Brewers Draft: Complete Draft grades for the Brewers 2024 Draft class

Day 3

Round 11 - Caedmon Parker, RHP
Round 12 - Tyson Hardin, RHP
Grade: A-

The Brewers start Day 3 with some guaranteed signs with college relievers. However, the Brewers will send both out as starting pitchers initially and there's reason to believe they could make that jump. Parker has big time stuff and a full arsenal while Hardin had a great season at Mississippi State.

It was a decade ago the Brewers took a Mississippi State reliever early on Day 3 and turned him into a starting pitcher. The Brandon Woodruff experiment turned out to be quite the success. Perhaps Hardin could follow in those footsteps. However, I'm not trying to put that expectation on Hardin to be that, but it is a possibility. These two won't cost the bonus pool anything and they could develop into big leaguers.

Round 13 - Joey Broughton, LHP
Round 14 - James Nunnallee, C
Grade: A+, if both signed

Now we get into the tough part of Day 3 and signability questions. If the Brewers are able to save enough money to sign both away from college commitments, this will be a huge coup on the third day and both prospects could soon enter the Brewers top 30 prospects list.

Let's start with Broughton. A lefty pitcher, Broughton has a big fastball that has great movement on it and a pair of breaking balls with big time spin rates. He's like the left-handed version of Meccage and Levonas, except perhaps a little more raw with the command. He had more of an early Day 2 grade but could have second round value. His stock fell a bit after an injury this spring and the Brewers nabbed him on Day 3 and if he signs, that's a big lefty pitching prospect to add.

James Nunnallee would be an equally huge signing. High school catchers are also notoriously risky and take a long time to develop. But Nunnallee was a second round talent by some prognosticators and he's committed to UVA. A left handed hitting catcher with great bat to ball skills and potentially some power to come could be the future behind the plate for Milwaukee. If they get him to sign, he likely becomes the Brewers top catching prospect behind Jeferson Quero.

Round 15 - Travis Smith, RHP
Grade: A

Smith is a pitcher who was ranked far higher than he went and as a college pitcher, his leverage is much lower than any of these high school picks. There may be some thought that Smith won't sign as he's committed to Mississippi State in the transfer portal, but while returning to school as a senior may get Smith a Day 2 pick next year, the money will likely be lower.

Smith has really good stuff, and is getting further away from Tommy John surgery. His ERA was bad, but the pitch data is good and he should get better results being beyond his first year back from surgery.

Round 16 - Jayden Dubanewicz, RHP
Round 17 - Cooper Malamazian, SS
Round 18 - Tyler Renz, RHP
Round 19 - Noah Wech, RHP
Round 20 - Henry Brummel, RHP

Grade:
If 3 of 5 sign, A+
If 2 of 5 sign, A-
If 1 of 5 sign, C
If 0 of 5 sign, D

Five more high school dart throws to finish out the Draft for the Brewers. They won't be able to sign all of them. Dubanewicz is committed to Florida, Malamazian and Brummel to Indiana, Wech to Oklahoma State, and Renz is committed to St. Johns. They will all be tough to get but the Brewers should have enough money left to convince some of them to sign.

Renz is the highest rated and is going to the lowest profile school, so getting him would be a big signing. Malamazian is an exciting player with speed to burn and a strong hit tool. If the Brewers can sign him, that's another exciting late addition like Josh Adamczewski last year. If I had to pick just two to sign from this group of five, those two would be my choices.

The four pitchers are all very similar profiles. They sit in the upper-80s or low-90s with their fastballs and have breaking pitches with high spin rates and very projectable body types to go with it.