Article: Brewers Minor League Link Report (6/10): Timber Rattlers Starter Tyler Woessner is Fantastic (Again)

[Jim Goulart]

The Shuckers were walked off (actually, homered off). Jackson Chourio's poor June start continued. The Mudcats are having a dreadful homestand. The Sounds can't catch a break from the weather gods. The rookie complex clubs posted a 1-2 day. But the Brewers' 2022 6th round RHP pick out of an Arizona junior college continued his wonderfully consistent and highly effective season for the Timber Rattlers. Thank you, Tyler Woessner (and some clutch 8th inning Wisconsin at-bats) for salvaging our Saturday! The parent club thanks Tyler as well for the temporary distraction from their woes (see what I did there - Woessner / woes). Win, lose, or wet, the Link Report remains your breakfast reading material staple, so here we go!

Permanent reminder - Tyler pronounces it Wayz-ner. Uecker's eventually going to have fun with that. Yes, Bob forever.

Image courtesy of BrewerFanatic

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TRANSACTIONS:

- RHP Tanner Shears promoted to High-A Wisconsin from Low-A Carolina
- RHP Alexander Vallecillo activated from Low-A Carolina’s 7-day injured list
 

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Suspended, Game One: Nashville 1, Jacksonville (Marlins) 1, through 3.5 innings at Jacksonville
Cancelled: Game Two

Pre-Game Media Notes 

Via the Sounds:

The first game of tonight’s doubleheader between the Nashville Sounds and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp was suspended tonight in the bottom of the fourth inning due to rain at 121 Financial Ballpark. The contest was tied at 1-1 when it was called.

The suspended game will be resumed on Sunday, June 11 at 11:05 a.m. CDT and be a seven-inning game. Sunday’s originally scheduled game between Nashville and Jacksonville will be played 30 minutes after the conclusion of Saturday’s suspended game and be seven innings. The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader has been cancelled and will not be made up.

Box Score (Thus Far) / Game Log
 

How the Jacksonville run scored

Rehabbing Jesse Winker homered on the second pitch of the game, his 2nd HR in three games.

RHP Janson Junk was effective through three innings.
 

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Final: Mississippi (Braves) 4, Biloxi 3

Via the Shuckers' site, we encourage readers to review each of the affiliate write-ups as part of your season-long Link Report routine:

M-Braves Mount Late Comeback as Shuckers Fall, 4-3, on Walk-Off Homer - Justin Jarvis turns in a strong start with seven strikeouts, Tyler Black swipes 31st stolen base of the year

Pre-Game Media Notes 

Box Score / Game Log

RHP Justin Jarvis had thrown 90 pitches through six shutout innings but was brought out for the 7th -- as you just read in the summary - HR, HR, double.

This Mississippi highlight reel unfortunately does not chronicle Jarvis' dominance through six (as expected), but you can watch how things soured. Former Voice of the Shuckers Chris Harris is on the call for the tying run and the unfortunate walkoff.

CF Jackson Chourio was 0-for-5 and his OPS (.703) is in danger of beginning with a "6" soon. His night:

- Flied out to CF on the first pitch he saw in the 1st
- Grounded out to the right side of the infield to move a runner to third base with less than two outs in the 3rd
- Grounded out to third base on the first pitch he saw in the 5th; there was a runner on 2nd and one out
- Called out on strikes in the 7th
- Grounded into a force-out to end the 9th 

You can't spell "Jarvis" without dotting the "I":

Going back to Friday's pre-game, here's the interview with Manager Mike Guerrero
 

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Final:  Wisconsin 4, West Michigan (Tigers) 1

Via the Timber Rattlers' site:

Clutch Hits Lift Wisconsin Past West Michigan - Two-out doubles by Hall and García in the eighth put Rattlers ahead to stay

Pre-Game Media Notes (Download Link) via the team's Virtual Press Box

Box Score / Game Log

Would have been nice to see a very deserving Tyler Woessner place the "W" in his own personal column here, but this was still a very nice victory for the T-Rats.

