Made rises to No. 3, leads Brewers trio on Top 100 list

MILWAUKEE -- Eighteen-year-old shortstop Jesús Made climbed to No. 3 on MLB Pipeline’s newest ranking of baseball’s Top 100 prospects, which was unveiled Friday with five Brewers players on the list.

Fellow middle infielders Luis Peña (No. 26) and Cooper Pratt (No. 64) also made the Top 100 -- a sign of Milwaukee’s organizational strength at premium positions in the middle of the diamond -- and they were joined by infielder/outfielder Jett Williams (No. 51) and right-hander Brandon Sproat (No. 100), the two prospects acquired in this week’s Freddy Peralta/Tobias Myers trade.

Made, Milwaukee’s consensus top prospect, moves up one spot from where he finished 2025. That follows a season in which the product of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic, where he inherited a love of baseball from his father, hit .285/.379/.413 with 40 extra-base hits and 47 stolen bases while climbing from Class A Carolina to High-A Wisconsin to Double-A Biloxi in his second professional season.

If that sounds familiar, it is because Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio’s first two pro seasons looked strikingly similar. Chourio split the next season between Biloxi and Triple-A Nashville before signing a record-setting contract extension in December 2023 that paved his path to the Brewers’ Opening Day lineup in 2024.

Made, of course, will have to forge his own path. He’ll turn 19 in May.

“I think it’s very similar,” Brewers assistant GM Matt Kleine said in September when Made joined Biloxi’s playoff push, “but we want Made to have the Made path, whatever that is for him. We’re not going to pigeonhole anybody and say just because this player did it one way, you have to do it this way, too.

“He’s going to dictate his timeline based on his performance and whether he’s ready to go. And if he’s not, that’s OK, too. There’s no rush on this.”

The same goes for Peña, 19, who mirrored Made’s path until running into a wall late last season at High-A. Still, he finished with a fine year, hitting .270/.335/.422 with 33 extra-base hits and 44 steals in 96 games between Carolina and Wisconsin.

Pratt is closer to the Majors, having already experienced one big league Spring Training camp and likely to be invited again for 2026. The 21-year-old spent all of last season at Biloxi and hit .238/.343/.348 with 31 steals and most of his best work in the second half. Pratt’s best month was August, when he delivered an .842 OPS. From the start of June through the end of the regular season, he tallied as many walks as strikeouts (49 apiece). He is considered the best defender of the bunch, having won a Minor League Gold Glove in 2024.

Williams and Sproat look like good fits in their new organization.

The former is a speedster with experience up the middle at shortstop, second base and center field -- the type of talent the Brewers have long loved -- and despite standing 5-foot-7, he gets the most of his average raw power with his lift-and-pull tendencies. Sproat has a lot of power in his six-pitch arsenal and has a tendency to generate ground balls, a trait that could work well with Milwaukee’s impressive infield defense. He should compete for a spot in the back end of the rotation this spring.

The most notable drop among Brewers prospects belonged to catcher Jeferson Quero, who finished 2024 at No. 34 and was ranked No. 85 before Friday’s update, when he fell out of the Top 100. That’s because of his injury woes in recent years, starting with a major right shoulder injury on 2024 Opening Day that required surgery.

Quero still has a chance to make an impact in 2026. He’s on Milwaukee’s 40-man roster for the first time and will report to Spring Training vying to be Brewers starting catcher William Contreras’ backup.