Teenage Phenom Jackson Chourio Is Swinging His Way Up The Milwaukee Brewers’ Prospect Ladder

Jackson Chourio had by no means stepped onto a significant league discipline earlier than popping out of the dugout at Dodger Stadium final week for the MLB All-Star Futures Sport.

On the fee issues are going, it’s solely a matter of time till Chourio does so each day.

The younger outfielder from Venezuela has emerged because the Milwaukee Brewers’ prime prospect and the most effective in all of baseball this season and together with serving as one in every of Milwaukee’s three minor league representatives on the Midsummer Basic, lately earned a promotion to Excessive A Wisconsin, the place he’s the Midwest League’s youngest participant by greater than 9 months.

“This 12 months has been superior,” Chourio mentioned. “I really feel extraordinarily blessed and tremendous excited.”

Simply 16 when he signed with Milwaukee as a world free agent in January 2021, Chourio was already highly-regarded for being a five-tool participant with excessive upside. He began his professional profession on a excessive word, slashing .296/.386/.447 with 5 residence runs, 25 RBIs and an .833 OPS in 45 video games for the Brewers Dominican Summer time League Affiliate however wasn’t thought of one of many group’s prime prospects heading into Spring Coaching.

That modified shortly.

Assigned to Cass A Carolina the place he was the league’s youngest participant,, Chourio performed his technique to the highest of Milwaukee’s prospect rankings and into the dialogue for finest in all of baseball by slashing .324/.373/.600, hitting 12 residence runs with 47 RBIs and producing a .973 OPS in 62 video games.

Chourio was rewarded for that efficiency with an invite to characterize the Brewers on the MLB All-Star Futures Sport in Los Angeles the place he went 0-for-2 within the sport however relished within the expertise, particularly sharing it with fellow Brewers prospects Joey Wiemer and Antoine Kelly.

“It was breath-taking,” Chourio mentioned. “Being in that setting was superior.”

So, too, was studying upon his return that he’d earned a promotion.

“It’s fairly unimaginable what he’s doing at his age,” Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned. That was the most effective elements of Spring Coaching for us, the final three days, attending to know the actually younger gamers in our group – plenty of whom are having very nice seasons. Jackson is clearly having an unimaginable season. However that complete group, we had a lot enjoyable as a workers working with these gamers the final three days of spring. It’s a very good group of younger gamers, led by Jackson in fact. There’s going to be extra huge leaguers than simply Jackson from that group.”

After taking a day to get acclimated to his new environment and teammates, Chourio went proper again to work with a two-hit day that included an RBI double and adopted that up by going 2-for-5 with a run scored the following day then singled and scored once more his third day out with the Timber Rattlers.