Here are Brewers' Draft picks from Day 2

MILWAUKEE -- If you’re a Midwesterner who can play ball, odds are that the Brewers will find you.

When Milwaukee selected Lake Central High School right–hander Josh Flores with their first pick of Day 2 of the MLB Draft on Monday, it marked the third straight year they’d taken a player from that school in St. John, Ind., which is just over the Illinois border south of Chicago. Flores, a fourth-round pick, followed 2024 ninth rounder Griffin Tobias, a right-handed pitcher, and 2023 15th rounder Josh Adamczewski, an infielder.

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“We always try to break some Draft record. We took the oldest guy ever one year,” said Brewers vice president of amateur acquisition Tod Johnson, who was kidding, but also not (28-year-old Samuel Mendez didn’t sign in 2021). “Now we’re probably the first team to take a player from the same high school three years in a row. …

“Josh Flores is the first guy we drafted today, athletic, really good breaking stuff. He already throws hard and has a good frame. So, a lot of really good ingredients there.”

Flores is the Brewers’ latest pick from area scout Ginger Poulson, who has helped the Brewers grow a stable of prospects with Midwest roots. They include four players in MLB Pipeline’s Brewers Top 30: Infielder Luke Adams (No. 8, from Illinois), right-hander Bishop Letson (No. 14, from Indiana), Adamczewski (No. 16) and right-hander Craig Yoho (No. 19, also from Indiana), who made his Major League debut in San Francisco in April with Poulson in the stands.

Flores’ MLB Pipeline scouting report screams Brewers, who have developed a reputation in recent years for their development work with pitchers. He has a plus pitch – “one of the best curveballs in the national prep class,” the report says – and room to grow in the command department.

“He'll be an intriguing project,” the report concludes, “for a team that believes in its ability to develop pitchers.”

Here are the Brewers’ picks from the second and final day of this year’s Draft:

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Round 4: Josh Flores, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Lake Central High School (IN)

Round 5: Sean Episcope, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Princeton
Calling card: Like Flores, this is another right-hander with Midwest roots. Episcope was drafted out of Princeton University but he hails from the Illinois high school ranks, where his Draft stock back then took a hit when he needed Tommy John surgery at the end of his senior season. He pitched for Princeton in 2024 and the start of ‘25, topping out at 97 mph, before needing an elbow revision in May. Those surgeries typically require a 12-14 month recovery.
Quote: “We’ve managed that with other players as well [most notably All-Star right-hander Drew Rasmussen, who was recovering from his second Tommy John surgery when the Brewers made him a sixth round pick in 2018]. … We’re fairly confident in the return to play for these guys, Not that every one of them gets back and is great. But we feel with this one, we’re comfortable with where he is and where he will be after his recovery.” -- Johnson

Round 6: Daniel Dickinson, SS
Bats/throws: R/R
School: LSU
Calling card: After hitting .315 on the year with 14 doubles, 12 homers, 49 RBIs and 67 runs scored to make All-SEC second team, Dickinson grinded through the NCAA postseason with a broken hamate bone in his left hand, suffered in LSU's first game of the tournament. Still, he went 6-for-17 in the College World Series, with three of the hits in the two games of the final.
Quote: “They won the national championship and I think at the spot we got him, it could end up being a really good pick. At points during the year his name was floating up way higher in the Draft than that. The fact he was still on the board in the sixth round was a little surprising.” -- Johnson

Round 7: Josiah Ragsdale, OF
Bats/throws: L/L
School: Boston College
Calling card: A left-handed-hitting, speedy center fielder from Boston College who is on the smaller side. The Brewers love what they got in Sal Frelick in the first round in 2021, and now they’ll see what they have in Ragsdale, who led the Eagles in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, triples, stolen bases and walks. He stole 63 bases in 147 games in college before getting more experience this summer in the Cape Cod League.
Quote: “He’s bigger than Sal, probably, by a couple of inches. He hasn’t had Sal’s offensive impact to date, but he’s a good runner and a good defender, and we think there’s some upside to the way the swing works.” -- Johnson

Round 8: Hayden Vucinovich, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Bloomington Jefferson HS (MN)
Calling card: Another Midwest pick, Vucinovich coincidentally went to the same high school as not only the Washington Nationals pitcher the Brewers just beat in Sunday’s first-half finale, Jake Irvin, but 1999 Brewers 10th round pick Ben Hendrickson, a righty who became a top prospect and made it to Milwaukee for brief stints in 2004 and ‘06. Vucinovich has a scholarship offer from Minnesota.

