Welcome back to the Minor League Roundup!
As a reminder, you can find this roundup — covering everything you need to know about each of the Brewers’ minor league affiliates — every Tuesday morning right here on Brew Crew Ball. For consistency, all organizational prospect rankings will reference MLB Pipeline unless otherwise noted.
Triple-A Nashville Sounds (43-32)
Opponent this week: @ Memphis Redbirds (St. Louis Cardinals)
Jeferson Quero (No. 7): 9-for-21, 1 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 1 BB, 4 K
Luke Adams (No. 11): 6-for-16, 1 2B, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 5 BB, 3 K
Akil Baddoo: 5-for-15, 1 2B, 3 HR, 13 RBI, 3 BB, 8 K
Tyler Black: 5-for-15, 1 3B, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 5 BB, 3 K
Garrett Stallings: 5.2 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
Tyson Hardin (No. 16): 6.2 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
Jeferson Quero is now slashing .274/.372/,452 over the last month. That line is good for an .824 OPS, which ranks second on the Sounds (among qualified batters) to only Akil Baddoo (1.027).
One batter who doesn’t qualify is 1B/3B Luke Adams. Since he was activated from the injured list on June 2nd, Adams is slashing .300/.470/.760 (1.230 OPS) in 50 at-bats. This stretch, as you might be able to tell from his sky-high slugging percentage, has coincided with the best power surge in Adams’ professional career. The twenty two-year-old Adams has hit exactly 11 home runs in each of his three full seasons with the Brewers’ organization, but after hitting three this week (in the same game, nonetheless) he’s now hit seven over the last three weeks.
Baddoo was activated from the IL a little over a week prior to Adams, and he’s also been one of the Sounds’ best hitters since. Baddoo is hitting .275 with a .992 OPS in 24 games (80 at-bats) this season. At twenty seven-years-old, he’s not the future, but he’s been playing well enough to warrant a look should one of the Brewers’ backup outfielders go down.
If a starting outfielder were to miss time, it’s likely the call would go to the recently-extended Luis Lara (No. 5). Lara had a rough week (3-for-21, 5K), but he still ranks second on the Sounds in OPS with an .873 OPS. Jett Williams (No. 3) also went 3-for-21, but all of his hits were home runs, giving him a .788 OPS on the week despite a .143 batting average. Williams is now hitting just .217 with a .702 OPS this season.
Tyson Hardin went 6 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on six hits and striking out five as he picked up a win. In seven starts since his promotion to Triple-A, Hardin sports a 2.25 ERA and 0.95 WHIP. He’s struck out 41 batters in 40 innings with only twelve walks. Not bad for a pitcher who started more games in High-A (11) than Double-A (10) last season. It’s looking more and more likely that Hardin will make his first big-league appearance sometime this year.
Garrett Stallings also had a solid start for the Sounds, going 5 2/3 innings while giving up six hits, but only two earned runs. Mark Manfredi struck out five in three relief appearances (3 1/3 innings).
Next week’s opponent: vs. Gwinnett Stripers (Atlanta Braves)
Double-A Biloxi Shuckers (35-30)
Opponent this week: vs. Columbus Clingstones (Atlanta Braves)
Dylan O’Rae: 8-for-16, 2 2B, 2 3B, 6 RBI, 2 BB, 3 K
Jesús Made: 8-for-16, 1 2B, 1 HR, 10 RBI, 2 BB, 5 K
Eric Brown Jr.: 6-for-14, 1 RBI, 3 BB, 4 K
Mike Boeve: 6-for-15, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 5 K
Josh Adamczewski: 6-for-18, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 0 BB, 4 K
Cameron Wagoner: 4.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
Bishop Letson: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
Yorman Galindez: 6.0 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
Jaron DeBerry: 5.0 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
Manuel Rodriguez: 4.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
The Shuckers’ week was extremely chaotic due to inclement weather rolling through the Biloxi area. Originally, this series was supposed to have seven games — as opposed to the usual six — because of a makeup game that was first scheduled for May 9th.
