Brewers prospect Fischer sets 21st-century MiLB HR record with 47th roundtripper
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Some seasons are breakouts. Others become benchmarks.
Andrew Fischer has put a stamp on a 2026 campaign that has long since crossed that line. As the Double-A regular season winds down, Milwaukee’s No. 5 prospect is putting the finishing touches on a year that places him in some rare Minor League company.
Fischer slugged his 47th homer on Thursday night at Blue Wahoos Stadium, the most long balls in a single season by a Minor Leaguer this century and the fifth-most dating back to 1963 when that year’s Player Development Contract officially created what is now considered the modern Minor Leagues.
The long ball was his 27th in 69 games for Double-A Biloxi, an absurdly-historic rate that fits in perfectly with what is turning into one of the best power-packed years in the history of Minor League Baseball.
Most home runs in the Minor League Baseball modern era (since 1963):
1. Bill McNulty, Triple-A Sacramento, 1974; 55*
2. Gorman Thomas, Triple-A Sacramento, 1974; 51*
3. Ron Kittle, Triple-A Edmonton, 1982; 50
4. Tony Solaita, Single-A High Point-Thomasville, 1968; 49
5. ANDREW FISCHER, High-A Wisconsin/Double-A Biloxi, 2026; 47
T-6. Ryan Howard, Double-A Reading/Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, 2004; 46
T-6. Chris Hatcher, Triple-A Omaha, 1998; 46
T-6. Ken Phelps, Triple-A Wichita, 1982; 46
T-6. Dave Duncan, Single-A Modesto, 1966; 46
The 22-year-old put himself into position to make history by going deep twice this past Saturday, the second tater tying him with Ryan Howard (2004) for the most jacks in the Minors this century.
Now, the 2025 first-rounder stands alone and has a chance at hitting 50 home runs, a figure no one in the Minors has reached since Ron Kittle in 1982. Beyond that might be a stretch, as Biloxi's regular season concludes Sunday. Bill McNulty tops the modern era list with 55 long balls for Triple-A Sacramento in 1974, but that comes with a caveat.
Sacramento played that season at Hughes Stadium at Sacramento City College -- a facility typically reserved for football and track. As such, the left-field wall was only 233 feet away from home plate (with a 40-foot-high screen) and required a waiver from Minor League Baseball since it did not meet the 250-foot minimum standard for play.
Of course, Fischer’s production runs deeper than just balls clearing the fence. The New Jersey native is slashing .272/.411/.656 with 67 extra-base hits, 113 RBIs, 103 runs scored and 99 walks in 123 games across two levels, beginning with a 20-homer-in-54-game sequence at High-A Wisconsin earlier this year.
Fischer has, somehow, improved his roundtripper rate since his promotion to the upper Minors in late June. Barring something extraordinary, he’ll become the first Milwaukee farmhand to pace the Minors in homers since Bill Foley went deep 34 times for Single-A Burlington in 1978.
And while 50 homers would make for a nice, round number, it’s almost beside the point at this stage. Fischer has already authored a season that will be remembered long after the final game is played, combining prodigious power with an advanced approach that has made him one of the Minors’ most dangerous hitters from start to finish.