Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2027 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival
1. SS Jesús Made | 19 | AA | 2027
A switch-hitter listed at 6’1” 221 pounds, Made is uniquely fast and athletic for a guy his size and excels in the batter’s box with power and plate skills beyond his years while maintaining (so far) the first-step, quick-twitch speed that makes him the number one overall prospect for the dynasty game and a consensus top-five MLB prospect in any context no matter who’s sorting the list. He posted just a 103 wRC+ in 122 Double-A games, but that’s pretty good when you’re the youngest guy at the level and about a half-decade younger than the league-average age.
2. OF Braylon Payne | 20 | AA | 2028
The 17th overall pick in the 2024 draft, Payne is a prototype speedy center fielder at 6’2” 186 pounds from the left side. In 109 games between High-A and Double-A this year, he hit 28 home runs and stole 25 bases with a 29.1 percent strikeout rate and 127 wRC+, and his season is still going in the Arizona Fall League. He turned 20 on August 14th and figures to reach Triple-A before his 21st birthday. Most rankers will probably have him behind SS Luis Peña, but I’m opting for the monstrous fantasy upside here and can deal with the pain that may bring.
3. SS Luis Peña | 20 | AA | 2028
Peña made himself a top-25-type prospect in 2025 but struggled a bit early in 2026 and wound up hitting three home runs in 70 games (51 in High-A and 16 in Double-A, three on the complex) while slashing .296/.380/.415 with 35 stolen bases. He recently had surgery to repair a broken ankle, an injury that shouldn’t linger on paper, but humans don’t live on paper, and speed is one of Peña’s carrying tools, so that has to come all the way back to keep the 5’11” 185-pound righty high on the prospect lists.
4. 2B Josh Adamczewski | 20 | A+ | 2028
Gotta hype myself to even attempt to type this name. I can do this! Adamczewski was a 15th round pick out of high school in 2023 and hasn’t stopped hitting since, slashing .300/.417/.509 with 18 home runs and 18 stolen bases and just 95 strikeouts (19.2%) against 78 walks (15.8%) in 116 games across High-A and Double-A. A left-handed hitter at 6’0” 190 pounds, Adamczewski passes the eye test with ease as a hitter, controlling the plate with quick hands and balance throughout this swing. In the field, his long-term position is an open question, but the bat will give him a long runway to figure that out.
5. 3B Andrew Fischer | 22 | AA | 2027
The 20th overall pick out of Tennessee in the 2025 draft, Fischer smoked 48 home runs in 126 games between High-A and Double-A this year, posting a combined 162 wRC+ despite striking out 33 percent of the time. The power is theoretically something Milwaukee could use after the team tied for second-to-last in baseball with 154 total home runs in 2026. On the other hand, the Brewers won three more games than the 100-win Dodgers to secure the number overall seed for the playoffs largely by pitching, playing defense and making a ton of contact. This disconnect articulates my primary worries about Fischer for the fantasy game. His organization has chosen a path that works incredibly well for them, and his player type just doesn’t fit neatly into that plan. On a third hand, we see that 1B Jake Bauers is a free agent after this year, so that’s a possibility if Bauers doesn’t re-sign and Fischer can somehow jump Blake Burke on the org chart. DH Christian Yelich will be 35 next year after posting a 92 wRC+ this year, but he’s under contract through 2028, so Fischer is at least a little bit blocked in every direction he casts.
6. OF Brailyn Antunez | 19 | A | 2030
Listed at six-foot, 187 pounds, Antunez had a difficult debut season in the Dominican Summer League after signing for $900,000 in January of 2025, slashing .215/.353/.282 with one home run in 55 games. Whatever he did over the winter, he should replicate this off-season because he was a new man in 2026, especially after hitting his way off the complex. In 34 Low-A games, the right-handed Antunez slashed .339/.450/.573 with seven home runs and ten stolen bases. It’s the kind of late-season hot streak that often gets overlooked by the list-makers, which seems to be the case here. This isn’t some pop-up statistical anomaly from the bowels of the system: Antunez is a legitimate five-tool prospect just coming into his own for an organization that knows how to help him develop.
7. 3B 1B Luke Adams | 22 | AAA | 2027
Adams still features his trademark high front leg kick while the pitch is coming toward him, but he’s toned it down and closed it off a bit. Where he used to be sort of opening up and hunting for inside pitches, he now hunts the middle and outer third but still winds up pulling the ball a lot. At 6’4” 233 pounds from the right side, he’s essentially daring pitchers to hit him by closing off the inside part of the plate. That’s clearly the place to attack him, but he creates kind of an optical illusion where there is just no room between his body and plate, so you have to sort of throw the inside fastball through him and trust that he’ll get out of the way. It’s been effective, to say the least. He struck out just 14 percent of the time in 67 Triple-A games while walking at a 14.3 percent clip and hitting 13 home runs, good for a 149 wRC+. The eye test is tricky here because Adams is so unique as a hitter and not particularly impressive as an athlete in the field.
8. 1B Blake Burke | 23 | AAA | 2027
A large lefty power hitter at 6’3” 236 pounds, Burke broke out with the bat late last year in Double-A and kept the good times rolling this season, slashing .285/.367/.603 with 30 home runs and a 23.7 percent strikeout rate in 96 Double-A games before flailing a bit for a month at Triple-A, where he slashed .193/.299/.336 with a 32.1 percent strikeout rate in 31 games to close out the season. That last number is scary in part because he looks like a big-time strikeout risk at a glance given his long swing and general lack of quick-twitch athleticism. If he can manage that with plate discipline and selective aggression, he’s got plenty of power to carve out a nice big league career.
9. SS Brady Ebel | 19 | A+ | 2029
The 32nd overall pick in the 2025 draft, Ebel’s a left-handed hitter at 6’3” 195 pounds who does everything on the field with the smooth actions you’d expect from a baseball lifer. The son of Dodgers 3B Dino Ebel and older brother of Milwaukee’s 2026 first-round pick Trey Ebel, Brady probably heard more about baseball by the age of 19 than most humans hear in a lifetime. The size and smooth infield actions draw comparisons to Corey Seager, and Ebel looked the part of a patient, all-fields hitter while slashing .261/.417/.420 in his 105 Low-A games.
10. SS Ricki Moneys | 18 | DSL | 2031
A right-handed hitter at 6’0” 180 pounds, Moneys got paid $1.15 million to sign with Milwaukee in January and played well in his debut season, slashing .289/.440/.479 with five home runs, 28 stolen bases and more walks (18.9%) than strikeouts (18.5%). The Brewers have so many good prospects that I sort of had to jump Moneys over deserving players like Jett Williams, Bishop Letson, Jefferson Quero, Marco Dinges and more, but I think it’s a risk worth taking in the long run as Moneys features rare topside with the bat.
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