The Milwaukee Brewers are the World Series champions in 2026. A lot of things have happened right in the course of the season and the race just to make that happen. These Brewers were a young team, with many players who were rookies just making their boards in 2026 playing significant parts down the stretch.
Successfully implementing prospects like Cooper Pratt, Luis Lara, and Drohan Shane into the team was a key part of the Crew’s success. Pratt made a run for MVP, Lara saved several games with his team and had some big hits, and Drohan helped stabilize the rotation during the season and proved to be a versatile and reliable arm.
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The Brewers rely on a constant stream of young players coming up and producing to keep the team competitive and strong. Winning the World Series isn’t going to change that plan. 2027 will be no different. Milwaukee has the best system in all of baseball and has several players coming up from that system and producing in 2027.
These four Brewers hopes may be the closest combo of Pratt, Lara and Drohan that can help the Brewers win the World Series in 2017.
1B Blake Burke
I’m high on Blake Burgh and there’s a possibility he’s a long-term solution for the Brewers at first base. Jake Bauers’ free agency and his 2026 campaign likely cost him a lucrative multi-year free agent deal. While the Brewers could keep him, those kinds of things don’t usually do the trick. Meanwhile, Andrew Vaughn has been relegated to a platoon role this year, and is projected to earn $8.5MM next season in his arbitration year.
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At the very least, it seems likely that both Bauers and Vaughn will return again next year, leaving room open for the other to step into that first base picture.
Blake Burke was named the Double-A Southern League MVP in 2026, and earned a late-season promotion to Triple-A. On the season, Burke hit .263/.350/.538 with 28 doubles, 34 homers, 97 RBIs, and 29 stolen bases. He has immense raw power, but is also a talented hitter who makes consistent contact and keeps his strikeout rate relatively low for his profile, around 25%.
Burgos initially sought his promotion to Triple-A, but the experience will help him adapt over the offseason. He was able to get a chance to join the roster during spring training. Even if it’s not an opening day, Burke is likely to see the big league in the 2027 season, and he can play a big role as a masher in the middle of the lineup.
Jesus Made
Jesus became the number one prospect in all of baseball. The ceiling is insanely high because the Brewers found themselves another Jackson Chourio-type player, a young Venezuelan powerhouse who can flip in ace games. Chourio’s journey continued through the minor leagues, with some growth spurts and spending the year in Double-A as a 19-year-old, when most rookie prospects are in college.
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The bat speed has been selected and the exit velocities lead to the most prominent projections for the maturing bat. In Double-A this year, he hit .271/.344/.430 with 24 doubles, 14 homers, 91 RBIs, and 37 stolen bases. It drops the strike rate from 20.5% in 2025 to just 14.3% in 2026.
He didn’t quite make it to Triple-A this year, but he made it because the Biloxi Shuckers went to the Southern League Championship Series and the Brewers didn’t want to take him away from helping that team and getting that postseason experience.
There is a real chance the Brewers will offer him an extension this offseason. They did it with Chourio after his 19th season in Double-A and it worked out pretty well. Chourio played just six games in Triple-A. He had to prove himself to Pat Murphy to make the Opening Day roster, and Jesus Christ will have to do the same, but it won’t be long until 2027.
RHP Tyson Hardin
Most of the Brewers’ expectations of hitting the bottom of the system in 2026 have made noise. But the pitching development pipeline is still solid and the development of 12th round pick Tyson Hardin has been fantastic to watch.
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A 5.34 ERA looks bad. But it focuses more on development than ERA. Hardin has struck out 139 hitters in 119.2 IP, good for a 10.45 K/9. He also walked just 37, a 2.78 BB/9, which is very strong.
The pitch meter in Hardin is very good. It comes from the lower side of the release, which adds to its disappointment in the mid-90s peak. He who rides well on the pitch, let him pepper the top of the zone. Hardin has a full arsenal with three different fastball variations and six total pitches. Brewers love pitchers with a lot of fastballs and have shown that they can find ways to make these pitchers effective by mixing and matching them.
Of course, there will be a crowded rotation picture in Milwaukee next year with so many young weapons the team has acquired and has in control for several years. But injuries always happen and opportunities always arise for young pitchers in this order. Brewers are “the land of opportunity” for young players as Pat Murphy said. Hardin’s opportunity will be in 2027, and he has a good chance to take it and run.
3B Andrew Fischer
No way would this list be complete without a mention of Andrea Fischer. In the minor league year of 2026, Fischer hit bomb after bomb, slugging 50 home runs in total between the regular season and his release for Double-A Biloxi.
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Across High-A and Double-A, Fischer hit .273/.413/.654 with all of those home runs, 114 RBIs, 102 walks, and nine bases stolen.
However, he also struck out 185 times, a 33% K rate. That is an incredible leader. Fischer has a contact rate of just 63.4%, which would be one of the lowest in MLB. Hitting concerns are dragging down his profile, but so far, even against Double-A, it hasn’t affected his production much.
Kyle Schwarber and Munetaka Murakami are the most successful hitters in the MLB right now with the lowest contact rates. Could he perform like those guys? Certainly. Could he also be missing from that against advanced positions to face in the big leagues? Yes, that’s how.
But even with hitters, Fischer is only able to keep the bases in the dust until it reaches the point where pitchers can outrun him enough or do enough to slow him down. So far that has not happened. Fischer will likely start in Triple-A next year and if Triple-A can’t slow him down, then it’s up to the big leagues to see if the big league pitchers slow him down. And if they still can’t? Then the Brewers might just have their next big masher in the middle of the lineup for years to come.
While Fischer may be pitching against Triple-A in 2027, we’ll see him in the big leagues next year and could push for a return to the World Series.