Brewers' prospects light up Statcast in impressive Spring Breakout

MESA, Ariz. -- When you’ve got a farm system as stocked with top-flight talent as the Brewers, playing an extra Spring Breakout game is just another chance to showcase how bright the future is down on the farm.

While they came out on the losing side of a 9-8 seesaw affair with the Athletics on Sunday at Hohokam Stadium to cap off the 2026 event (after a 7-3 win over the Mariners on Friday), there was plenty to glean from some under-the-hood metrics that portend to future excitement.

“When one guy goes, we all go,” said first baseman Eric Bitonti, the club’s No. 26 prospect. “It's kind of just a domino effect. Especially with the talent here, it's fun to watch.”

Bitonti’s berm blast

It’s not often that everyone in the stadium knows the ball is gone immediately upon impact, but Bitonti’s seventh-inning homer off right-hander Kade Morris fits that bill. With an exit velocity of 115.4 mph, it marks not only the hardest-hit ball by any Brewer during 2026 Spring Training, it would slot in as the second-highest exit velocity for any Milwaukee home run in the Statcast era, which dates back to 2015. (Avisaíl García hit a 116.7 mph homer on Sept. 12, 2021.)

“You don't really feel it,” said a laughing Bitonti. “When you hit it and you don't feel it come off the bat, that's when you know you got it pretty good.”

Made makes an impact

It took all of one pitch for Jesús Made to look locked in during his third career Spring Breakout game. Facing fellow Top 100 prospect Jamie Arnold (No. 41 overall), the Brewers’ top prospect and MLB’s No. 3, rocketed a 112.7 mph double 400 feet into the left-center-field gap. Luis Peña, the club’s No. 2 prospect and MLB’s No. 26, knocked him in with a single for good measure.

“In the offseason, we worked hard, both of us,” Peña said via translator Adela Marquez, the Brewers’ manager of education in the player development department, earlier this week. “I called him and said, ‘Let’s work hard to be ready for the next season.’”

Bitonti lockered next to Made during the time the two spent together with Single-A Carolina last season and was effusive about his work ethic, in addition to the eye-popping talent.

Add in the 111.3 mph RBI double from Andrew Fischer in the eighth inning and the three hits in excess of 111 mph was quite the rarity for Brewers of any level. The last time the big league squad produced three hits at 111+ in the same game was May 8, 2019 -- and they all came from Christian Yelich. Not since at least 2014 have they had three different players account for the feat.

Ebel showcases rocket throwing arm

It wasn’t the cleanest inning. But Brady Ebel, the 32nd overall selection in the 2025 Draft, rolled with a few bobbles at shortstop in the sixth inning that allowed him to show off his cannon of a throwing arm.

All three assists came with a throw that exceeded 88 mph, including the final out of the frame, which clocked in at 91.8 mph. To contextualize just how elite that type of arm strength is: Milwaukee’s top arm strength on an infield assist last season came from Brice Turang on Sept. 19 at 88.7 mph.

Ebel is tied with five other Brewers prospects with a 60-grade arm tool, the highest mark in the system. (On the 20-80 scale, a 60 grade indicates above average.) Prior to Spring Breakout, the club’s No. 15 prospect saw time at shortstop in eight Cactus League games as a late-inning replacement. The organization is committed to seeing if he can stick it out there long term but he also saw time at the hot corner during his senior year of high school -- where that throwing arm got plenty of showcase -- due to the absurdly stacked Corona (Calif.) squad that he played on.