Baseball America says Brewers minor league system ranks last in MLB.

[Brew crew 92]

There's reason to be optimistic. Looking at the last few drafts - 2016, 2017, and 2018 all have been able to get talent beyond the first couple of rounds.

 

2016 - Burnes, Brown, Feliciano, P. Henry, Webb. Some of these guys had down years, but the talent is still there. Burnes was drafted only three years ago and he was expected to be a starter in the majors this year.

2017 - B. Francis, A. Bettinger, M. Lazar, D. File. All had breakout seasons this year, and are likely undervalued because they weren't top picks and weren't on the prospect radar before this year. Bettinger is 2nd in the Southern League in K's, Francis 7th. Lazar's K/9 is 3rd among starters in the Midwest League. Their numbers aren't that much different from the Braves highly regarded pitching prospects.

2018 - Ashby, Jarvis, Rasmussen, Andrews, Matulovich. All have either impressed this year or last year. Plus, Garabitos has transitioned to pitching well this year and Brady Schanuel is striking out 17/9 this year - if he can harness some control he can be an elite relief prospect.

 

Pretty much all pitchers. The top picks were all bats, many of them somewhat high risk/high reward and young for their leagues.

 

Yep. And while we didn't draft Zavolas, but he's looking pretty good too.

 

Most of these guys are performing at the A+ level or lower, but the sheer volume of guys performing well should mean a few of them can sustain it and become quality MLB pitchers. Unfortunately they are all 2+ years away. Other than Turang and our catchers (and Grisham and Hiura) we have no position players who look to contribute at the same time though. We'll need to hit on a couple of Hiura like college bats in the next couple of drafts and then fill in from there with FAs and Shaw/Aguilar/Thames kinds of acquisitions.

 

Totally agree.

 

Position prospects should probably rank 30th.

 

But pitching is another story, imo, I’d rank our pitching somewhere in the top 5-10 of all teams. Pitchability is rampant in the brewers farm, numerous pitchers with deception, 4 pitch mix, good offspeed etc. underrated to say the least.

[DHonks]

I think we'll be low this offseason, but after next season our system will have a big jump. 2019 draftees, Rasmussen, Turang, Lazar, File, Ashby, and many others will be in line for 2021 roster considerations. And frankly, if Grisham was fairly rated for his age/performance and Hiura and Williams weren't also promoted, our minor league system would look better. Still, we need more hitters to take some steps forward.

[wildcat2237]

Supak dominating tonight

 

 

Dont look now. Supak was shelled tonight, 10 hits in 5.2 innings, 7 ER for a AAA ERA of 5.71.

[MadThinker88]

Bleacher Report updated its system rankings on 9/12/19(with end of 2019 milb season).

Brewers at #29

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852665-re-ranking-all-30-mlb-farm-systems-at-the-end-of-the-2019-milb-season#slide2

 

They also updated the Crew Top 10 (in their estimation)

Top 10 Prospects

 

Name Age Tier

1. SS Brice Turang 19 Top 50

2. OF Trent Grisham 22 2

3. LHP Ethan Small 22 3

4. C Mario Feliciano 20 3

5. LHP Aaron Ashby 21 3

6. RHP Drew Rasmussen 24 3

7. RHP Zack Brown 24 3

8. OF Tristen Lutz 21 3

9. LHP Antoine Kelly 19 3

10. RHP Trey Supak 23 3

Graduated/Traded: 2B Keston Hiura (1), IF Mauricio Dubon (6)

[Mr Southpaw]

There's reason to be optimistic. Looking at the last few drafts - 2016, 2017, and 2018 all have been able to get talent beyond the first couple of rounds.

 

2016 - Burnes, Brown, Feliciano, P. Henry, Webb. Some of these guys had down years, but the talent is still there. Burnes was drafted only three years ago and he was expected to be a starter in the majors this year.

2017 - B. Francis, A. Bettinger, M. Lazar, D. File. All had breakout seasons this year, and are likely undervalued because they weren't top picks and weren't on the prospect radar before this year. Bettinger is 2nd in the Southern League in K's, Francis 7th. Lazar's K/9 is 3rd among starters in the Midwest League. Their numbers aren't that much different from the Braves highly regarded pitching prospects.

2018 - Ashby, Jarvis, Rasmussen, Andrews, Matulovich. All have either impressed this year or last year. Plus, Garabitos has transitioned to pitching well this year and Brady Schanuel is striking out 17/9 this year - if he can harness some control he can be an elite relief prospect.

 

Pretty much all pitchers. The top picks were all bats, many of them somewhat high risk/high reward and young for their leagues.

 

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2019 - Small, Kelly, and Bennett then a bunch of other later picks. Small and Kelly have very high floors.

[PlayerHader]

There's reason to be optimistic. Looking at the last few drafts - 2016, 2017, and 2018 all have been able to get talent beyond the first couple of rounds.

 

2016 - Burnes, Brown, Feliciano, P. Henry, Webb. Some of these guys had down years, but the talent is still there. Burnes was drafted only three years ago and he was expected to be a starter in the majors this year.

2017 - B. Francis, A. Bettinger, M. Lazar, D. File. All had breakout seasons this year, and are likely undervalued because they weren't top picks and weren't on the prospect radar before this year. Bettinger is 2nd in the Southern League in K's, Francis 7th. Lazar's K/9 is 3rd among starters in the Midwest League. Their numbers aren't that much different from the Braves highly regarded pitching prospects.

2018 - Ashby, Jarvis, Rasmussen, Andrews, Matulovich. All have either impressed this year or last year. Plus, Garabitos has transitioned to pitching well this year and Brady Schanuel is striking out 17/9 this year - if he can harness some control he can be an elite relief prospect.

 

Pretty much all pitchers. The top picks were all bats, many of them somewhat high risk/high reward and young for their leagues.

 

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2019 - Small, Kelly, and Bennett then a bunch of other later picks. Small and Kelly have very high floors.

 

I really like Antoine Kelly, but based on all reports I've read, he isn't a high floor guy.

 

Numbers in his first taste of pro ball seemed to show pretty solid control, though.

[adambr2]

I was going to say, everything I've heard about Kelly is high ceiling, low floor.

 

Small yes. High floor, low ceiling.

[TigerUppercut]

I was going to say, everything I've heard about Kelly is high ceiling, low floor.

 

Small yes. High floor, low ceiling.

 

I would agree with this under one caveat, that being the velocity he once had never comes back. If it does, the ceiling goes up considerably.

[LouisEly]

I was going to say, everything I've heard about Kelly is high ceiling, low floor.

 

Small yes. High floor, low ceiling.

Pardon the pun, but in a small sample this year in low-A ball in 18 IP he gave up 11 hits, walked 4, and struck out 31.

 

Yeah, a long way from the majors, but those type of numbers don't suggest a low ceiling.