It’s hard to believe, but it’s already been a month since the 2025 MLB Draft wrapped. In the time since, freshly-signed prospects have traded in draft day celebrations for early morning workouts, daily instruction and—in many cases—their first taste of professional baseball.
Some draftees are still settling in at their team complexes. Others are already making noise in affiliate ball. Across Arizona, the energy is high, the competition is real and the first impressions are beginning to form.
Last week, we presented our first look at the 2025 bridge league and continuation camp. Today, we’re back with more bridge league notes.
Milwaukee Draft Picks Brewing Down In Maryvale
Triston McKenzie was pitching in the big leagues earlier this year. Around that same time, new Brewers shortstop Brady Ebel was still in the thick of his senior season at Corona High School.
The two faced off on Tuesday morning under the relentless Arizona sun.
Ebel took a big cut at a pitch left over the heart of the plate—a no-doubt swing with intent behind it. The ball jumped off the bat and kept carrying and carrying… until it finally came to rest in the glove of the right fielder, just a step in front of the warning track.
He jogged back to the dugout with a smile stretched across his face. Maybe if he’d timed it just a split second better—or squeezed in some extra push-ups before bed the night before—he’d have been trotting around the bases instead.
Ebel even approached ACL Brewers manager Rafael Neda, asking for an extra at-bat against McKenzie. Neda jokingly brushed him off.
The son of Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel, Brady has made a strong impression on Neda through the first couple weeks he’s been at the Brewers complex in Maryvale.
“He’s a high school draft pick with a lot of talent who loves the game,” Neda said of Ebel. “He controls the strike zone really well. His swing decisions are advanced. Coming out of high school, that’s a strong tool to have. Now we just want to see how he goes out there and goes at it and continues to compete.”
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