Brewers Minor League Link Report (4/7): Biloxi and Wisconsin Dominate While Nashville and Wilson Struggle

[Ben Lepak]

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Nashville Pre-game media notes

Gwinnett (Braves) 4, Nashville 1

Box Score

As always, you are encouraged to read the official round up from the team site: Sounds Suffer 4-1 Loss to Gwinnett

The Sounds dropped the first game of their series with Gwinnett on Tuesday night, and the story was the Stripers running all over Sounds’ starter Carlos Rodriguez and catcher Jeferson Quero. Gwinnett stole a stunning 10 bases in the game, all in the first five innings. Gwinnett leadoff man Jim Jarvis accounted for four of the steals, and even Rowdy Tellez chimed in with a first inning steal, his second on the season.  If you’re a glutton for punishment, or care to breakdown what went wrong, you can rewatch most of the steals here, courtesy of Gwinnett’s X account:

 

Quero entered the game having thrown out 3/7 would-be base stealers on the young season but looked discombobulated on a few attempts. He sailed a few throws 3-4 feet wide of the bag, had one or two less than stellar exchanges, and then a couple times he had a delayed reaction with a lefty in the box. I’m not pushing the panic button on Quero yet, because Rodriguez did not do a whole lot to help, as Stripers runners were getting massive jumps on him, without many throws over.

Besides getting run all over, the Sounds run prevention was good in the latter half of the game, holding Gwinnett scoreless in the final four frames and totaling 14 strikeouts on the night.  Reliever Drew Rom struck out five in a row at one point:

Offensively, the Sounds managed just two hits, with Jett Williams’ single in the 6^th inning accounting for the lone run of the game. 

For just the second time all season, Luis Lara failed to reach base, as he took an 0 for 4 collar. Luke Adams wore his fourth HBP of the year.

Garrett Stallings will take the mound in game two on Wednesday night. Still no Robert Gasser in the probable starting pitchers for the week yet. When and where will we see the Gas Man next? 

 

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Biloxi pre-game media notes

Biloxi 8, Pensacola (Marlins) 2

DeBerry's Gem Paves Way for 8-2 Home Opening Win over Blue Wahoos

Box Score

The results were more positive in the Southern League on Tuesday night as Biloxi dominated Pensacola with a wire-to-wire victory in the Shuckers’ home opener. Twenty-three-year-old Jaron DeBerry anchored the Shuckers run prevention with a dazzling season debut. The 2024 third round pick tossed five scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and just one hit allowed to earn the win. In his final inning of work, Berry was the beneficiary of a stellar defensive play by centerfielder Dasan Brown that kept the Blue Wahoos off the board:

Blake Burke got the action going in the bottom of the first with his fourth homer of the year, courtesy Biloxi’s X account:

Burke has four hits in four games and they’re all solo bombs.

Everyone in the Biloxi lineup got in on the action, but most of the damage came from the top of the order. Second baseman Dylan O’Rae continued his hot start to the season with a triple, three runs scored, and three steals. The Shuckers stole six bases as a team. Jesus Made drew three walks and drove in O’Rae with an RBI single to cap the scoring in the seventh. Damon Keith added two hits and knocked in three.  

Mark Manfredi struck out the side in the ninth inning, and has now struck out eight of nine batters faced this season. As a team, the Shuckers struck out 14 batters.

Full local news report (game highlights) from Biloxi's home opener -

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Additional Biloxi video:

Wild pitch scores the 2nd Biloxi run

Dasan Brown RBI single

Jesus Made RBI single

 

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Wisconsin pre-game media notes

Wisconsin 6, Quad Cities (Royals) 0

Box Score

Rattlers Shut Out Quad Cities

 It was good to see all the Timber Rattlers top prospects back in the lineup on Tuesday after Braylon Payne, Marco Dinges, and Josh Adamczewski all left the second game of Saturday’s frigid double header in Appleton.

The Timber Rattlers made the most of their seven hits (six singles, one double) by going 4-for-9 with runners in scoring position on the night. Payne, Luis Pena, and Eric Bitonti all had run-scoring singles. Andrew Fischer capped the scoring with a two-run single in the seventh:

On the mound, Rattlers’ 23-year-old starter Yorman Galindez was making his first professional appearance since June 2024, after missing all of 2025 recovering from elbow surgery.  Galindez pitched just two scoreless innings, while striking out four, but we only saw him for 30 pitches due in part of a lengthy delay around an injury to the home plate umpire. Righty Bryalon Owens was the bulk man and earned the win in relief, striking out eight over 4+ innings. Not to be undone by Nashville and Biloxi on the night, Wisconsin managed 17 strikeouts of their own.

