The Brewers didn’t just win a World Series. They may have built the kind of roster that can keep chasing more.
Milwaukee’s championship came with a young core already in place, and the list of homegrown talent is long enough to make the future feel less like a projection and more like a warning shot to the rest of baseball. From a flamethrowing ace to the game’s top prospect, the Brewers have six young players who could shape what comes next.
Jacob Misiorowski is the headliner, and it’s easy to see why. At 24, the right-hander has already become one of the most electric starters in the sport.
In only two Major League seasons, he has two All-Star selections, a 2.51 ERA and 339 strikeouts over 240 2/3 innings. He also owns all the velocity records for starting pitchers and is poised to win this year’s National League Cy Young Award.
On top of that, he’s already got more postseason experience than some pitchers with several years in the big leagues, plus a World Series ring after helping the Crew win the first championship in franchise history.
Jackson Chourio is right there in the conversation too, and maybe even ahead of schedule in the way only special players can be. He’s still 22, but he’s already the only player in MLB history with three 20-homer/20-steal seasons before turning 23.
He owns the Brewers’ postseason home run record with six and has more postseason RBIs before age 23 than anyone in Major League history with 20. He also picked up a Gold Glove Award in left field.
Then there was the moment that fit him perfectly. In Game 2 of the NL Division Series against the Padres, with the Brewers down to their final out and Mason Miller firing away, Chourio lined a walk-off two-run single to give Milwaukee a 2-0 series lead.
He kept rolling from there, becoming the youngest player with four hits in a World Series game in 80 years and then joining Babe Ruth as the only players in MLB history with at least 10 hits over the first four games of a Fall Classic. The eight-year, $82 million contract he signed three years ago looks pretty well justified.
Brice Turang gives the Brewers another major piece in the middle of all this. The 26-year-old was an NL MVP finalist after a 2026 season that included a .268/.366/.450 line, 21 home runs and 100 RBIs.
He backed that up with elite work at second base, where he won his second career Gold Glove Award after taking the Platinum Glove for the NL in ’24. He also came through in October, putting up a 1.054 OPS between the NL Championship Series against the Dodgers and the World Series against the Rays.
Cooper Pratt is already making a name for himself too. Milwaukee signed him to an eight-year, $50.75 million extension in April, and when he got to the playoffs last month, he had 74 games of Major League experience.
Ranked as the Brewers’ No. 4 prospect by MLB Pipeline and No. 63 overall when he was called up for his debut on June 16, Pratt held his own in the regular season before taking off in the postseason. He hit .419 (13-for-31) over the club’s final eight playoff games, added two doubles, delivered a huge go-ahead homer in extra innings in Game 4 of the World Series and drove in seven runs.
For a glove-first shortstop who also won a Gold Glove Award in the minors, that was quite a way to announce himself.
Luis Lara is next in line, even if his postseason role was smaller. The outfielder, who turns 22 on Nov. 17, was Milwaukee’s No. 4 prospect per MLB Pipeline and No. 67 overall when he made his MLB debut on July 7.
He signed a seven-year, $31 million deal about a month before that call-up, continuing a pattern for the Brewers of locking up young talent early. Lara hit .636 OPS in 212 regular-season plate appearances and went 1-for-11 in the playoffs, but his defense stood out right away.
Multiple highlight-reel catches in right field gave a clear look at why Milwaukee believes he can be part of the outfield picture for years.
And then there’s Jesús Made, the youngest name on the list and maybe the most tantalizing. At 19, he’s already the No. 1 prospect in baseball.
Milwaukee signed the shortstop out of the Dominican Republic in 2024, and he has done nothing but move fast. He hit in the Dominican Summer League that year, then in 2025 posted a .285/.379/.413 line across three levels as he climbed from Class A to High-A to Double-A.
In 122 games for Double-A Biloxi this past season, he put up a .774 OPS with 14 home runs and 37 steals.
Made brings a switch-hitting profile with bat speed, raw power from both sides and enough athleticism to stay at shortstop. MLB Pipeline even views him as a potential “franchise player” for the Brewers.
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