Baseball America just announced their top 100 prospects in baseball heading into the 2026 season. Let\u2019s take a look at which Brewers prospects made the cut:<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve written about Made a lot over the last year (and this offseason), so there isn\u2019t a lot to say about him that hasn\u2019t already been said. BA considers him a 70-grade (!) prospect with average risk, but nothing he\u2019s shown so far has indicated that he won\u2019t be able to adjust as he continues to rise through the minor league system.<\/p>\n
Made is pretty much the complete package at the plate, showing above-average speed, power, and contact throughout three different levels of minor league ball. He may not stick at shortstop long-term, but that\u2019s mainly due to Cooper Pratt\u2019s presence as opposed to any inherent defensive deficiency. He made some errors over the course of the year, but his defense improved significantly \u2014 he projects to be, at the very least, a slightly-above-average defender.<\/p>\n
After a hot start with Low-A Carolina in 2025, Made earned a mid-season promotion and hit even better (.915 OPS) before being promoted again \u2014 just in time for the Double-A playoffs. If he keeps improving (he should), he\u2019ll be knocking on the door of the Brewers\u2019 clubhouse in no time. He\u2019s the best prospect Milwaukee has had since Jackson Chourio and should be very fun to watch in a Brewers uniform someday.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a has just as high of an offensive ceiling as Made despite questions surrounding his plate discipline and long-term defensive abilities. He\u2019s an \u201cathletic, aggressive hitter who tracks pitches well with excellent hand-eye coordination.\u201d He also doesn\u2019t strike out all that much (8.2% in 2025) despite often swinging at pitches that maybe he shouldn\u2019t. Pe\u00f1a frequently posts high-level exit velocities (up to 106 mph), although his swing is geared toward top-spin line drives \u2014 meaning that his home run numbers (1 HR in 2025) are somewhat lacking despite having tons of raw power.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a\u2019s ranking, per BA, is honestly quite a bit lower than I thought it would be. Pe\u00f1a got promoted to High-A alongside Made, but while Made improved on his Low-A stats, Pe\u00f1a faltered a bit (.844 OPS with Carolina, .517 over 101 at-bats with Wisconsin). He\u2019ll need to show improvement on his numbers to justify ranking him this high, but if he starts the season off hot, he\u2019ll probably rise significantly up BA\u2019s rankings.<\/p>\n
Out of the three shortstops at the top of the Brewers\u2019 farm system, Pratt is the best defensive prospect. I\u2019ve said it before, but I genuinely think he\u2019d be an above-average shortstop at the major league level in 2026. I absolutely love his defensive game. He gets to balls a lot of other shortstops don\u2019t get to and doesn\u2019t make many mistakes.<\/p>\n
The bat is still a work in progress, although Pratt shows traits that hint at his bat developing further. Per BA, swing is simple, balanced and stays short to the ball for a 6-foot-3 hitter. Pratt will expand the strike zone a touch more often than he should, particularly against sliders down and away, but he has a good sense of timing with the hand-eye coordination that leads to a low swing-and-miss rate.\u201c For what it\u2019s worth, scouts don\u2019t think he\u2019ll develop much power due to his low top-end exit velocities and lack of bat speed. Still, if he develops as hoped, a defensive wizard shortstop who can hit for average is a highly valuable player.<\/p>\n
71. SS\/2B\/OF Jett Williams<\/p>\n
Williams and his former teammate in the Mets organization, Brandon Sproat, deserve their own article once I have the time to watch some film. For now:<\/p>\n
There was a reason many Mets fans are disappointed that Williams, the No. 14 overall pick back in 2022, was part of the return for Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers. He could be very good, very soon. His best traits at the plate are his on base ability and swing decisions, both of which sound very Brewers. Unlike most recent Brewers acquisitions, he comes with a ton of accolades. Williams was BA\u2019s No. 1 overall Mets prospect coming into last season. Also according to BA, Williams was the best baserunner and had the strongest infield arm in the Mets organization. After the 2025 season, Williams was named the Eastern League\u2019s top Major League prospect.<\/p>\n
Williams also boasts significant power (17 home runs in 130 combined games last year) and should be able to hit for power at the next level, despite his diminutive stature (5\u20196\u201d). Williams\u2019 final standout trait is his versatility \u2014 while he\u2019s mostly played shortstop as a member of the Mets organization, he\u2019s notched at least 33 career starts at both second base and center field.<\/p>\n
Williams had an .868 OPS in 96 games for the Mets\u2019 Double-A affiliate last year. Upon his promotion to Triple-A, his OPS dropped a little bit (.718 OPS in 36 games), but I\u2019d bet on his numbers bouncing back up somewhere closer to where they were in Double-A once he spends significant time at that level. It doesn\u2019t hurt that the Brewers front office clearly thinks he could be someone (remember Caleb Durbin\u2026).<\/p>\n
Sproat, the other player that the Brewers got in return for Peralta and Myers, is going to fit in great with the Brewers\u2019 \u201cpitching lab.\u201d Fun fact about the 25-year-old righty \u2014 the Mets actually drafted him twice, selecting him in the third round in 2022 and second round in 2023. He more than lived up to that draft capital through Double-A, but eventually hit a bit of a wall in Triple-A. Through his first 22 starts in Triple-A, Sproat posted an abysmal 6.45 ERA. His last 11 starts, however? A 2.44 ERA and 30% (!!) strikeout rate. He was called up in September and made four starts with the Mets before the end of the season, with varying results.<\/p>\n
While he\u2019s not quite as highly ranked of a prospect as Williams, he\u2019s a legitimate talent. Sproat only posted a 4.24 ERA in 26 games (25 starts) at Triple-A Syracuse last season, but the underlying peripherals \u2014 113 strikeouts in 121 innings pitched, .218 opponent batting average \u2014 point to a pitcher who could find success in the big leagues. Per BA, his standout traits are his control (\u201cgood enough to start\u201d in the majors) and his breaking balls, which \u201cstand out.\u201d Sproat threw his mid-80s sweeper and high-70s curveball about a third of the time in his MLB debut and leaned on them as putaway pitches. He also throws a harder slider. Sproat\u2019s sinker sits 94-96 mph, but despite that velocity, it operates as a groundball or set-up pitch rather than a whiff pitch.<\/p>\n
Most of you saw Henderson in his stint with the Brewers last year, a stint that was cut short due to right elbow inflammation. Despite the injury, the promise that he showed in 25 1\/3 IP (1.78 ERA) with Milwaukee was enough to land him on BA\u2019s Top 100. Henderson isn\u2019t going to blow anyone away, but he\u2019s a smart pitcher who gets good movement on his pitches. His standout pitch is his 80-ish mph \u201cNintendo pitch\u201d changeup, which played off his fastball effectively both in Triple-A and in the majors. It\u2019s fair to wonder whether he\u2019ll have the same level of success once major league teams get a full year of film on him, and he certainly (almost certainly?) won\u2019t post an ERA under 2.00 next year.<\/p>\n
Still, Milwaukee trading Peralta and Myers shows that they have confidence in their pitching depth heading into 2026, and Henderson looks to be a significant part of the Brewers\u2019 rotation plans for 2026. He won\u2019t be on this list next year.<\/p>\n
RHP Bishop LetsonOF Luis LaraC Jeferson QueroC Marco Dinges2B\/OF Josh Adamczewski3B Andrew FischerRHP Tyson Hardin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball America just announced their top 100 prospects in baseball heading into the 2026 season. Let\u2019s take a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,39030,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-535236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-prospects-minor-leagues","13":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115947032236742081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}