Milwaukee Brewers 2020 MLB Draft and Signing Tracker

The 2020 MLB Draft will be radically different from any previous year. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic putting both Major and Minor League Baseball on an indefinite hold, the draft has been shortened significantly. Last year, the Milwaukee Brewers made 40 selections in the standard 40-round draft. This summer, however, there will only be five rounds (along with the competitive balance picks). In addition, next year’s 2021 MLB Draft will be only 20 rounds; with minor league contraction looming, it is generally assumed that 20 rounds or so will be the extent of the draft going forward.

The Brewers will make five selections in this week’s MLB Draft. We will keep track of all of those picks, as well as if they signed and their bonus if they signed, on this page. You can bookmark this page and check back regularly as the signings continue. Any time we update this page with a signing, we will also note it in the comments below. If you find information about a player that signed, also post it in the comments below along with a source and we will verify it and add it to the table as well.

Note: The Brewers were originally awarded the 64th overall pick in Competitive Balance Round B, but dealt that selection (and the accompanying $1,050,300 slot value) to the Mariners as part of the Omar Narvaez trade.

Draft bonus slots were frozen for 2020 and 2021, meaning that the slot values assigned to the specific picks this year and next year are the same values that were assigned in 2019. As an additional cost-cutting measure, only a maximum of $100K will be paid out to any draftee up front this year, with the remaining bonus money able to be deferred to 2021 and 2022. Finally, a team can sign as many passed over players as they’d like following a two-day “quiet period” after the draft, but those players can only receive a maximum bonus of $20K (a rule that many in the industry expect MLB to strictly enforce).

The Brewers have the 22nd-largest bonus pool in available in MLB this year, and if the club exceeds that amount, they will face a penalty. Below are the potential overage amounts and attached penalties for the Brewers this year. In the years since the bonus pools and overage penalties were instituted, teams regularly exceed their allotment and go into the overages. Last season, 21 of 30 teams went over their bonus pool. However, no team under the current system has exceeded the 5% threshold.

Source: MLB.com