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

Overall Draft
Grade: B+

Overall it was another solid Draft class for the Brewers front office. A lot will depend on how many of those Day 3 picks sign. Last year the Brewers got way more than most expected and Tod Johnson expects they'll sign a similar amount of Day 3 prepsters this year.

The top of this Draft class is different than last year's though. While Wilken was under-slot, he was a college performer that was expected to go first round, could move quickly, and has a very high floor. Payne was a surprise first rounder and the Brewers can only save 25% maximum on that slot value since he was a Combine attendee.

The risk with Payne is super high. There's a ton of risk in this Brewers Draft class in general, actually. There's a lot of pressure on the high school pitchers to carry this class, the riskiest basket you could possibly put your eggs in.

The most surefire big league contributor from this group might be Blake Burke. Even then, he's probably an average-ish defender at first base and likely a DH eventually.

With so many pitchers, even though the risk level is high on most of them, the Brewers pitching development staff is arguably the best in baseball and they should be able to develop at least one or two of these arms into major league contributors. If at least one of Meccage and Levonas, plus one more pitcher from the rest of this class turn into useful arms, this will go down as a very good Draft class.