Additional Wisconsin video (first two without audio):

Each an RBI single -

Braylon Payne

Luis Pena

Eric Bitonti

 

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Wilson pre-game media notes

Salem (Red Sox) 10, Wilson 2

Warbirds Drop Series Opener at Salem

Box Score 

Salem dominated from the opening bell on Tuesday night. The RidgeYaks built an early lead and blew the game open with a four‑run fourth inning and a five‑run fifth, cruising to a 10–2 win over the Wilson Warbirds in the series opener.

Andrew Healy, a 2025 9^th round pick out of Duke, made his professional debut on Tuesday night.  Healy’s two scoreless innings were the lone bright spot for the Warbirds, who committed five errors that led to four unearned runs in the contest.   

Juan Ortuno now owns a modest three game hit streak to start the season.  Ortuno also notched his first steal of the season. Handelfry Encarnacion added two singles to raise his average to .278 through three games. 

VIDEO:

Luiyin Alastre sacrifice fly

 

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[Spaul149]

10 steals in a game is kind of crazy bad. It seems like perhaps Quero shouldn't really be in the long term plans.

[MilwaukeeBeers]

I am so sad that shoulder injury ruined arguably the best overall arm of a catcher in baseball. 

[Joseph Zarr]

I have not seen the games or the finer data but 7-of-10 SB came via the work of Rodriguez/Quero and the remaining 3 came via Strz/Quero. I am quite a bit less 'worried' about the SB on Quero than I am about Rodriguez's ongoing two-season regression and seemingly precarious 40-Man position. Even with a 10-spot in an evening, it's wiser to see the greater body of work in 2026:

Quero has caught 4-of-14 for a 28.6 CS%

 

[biedergb]

1 hour ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

I am so sad that shoulder injury ruined arguably the best overall arm of a catcher in baseball. 

Yes Quero's fall from impact prospect to likely back up, along with some other prospects whose stars have faded (EBJ, Carlos Rodriguez), and those are fading (Wilken, Black).  Good thing there is a lot of depth. In the past seeing 5 former top 20 prospects fade 2 years later would be a crushing blow, but here it is sad and unfortunate, but there are others to step up (Dinges, Pena, Fischer, etc to go with Made/Pratt, and Dorchies, etc)

 

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I have not seen the games or the finer data but 7-of-10 SB came via the work of Rodriguez/Quero and the remaining 3 came via Strz/Quero. I am quite a bit less 'worried' about the SB on Quero than I am about Rodriguez's ongoing two-season regression and seemingly precarious 40-Man position. Even with a 10-spot in an evening, it's wiser to see the greater body of work in 2026:

Quero has caught 4-of-14 for a 28.6 CS%

 

I went back and watched the video and it didn't feel like his throws were bad though I wasn't trying to use a timer to figure out pop time.

[Ben Lepak]

 

49 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I have not seen the games or the finer data but 7-of-10 SB came via the work of Rodriguez/Quero and the remaining 3 came via Strz/Quero. I am quite a bit less 'worried' about the SB on Quero than I am about Rodriguez's ongoing two-season regression and seemingly precarious 40-Man position. Even with a 10-spot in an evening, it's wiser to see the greater body of work in 2026:

Quero has caught 4-of-14 for a 28.6 CS%

 

I went back and watched all 10 steals and I'm not sure there were many attempts where a perfect throw from Quero would have gotten the runner, especially Jarvis' attempts. But i think you can't ignore that a couple of those throws we're off target as well.  Agree with you on C-Rod's regression.  How long will he have a spot on the 40 man roster? Similar to Tyler Black, I feel like it could just be time for a change of scenery for him... 

[igor67]

Off target could be a concern, but it's also possible as the number mounted that he started trying to over do it to make up for the pitcher. It is such an out there number I think you need to evaluate in a few more weeks.

[Tedaldtada]

I'd like to see Carlos Rodriguez get more East-West, a la Grant Anderson. Morph the slider into a true sweeper. Explore lower slots seeking more 4-Seam ride. Anything to add some funk. His kitchen sink arsenal is having trouble getting big league hitters out.

 

[brewmann04]

CR spot on the 40 might be in serious jeopardy 

[Jim Goulart]

Local news video reports, including weak opponent contact early in the game and the play that forced Brady Ebel's error at shortstop:

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