plays really good 1B defense).

I can't shake his name: Camden Johnson, 3B, Oklahoma. He's versatile, he's speedy, he's got some pop and he bats left-handed. He played for the CWS champs, Oklahoma, showing a very patient eye while locking down the hot corner. Could play anywhere on the field. Not a ton of power but the profile fits.

Heck, OU has a few players I could see the Brewers targeting.

I've seen Zion Rose connected to the Brewers, a lot. Love the numbers, and I've seen him play numerous times dating back to his prep days. I don't love the profile, at least not for the first round, but he obviously does a lot of things well and had a really good spring somewhat quietly since the Cardinals vastly underperformed as a team.

The "Oh yeah" player: Cole Carlon. Ridiculous metrics on his slider, but he's basically a 2-pitch pitcher. That said, those 2 pitches are REALLY good, but it also creates some reliever risk. That said, big bodied lefties that throw in the upper-90s with a ridiculous breaking ball are hard to pass up (and he does throw a changeup, just not very often). If this were 10 years ago this guy would be talked about as a top 10 pick.

Go Brewers.

[Telemachus Rafaelidys]

Taylor Rabe & Cam Flukey feel like good fits for the Brewers pitching machine. Could see one of them at 25. Let’s go!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Alright, let's move all discussion to the day one thread. Happy draft day!

 

[MadTownBrewCrew]

Looong time reader.  First time poster.

 I’m hoping the Brewers take a pitcher in the first round.  They have a lot of good position prospects in the minors.  I’d like to see more balance with some high ceiling pitching prospects.  

I’d like college pitchers such as Flukey, Peterson, Dietz or Carlon.

But I really hope they go with a high upside high school pitcher.  In order I’m hoping for Schmidt, Borthwick, or Bolemon.

[CheeseheadInQC]

I don’t know if I see a hitter falling who they might pay slot for this year. That means likely either slot pitcher or under slot hitter. While it seems like pitching will be BPA, I have a feeling they do the hitter in the first then mostly pitchers after that strategy.

[homer]

I think we can all agree that Roch Cholowsky is an 80-grade name.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, homer said:

I think we can all agree that Roch Cholowsky is an 80-grade name.

It's so good!

[homer]

1 hour ago, homer said:

I think we can all agree that Roch Cholowsky is an 80-grade name.

Sout Siderz are gonna love this dude. 

[Joseph Zarr]

3 hours ago, MadTownBrewCrew said:

Looong time reader.  First time poster.

 I’m hoping the Brewers take a pitcher in the first round.  They have a lot of good position prospects in the minors.  I’d like to see more balance with some high ceiling pitching prospects.  

I’d like college pitchers such as Flukey, Peterson, Dietz or Carlon.

But I really hope they go with a high upside high school pitcher.  In order I’m hoping for Schmidt, Borthwick, or Bolemon.

Welcome to the posting side of BF! 

[Joseph Zarr]

Can we talk about Manfred mispronouncing the 1st Overall pick's name? I mean, is that not entirely on brand for this man? I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but my goodness he makes it extremely hard.

[MadTownBrewCrew]

4 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Welcome to the posting side of BF! 

Thank you!

[narwhalattack]

Zion Rose going to the Royals. I’ve seen him being floated as a possibility for us, but he’s gone surprisingly early.

[CheeseheadInQC]

I was wondering if it was going to get weird. Everyone seemed to think the draft flattened out after the first few picks, so it might be a case of let’s make a deal.

[James Zumstein]

Every year there is someone who gets taken way higher than anyone predicted. This year it's Zion Rose's turn.

[CheeseheadInQC]

Hit tool getting valued big time by the looks of it.

[CheeseheadInQC]

Does this mean I have to retire my Angels draft jokes? Grindlinger doesn’t fit the pattern.

[James Zumstein]

2 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

Does this mean I have to retire my Angels draft jokes? Grindlinger doesn’t fit the pattern.

I was thinking the same thing. He's 17 now, so playing in the bigs by his 18th birthday?

[Luke99]

weird first round so far. 

[narwhalattack]

Welp, Flukey to the Tigers. He was one guy I wanted.

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

Cardinals drafting a PCA clone is annoying af

[James Zumstein]

Back-to-back years with a Rock County native going in the 1st round. Giants took Milton's Gavin Kilen at #14 last year and Red Sox take Janesville's Jake Schaffner at #20 this year. Local kids doing WI proud.

 

[Telemachus Rafaelidys]

Taylor Rabe🤞

[Jastro]

Trey Ebel it is! 

[narwhalattack]

Trey Ebel it is. There’s our “surprise” underslot pick. I know there were a lot of speculation about us taking him.