# List of Milwaukee Brewers first-round draft picks

The Milwaukee Brewers are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They play in the National League Central division. Established in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots in 1969, the team became the Milwaukee Brewers after relocating to Milwaukee in 1970. The franchise played in the American League until 1998, when it moved to the National League in conjunction with a major league realignment. Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 draft, the Brewers have selected 69 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur clubs to its franchises. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks.
Of the 71 players picked in the first round by Milwaukee, 28 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 18 of these were right-handed, while 10 were left-handed. Fifteen outfielders, 13 shortstops, 5 third basemen, 4 first basemen, 3 catchers, and 3 second basemen were also taken. Fifteen of the players came from high schools or universities in the state of California, and Florida follows with ten players.
Two Brewers first-round picks have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Robin Yount (1973) was inducted in 1999 and Paul Molitor (1977) in 2004. The Brewers have retired Yount's jersey number 19 and Molitor's jersey number 4. Yount was named the American League Most Valuable Player in 1982 and 1989. Ryan Braun (2005) won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 2007.
The Brewers have made 18 supplemental selections and have made one first overall selection in the draft. Three of these have been compensatory picks. These additional selections are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the prior off-season, or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year. They have made six Competitive Balance picks. Since 2013, these selections have been granted to the 10 lowest-revenue clubs and the clubs from the 10 smallest markets and are made between the first and second rounds. The Brewers have failed to sign four of their first-round picks: Bill Bordley (1976), Alex Fernandez (1988), Kenny Henderson (1991), and Dylan Covey (2010).

## Key

| Year | Each year links to an article about that year's Major League Baseball draft. |
| Position | Indicates the secondary/collegiate position at which the player was drafted, rather than the professional position the player may have gone on to play |
| Pick | Indicates the number of the pick |
| † | Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame |
| * | Player did not sign with the Brewers |
| § | Indicates a supplemental pick |

