MILWAUKEE -- While the big league Brewers are red hot at American Family Field, there’s fun down on the farm, too.
Top Brewers prospects Jesús Made and Luis Peña are set to make their home debuts for High-A Wisconsin this week, just 90 miles or so north of the organization’s Major League home. They are the jewels of the system, and the plan all along was for the duo to move together for the final weeks of this season, but they also earned it.
“We’re not trying to read too much into performance [since the promotion from Single-A Carolina] or throw too much at them,” said Brewers farm director Tom Flanagan, who hopes to visit later this week. “The manager there, Victor Estevez, has done a nice job of just getting them into the flow, getting a routine.
“Being on the road is one thing, now they’ll get home, get their housing set up, see that we have a hell of a facility there, and I’m sure the crowds will be good, too. They’ll love being up there.”
With those two budding stars on the move, there’s movement on MLB Pipeline’s prospects lists as well. After a re-rank of all 30 teams’ Top 30 prospect lists in the wake of this year’s Draft, here’s where Milwaukee’s system stands:
Brewers top prospects:
- Jesús Made, SS (MLB No. 5)
- Luis Peña, INF (MLB No. 16)
- Cooper Pratt, SS (MLB No. 53)
- Jeferson Quero, C (MLB No. 65)
- Logan Henderson, RHP (MLB No. 90)
Biggest jump/fall
Here are the players whose ranks changed the most from the preseason list:
Jump: Marco Dinges, C (Preseason: NR | Midseason: 10)
The right-handed slugger’s hit tool has always been his top asset, but he’s proven surprisingly adept behind the plate as well, and looks like he has a chance to stick there. A left hamstring injury has proved problematic at both Single-A Carolina and High-A Wisconsin this season, but Dinges returned for the Timber Rattlers on Saturday and went 1-for-2 to boost his line to .325/.431/.532 with 11 doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 53 RBIs at both levels going into Sunday.
“He just hit the ground running in Spring Training,” Flanagan said. “It’s a different sound off the bat. He just hits balls really hard. It’s good to see the jump that he’s made this year in his first full season.”
COMPLETE BREWERS PROSPECT COVERAGE
- Brewers Top 30 prospects
- Prospect stats: Today | Last 10 | Last 30
- Draft pick stats
- Highlights
Fall: Mike Boeve, 3B (Preseason: 5 | Midseason: 27)
Boeve was a king of contact over his three years at University of Nebraska-Omaha before the Brewers took him in the second round in 2023, and he came firing out of the gate in his first full season in ‘24 by going 21-for-38 (.553) in his first 13 games with High-A Wisconsin. Milwaukee promoted Boeve to Double-A Biloxi in late April, and he slashed .306/.374/.447 in 66 games before suffering a right shoulder injury that required surgery. This season his OPS has slipped under .700 and he’s dealing with a right thumb injury that has him sidelined at the moment.
Still, the Brewers love Boeve’s promise and say that a slide down any prospect list is attributable to his recent injuries -- and say nothing about his ability.
“For a hitter with a shoulder injury, and it's his lead arm, it’s just going to take a while,” Flanagan said. “But we’ve seen flashes of what it was like before, so I think it’s going to come back. He’s a really tough kid, a gamer. He checks all of those boxes.”
New to the list
Here are the players added to the Top 30 from outside the organization:
No. 6, Andrew Fischer, 3B/1B (First-round pick in 2025 Draft)
No. 11, Brady Ebel, SS (Supplemental first-round pick in 2025 Draft)
No. 14, J.D. Thompson, LHP (Second-round pick in 2025 Draft)
No. 23, Daniel Dickinson, 2B (Sixth-round pick in 2025 Draft)
No. 26, Frank Cairone, RHP (Supplemental second-round pick in 2025 Draft)
Best tools
Players are graded on a 20-80 scouting scale for future tools -- 20-30 is well below average, 40 is below average, 50 is average, 60 is above average and 70-80 is well above average. Players in parentheses have the same grade.
Hit: 60 -- Jesús Made (Luis Peña)
Power: 60 -- Made (Brock Wilken, Eric Bitonti, Andrew Fischer)
Run: 70 -- Peña (Braylon Payne)
Arm: 70 -- Jeferson Quero
Defense: 70 -- Quero
Fastball: 55 -- Logan Henderson (Bishop Letson, Bryce Meccage, Josh Knoth, J.D. Thompson, Frank Cairone)
Curveball: 60 -- Coleman Crow (Josh Knoth)
Slider: 60 -- Robert Gasser (Josh Knoth, Cairone)
Changeup: 70 -- Craig Yoho
Control: 55 -- Tyson Hardin (Crow, Henderson)