Cooper Wickham Pratt (born August 18, 2004) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2026.
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Early life
Pratt was born on August 18, 2004, in Hialeah, Florida. Pratt's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a child. Pratt was raised Mormon.
Amateur career
Pratt attended Magnolia Heights School, Senatobia in Senatobia, Mississippi. As a senior in 2023, he was the Mississippi Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year after hitting .469 with four home runs, 50 runs batted in (RBI), and 38 stolen bases on offense and a 10–0 record with a 0.14 earned run average (ERA) and 66 strikeouts. He committed to play college baseball for the Ole Miss Rebels.
Professional career
The Milwaukee Brewers selected Pratt in the sixth round of the 2023 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Brewers and made his professional debut with the Arizona Complex League Brewers, hitting .356 over 12 games. He played the 2024 season with the Carolina Mudcats and Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, hitting .277 with eight home runs, 45 RBI, and 27 stolen bases over 96 games. Pratt was assigned to the Biloxi Shuckers for the 2025 season and hit .238/.343/.348. At the end of the year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel listed him as the Brewers' number two prospect.
The Brewers assigned Pratt to the Nashville Sounds to begin the 2026 season. On April 3, Pratt and the Brewers finalized an eight-year, $50.75 million contract extension and the team added him to their 40-man roster. The contract has two club options for 2034 and 2035 that would push the contract's value to over $80 million if picked up. At the time of the contract's signing, Baseball America ranked Pratt as the 53rd-best prospect in MLB; other outlets ranked him lower. He had the least amount of upper-level professional experience—three games at the Triple-A level or higher—of any MLB player who had ever signed a contract extension. The Brewers promoted Pratt to the major leagues for the first time on June 16, 2026.
In Game 4 of the 2026 World Series, Pratt hit a solo home run off Ian Seymour for the Brewers to break a tie and put the team in the lead at 3–2, putting the team in the brink of their first-ever World Series championship in franchise history. However, the Rays scored two runs in the bottom of the 12th to take the game and force a fifth game. In the same game, one day after teammate Jackson Chourio accomplished the feat, Pratt became the sixth player ever younger than 23 to record four hits in a World Series game.