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Brewers’ top 2025 draft pick to begin professional career with High-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

The Milwaukee Brewers continued their prowess in the 2025 MLB draft, selecting collegiate slugger Andrew Fischer with the No. 20 overall pick in the first round. A 21u2011yearu2011old corner infielder from Brick Township, New Jersey, Fischer arrives from a whirlwind of a collegiate journey that has seen him don the jerseys of Duke, Ole Miss, and most recently, Tennessee.

Fischer’s final collegiate campaign at Tennessee was nothing short of spectacular. He slashed .341/.497/.760 and launched 25 home runs; ranking second in Division I, and reached base in every one of Tennessee’s 65 games. He boasted a 14% strikeout rate and 22% walk rate, careeru2011best figures that vaulted him into elite prospect territory.