Top Brewers prospect adds to impressive resume with two Player of the Month awards

A few weeks ago, we chatted with Javik Blake, the Double-A Biloxi Shuckers’ play-by-play broadcaster, about the impressive start that Milwaukee Brewers No. 18 prospect, Brock Wilken, was having to the 2025 season. Blake was very complimentary of Wilken's game, as he has been throughout the former first-round pick's rollercoaster tenure with the Shuckers. On Wilken, Blake said, "That’s the big thing for Wilken: he’s being selective, but when he gets his pitch, he smashes it...The numbers back up the eye-test of yeah, this is a kid who’s put it all together." While Wilken has cooled off slightly since his eye-popping first two weeks of May, his performance was still enough to earn him not one, but two player of the month awards in the second month of the season.

Earlier this week, the Brewers announced that Wilken had been named the organization's Minor League Player of the Month. Alongside Pitcher of the Month Jacob Misiorowski, Wilken set the pace for the entire Brewers' farm system with his record-breaking May; the 10 HR that he hit in his first 35 games (heavily aided by the seven that he hit from May 3-14) are the most ever by a Shuckers' player.

Winning Minor League Player of the Month in a stacked Brewers farm system that includes exciting young talent such as Jesús Made and Luis Peña is an impressive feat in and of itself, but yesterday, it was announced that Wilken won another impressive award, showing just how impressive his last month of games really was.

Brock Wilken wins Southern League Player of the Month

Not only was Wilken deemed the best player in May in the Brewers minor league system, but he was also awarded the Player of the Month Award for the entire Southern League. Throughout May, Wilken led the league in OPS, extra-base hits, slugging percentage, and RBI. He ended the month with a slash line of .237/.368/570 with nine home runs and 20 RBI.

While his batting average may not jump off the page, he's still getting on base at an impressive clip. In fact, Wilken also led the league in walks during May, boosting his season total to 49 free passes, which is 13 more than anyone else in the Southern League.

After a slow start to the 2025 season in April, the blistering hot May that Wilken put together was exactly what the 22-year-old third baseman needed. He quickly switched fans from questioning the Brewers' decision to draft him with the 18th overall pick two years ago to calling for his promotion to Triple-A and potentially even the majors before the end of the year. While a promotion may not be imminent, given the stacked nature of the Brewers’ farm system, Wilken has clearly cemented himself as one of the best power hitting prospects in all of baseball.