Brewers' prospect Andrew Fischer matches former MVP's ridiculous minor league home run mark

It feels like Milwaukee Brewers' 2025 first-round pick Andrew Fischer seemingly reaches a new unattainable home run benchmark every week. The slugging corner infielder, who 19 other teams passed on in the 2025 MLB Draft, has lived up to his 65-grade power (on a 20-80 scouting scale) and then some during his first full professional season.

Fischer began the season with the High-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, much to the chagrin of Brewers fans who wanted to see the top prospect in the big leagues as soon as possible, especially after his head-turning performance for Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic during the offseason. Brewers fans were hoping Fischer, who finished the 2025 campaign with the T-Rats, would earn an offseason promotion to Double-A and start the 2026 season with the Biloxi Shuckers.

Alas, the Brewers took a conservative approach with the now 22-year-old infielder and returned him to High-A for the beginning of the season. Fischer responded by crushing 20 homers in 54 games with the Timber Rattlers, while maintaining an unbelievable slash line of .298/.443/.675. As a result, the Brewers could not deny Fischer's promotion any longer, and on June 15 he was officially called up to Double-A.

Despite facing stiffer competition in Double-A, the left-handed hitting Fischer has continued his incredible breakout season. In 61 games with the Shuckers, Fischer has 23 homers and a .986 OPS. He crushed his 43rd homer of the season last night, which carried significance beyond the fact that it grew his minor league-leading home run total. With his 43rd longball of the season, Fischer tied Kris Bryant's improbable home run mark from 2014.

Andrew Fischer posts highest single-season home run total in minor leagues since Kris Bryant's incredible 2014 season

After slugging 43 homers during the 2014 minor league season, during which he split time between Double-A and Triple-A, Bryant rose to the No. 2 spot on MLB Pipeline's list of top prospects in all of baseball, trailing only Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins. Later that year, Bryant was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, and the following season, 2016, he was the NL MVP during the Chicago Cubs' World Series-winning season.

Now, 12 years later, Fischer has matched the incredible final minor league season that Bryant put together before making his MLB debut. Does that mean Fischer will inevitably follow in the footsteps of the 2016 NL MVP? Of course not. But Brewers fans should nevertheless be excited about their slugging top prospect, who was also named to last week's MLB Pipeline prospect Team of the Week.

Fischer, whose 43 homers are tied for the 11th-most in a single minor league season in the Modern ERA (since 1963), as reported by Shuckers' play-by-play announcer Javik Blake, won't be up with the big-league club before the end of the 2026 season, as some fans were hoping for, but a debut during the 2027 campaign is certainly a possibility. Questions remain in regard to Fischer's long-term defensive home, and his high strikeout rate, but his power is undeniable and will carry him through the minor leagues as he continues to develop the other parts of his game.

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