Five different games this week got suspended, cancelled, or pushed to later in the week because of weather, so Biloxi and Columbus only ended up with four completed games. The first game of the series, originally scheduled for June 16th, got rescheduled two different times. It was a crazy week down in Mississippi, but the Shuckers managed to pull through and win three of the four games.
Jesús Made hit .500 with 10 RBIs in 16 at-bats. That sentence speaks for itself. Biloxi scored 30 runs this week, so Made personally knocked in 1/3 of the Shuckers’ runs.
Dylan O’Rae, the Brewers’ third round-pick back in 2022, has continued to produce this year after missing all of 2025 due to a wrist injury. O’Rae, who’s still only twenty two-years-old, is now hitting .318 with an .853 OPS in 201 at-bats. As I’ve said before in previous editions of this column, keep an eye on him.
Let’s check in on Josh Adamczewski and Andrew Fischer in their first week in Double-A:
Adamczewski: 6-for-18, 2B, 3 K
Fischer: 4-for-14, 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 5 K
As a reminder, the jump from High-A to Double-A is often cited as the hardest jump for a prospect to make. Nothing but encouraging results from both players so far.
Blake Burke (4-for-15, 2 2B, HR) and Mike Boeve (6-for-15, 2B, HR) both continue to hit. Burke has been one of the biggest breakouts in the organization over the last calendar year and deserves all the love that he gets. Boeve, despite being ranked as a top-10 organizational prospect just last year, hasn’t gotten the love that he deserves. Over the last month (80 at-bats), Boeve has hit exactly .300 with a .753 OPS. Not Burke numbers, at least power-wise, but he’s producing while showing off his plate discipline and ability to get on base — two of the tools that scouts loved coming into the 2023 draft.
As for the pitching staff, Cameron Wagoner, Bishop Letson, and Yorman Galindez all impressed in their outings. Letson, the Brewers’ highest-ranked pitching prospect, struggled early in his first Double-A season and still owns a 4.60 ERA and 1.43 WHIP on the year. However, he’s looked much sharper of late. Over his last four starts (21.1 innings), Letson has posted a 2.11 ERA and 1.17 WHIP while striking out more than a batter per inning. He appears to be settling in at Double-A, making the Brewers’ No. 8 prospect one to watch over the coming weeks.
Next week’s opponent: @ Montgomery Biscuits (Tampa Bay Rays)
High-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (34-28)
Opponent this week: @ Quad Cities River Bandits (Kansas City Royals)
Braylon Payne: 8-for-15, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 3 BB, 1 K
Josiah Ragsdale: 8-for-21, 2 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 3 BB, 5 K
Daniel Dickinson (No. 27): 5-for-14, 1 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 BB, 4 K
Eric Bitonti: 7-for-21, 1 2B, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 3 BB, 10 K
Wande Torres: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 8 K
Jayden Dubanewicz (No. 24): 5.0 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K
Josh Knoth (No. 21): 4.1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
With Adamczewski and Fischer now in Double-A, offensive firepower will be a bit harder to come by up in Appleton. Luckily, the T-Rats still have Braylon Payne and Josiah Ragsdale, although they won’t for long if both keep hitting the way they have this season.
After this week, Payne is now hitting .282 with a .989 OPS, 13 home runs, and 10 doubles. That’s a significant step forward from his first full season in the Brewers’ organization last year, when he hit .240 with a .736 OPS, eight home runs, and nine doubles. Payne is beginning to look like a player worthy of the first-round pick Milwaukee spent on him in 2024, and if he continues producing at this level, he could join Adamczewski and Fischer in Double-A before long.
Payne’s stats are ridiculous, but Ragsdale — drafted in the seventh round in 2025 — isn’t far behind. He’s hitting .316 (.357 over the last month) with a .919 OPS and five home runs in 190 at-bats this year. Ragsdale is already twenty-two, so he’ll probably get moved up relatively soon if he keeps producing.
