Milwaukee Brewers: Scouting Report On OF Lewis Brinson

Scouting Report

Body/Basics

Brinson has a long, athletic body at 6’3″, 195 pounds, and he looks that size. He throws and hits from the right side.

Hitting

Brinson stands tall in the box with a high back elbow cocked as the pitch comes. He has very long arms, allowing him good plate coverage, but it also means that it seems that no two swings are the same as he works those long arms through the zone. He has a good ability to make work of the pitches he gets to, though he struggled in the games I watched with hard breaking stuff and good sequencing from an opposing hitter.

When you watch Brinson in batting practice, the power is breathtaking. Joey Gallo may be the only guy who you watch in the minors right now that puts on a more impressive batting practice display. If he can simply work the count and get his eye tuned in on which pitches to pull the trigger on, he could be a monster with his power.

Base Running/Fielding

Brinson’s long frame includes legs that simply eat up the base line. I was surprised to watch him attempt a stolen base as he really does not get good jumps in base stealing. He’s just so incredibly fast at eating up ground once he does get going that he’s still able to steal bases at a solid rate. He’s even better when he goes from first to third or second to home on a single to the outfield as he can simply get to blazing speed.

In the outfield, Brinson gets great jumps on balls, and those long legs simply eat up distance across the center field grass. Brinson’s arm is definitely above average as well. He will be able to have some significant major league value to a team on the defensive end as his bat catches up for likely a couple of years in the big leagues.

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