Brewers Set Sky-high Expectations For 17-year-old Phenom Ricki Moneys

The Milwaukee Brewers are understandably stoked astir their incoming people of world free agents.

According to MLB Pipeline's rankings, nan Brewers landed 3 of nan apical 50 players successful this year's excavation of apical teenage world prospects. The headliner was 17-year-old shortstop Ricki Moneys, who has go thing of a viral sensation complete nan past week.

Moneys has an unthinkable name, though location was a batch of disorder astir really it was spelled. (Brewers connected SI primitively copied a study suggesting it was "Ricky Money.) But now that we cognize Moneys' sanction definitively, we tin commencement looking guardant to what nan breathtaking youngster will bring pinch him to nan organization.

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Brewers scouting head understandably bullish connected Moneys

Taylor Green, nan Brewers' head of world scouting and subordinate personnel, had a beardown inclination that Moneys would beryllium a early star, praising nan youngster's expertise to origin harm to each parts of nan section pinch his electrical bat speed.

"Electric,” Green said, per Jesse Borek of MLB.com. “The power, to me, is what stands retired correct distant for personification who is decidedly going to enactment connected nan infield. He's sewage nan earthy powerfulness to right-center section that makes him guidelines retired amongst nan peers. He’s a typical talent, a typical subordinate -- 1 of galore we person successful this class."

Moneys reportedly deed a shot pinch a 108-mph exit velocity astatine property 16, and erstwhile a imaginable shows nan benignant of powerfulness he already has astatine a young age, it's difficult not to dream astir that popular taking different measurement and yet becoming game-changing.

The Brewers are incredibly rich | successful infield talent successful their workplace strategy now, arsenic their apical 2 prospects, Jesús Made and Luis Peña, are some shortstops arsenic well. Made is 18 and Peña is 19, truthful nan early whitethorn not get successful Milwaukee this year, but astatine nan very least, nan existent worries astir nan shortstop spot should soon beryllium a point of nan past.

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