The Brewers sure do like to keep the wheel turning.
After developing Freddy Peralta into a No. 1 starter, the organization moved the 29-year-old right-hander along with fellow pitcher Tobias Myers to the Mets in a megadeal for infielder/outfielder Jett Williams (currently MLB's No. 30 prospect) and right-hander Brandon Sproat on Wednesday. Spoiler alert: MLB Pipeline is set to update our Top 100 rankings on Friday, and Williams will land squarely in the middle of the list, while Sproat will re-enter it toward the back end after previously falling off.
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Williams, who hit .261/.363/.465 with 17 homers and 34 steals in 130 games at the two highest levels of the Minor Leagues in 2025, fits Milwaukee’s love for speedy, short, up-the-middle players.
The 2022 14th overall pick recorded 13 Bolts (Sprint Speeds at or above 30 ft/sec) in only 34 games at Triple-A last season; only Luisangel Acuña (24) posted more among Mets Major Leaguers over the entire 2025 season. By comparison, the Brewers had five players meet or exceed that mark: Jackson Chourio (63), Sal Frelick (38), Brandon Lockridge (31), Brice Turang (26) and Blake Perkins (13).
That speed might earn Williams the highest tool grade on his upcoming updated scouting report, but he cuts an interesting figure at the plate too. Standing only 5-foot-7, the right-handed slugger doesn’t offer the opposition a huge strike zone with which to work, and he won’t often expand said zone to swing at bad pitches, leading to healthy walk rates at nearly every stop. When it comes to batted balls, you won’t find a player more prone to lifting and pulling the ball in the air than Wiliams. It’s what gives evaluators the belief that he could squeeze decent home run totals (about 15-18 a year) out of just average raw power.
That trait actually calls to mind Milwaukee’s acquisition of Caleb Durbin, another 5-foot-7 infielder with a propensity to lift and pull. While Durbin has better pure bat-to-ball skills, Williams, who is four years younger, already has a leg up in raw power. Williams’ 90th-percentile exit velocity in Triple-A was 104.5 mph, while Durbin’s was 100.6 in The Show.
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Defensively, the Mets had cycled Williams through shortstop, second base and center field, knowing Francisco Lindor blocked him at the six and hoping his athleticism could translate elsewhere up the middle. He’s a more well-rounded player than Joey Ortiz at shortstop, making up for the defensive deficit with a more average overall bat, but could be faced with prospect competition by the charging Jesús Made and defensively sound Cooper Pratt (MLB's No. 56 prospect). With Brice Turang’s spot in the middle infield secure, Williams could still see time in center field, perhaps moving Jackson Chourio to a corner where he was better defensively in 2024. A Milwaukee grass with some combination of Williams, Chourio, Sal Frelick and Garrett Mitchell would play like a 4x100 relay.
Over on the pitching side, Sproat shouldn’t be expected to replace Peralta as a top-of-the-rotation arm, but he does give the Brewers a pitcher who should compete for the No. 5 spot out of spring and the upside of a few spots higher in the rotation.
The 25-year-old right-hander posted a 4.24 ERA with 113 strikeouts in 121 innings at Triple-A Syracuse last season before debuting with the Mets on Sept. 7. He opened with two straight quality starts before floundering a bit in his third and fourth MLB outings, finishing with a 4.79 ERA and 17 punchouts in 20 2/3 innings.
Sproat works with six different pitch types, giving opposing batters much to consider when facing him. Against righties in the Majors, he worked primarily with a 94-97 mph sinker and an 83-86 mph sweeper, while using those two pitches alongside a 95-98 mph four-seamer, an 89-91 mph changeup and a 79-81 mph curveball in almost equal five-way measure against lefties. He also had a shorter slider in the upper 80s that finished a distant sixth place in MLB usage.
After initial struggles with consistency at Triple-A in 2025, Sproat utilized a “let it eat” mentality and started touching 100.5 mph with the relatively improved results to match. In the Majors, he moved more toward the sinker than the four-seamer when it came to heat, with that pitch moving 16-17 inches armside on average. It helped set up the sweeper that moves 13-14 inches in the complete opposite direction, and it was that breaking ball that was his most whiff-heavy option with a 34.6 percent swing-and-miss rate in the bigs.
What’s more, with that sinker and movement in all directions, Sproat has a history of running ground-ball rates around 50 percent, perfect for a Milwaukee infield that prides itself on defense. And in short order, Williams could be one of the Brewers fielding said grounders behind his fellow former Met.