Your 2026 Nashville Sounds

[markedman5]

Sounds' Opening Night is Friday 3/27 - at Norfolk (Orioles). That start date is one full week ahead of Biloxi and Wilson, and six days ahead of Wisconsin.

The eventual Nashville formal roster announcement will come directly from the Sounds, not the Brewers, once the Brewers have given the Sounds the official go-ahead to do so.

Feel free to link to any formal Sounds notices you see.

Sometimes, but not as often as we used to, we learn via player social media, who has been assigned where, prior to the formal affiliate announcements. We'll link to any of those posts in this thread as they come out.

As you might know, we use the "Your 2026" team threads to post and link to feature stories, including audio and video, that are outside the scope of game activity covered in the Daily Minor League Link Report.

These threads have become among the most popular for viewing here.

Please do not speculate on any player releases. Brewers Player Development or MiLB.com will update us formally.

[duewizard]

8 hours ago, markedman5 said:

So now that this has happened…….who do we think is the 2nd catcher at Nashville to start the season?

 

I'd guess Rodriguez? I would love to see Wood but with less than 60 AA games under his belt he may go back to Biloxi at least early on.

I don't believe in Miller as much as Harold Hutchinson does but he does have more AA experience and is probably better acquainted with some of the guys who will be in Nashville's staff.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

"Brewers President of Operations and GM Matt Arnold joined Jeff Hem at Spring Training in Arizona to talk more about the farm system that runs through Nashville."

 

[Joseph Zarr]

On 3/23/2026 at 10:39 PM, Jim Goulart said:

 

Important to note, before official roster releases, it certainly sounds as tho Pratt; Wilken; Lara; and Adams all are starting in Nashville.

So, I think (for me at least) this would very likely mean early estimations of Double-A Fischer and Adamczewski are right on track. I imagine Dylan O'Rae will get plenty of early CF reps.

[Jim Goulart]

Via 102.5 The Game's "Next Man Up" in Nashville:  "Voice of the Nashville Sounds Jeff Hem joins the show as the Sounds open their season tomorrow night in Norfolk."

[Jim Goulart]

Nashville Press Release:

SOUNDS 2026 OPENING DAY ROSTER ANNOUNCED

 

NASHVILLE – The Nashville Sounds, in conjunction with the reigning National League Central Division champion Milwaukee Brewers, are excited to announce the 2026 Opening Day roster of Sounds baseball. Fourteen of the 28 active players for the start of the season appeared for the Sounds during the 2025 campaign, including the Sounds 2025 Pitcher of the Year, Garrett Stallings and the 2025 Fan Favorite, Freddy Zamora.

 

Ten of the Brewers’ top 30 prospects (MLB Pipeline) are on the roster, highlighted by infielders Jett Williams (#3) and Cooper Pratt (#4). Williams ranks #51, while Pratt ranks #64 in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects. Other members of Milwaukee’s Top 30 include Logan Henderson (#7), Jeferson Quero (#8), Luis Lara (#12), Luke Adams (#13), Robert Gasser (#17), Brock Wilken (#22), Shane Drohan (#25), Coleman Crow (#27) to open the season with the Sounds.

 

Nashville’s Opening Day roster consists of 21 players from the United States, two from Venezuela, two from Nicaragua, one from Canada, one from Puerto Rico, and one from the Dominican Republic.

 

There are nine members of the Brewers’ 40-man roster on the initial Sounds roster.

 

A position breakdown of the Opening Day Roster can be found below. 40-man players indicated in BOLD:

 

Pitchers (16)

RHP Kaleb Bowman, RHP Will Childers, RHP Coleman Crow, LHP Shane Drohan, LHP Brian Fitzpatrick, LHP Robert Gasser, RHP Logan Henderson, RHP Blake Holub, LHP Tate Kuehner, RHP Easton McGee, LHP Sammy Peralta, RHP Carlos Rodriguez, LHP Drew Rom, RHP Garrett Stallings, RHP Peter Strzelecki, RHP Jacob Waguespack

 

Catchers (2)

Ramón Rodríguez, Jeferson Quero

 

Infielders (8)

Luke Adams, Tyler Black, Eddys Leonard, Ethan Murray, Cooper Pratt, Brock Wilken, Jett Williams, Freddy Zamora

 

Outfielders (2)

Greg Jones, Luis Lara

[liveforoctober]

Announcements! I'm ready. Just a gluttony of arms and infield prospects here.

