2025 Minor League Transaction Thread

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

Is it bad that I was glad that outside Low missing another season, there weren’t really any surprises?

Me right now:

[biedergb]

3 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

RHP Enniel Cortez has been placed on the Full-Season IL by the Carolina Mudcats

Did I miss where he was injured. I’m bummed- M. Rodriguez, Cortez and B. Rivera were my Carolina pitching crushes last season (outside of the Knoth/Letson duo).

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, biedergb said:

Did I miss where he was injured. I’m bummed- M. Rodriguez, Cortez and B. Rivera were my Carolina pitching crushes last season (outside of the Knoth/Letson duo).

Well, I don't know if you missed it per se. He was placed on the 7-Day in early August. Then was converted to the 60-Day and missed the remainder of the season. However, he was procedurally activated off that 60-Day when the season ended. I had hope he would recover in time for the season but obviously he did not. Maybe A-Rob alluded to this earlier but I'm an aging geezer and have not tracked it.

[BrewersRice]

A little surprised by this list. 
 

 

It looks like this would include all ACL players. Am I wrong on this? I’m more surprised of no Juan Ortuno after his year. Was expecting Quintana from DSL and others to be stateside as well.  Maybe this is an ever changing list? Can someone educate me on this?

[ARobsBrewCrew]

47 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Well, I don't know if you missed it per se. He was placed on the 7-Day in early August. Then was converted to the 60-Day and missed the remainder of the season. However, he was procedurally activated off that 60-Day when the season ended. I had hope he would recover in time for the season but obviously he did not. Maybe A-Rob alluded to this earlier but I'm an aging geezer and have not tracked it.

I don’t recall posting anywhere, but Cortez underwent Tommy John surgery on September 5th last year.  Given that timeline, the hope is that he will be good to go on MiLB Opening Day 2026 when he will still be just 19 years old.

[ARobsBrewCrew]

24 minutes ago, BrewersRice said:

A little surprised by this list. 

It looks like this would include all ACL players. Am I wrong on this? I’m more surprised of no Juan Ortuno after his year. Was expecting Quintana from DSL and others to be stateside as well.  Maybe this is an ever changing list? Can someone educate me on this?

There are indeed some surprising names missing, but there will be players that are currently at the Dominican academy that are brought stateside before the ACL season begins.  If Ortuño and Quintana are healthy, which I believe they are, then I would certainly expect them to be in Arizona within the next month.

[wiguy94]

33 minutes ago, BrewersRice said:

A little surprised by this list. 
 

 

It looks like this would include all ACL players. Am I wrong on this? I’m more surprised of no Juan Ortuno after his year. Was expecting Quintana from DSL and others to be stateside as well.  Maybe this is an ever changing list? Can someone educate me on this?

Well I think that is a list of 161 names. Stateside limit is 165 but that doesn't include players on the 40-man or players on the 60-day/full season IL. 9 players on the list were placed on full season IL/60-day IL today and 7 players on the list are on the 40-man roster. That would leave 145 players towards the 165 player limit. I think that would mean we might still see some players come stateside eventually.

Just looking at the list and I struggle to see a full ACL squad of pitchers and position players, so I'd expect some players to come over closer to the ACL season start.

Edit: That doesn't include Yoho and Alfaro who were reassigned to minor league camp today. So make that 18 available roster slots.

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

There are indeed some surprising names missing, but there will be players that are currently at the Dominican academy that are brought stateside before the ACL season begins.  If Ortuño and Quintana are healthy, which I believe they are, then I would certainly expect them to be in Arizona within the next month.

Yeah I just crunched the numbers and removing the players that hit full season/60 day IL lists and 40-man guys that list has 147 players. That would leave 18 available slots. Have to imagine some DSL guys will get called up closer to ACL season start.

[ARobsBrewCrew]

7 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Yeah I just crunched the numbers and removing the players that hit full season/60 day IL lists and 40-man guys that list has 147 players. That would leave 18 available slots. Have to imagine some DSL guys will get called up closer to ACL season start.

Thank you for your work crunching the numbers!  That means that there will be a decent number jumping stateside.  I hate being that guy, but we also have not seen the typical end of spring training releases yet.  That is something that we dread each and every year, but it will open up even more roster spots.

[duewizard]

12 hours ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

Thank you for your work crunching the numbers!  That means that there will be a decent number jumping stateside.  I hate being that guy, but we also have not seen the typical end of spring training releases yet.  That is something that we dread each and every year, but it will open up even more roster spots.

We're going to need 20-25 spots open to sign all the new draftees right?

[ARobsBrewCrew]

11 minutes ago, duewizard said:

We're going to need 20-25 spots open to sign all the new draftees right?

In order to sign all draftees that end up coming to terms, undrafted free agents, and MiLB free agents, yes.  But not all of those spots will be open by the start of the minor league season.  Some of those spots will open up gradually over the next few months.

[Joseph Zarr]

Back to Transactions...

- INF Andruw Monasterio was optioned to the Nashville Sounds by the Milwaukee Brewers

[biedergb]

19 hours ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

I don’t recall posting anywhere, but Cortez underwent Tommy John surgery on September 5th last year.  Given that timeline, the hope is that he will be good to go on MiLB Opening Day 2026 when he will still be just 19 years old.

