The 2016 season didn’t produce quite as many notable individual performances within the Milwaukee Brewers’ minor league system as the previous year had seen, but there were still a few pleasant surprises by players who we may start seeing included in the various top-100 lists that will come out over the winter. Lucas Erceg hit the […]
Author: Kyle Lesniewski
Winter Meeting Acquisitions
Baseball’s annual Winter Meetings came and went this past week and the Milwaukee Brewers were among the teams that made some noise at the event. Slingin’ David Stearns paired up with Red Sox GM Dave Dombrowski to pull of a significant trade that saw lights-out reliever Tyler Thornburg get shipped up to Boston with three players […]
Rule 5 Brewers
The most exciting time of the offseason – Major League Baseball’s annual Winter Meetings – will take place next week just outside of the nation’s capitol in National Harbor, Maryland. Amidst all the trade rumors and free agent signings, one of the notable events that happens every year at the Winter Meetings is the Rule 5 […]
Gambling on Adam Walker
A week ago, the Milwaukee Brewers claimed prospect Adam Brett Walker off waivers from the Minnesota Twins. Walker was born in Milwaukee and graduated from Milwaukee Lutheran High School, so that automatically makes for an interesting plot line as only nine players born in the state have ever suited up for the Milwaukee Nine. While it […]
Arizona Fall League Summary
The annual Arizona Fall League wraps up Saturday with the championship game between the Mesa Solar Sox and the Surprise Saguaros. Unfortunately the team that our Milwaukee Brewers sent their prospects to play for, the Salt River Rafters, was eliminated yesterday after a 4-2 loss to Surprise. Salt River finished with a 15-15-1 record in the AFL, a […]
Positional Flexibility and Minor League Development
Since taking over as Manager and General Manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, the duo of Craig Counsell and David Stearns have emphasized the importance of positional versatility. 15 of the 22 position players who took the field for Milwaukee this season appeared at multiple positions, with Hernan Perez (1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF) and […]
Moving Parks: From Florida to Carolina
From 2005 through 2016, the Milwaukee Brewers partnered with the Brevard County Manatees for player development in the high-A level Florida State League. It wasn’t exactly a fruitful pairing – the Manatees had only four winning seasons while fielding Milwaukee’s prospects, winning one division title and appearing in the playoffs on only two occasions over 13 seasons. […]
On the LHP Fireman
The talk of this year’s postseason has undoubtedly been Andrew Miller of the World Series-bound Cleveland Indians. The Tribe gave up four prospects, including the highly-touted duo of Justus Sheffield and Clint Frazier, to bring Miller in to reinforce their relief corps prior to the trade deadline this past summer. Rather than install his best reliever […]
Prospects and Future Cornerstones
The Milwaukee Brewers’ minor league system has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last two years. At the beginning of the 2015 season, most outlets had the Brewers ranked within the bottom five to ten farm systems among the 30 major league teams. The direction of the team has since changed from making an annual […]
Pitching Prospects and DRA
It takes an army of arms to get through the minor league baseball season. According to the register at Baseball Reference, 141 different pitchers threw at least 1.0 innings for one or more of the Milwaukee Brewers’ seven minor league affiliates in 2016. Somewhat rare, however, is the minor league pitcher who crosses the 100 […]