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Brock Wilken might already have won the award for Understatement of the Arizona Fall League. On the topic of the plunking that resulted in facial fractures on April 11 with Double-A Biloxi, just the fifth game of his first full season, he said: “The hit-by-pitch didn’t feel great.”

It felt like everywhere you looked in 2023, rookies were making key contributions. Johan Rojas was covering acres of ground for the Phillies. Corbin Carroll and Brandon Pfaadt were speeding around the bases and making clutch starts respectively for the D-backs. And perhaps most famously, Evan Carter was on the

There is definitely more than one way to build a winning Major League team, and the 12 clubs headed to the postseason in 2024 prove that. On one hand, there are the Tigers and Guardians, the AL Central teams leading the way with 16 and 15 homegrown players on their

The Brewers are well on their way to winning the NL Central for the second straight season and third time in the last four years. There has been no shortage of talented players leading the way, whether it’s William Contreras, Willy Adames or Freddy Peralta, but the club’s biggest development

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All farm systems, whether they’re at the top or the bottom of organizational rankings, have differing strengths. We’ve decided to dig deeper into a few of those talent buckets over the next few weeks. This week, we’ll take a look at the top farm systems based on infield prospects. Using

Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken toward achieving his Major League dream. Here's a look at third-ranked Brewers prospect Jacob Misiorowski. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. Jacob Misiorowski can provide a boost for the Brewers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville Sounds outfielder Brewer Hicklen has always felt a tie to his hometown of Huntsville, Ala. The 28-year-old has returned home nearly every offseason since the Royals drafted him in 2017 to hold a youth camp that has reached an attendance of 150. Heading into the 2024

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers have seen firsthand the impact top prospects can make, with Jackson Chourio and Joey Ortiz carrying the surprise leaders of the National League Central through stretches this season. Both began the year among MLB Pipeline’s top five Milwaukee prospects before graduating early on. The Brewers also

Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of July, features intra-organizational no-nos, wild romps, unexpected mound dominance and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort, so get

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CHICAGO -- One is a speedy, 17-year-old outfielder from Southeast Texas who was one of the youngest players eligible for this year’s MLB Draft. The other is a 21-year-old, power-hitting first baseman from Northern California coming off the pinnacle of amateur baseball -- a College World Series win with the

MILWAUKEE -- The last time the Brewers drafted a player straight out of a Wisconsin high school was in 2010, a right-hander named Conor Fisk from Grafton, just north of Milwaukee. He wound up going to college, was drafted again by the Blue Jays four years later and made it

MILWAUKEE -- Time will tell where baseball takes Brewers fourth-round Draft pick Marco Dinges, but it doesn’t take a scout to know one thing. Toughness won’t be a problem. The Brewers drafted Dinges as a catcher out of Florida State University on Day 2 of the MLB Draft on Monday

MILWAUKEE – Brewers first-round pick Braylon Payne doesn’t lack confidence -- “I’m a true five-tool player,” he said Monday -- but even he was surprised when his agent Ryan Ware called during the middle of the first round of the MLB Draft on Sunday night. Payne was hopeful he’d be

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