Yes, we've given the 23-year-old praise all season, but it's time to realize, maybe not enough.

Here are the game logs from Tyler's 11 starts. Check out the "earned runs" column, nothing higher than a "3". Factor in a 1.22 WHIP, dude has been a stud. One home run allowed in 56.2 innings. Enjoy the All-Star Game, young man.

LH reliever Luis Amaya was signed by the White Sox out of Venezuela in December 2014, yet he's just in his age 24 season. Nice little find on the minor league free agent market by Milwaukee this offseason.

Eight batters had a single base knock apiece, with three of them coming in the productive 8th that Chris Mehring detailed for us in the summary.

Every road game is a reminder of just how much the Timber Rattlers home production crew absolutely spoils us.
 

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Final: Fayetteville (Astros) 8, Carolina 2

Mudcats Drop Fifth Straight 8-2 to Fayetteville - Luke Adams and Jadher Areinamo accounted for all of Carolina's offense in the loss

Pre-Game Media Notes 

Box Score / Game Log

Nearly 5,000 fans in Zebulon Saturday night - the first 1,000 got sweet, sweet Mudcats jerseys:

It's as if the Oakland Athletics showed up, and then...oh wait, this is another downtrodden team visiting and just taking game after game from the former first-place home club (this is a seven-game series and Tuesday's 7-6 Carolina extra-inning win seems so long ago).

Of course, bitter rival Down East has won another three in a row so the Muddies now trail by three games (standings). 

Luke Adams is a joy, and come back soon, Luis Lara. That's all I got.

At least there's a sense of humor:

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Final: ACL Royals 15, ACL Brewers 11

Box Score / Game Log

CF Sal Frelick - doubled on a ground ball to right field in the 1st; walked in the 3rd; struck out swinging in the 5th; walked in the 7th.

Brewer pitchers allowed runs in seven of the eight innings pitched in this road contest.

Trailing 8-2 heading to the 7th, the Maryvale Crew scored five runs on just two hits (singles) to get within one. The Royals' youngsters immediately answered with a four-spot of their own. The 7th and 8th innings combined were a wild ride - Maryvale "won" those two innings 9-7, but alas, the final score. If you're going to game log dive, those two innings can be your focus.

About that Brewer pitching, four took the mound. This is the 5th game of the season (first Maryvale loss), and 5th year (yes, 5th) for RHP Brailin Rodriguez, who was signed out of the Dominican Republic in September of 2018, one month after his 16th birthday.

Rodriguez made 12 appearances (11 starts) in his 2019 debut DSL season. The Milwaukee organization places those in starting spots who they foresee being able to handle rotation action down the road. Of course, Covid robbed the 2020 summer (still counts towards service time), and Rodriguez showed enough in 2021 to get a September cup of coffee with Carolina. He then missed all of 2022 with an unknown but clearly serious injury.

This was the 2nd appearance on the young season for each of the three relievers who followed, none shined, as evidenced in the box.

19-year-old 3rd-year LF Duncan Garcia cracked his first stateside home run, a three-run shot - he had hit seven HR's in 94 DSL games the past two summers. Garcia drove in five here. 

Dylan O'Rae, DH'ing Saturday, reached base three times (single, two walks), and stole his 5th base in as many attempts, having played in four games thus far. O'Rae played second base in his three games in the field this week.
 

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Final: DSL Dodgers Bautista 4, DSL Brewers #1 Squad 3, seven innings as scheduled

Box Score / Game Log

There are 15 active pitchers on the DSL Uno roster. Is there a need to protect arms league-wide with seven-inning games at times?

Three of the four Cerveceros errors were committed by men on the mound. 

Pro debut for 18-year-old RH starter Esmir Suarez, with errors on two different pickoff throws. Suarez was the beneficiary of three runners stranded by 2nd year RHP Jesael Cabrera.

