We have reached the point of the offseason where prospect lists abound. We continue our top 10 prospects for every team with the Milwaukee Brewers!
Our team top 10 prospect lists at Call to the Pen are spearheaded by Benjamin Chase. Today, he gives us the top ten prospects for the Milwaukee Brewers.
This season, we will be going through teams by division, in order of 2017 record. The AL East will be first, followed by the AL Central and AL West. Then the focus will shift to the National League in the same order.
The format will be as it was last season for the same lists, with a system review, which will include last season’s list. The top 10 will follow in reverse order, two players per page in order to give adequate space to each player. Major trades or international signings will lead to an updated top 10!
Finally, don’t go away after #1 is revealed as each list will also contain a player either signed in the 2017 international free agent class or drafted in 2017 that isn’t part of the top 10 and should be tracked. Last season’s mentions in that area made over half of the top 10s this season, so this is a great way to get to know a player who could be making a big splash in the organization.
System overview
Just last offseason, the Milwaukee Brewers were one of the top systems in all of baseball, boasting tremendous prospect depth in elite, top-100 guys and also depth in guys of value outside of the top 100.
In the 2017 season, the Brewers competed for the National League Central Division title and then one of the Wild Cards until the very end of the season, which meant that some of the top prospects of the system were used at the big league level and graduated or were utilized in deals to compete in season.
After falling just short of the playoffs, the Brewers pushed all of their chips to the middle this offseason, trading 3 of the original team top 10 I had coming into the season in a deal that brought outfielder Christian Yelich to Milwaukee from Miami.
That has significantly lessened the ranking of the Brewers farm system, but the system was used for what it should be – competing at the big league level, and if there is a playoff run in 2018, you can be sure no one will be worried about the ranking of the farm system.
Let’s take a look at that system….
Next: #9 and #10