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Just checked in on him today and noticed the HRs haven't been there yet. Still having a nice start.

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ReasonablySober wrote:

ReasonablySober wrote:

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Just checked in on him today and noticed the HRs haven't been there yet. Still having a nice start.

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ReasonablySober wrote:

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Just checked in on him today and noticed the HRs haven't been there yet. Still having a nice start.

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Are the highlights really like this? I want to see him hit the ball before they change camera angle.

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1. Brett Wichrowski, RHP, Brewers
Wichrowski is one of the biggest arrow-up pitching prospects in baseball. Every team had several opportunities to add him last year, but the Brewers snapped him up in the 13th round of the draft and signed him for $100,000. At the time, Wichrowski was a junior at Bryant, where he had a 4.50 ERA split between starting and the bullpen, with a 64-25 K-BB mark in 50 innings and a fastball that was sitting in the low 90s, topping at 96 mph.

As Josh Norris pointed out, his stuff exploded as soon as he got to spring training, where he touched 100 mph. He has since reached 101 mph, sitting at 94-97 mph as a starter for High-A Wisconsin, where he has a 1.64 ERA with 14 strikeouts and two walks in 11 innings. The extra five mph to give him a triple-digits fastball is exciting, but it’s a mid-80s slider that breaks like a Whiffle ball at times that helps him pile up empty swings. Wichrowski has transformed himself from a player outside the Brewers Top 30 prospects entering the year into one whose pushing his way toward the top 10 prospects in one of the game’s strongest farm systems.

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2. Bishop Letson, RHP Brewers
With Wichrowski and Letson, the Brewers have two of the pitchers whose stuff has made the biggest leap forward of anyone in the minors, with both acquired after the 10th round in the draft last year. Letson was a gangly Indiana high school pitcher who was not heavily recruited before he committed to Purdue. Coming into the 2023 draft, Letson wasn’t overpowering—his fastball topped at 93 mph—but at 6-foot-4, 170 pounds with a loose arm, fast arm speed and good athleticism, he hit a lot of projection checkpoints that pointed to future velocity gains.

Less than a year after the Brewers drafted him in the 11th round and signed him for $486,200, that projection has started to materialize. Pitching for Low-A Carolina, Letson now sits at 92-95 mph and has reached 98. His slider flashes above-average potential and he has shown feel for a changeup as well. Through two starts the Brewers have kept Letson’s workload tight at just 5.2 innings, with Letson allowing just one hit and striking out eight, though he has walked five. The early signals point to an arm who could be one of the bigger risers among lower-level pitching prospects.

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