Garrett Mitchell #5

His wife, Haley Cruse Mitchell, was a softball player at the University of Oregon and played for the USSSA Pride of Women’s Professional Fastpitch (2021-22)...Graduated from Orange Lutheran (Calif.) High School...also played basketball...Attended UCLA, where he was named a 2019 Third Team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and American Baseball Coaches Association...At 20th overall, was UCLA’s highest-selected position player since Chase Utley went 15th to Philadelphia in 2000...was the highest-selected UCLA outfielder since Shane Mack went 11th to San Diego in 1984...Played for the United States Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2019...Is a supporter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)...Mitchell has type 1 diabetes...Enjoys video games, playing basketball, working out, making and trying new foods, and spending time at Lake Havasu.

2025

Batted .206 with zero HR, three RBI and three SB in 25 games with Milwaukee...Made 21 starts, all in center field...Was placed on the 10-day injured list on 4/26 with a left oblique strain...After four games between Rookie ACL Brewers (one G) and Triple-A Nashville (three G) from 6/14-6/20, was returned from rehab assignment but remained on the injured list with a left shoulder subluxation...suffered the injury on 6/20 vs. Iowa while diving back to first base...Underwent season-ending left shoulder surgery on 7/1, performed by Dr. Mike Banffy...Was transferred to the 60-day injured list on 7/6...Signed a one-year contract on 1/8/26, avoiding arbitration.

2024

Entered the season as the eighth-best prospect in the organization, according to Baseball America...Batted .255 with eight HR, 21 RBI and 11 SB in 69 games with Milwaukee...Made 54 starts (36 in CF, 15 in RF, three at DH)…Began the season on the 10-day injured list with a fractured left index finger and was transferred to the 60-day injured list on 4/14...Was reinstated on 7/1...Hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series vs. New York as the Brewers won, 5-3...Joined Paul Molitor as the only players in franchise history to hit a go-ahead postseason homer in the eighth inning or later...Molitor did it in the eighth inning of Game 3 of the 1981 ALDS at Yankee Stadium.

2023

Entered the season as the fifth-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America...made his first career Opening Day roster...Batted .246 with three HR and seven RBI in 19 games with Milwaukee...Made 17 starts, all in center field...Notched his first career multi-homer game with a pair of solo shots in a 9-0 win on 4/4 vs. New York-NL...the next day against the Mets produced his first career walk-off homer with a solo shot off Adam Ottavino in the ninth inning to give the Brewers a 7-6 win...Was placed on the 10-day injured list on 4/19 with a left shoulder subluxation...suffered the injury on 4/18 at Seattle while sliding into third base...was transferred to the 60-day IL on 4/30 and reinstated on 9/28...Appeared in three games (all starts) after returning from injury...was not on the team’s NL Wild Card Series roster...Enters the 2024 season as the eighth-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America.

2022

Entered the season as the fourth-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America...Batted .287 with five HR, 34 RBI and 17 SB in 68 games between Double-A Biloxi (44g), Rookie ACL Brewers Blue (4g) and Triple-A Nashville (20g)...Was on the injured list with Biloxi from 5/14-7/11 with a left oblique strain...Was selected by Milwaukee from Nashville on 8/27 and batted .311 (19-for-61) with two HR, nine RBI and eight SB in 28 games...Made 19 starts, all in center field...Made his Major League debut 8/27 vs. Chicago-NL, entering the game as a defensive replacement in center field...His first Major League hit was a 2-RBI single off Sean Newcomb on 8/28 vs. Pittsburgh in his first career start.....hit his first career home run the next day vs. Pittsburgh with a game-tying, two-run shot off Wil Crowe in the eighth inning...Produced a walk-off, RBI-single off Clay Holmes in the ninth inning on 9/16 vs. New York-AL, giving the team a 7-6 win...Batted .469 (15-for-32, one hr, three rbi) over his last 15 games with a .500 OBP/.625 SLG/1.125 OPS...Enters the 2023 season as the fifth-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America.

2021

Entered the season as the second-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America...Batted .258 with 8 HR, 30 RBI and 17 SB in 64 games between Class-A Wisconsin (29g) and Double-A Biloxi (35g)...Batted .367 (11-for-30) with 1 HR and 6 RBI in 22 games with the Brewers as a non-roster invitee to Spring Training.

2020

Selected by Milwaukee in the 1st round (20th overall) of the First-Year Player Draft...signed by Corey Rodriguez...At 20th overall, was UCLA’s highest-selected position player since Chase Utley went 15th to Philadelphia in 2000...was the highest-selected UCLA outfielder since Shane Mack went 11th to San Diego in 1984.