A's prospects excel in Spring Breakout win over Brewers
Kade Morris fanned six batters in four smooth innings and Nate Nankil delivered an RBI single in a tie-breaking eighth-inning rally to lift the Athletics Prospects to a 9-8 victory over the Brewers Prospects on Sunday afternoon at Hohokam Stadium. Box Score The game was the 16th and final game
Kade Morris fanned six batters in four smooth innings and Nate Nankil delivered an RBI single in a tie-breaking eighth-inning rally to lift the Athletics Prospects to a 9-8 victory over the Brewers Prospects on Sunday afternoon at Hohokam Stadium.
The game was the 16th and final game of the 2026 Spring Breakout, a prospect showcase for all MLB organizations.
Leo De Vries, shortstop extraordinaire! 🕸️💎
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) March 22, 2026
MLB's No. 4 prospect makes a highlight-reel dive, spin and throw for the @Athletics at Spring Breakout: pic.twitter.com/LAwFmz30iB
The game was billed as a matchup between MLB Pipeline's No. 3 prospect, Milwaukee's Jesús Made, and No. 4 prospect, 2025 Lugnut Leo De Vries, but Made committed three errors while De Vries was held to a walk and a run scored.
The players who stood out instead...
2024 Lugnut Kade Morris, the best pitcher in the game, sat 96 miles-per-hour and dispatched Brewer after Brewer with his curveball. Morris fired a perfect 4th inning, stranded a two-out triple in the 5th, tossed a 1-2-3 6th, and was one out away from a scoreless 7th before Eric Bitonti knocked a solo home run.
Morris is likely going to start the season in Triple-A Las Vegas with a call-up to the Majors awaiting him sometime this summer.
Kade Morris (@Athletics No. 12 prospect) sets Top 100 prospects Jesús Made + Luis Peña and Top 10 3B Andrew Fischer down in order during Spring Breakout pic.twitter.com/39Ovj2zKme
— Jesse Borek (@JesseABorek) March 22, 2026
2024-2025 Lugnut Cole Conn was Morris's catcher, and he was perfect at the plate: two walks and an opposite-field home run that thrilled the A's bullpen.
Conn homered four times for the Nuts last season before earning a promotion to Double-A Midland, where he is expected to start this season.
going... going... Conn pic.twitter.com/IOweVvn2bc
— Athletics (@Athletics) March 22, 2026
Two younger Athletics prospects, each of whom could reach Lansing by the end of 2026, also stepped forward.
19-year-old Shotaro Morii, the A's No. 13 prospect, finished 2-for-2 with an RBI single and a triple plus a diving web gem in the field. Signed for $1.51 million out of Japan as a pitcher/shortstop, Morii spent the 2025 season playing the field and solely played second base in the Spring Breakout, but is expected to be used as both a pitcher and an infielder this season with Stockton.
18-year-old Breyson Guedez, the A's No. 23 prospect, also signed as an international free agent for approximately $1.5 million. The native Venezuelan, yet to play in a game above the Dominican Summer League, had opened eyes earlier in spring with a 450-foot home run off of Major Leaguer Michael King. Batting fifth in the A's Prospects starting lineup, Guedez finished 1-for-2 with a walk and a 425-foot blast. Like Morii, he is expected to open the season with Stockton, a level below the Lugnuts.
Guedez crushes it 😤 pic.twitter.com/RuSaMUIYyg
— Athletics (@Athletics) March 22, 2026
The game itself was hanging in the balance until the end. The Brewers scored three runs in the eighth off 2025 Nut Steven Echavarria to take an 8-7 lead.
But in the bottom of the eighth, 2024-25 Lugnut Nate Nankil dropped a bases-loaded RBI single into center field to tie the game, and a run-scoring passed ball by former Wisconsin Timber Rattler Darrien Miller put the A's in front.
Echavarria closed out the Brewers prospects in the ninth without issue, wrapping up the win.
Spring Breakout was fun 😄 pic.twitter.com/hDUVumjfOW
— Athletics (@Athletics) March 22, 2026