17-year-old Venezuelan 2B Luiyin Alastre was on base all four times out of the leadoff spot (single, three walks).

Top signing CF Yophery Rodriguez, 0-for-3 otherwise, walked to leadoff the final inning but was quickly erased on a GIDP. A pop-out followed, end of game.

85 degrees, sunny, 1 MPH breeze. Lather, rinse, repeat.
 

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Final: DSL Brewers #2 Squad 7, DSL Pirates Black 6

Box Score / Game Log

Unlike the other DSL contest, this was scheduled for nine.

Looked to be an entertaining affair, tied at 3-3 after six, then the back-and-forth began, culminating with a two-run Crew rally that was capped by a walkoff two-out RBI single by 18-year-old LF Fabricio Valera that broke a then 6-6 tie. That broke Valera's 0-for-13 to open the season.

One player who was glad his mates came back for the win was 16-year-old SS Roderick Flores. With bases loaded and two outs in the 8th, Flores was picked off first base by the Pirates catcher. Lesson learned super early in a career, hopefully.

In his first professional plate appearance, 6'4" 17-year-old RF Christopher Vasquez walked. In his next appearance, he pulled a HR to left. After a strikeout in his 3rd trip to the plate, Vasquez lined a double to center to tie the game at 4-4 in the 8th.

Vasquez is a Dominican native, hopefully he had family there. Sign up any siblings!

All but one Brewers batter had at least one hit, and the one who did not, catcher Eric Martinez, added a sacrifice fly. 

LH-hitting rookie 1B Smarlin Espinal has a grade-80 name. He singled three times and drove in two.

Starting RHP Ranwell Smith (Nicaragua) had a sweet five-inning outing, but with that name should really be a position player.
 

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There will be just five final box scores Sunday as the complex leagues take their traditional Sunday off. Impressive RHP Will Rudy will do his part to hopefully end the madness at Carolina. Meanwhile, somebody please wake up the big-league lineup. Here's to a nice end to your weekend. Thanks for reading and clicking.

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[wibadgers23]

Woessner should probably start packing his bags soon for Biloxi.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

https://twitter.com/mass_haas/status/1667921072782561281?s=46&t=qGR2cfu_SB0sdmKXz3os4w

[Ro Mueller]

Two rough days have put our full season affiliates at an aggregate of -5 (110 wins, 115 losses), but the good news is that there are 5 games today! Win ‘em all to end the weekend right.

[Joseph Zarr]

Fantastic report, Jim. Lots to digest in an extremely full day.

Carolina's late funk is eerily reminiscent of last season's disastrous final series in, you guessed it, Down East. This season, for whatever reason, it's the inability to take advantage of Home Cooking. I will say, the Woodpecker's standing and record coming into this series was very mis-leading. They were in first place after their first two series of the year. AND, they have suffered an inability to score a single run in each and every extra-innings affair to date.

Regardless, it's hard not to encounter feelings of: "Here we go again..." as a fan of the Brewers organization as a whole. 😔

All there is to say, fans, is: Keep the faith. 

[wibadgers23]

On 6/11/2023 at 11:58 AM, Joseph Zarr said:

Fantastic report, Jim. Lots to digest in an extremely full day.

Carolina's late funk is eerily reminiscent of last season's disastrous final series in, you guessed it, Down East. This season, for whatever reason, it's the inability to take advantage of Home Cooking. I will say, the Woodpecker's standing and record coming into this series was very mis-leading. They were in first place after their first two series of the year. AND, they have suffered an inability to score a single run in each and every extra-innings affair to date.

Regardless, it's hard not to encounter feelings of: "Here we go again..." as a fan of the Brewers organization as a whole. 😔

All there is to say, fans, is: Keep the faith. 

Lara and Guilarte being out of the lineup certainly doesn't help.  Hopefully they are back soon.  Those are two big bats.