No, there's no way. And it is not artificial intelligence, either. It was a trick of the trade from the video production team that includes senior manager of digital content Ezra Siegel, senior videographer and creative lead Carter Green and senior editor Cody Oasen, who have been playing around with ideas to reach young baseball fans.
The Brewers signed Jacob Hurtubise to a minor league deal earlier this week, according to the outfielder's MLB.com profile page. Hurtubise has been assigned to Triple-A Nashville, and his contract doesn't appear to include an invitation to the Brew Crew's big league spring camp. An undrafted free agent who started his pro career by signing with the Reds in 2020, Hurtubise has appeared in 41 MLB games, all with Cincinnati over the last two seasons.
Now that we have ranked the top 100 MLB prospects entering the 2026 season (along with a breakdown of the players landing in the Nos. 101-200 range), it's time to see how all 30 farm systems stack up. And for the second straight year, there is a new No. 1 team. These rankings were done, for the most part, the same way as my previous versions. While at FanGraphs, research by Craig Edwards (who now works for the MLB Players Association) revealed empirical surplus dollar values for each future value tier of prospect, so we can make an objective ranking of farm systems derived from my individual team lists, which will be published next week.
The Brewers have signed catcher Reese McGuire to a minor league contract and invited him to major league spring training, per Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reported last week that the two sides had been talking. McGuire is represented by Apex Baseball. McGuire, 31 in March, is a former first-round pick and top prospect who's played in parts of eight major league seasons with four teams - most recently the 2025 Cubs.
In the summer of 2019, the Blue Jays selected the Oakville, Ontario native out of Abbey Park High School in the third round, as he was the first Canadian to go off the board at that year's draft. Brown had a strong abbreviated debut, slashing .222/.444/.356 in the 14 games he played after the draft. Like all minor leaguers, Brown didn't play in the minor leagues in 2020, because there were no minor leagues.
The Brewers are getting calls about right-handed reliever as teams around the league look for under-the-radar bullpen help, per Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic. Milwaukee has also gotten plenty of interest in closer Trevor Megill and ace Freddy Peralta this winter. There's no indication the Brewers are especially motivated to part with any of the bunch. Mears, 29, landed with the Brewers ahead of the 2024 trade deadline in a deal sending pitchers Bradley Blalock and Yujanyer Herrera back to the Rockies.
Houston took Bukauskas with the 15th overall pick in 2017. Injuries limited him to 17 appearances over his first two professional seasons. Bukauskas reached Double-A for his final start of 2018. He remained at the level in 2019, posting a 5.25 ERA across 20 appearances (14 starts). The Astros shipped Bukauskas, Corbin Martin, , and to the Diamondbacks at the trade deadline for Zack Greinke.
The Brewers have added infielder Eddys Leonard on a minor league deal, reports Adam McCalvy of MLB.com. The pact includes an invitation to spring training. Leonard will now join his fourth organization in the past four seasons. He spent last year in Atlanta's minor league system. The Braves signed him in late March after he was released by the Tigers. Leonard elected minor league free agency last week.
The reason the Milwaukee Brewers are here in the National League Championship Series is because of plays such as the one that ended the fourth inning Monday night. A strange, one-in-a-million, 400-foot double-play in which one Brewers fielder made a spectacular defensive effort, and another never lost awareness of a wacky situation - highlighting the sound fundamentals that made them baseball's winningest team this season.
The Milwaukee Brewers finalized their 26-man postseason roster for the National League Championship Series, electing to carry 12 pitchers and 14 position players against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Like the Dodgers, the Brewers made only change from their NL Division Series roster against the Chicago Cubs as they swapped out Nick Mears for Tobias Myers. Mears made three appearances against the Cubs in the NLDS and threw 1.2 scoreless innings.
As they worked out at Dodger Stadium, two days after winning their National League Division Series over the Philadelphia Phillies, they had Game 5 of the other NLDS on the scoreboard - getting a first look at their NL Championship Series opponent. "It's certainly nice to be able to get a couple days to reset, prepare, and we're kind of doing our due diligence," manager Dave Roberts said on Saturday afternoon. "We'll have that game on the big board."
It's a wide-open field this postseason with no clear favorites like last year's Los Angeles Dodgers. No team in baseball this year won more than 97 games, making the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers the losing-est winningest team in baseball since 2013 (not counting the pandemic-shortened 2020 season). That means it's anybody's World Series title to claim including, potentially, one of three franchises that have never before won the Fall Classic.