Round 9: Andrew Healy, LHP
Bats/throws: L/L
School: Duke
Calling card: The 6-foot-6 frame lets scouts dream, and early in his college career Healy posted big results at Duke, where he was a freshman All-American in 2023 with a 2.32 ERA, moving from a reliever to a weekend starter. He followed up with a 3.76 ERA in 12 starts in 2024 but then went 3-3 with a 7.29 ERA in 13 starts as a junior.
Quote: “College baseball can be tough for guys that have some strike-throwing development to do, and that will probably be the biggest thing for him to work on. We like the stuff, we like the way he moves, we like the arm and we feel like there's some pitch design stuff he can do as well. … He’s up to mid- to upper 90s fairly consistently.” -- Johnson

Round 10: Braylon Owens, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Texas-San Antonio

Round 11: CJ Hughes, SS
Bats/throws: S/R
School: Junipero Serra HS (CA)
Calling card: Versatility; Hughes is a switch hitter who also pitched in high school and has a scholarship waiting at UC-Santa Barbara. But he was also the first of a number of high-ceiling high school players drafted by the Brewers in Round 11 and beyond. Milwaukee has landed a number of talented prospects this way, using pool savings from the first 10 rounds to apply to high ceiling high school players in round 11 and beyond to convince them to sign and begin their pro careers. Draft finances, and each club’s pool, are explained here.
Quote: “I think we’ve done pretty well with this strategy. We’ve got some pretty interesting guys working up the system. Obviously, high school guys take a long time. Like, a Luke Adams at Double-A, he came from this philosophy [as a 12th-round Draft pick in 2022]. … There’s no guarantee that we’re going to land all of them. In fact, I would say we’re not going to land all of them. But we’ll give them an option that they can stack up against their college possibilities and see which direction that goes.” -- Johnson

Round 12: Cooper Underwood, LHP
Bats/throws: R/L
School: Allatoona HS (GA)
Calling card: Does not light up the radar gun but “possesses some of the best feel for spin in this year's prep class,” according to his MLB Pipeline scouting report.
Quote: “He’s got incredibly high upside. He’s got a great opportunity to go to Georgia Tech if that’s what he chooses to do, but he has indicated before that he would be interested in signing – obviously, for a specific amount of money. We felt like this was a really good opportunity there. Steve Smith, the area scout there, has a really good relationship with him and we felt like it was too good to pass up at that point.” -- Johnson

Round 13: Gavin Lauridsen, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Foothill HS (CA)
Calling card: Stands 6-foot-5 and has been clocked at 95-96 mph while pitching for the same high school that produced former Brewers reliever Brad Boxberger. And just like Boxberger, he has a scholarship to USC.

Round 14: Brendan Brock, C
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Southwestern Illinois College
Calling card: The Brewers' first catcher of the Draft put up huge numbers in his third season of junior college: .462/.565/.870 with 23 doubles, 20 homers, 75 RBIs, 39 walks and only two fewer stolen bases (27) than strikeouts (29) in 57 games.
Quote: “We would love to develop an athletic catcher who can run. Those guys are pretty rare. JT Realmuto comes to mind, but I’m not comping him to JT Realmuto. He’s got some aptitude of the position already. He’s committed to Oklahoma, so that’s another one that’s going to be a good route for him if that’s what he chooses to do. We feel like he has some openness to the discussion, at least.” -- Johnson

Round 15: Dominic Cadiz, 3B
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Notre Dame HS (CA)
Calling card: Reds pitcher Hunter Greene and Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton came from the same school as Cadiz, who has a scholarship offer from UCLA.

Round 16: Parker Coil, LHP
Bats/throws: R/L
School: Arkansas
Quote: "This is a blow for Arkansas, but quite the accomplishment for Coil. He wasn't on many draft boards before a fine junior season. The lefty from Oklahoma went 3-0 with a 1.27 ERA in 2025, striking out 24 batters in 21 1/3 innings. He didn't overpower hitters, instead pounding the zone and relying on a deceptive three-pitch mix that avoids hard contact.” -- From the Southwest Times Record’s Jackson Fuller

Round 17: Luke Roupe, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Grace Christian School (NC)

Round 18: Rylan Mills, C
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Oran HS (MO)

Round 19: Chase Bentley, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: IMG Academy (FL)
Calling card: Went 10-0 with a 0.94 earned run average and 62 strikeouts versus five walks in 59 2/3 innings for an IMG program that went 24-1 to win its second MaxPreps national championship.

Round 20: Ma'Kale Holden, RHP
Bats/throws: R/R
School: Thompson HS (AL)