2026 Milwaukee Brewers MLB Draft Day 2 Thread

[CheeseheadInQC]

Did the Brewers just draft a senior sign infielder as a pitcher or am I looking at the wrong player page?

[MilwaukeeBeers]

We have one of the lowest bonus pools in the whole draft, so we couldn't really expect a knock your socks off draft on paper. Gotta trust the player development department and model. 

[ghostdrew]

6 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

Did the Brewers just draft a senior sign infielder as a pitcher or am I looking at the wrong player page?

2way guy at Texas state

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

11 minutes ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

We have one of the lowest bonus pools in the whole draft, so we couldn't really expect a knock your socks off draft on paper. Gotta trust the player development department and model. 

I’m assuming this is a combination of:

- we pick late in th 1st-10th rounds, thus our slot position is lower

- we traded our competitive balance pick

- we don’t have any compensatory picks.

assuming next year will be better with regaining a competitive balance pick and also likely getting a compensatory pick for Bauers?

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, Ro Mueller said:

6th round pick, 6’3” RHP Ryan Oshinskie from Brown, turning 21 years old in 4 days. 

 

Going back to the Ivy League to give Jack Seppings a confidant to discuss the 'finer points of erudition' <unknown source>...

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

MLB.com’s draft tracker initially listed Hill’s position as —. That’s a new one.

Is that a symbolic 'rubber'? Sneaky!

[MilwaukeeBeers]

2 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

I’m assuming this is a combination of:

- we pick late in th 1st-10th rounds, thus our slot position is lower

- we traded our competitive balance pick

- we don’t have any compensatory picks.

assuming next year will be better with regaining a competitive balance pick and also likely getting a compensatory pick for Bauers?

Yes picking late inherently lowers bonus pool. We also lost a little over a million dollars of flexibility trading that pick to Boston. We will have a round A pick next year so hopefully we win that lottery (difference is about 600K extra) We would have to offer Bauers the Qualifying Offer in order to get that pick which the way he is playing I would say that is a safe assumption to do.

[wallus]

Getting to rounds 11-20. Who are some guys left that you still like?

[Ro Mueller]

25 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

Did the Brewers just draft a senior sign infielder as a pitcher or am I looking at the wrong player page?

Intense guy: 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wallus said:

Getting to rounds 11-20. Who are some guys left that you still like?

Whoever Spencer gets excited about?

In all seriousness, unlike previous years, I no longer have the time to know the majority of players beyond the Top 100 consensus. I just hope we can sneak in a Blue Chip or two from the HS ranks.

[Joseph Zarr]

2 hours ago, biedergb said:

Well let’s hope he has a Knaak for getting a lot of Ks 😉

But OK. Pitching picks here we come. Still need some more C depth too.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

More on Knaak:

 

[wallus]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Whoever Spencer gets excited about?

In all seriousness, unlike previous years, I no longer have the time to know the majority of players beyond the Top 100 consensus. I just hope we can sneak in a Blue Chip or two from the HS ranks.

Spencer not being here much (along with a lot of the draft experts) is a major bummer.

[Joseph Zarr]

 

[Joseph Zarr]

5 minutes ago, wallus said:

Spencer not being here much (along with a lot of the draft experts) is a major bummer.

They are public facing in the Twitter and Streaming realm.

 

[wallus]

Just now, Joseph Zarr said:

They are public facing in the Twitter and Streaming realm.

 

He went all Hollywood on us!

[ghostdrew]

Blake Bowen  hasn't been drafted maybe brewers pick late 

[Spencer Michaelis]

I'm here haha, just been writing up all the picks all day and also doing socials on X/Twitter/WhateverItIs and Bluesky. The number of tabs I have open currently is not something I want to count, nor would I like to admit how many if I did count. Nice break for the next hour though, so it's a good time to check in. I like the Grant HIll pick quite a bit the more I've looked into it, and Tom is intriguing too, because there's just not a ton of HS kids hitting oppo homers with relative regularity. He also ran a 6.72 60 yard dash in October which is not the speed I expected based on the body type. 

Oshinskie's stuff looks crazy interesting to me. Sounds like he had TJS, which means we won't see him until some time next year (hopefully), but that's a legit pitch mix and he did well on the Cape. 

As for bonus pools, I genuinely have no clue what things will look like, but I put together some initial guesses (again this is quite possibly the least confident I have ever been in these guesses), but if I'm close to right, they could conceivably still have around $1 mil to work with if you include the overage, and obviously that doesn't include the $150k per player that won't count toward the pool.

[James Zumstein]

30 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

 

As usual, Spencer beat me to it. I had Christian Coppola from St. Joe's on my list of possible senior pitchers, but Gaines looks like he has some serious potential as well. Solid pick in the 10th round.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Thanks Spencer!  Great stuff.  I was trying to figure out where the $1M came from and then I realized you were including the 5% overage.

will our toughest signs be Strosnider and Garcia?  (Assuming yes with us going over slot for both)

[Spencer Michaelis]

2 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Thanks Spencer!  Great stuff.  I was trying to figure out where the $1M came from and then I realized you were including the 5% overage.

will our toughest signs be Strosnider and Garcia?  (Assuming yes with us going over slot for both)

My guess is there won’t be any issues with any of them, Tod Johnson was very casual in saying all four day 1 guys will sign and I’d be surprised if any of the 5-10 don’t.

But those are the two I could see being further overslot than I have them on there for sure.