Rule 5 Draft - Will the Brewers select/lose a player?

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 hour ago, ClosetBrewerFan said:

surprised they did not pick up any catchers in the minor league phase.  Brewers have a dearth of C depth right now.  Guess they will be going out to get this years Crash Davis to fill the minor league rosters.

I kind of figured that they would come away with one more outfielder as well instead of losing one. As big as the outfield glut is in the big leagues and triple-A, there isn't a ton there numbers-wise once you get past that. Right now, unless someone who should be at triple-A is held back (probably Collins or Campbell), the Biloxi outfield likely has Rodriguez and Sparks. Doston would probably be the third starter. The options for a fourth outfielder include resuming the Felix Valerio or Ernesto Martinez in the outfield experiments or shifting Jose Acosta out there essentially full time.

High-A is I guess a little better. They have Lara, Fernandez and then a lot of question marks about starting in Wisconsin or Carolina (Perez, Castillo, O'Rae, Nicasia). At the start of the offseason I wouldn't have been shocked if they all started in Carolina, but at least starting two of them in Wisconsin doesn't seem like quite as big of a stretch.