In today’s age of specialization in youth sports, if a kid wants to have a future as an athlete, he or she needs to decide which sport they want to focus on basically before their pre-teen years. In baseball, there are travel teams, special camps and showcases, tournaments all across the country that take place […]
Author: Kyle Lesniewski
Losing the Affiliate Shuffle
The great Brewers rebuild has been about selling the fans on the influx of “young, controllable talent” that has flooded the organization over the past year and a half or so. The club may not be competitive at the big league level right now, but Doug Melvin and David Stearns each have done yeoman’s work […]
Brewers Minor League Awards
The minor league regular season wrapped up last week, ending the year for most of the prospects within the Milwaukee Brewers’ organization. As a whole the organization’s seven affiliates combined for a 328-423 record and had just two winning teams – AA Biloxi at 72-67 and low-A Wisconsin at 71-69. The Brewers had just one postseason entrant […]
PTBNL Ryan Cordell
On August 1st, the Milwaukee Brewers sent catcher Jonathan Lucroy and reliever Jeremy Jeffress to the Texas Rangers in exchange for prospects Lewis Brinson, Luis Ortiz, and a player to be named later. The two clubs negotiated almost right down to the 3 pm CST deadline and agreed to announce the PTBNL after the completion […]
Profiling AFL Arms
This week began what amounts to Christmas in summer for baseball fans, as the prospect analysis season steps into advanced mode. Not only are clubs expanding their rosters at the MLB level, but they are also sending top prospects to the Arizona Fall League, and soon beginning instructional leagues as well. Looking at AFL prospects […]
Lucas Erceg and Third Base Futures
Since last season’s trade of Aramis Ramirez, third base has been a rather unsettled position for the Milwaukee Brewers. Here’s a list of the players that have appeared at third base over the last two years, since the start of 2015: Ramirez himself Yadiel Rivera Luis Jimenez Hector Gomez Elian Herrera Jason Rogers Luis Sardinas […]
The Call-Up: Brent Suter
The Situation: After playing a double-header against the Cubs on Tuesday, the Brewers find themselves in need of a starting pitcher to take the ball tonight against Seattle. Their ace Junior Guerra isn’t quite ready to return from his minor elbow soreness just yet (though he’s eligible to come off the DL today) so the club will […]
Brandon Woodruff: Breaking Through in 2016
2016 has been a strong developmental year for many of the pitchers in the vaunted Milwaukee Brewers minor league system. Josh Hader has eased some doubts about handling a starter’s workload and has settled in at AAA after some early struggles; Cody Ponce has hit the ground running after missing some time early in the […]
Reports: Trade Deadline Returns
The Brewers may not have been quite as active as some had expected prior to Monday’s non-waiver trade deadline, but Slingin’ David Stearns still managed to move arguably the club’s three most valuable assets. Left-handed reliever Will Smith was sent to the Giants for Catcher Andrew Susac and RHP Phil Bickford, while franchise catcher Jonathan […]
Isan Diaz and the Return of Segura
With the Diamondbacks coming and going through town this week, this was the first chance for former Brewers’ shortstop Jean Segura to revisit the city where he grew up as a young major league player. After a a string of disappointing seasons, Milwaukee shipped Segura to Arizona over the winter, where he has thrived this […]