[Jim Goulart]

Via our Transactions page -

Nashville Sounds placed RHP Gerson Garabito on the 60-day injured list - broken bone in foot
Nashville Sounds placed LHP Thomas Pannone on the 7-day injured list - torn flexor tendon in left forearm last March (no concrete updates since)
Nashville Sounds placed RHP J.B. Bukauskas on the 7-day injured list - significant lat injury 12-13 months ago (no concrete updates since)

Looks like the organization still needs to drop from 29 to 28 players, as per the roster page. 3rd catcher Andrick Nava will be bound for the "Development List", most likely. He's not listed in the press release.

[biedergb]

Looking a lot like Jett Williams and/or Tyler Black will be in the OF to start the year given the crowded IF and the only OF listed as Jones and Lara. Lara will man CF for sure, so it will be RF or LF for Jett and Tyler I suspect, unless E. Leonard will play in the grass. 
Rotation is likely Rodriguez, Henderson, Drohan, Gasser with Kuehner, Rom, Crow as the likely 5th option depending on how they want to develop Kuehner and Crow now. They typically have one vet in the rotation, although at this time point C. Rod may be that AAAA vet.

[biedergb]

I just noticed, that it is Quero with Rodriguez (and Nava as the 3rd C). So neither Miller nor Wood will be in AAA to start the year, so I suspect they both start at AA, which pushes Dinges back to A+?

Still a prospect laden starting staff, and the roster has more real prospects than in years past with Pratt, Williams, Wilken, Adams, Lara  and Quero. That's 4-5 starting pitchers, and likely 5-6 positional players each day. Very very nice

[liveforoctober]

Garabito will be that vet once he comes back I would think. I don't mean to say this in too many threads but I still think Rodriguez could be had for a song by another team. The Brewers just have so many more guys who will be coming up to start ahead of him at this point..

[Ro Mueller]

24 minutes ago, Jim Goulart said:

Via our Transactions page -

Nashville Sounds placed RHP Gerson Garabito on the 60-day injured list - broken bone in foot
Nashville Sounds placed LHP Thomas Pannone on the 7-day injured list - torn flexor tendon in left forearm last March (no concrete updates since)
Nashville Sounds placed RHP J.B. Bukauskas on the 7-day injured list - significant lat injury 12-13 months ago (no concrete updates since)

Looks like the organization still needs to drop from 29 to 28 players, as per the roster page. 3rd catcher Andrick Nava will be bound for the "Development List", most likely. He's not listed in the press release.

6’4”, 247lb RHP Joe Corbett may also be on that Development List, since he’s also showing as Active, but missing from the press release.

I’d thought maybe Easton McGee may take time to get to Nashville after being optioned, but I guess he’s ready to get straight to work.

INF Luke Adams didn’t play in either of the Spring Breakout games (or other MLB or MILB spring training games recently), so it’s good to see him listed as Active.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

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[Jim Goulart]

One of my favorite things about Minor League Mondays!

 

[edfunderburk]

With the Brewers off today, I watched the Sounds game beginning to end. 

Take Away: I can’t imagine Wilken ever making an impact in Milwaukee with so many other quality non-pitching prospects. He may be good trade bait.

[Jim Goulart]

AUDIO via the "Nothin' But An App State Podcast": "The Improbable Journey of Kaleb Bowman" - "There may not be a better story of App State to the pros than that of Kaleb Bowman. The former Mountaineer pitcher joins the pod at the beginning of his first season in AAA with the Milwaukee Brewers organization and you won't want to miss this conversation."

 

[Jim Goulart]

1 hour ago, Jim Goulart said:

AUDIO via the "Nothin' But An App State Podcast": "The Improbable Journey of Kaleb Bowman" - "There may not be a better story of App State to the pros than that of Kaleb Bowman. The former Mountaineer pitcher joins the pod at the beginning of his first season in AAA with the Milwaukee Brewers organization and you won't want to miss this conversation."

 

Interview begins at the 11:30 minute mark.

Familiarize yourself with his journey in feature article form if you’re not aware.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[brewmann04]

Wilken is off to a terrible start maybe he should be sent down to Biloxi 

[Jim Goulart]