In a frustrating series finale, the Brewers let a lead slip away late, and the winning blow came against Peter Strzelecki. It's been a bit of a rough stretch for Craig Counsell's proudest underdog and versatile relief weapon, but Thursday's outing only represented some bad luck. Sometimes, it's the other team's day.

Jacob Misiorowski didn’t disappoint in his Wisconsin debut, allowing only one hit in a victory. Carlos F. Rodriguez also struck out nine in Biloxi’s win. Nashville and Carolina’s offenses struggled in losses, but the Rookie teams won three games.

With the draft coming up, the Brewers will get the chance to infuse a lot of new talent into the farm system. In some areas, that infusion will be much-needed: By Opening Day 2024, they will need to find a way to keep fans interested after the all-but-inevitable departures of Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff, and Willy Adames via trade.

We’ve covered all the positions in this series, so we’re going to circle back and look at three under-the-radar outfielders as well as two outfielders that are very much on the radar.

In dire straits in the latter part of May, the Brewers reached out and grabbed a veteran starting pitcher. The scrap heap gave him up easy; no one expected much. Two weeks later, though, it's time to ask whether their emergency starter can blossom into a viable medium-term back-end starter.

The Brewers might finally be fully awake again. Wednesday night, their bats were loud, and Corbin Burnes silenced those of the Orioles in a resounding win.

It was Double Double-Header Make-Up Wednesday for the Sounds and Mudcats. The Mudcats continue to inexplicably play middle-of-the-road ball at their home ballpark. The Sounds split. The T-Rats cruised late. The Shuckers held on. Let's get into the report!

We’re continuing our look at reasons to be optimistic about each player on the Brewer Fanatic Top 20 Prospects list. When we go over this, it’s to outline just how some of these players could end up contributing to the next successful Brewers team.

In the first inning of Tuesday night's hard-won Brewers victory over the formidable Orioles, Brian Anderson drove home the first run. It came on a line-drive single to left field, a ball he reached for down below his knees. That was a beautiful, many-layered moment, containing within it many truths about Anderson and about the art of hitting.

In an exhilarating game that went into extra innings, Joey Wiemer and his new mullet pulled a timely single to walk it off in the tenth. 

It was an action-packed full day of Brewers Minor League baseball. When all was said and done, the affiliates came away with a stalwart five victories in six contests. We had late game heroics in many a tilt - down in the ACL, in West Michigan, at Five County Stadium, and in Jacksonville. Let's get into the report!

Last week, we discussed the “caution lights” for the prospects on the Brewer Fanatic Top 20 list. But there are also reasons to be very optimistic about each of these prospects. Some of them have very high ceilings. Others have skills that will make them valuable as bench assets. But all of them clearly have the potential to really help the Brewers in the future.

In the coming weeks, we’ll spend some time going in-depth on players whom the Brewers could target with their first pick in the 2023 Draft next month, at No. 18. This week, we’re looking at pitchers. For these pieces, we’ll use the positions of players on the Consensus Board as a proxy for who they might take, as opposed to trying to predict what each team will actually do. The goal is to give a flavor of the kind of talent and options that might be around when that pick hits, as we all know trying to predict the draft is perilous at best.

The Freshmen have been asked to integrate into the broader student population a bit more quickly and completely than the Brewers imagined when this season began, and there have been some growing pains. One of the youngsters, though, is starting to look as though he's ready for the advanced coursework at this level.

After a weekend that hinted at a breakout for the dormant Brewers offense, Monday saw them take a bit of a nap to start the week.

It's time for Brewers affiliated baseball 7-days a week. Whew dang we're back again! With the DSL and ACL Brewers playing their opening games, we had both the DLS 1 and 2 kicking it off South of the border and we had the now condensed ACL Brewers playing down in Arizona. It was a wonderful 3-0 debut for Team Brewers. Let's just get right into the report!

Though they still have three years of control left via his original contract extension, the Brewers might be wise to talk to Freddy Peralta about another one before 2023 is out. What would that look like?

In Sunday's Brewers win, first baseman Rowdy Tellez had the two hardest-hit balls of his 2023 campaign to date. He's been a peculiar case this year, with good numbers but a bit less punch than he provided over his previous Brewers tenure. Now, though, he might be turning the corner.