## Picks

| Year | Name | Position | School (location) | Pick |
| 1968 | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick |
| 1969 | Gorman Thomas | Shortstop | James Island High School (Charleston, South Carolina) | 21 |
| 1970 | Darrell Porter | Catcher | Southeast High School (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) | 4 |
| 1971 | Tommy Bianco | Shortstop | Sewanhaka High School (Elmont, New York) | 3 |
| 1972 | Dan Thomas | First baseman | Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, Illinois) | 6 |
| 1973 | Robin Yount$^†$ | Shortstop | William Howard Taft High School (Woodland Hills, California) | 3 |
| 1974 | Butch Edge | Right-handed pitcher | El Camino Fundamental High School (Sacramento, California) | 6 |
| 1975 | Richard O'Keefe | Left-handed pitcher | Yorktown High School (Yorktown Heights, New York) | 5 |
| 1976 | Bill Bordley* | Left-handed pitcher | Bishop Montgomery High School (Hermosa Beach, California) | 4 |
| 1977 | Paul Molitor$^†$ | Shortstop | University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) | 3 |
| 1978 | Nick Hernandez | Catcher | Hialeah High School (Hialeah, Florida) | 8 |
| 1979 | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick |
| 1980 | Dion James | Outfielder | C. K. McClatchy High School (Sacramento, California) | 25 |
| 1981 | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick |
| 1982 | Dale Sveum | Shortstop | Pinole Valley High School (Pinole, California) | 25 |
| 1983 | Dan Plesac | Left-handed pitcher | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) | 26 |
| 1984 | Isaiah Clark | Shortstop | Crockett High School (Crockett, Texas) | 18 |
| 1985 | B. J. Surhoff | Shortstop | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) | 1 |
| 1986 | Gary Sheffield | Shortstop | Hillsborough High School (Tampa, Florida) | 6 |
| 1987 | Bill Spiers | Shortstop | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) | 13 |
| 1988 | Alex Fernandez* | Right-handed pitcher | Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Opa-locka, Florida) | 24 |
| 1989 | Cal Eldred | Right-handed pitcher | University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) | 17 |
| 1989 | Gordon Powell | Third baseman | Hughes Center High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) | 30$^§$ |
| 1990 | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick |
| 1991 | Kenny Henderson* | Right-handed pitcher | Ringgold High School (Ringgold, Georgia) | 5 |
| 1991 | Tyrone Hill | Left-handed pitcher | Yucaipa High School (Yucaipa, California) | 15$^§$ |
| 1992 | Kenny Felder | Outfielder | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) | 12 |
| 1992 | Gabby Martinez | Shortstop | Luchetti High School (Santurce, Puerto Rico) | 38$^§$ |
| 1993 | Jeff D'Amico | Right-handed pitcher | Northeast High School (St. Petersburg, Florida) | 23 |
| 1993 | Kelly Wunsch | Left-handed pitcher | Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) | 26$^§$ |
| 1993 | Todd Dunn | Outfielder | University of North Florida (Jacksonville, Florida) | 35$^§$ |
| 1993 | Joe Wagner | Right-handed pitcher | University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida) | 39$^§$ |
| 1994 | Anthony Williamson | Third baseman | Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) | 4 |
| 1995 | Geoff Jenkins | Outfielder | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) | 9 |
| 1996 | Chad Green | Outfielder | University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky) | 8 |
| 1997 | Kyle Peterson | Right-handed pitcher | Stanford University (Stanford, California) | 13 |
| 1998 | J. M. Gold | Right-handed pitcher | Toms River High School North (Toms River, New Jersey) | 13 |
| 1999 | Ben Sheets | Right-handed pitcher | Northeast Louisiana University (Monroe, Louisiana) | 10 |
| 2000 | Dave Krynzel | Outfielder | Green Valley High School (Henderson, Nevada) | 11 |
| 2001 | Mike Jones | Right-handed pitcher | Thunderbird High School (Phoenix, Arizona) | 12 |
| 2002 | Prince Fielder | First baseman | Eau Gallie High School (Melbourne, Florida) | 7 |
| 2003 | Rickie Weeks | Second baseman | Southern University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) | 2 |
| 2004 | Mark Rogers | Right-handed pitcher | Mt. Ararat High School (Topsham, Maine) | 5 |
| 2005 | Ryan Braun | Third baseman | University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) | 5 |
| 2006 | Jeremy Jeffress | Right-handed pitcher | Halifax County High School (South Boston, Virginia) | 16 |
| 2007 | Matt LaPorta | First baseman | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) | 7 |
| 2008 | Brett Lawrie | Third baseman | Brookswood Secondary School (Langley, British Columbia) | 16 |
| 2008 | Jake Odorizzi | Right-handed pitcher | Highland High School (New Douglas, Illinois) | 32$^§$ |
| 2008 | Evan Frederickson | Left-handed pitcher | University of San Francisco (San Francisco, California) | 35$^§$ |
| 2009 | Eric Arnett | Right-handed pitcher | Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, Indiana) | 26 |
| 2009 | Kentrail Davis | Outfielder | University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) | 39$^§$ |
| 2009 | Kyle Heckathorn | Right-handed pitcher | Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, Georgia) | 47$^§$ |
| 2010 | Dylan Covey* | Right-handed pitcher | Maranatha High School (Pasadena, California) | 14 |
| 2011 | Taylor Jungmann | Right-handed pitcher | University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) | 12 |
| 2011 | Jed Bradley | Left-handed pitcher | Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) | 15$^§$ |
| 2012 | Clint Coulter | Catcher | Union High School (Camas, Washington) | 27 |
| 2012 | Victor Roache | Outfielder | Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia) | 28 |
| 2012 | Mitch Haniger | Outfielder | California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, California) | 38$^§$ |
| 2013 | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick | No first-round pick |
| 2014 | Kodi Medeiros | Left-handed pitcher | Waiakea High School (Hilo, Hawaii) | 12 |
| 2014 | Jake Gatewood | Shortstop | Clovis High School (Clovis, California) | 41$^§$ |
| 2015 | Trent Clark | Outfielder | Richland High School (North Richland Hills, Texas) | 15 |
| 2015 | Nathan Kirby | Left-handed pitcher | University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) | 40$^§$ |
| 2016 | Corey Ray | Outfielder | University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) | 5 |
| 2017 | Keston Hiura | Second baseman | UC Irvine (Valencia, California) | 9 |
| 2017 | Tristen Lutz | Outfielder | Martin High School (Arlington, Texas) | 34$^§$ |
| 2018 | Brice Turang | Shortstop | Santiago High School (Corona, California) | 21 |
| 2019 | Ethan Small | Left-handed pitcher | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) | 28 |
| 2020 | Garrett Mitchell | Outfielder | University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) | 20 |
| 2021 | Sal Frelick | Outfielder | Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) | 15 |
| 2021 | Tyler Black | Second baseman | Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) | 33$^§$ |
| 2022 | Eric Brown | Shortstop | Coastal Carolina University (Conway, South Carolina) | 27 |
| 2023 | Brock Wilken | Third baseman | Wake Forest University (Wake Forest, North Carolina) | 18 |
| 2023 | Josh Knoth | Pitcher | Patchogue-Medford High School (Medford, New York) | 33$^§$ |
| 2024 | Braylon Payne | Outfielder | Elkins High School (Missouri City, Texas) | 17 |
| 2024 | Blake Burke | First baseman | University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) | 34$^§$ |