MLB Pipeline hands out prospect grades on the 20-80 scouting scale, projections of what players' tools might bring to the table at the big league level. Not among the five standard ones for position players is an unspoken and elusive one: the clutch gene.
Unofficially, Jesús Made is beginning to trend toward 80-grade territory in that department.
Made’s latest exhibit came in the form of a game-tying RBI single in the 10th inning at Double-A on Thursday night at Keesler Federal Park. While Biloxi and Birmingham's game eventually was suspended in the 11th inning due to rain, it marked the eighth consecutive contest in which the newly minted No. 1 overall prospect drove in a run. That tied five other hitters across the Minors for the longest streak in 2026, a feat last accomplished three times in the Majors last year (Willy Adames, Romy Gonzalez, Taylor Ward).
When Made’s RBI streak began on May 12, he was still baseball’s No. 2 prospect, one spot behind the incumbent, Pittsburgh's Konnor Griffin. Since then, Made's 13 RBIs are the second-most at Double-A and have helped propel the Brewers’ top prospect into second place on the Southern League RBI leaderboard with 31 (tied with teammate Blake Burke, Milwaukee’s No. 16 prospect).
(Made also drove in a run in the first game of a doubleheader on May 10 before being shut out in the nightcap. So he's actually had an RBI each of the past nine days he’s suited up for a game.)
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The 19-year-old has driven in five players other than himself during the streak, with Matthew Wood and Mark Coley II (three times) benefitting most. He’s done it with homers to the parking lot, doubles, singles, walk-offs, sac flies, you name it. Getting Made out has been a difficult proposition all year long, but particularly so with runners in scoring position, a scenario in which he’s hitting .316.
But this isn’t merely a flash-in-the-pan, fun-with-stats gimmicky streak. Made is tied for the Southern League lead in hits (46). His 74 total bases rank third. And lest we forget, he’s the youngest player on the circuit and more than five years younger than the average hitter, having exclusively faced pitchers older and more experienced than him.
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In 2023, the Shuckers finished second in the league in runs scored (756), led by a sparkplug teenager in the second spot of the batting order -- Jackson Chourio.
Entering play Thursday, Biloxi led the circuit with 235 runs scored. Made, the Brewers' latest teenager wunderkind from the international ranks, has started all 40 games this season as the club’s No. 2 hitter.
Time will tell how long it will be until Chourio and Made hold down two of the nine everyday spots in the Milwaukee order, wherever they may be hitting.