Wow. Ok. Thanks for the update.  Hopeful for a full recovery. He was one of my under the radar-ish favorite pitchers for this upcoming year.  I will be ready for next with him. 

[Ro Mueller]

• C Jeferson Quero assigned to AA Biloxi from AAA Nashville
• OF Manuel Margot released by AAA Nashville (since he could have opted out of his minor league contract anyway)
• INF Caleb Durbin optioned to AAA Nashville from MLB Brewers
• INF/OF Tyler Black optioned to AAA Nashville from MLB Brewers

[BrewersRice]

On 3/20/2025 at 9:55 AM, wiguy94 said:

Yeah I just crunched the numbers and removing the players that hit full season/60 day IL lists and 40-man guys that list has 147 players. That would leave 18 available slots. Have to imagine some DSL guys will get called up closer to ACL season start.

While you do remove guys from 60 day IL and full season IL, I don’t believe you remove 40 man guys that are not on the 26 man. Not sure how that would adjust the count.

[biedergb]

5 hours ago, Ro Mueller said:

C Jeferson Quero assigned to AA Biloxi from AAA Nashville

Interesting. Maybe a way to ensure more at bats and allow him time to get re-acclimated? He was Nashville opening day C so this is a “demotion” but hopefully more a “rehab assignment”.

[Jim Goulart]

In the "Milwaukee Brewers Sleeper Prospects: Who Will Make the Jump in 2025?" article, 

@wiguy94 wrote:

"Will Rudy - Very smooth delivery. This is the offseason he finally adds a bit of velo to add to his solid command."

@Joseph Zarr followed up:

"Rudy was phenomenal in that road Game 3 Championship series. Phenomenal. Would be such a boon to the system if he could keep growing into his young pitching career."

 

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Sadly, Rudy was just placed on the full-season injured list for 2025. No word on the nature of his injury.
 

[Jim Goulart]

Back in January, we posted quite a bit in this thread about the undrafted free agent signing of RHP Ryan Sandberg, we invite you to revisit that entry.

Although he was placed on the big-league camp roster for spring action at least once, he did not appear in a game. He was released on Saturday and thus has yet to make his professional debut.

We wish Ryan well, has to be disappointing for him and his inner circle of family and friends.

[wiguy94]

3 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

In the "Milwaukee Brewers Sleeper Prospects: Who Will Make the Jump in 2025?" article, 

@wiguy94 wrote:

"Will Rudy - Very smooth delivery. This is the offseason he finally adds a bit of velo to add to his solid command."

@Joseph Zarr followed up:

"Rudy was phenomenal in that road Game 3 Championship series. Phenomenal. Would be such a boon to the system if he could keep growing into his young pitching career."

 

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Sadly, Rudy was just placed on the full-season injured list for 2025. No word on the nature of his injury.
 

Pain. Very much pain.

[ARobsBrewCrew]

3 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

Back in January, we posted quite a bit in this thread about the undrafted free agent signing of RHP Ryan Sandberg, we invite you to revisit that entry.

Although he was placed on the big-league camp roster for spring action at least once, he did not appear in a game. He was released on Saturday and thus has yet to make his professional debut.

We wish Ryan well, has to be disappointing for him and his inner circle of family and friends.

Fortunately, he did actually appear in one big league spring game and even registered a strikeout, although the overall results were poor with three walks in 0.2 IP.  Still, it is a puzzling and unfortunate move.

[Spencer Michaelis]

26 minutes ago, ARobsBrewCrew said:

Fortunately, he did actually appear in one big league spring game and even registered a strikeout, although the overall results were poor with three walks in 0.2 IP.  Still, it is a puzzling and unfortunate move.

That outing actually came in a Statcast game and honestly, if I had to guess, that may be the biggest hint as to what happened here. The stuff, unfortunately, just didn't look very good. Wonder if it had backed up from where it was in his Indy Ball stint, and they didn't think it would return to form. Still a bit shocking to see them give up on an arm that quickly. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, hello Mondays. Good grief these pre-season March days, season after season, continue to haunt me. There is only pain.

[Joseph Zarr]

6 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

In the "Milwaukee Brewers Sleeper Prospects: Who Will Make the Jump in 2025?" article, 

@wiguy94 wrote:

"Will Rudy - Very smooth delivery. This is the offseason he finally adds a bit of velo to add to his solid command."

@Joseph Zarr followed up:

"Rudy was phenomenal in that road Game 3 Championship series. Phenomenal. Would be such a boon to the system if he could keep growing into his young pitching career."

 

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Sadly, Rudy was just placed on the full-season injured list for 2025. No word on the nature of his injury.
 

[Joseph Zarr]

- OF Garrett Spain was assigned to the Biloxi Shuckers from the Nashville Sounds

- RHP Zach Peek was assigned to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers from the Nashville Sounds

- INF/OF Casey Martin was (officially and procedurally) activated by the Biloxi Shuckers

[edfunderburk]

Where can I find rosters for the Brewers affiliates - especially Nashville since they begin their season tomorrow?