Milwaukee’s farm system has been loud all season, and now the Brewers have put two more names at the top of it.
Corner infielder Andrew Fischer and right-hander Josh Knoth have been named the organization’s Minor League Players of the Year, a fitting cap to a 2026 season in which the Brewers paired a franchise-best regular season at the big-league level with the best farm system in baseball.
The Brewers’ prospect depth was deep enough this year that the club named finalists for its Player of the Year awards for the first time ever. MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy reported the finalists for the pitching honor as RHP Tyson Hardin, RHP Josh Knoth, RHP Manuel Rodríguez and LHP Wande Torres. In the end, though, Fischer and Knoth got the nod as the winners of the Robin Yount Performance Awards.
Fischer’s season made the decision easy. The 2025 first-round pick hammered 48 home runs, plus two more in the postseason, across 126 games between High-A and Double-A.
That total is the most by any minor leaguer in a single season since 1982, and it ranks second in Brewers minor league history behind Gorman Thomas, who hit 51 in 1974. Fischer finished with a .273/.413/.654 line and a 1.067 OPS in a year that turned plenty of heads.
Knoth’s award carries a different kind of weight. The 21-year-old right-hander was coming back from Tommy John surgery and still put together a strong year.
He posted a 4.33 ERA in 68.2 innings with High-A Wisconsin before moving up to Double-A in late August. There, he made three regular-season starts for Biloxi and logged a 2.77 ERA with 13 strikeouts, a 1.08 WHIP and a .191 opponent batting average in 13 innings.
Knoth also got the ball for Game 1 of the Southern League Championship Series and allowed two earned runs over six innings.
For Milwaukee, the pair’s rise says plenty about the way the organization has drafted in recent years. Fischer and Knoth are both recent high picks, and that matters.
The Brewers have already seen that formula work with players such as Brice Turang, Garrett Mitchell and Sal Frelick in the first round, along with Jacob Misiorowski and Logan Henderson in early rounds. Fischer and Knoth now look like the latest proof that the pipeline is still flowing.
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