Brewer Minor League Free Agents After the 2017 Season

[Jim Goulart]

Following is a list of players who are free to leave the organization five days after the World Series when minor league free agency begins. These players and the Brewers could agree to sign an additional one-year minor league deal to extend the relationship. Or the Brewers could add the player to the 40-man roster, thus extending the "ownership" of the player, and preventing him from reaching the open market.

 

Minor league free agency will be a pretty scary time for most of these players. For others, fairly big opportunities await.

 

Expect several of these players to be re-signed to minor league deals for 2018. In particular, the organization is slated to lose a huge chunk of their AAA and AA pitching staffs - yes, there will be some Shuckers and Mudcats who move up, and of course, new outsiders brought in, but the Brewers will need bodies to come back.

 

A player who has exhausted all seven years of his original minor league affiliation to the organization that signed him is eligible. Here are the Brewers farmhands who have been with the organization for their full seven-year affiliated commitment (or even longer than seven years for some). We've been following these twelve guys their whole affiliated pro careers (lists below in alphabetical order):

 

RHP Parker Berberet

 

RHP Hiram Burgos

 

RHP Tim Dillard

 

RHP Tyler Cravy

 

RHP David Goforth

 

C Dustin Houle

 

C Natanael Mejia

 

RHP Jorge Ortega

 

RHP Wily Peralta

 

LHP/1B Nick Ramirez

 

OF Michael Reed

 

RHP Angel Ventura

 

Other potential (and likely) free agents:

 

LHP Andrew Barbosa

 

RHP Yhonathan Barrios

 

1B Chris Colabello

 

IF Ivan De Jesus, Jr.

 

C Rene Garcia

 

RHP Travis Hissong

 

OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis

 

LHP Sean Nolin

 

IF Nick Noonan

 

IF Gabriel Noriega

 

UT Fidel Pena

 

RHP Matt Ramsey

 

RHP Rob Scahill

 

RHP Forrest Snow

 

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In a separate thread we'll kick off later this weekend, we'll post (with player links) the formal list of players who will be eligible to be picked in December's Rule 5 draft if not added to the 40-man roster this fall.

 

Toby had taken our first crack at that particular list back in June.