Former LSU star Daniel Dickinson, the Brewers’ sixth-round pick in 2025, has quietly brought his OPS up to .655 after hitting .241 with a .795 OPS over the last month. The season-long numbers don’t look great yet for Dickinson, especially given that he’s the same age as Ragsdale (and Andrew Fischer), but he appears to be figuring things out at the plate.
Jayden Dubanewicz went five innings in his second start with the Timber Rattlers, giving up six hits but just a single earned run. He didn’t walk anybody and struck out six. Josh Knoth gave up a pair of earned runs in 4.1 innings, but only gave up three hits and struck out seven. Knoth, who missed last season due to Tommy John surgery, now has a 2.70 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP through his first five starts (16 2/3 innings) this season.
Next week’s opponent: vs. Cedar Rapids Kernels (Minnesota Twins)
Single-A Wilson Warbirds (36-30)
Opponent this week: vs. Charleston RiverDogs (Tampa Bay Rays)
Standout performances:
Filippo Di Turi: 6-for-17, 2 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBI, 3 BB, 3 K
Juan Ortuno: 6-for-20, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 4 BB, 0 K
Handelfry Encarnacion: 7-for-24, 3 2B, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 4 BB, 5 K
Joey Broughton: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
Jarrette Bonet: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Andrew Healy: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K
Hayden Robinson: 4.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
Di Turi, Ortuno, and Encarnacion were the only Warbirds to hit .292 or better in more than 10 at-bats. While the stats out of Wilson aren’t as impressive as some of the Brewers’ other affiliates, there’s still a lot to look forward to down in North Carolina.
The nineteen-year-old Encarnacion is only hitting .227 on the season, but he’s one extra base hit away from being tied with Jose Anderson for the most on the team. He’s also walked 53 times in 65 games (251 at-bats). Brady Ebel (No. 13) isn’t hitting for average either, but he’s showing enough power (18 extra-base hits, including four home runs). Ebel’s also walking a lot, with 57 walks in 234 at-bats. Despite their youth, both hitters have shown patience at the plate and have been making good swing decisions — things the Brewers look for in their players.
Ortuno, a nineteen-year-old infielder, now has a .738 OPS on the season. His .250 batting average ranks third on the Warbirds after Luis Lameda (.303) and Pedro Ibarguen (.280). None of those prospects are ranked as top-30 prospects, but all are producing despite being too young to order a beer at a bar in North Carolina. With a system as deep as the Brewers’, sometimes prospects get lost in the shuffle, and sometimes prospects come from seemingly out of nowhere (Tyson Hardin, for example) to become legitimate prospects. All three of those players are producing at a young age — I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the three, or Encarnacion, ended up as as a top-30 guy sometime in the future.
Same goes for the pitching — Joey Broughton, Jarrett Bonet, and Andrew Healy all went at least four innings this week while allowing one run or less. Even if you’ve heard of Bonet, you may not have heard of the other two. Keep an eye on Broughton, who was part of the same 2024 class as Hardin, Dubanewicz, and Ethan Dorchies. The left-hander, signed out of high school, hadn’t pitched until this year after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2024. In eight appearances this year between the Arizona Complex League and Single-A, Broughton has a 2.24 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 22 1/3 innings.
Next week’s opponent: @ Fredericksburg Nationals (Washington Nationals)
Adams, who spent two months on the injured list last season and missed another six weeks this season. As I touched on earlier, Adams has found his power stroke since returning. The twenty two-year-old has always had raw power, but — much like Blake Burke — it hadn’t really translated to games yet.
I haven’t been able to dive into his film much in recent weeks, but aside from any mechanical adjustments, what we’re seeing now may be the natural progression of a prospect who’s getting older and beginning to turn more of that raw power into in-game power. Adams has posted some seriously impressive exit velocities since his return, including a home run on Sunday that left his bat at 113.3 mph. That’s not a flukey minor-league homer, that’s legitimate plus raw power and a significant development for a player that has always had elite plate discipline. If his power surge is for real, watch out.
This is the second time Blake Burke has won Play of the Week in the last five weeks. I don’t want to hear another “yeah, but he’ll need to hit enough to DH” take for a while.