Brewers Minor League Link Report (6/12): Only One Win on the Farm While You Were Watching The Miz

[Jim Goulart]

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We've got you covered in case your minor league attention was distracted by a certain 6'7" righty in Milwaukee. We wish we had more victories to tell you about, but as always, we find positives to spotlight.

 

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Transactions: 

• Milwaukee Brewers recalled RHP Craig Yoho from Nashville Sounds (as RHP Coleman Crow hits the big-league IL)
• SS Leonard Rijo assigned to ACL Brewers from DSL Brewers Blue
• RHP Lonell Downs assigned to DSL Brewers Blue from DSL Brewers Gold

 

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Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes (unavailable)
Final: Durham (Rays) 7, Nashville 4
Box Score and Game Log

Via the Sounds, game details, and we encourage readers to always review affiliate write-ups as part of their Link Report routine:

Nashville Drops First of Series to Durham 

There really is no 5th starter on the team at this moment to complete the Stallings - Hardin - Pannone - Wichrowski rotation. Perhaps Jake Woodford is stretched out to that role in time. Easton McGee is not the answer for that spot, he allowed ten baserunners in his three-inning struggle here.

Lefty Tate Kuehner is missed, as are Carlos Rodriguez and Coleman Crow on the big-league injured list.

From May 26th to June 5th, Jett Williams was hitless in six of eight games. He currently has a five-game hit streak including two hits on Thursday but sat out Friday night. Overall, it's been an uninspiring stretch and an at-best middling .229/.342/.37 line overall (.709 OPS).

Cooper Pratt 0-for-4 with a K, flied out twice, topping out at 93.6 MPH on one of those outs.

Tyler Black has dropped to a .200 batting average with a .300 slug, and to be honest, has never been more irrelevant in the big picture. 

In case recent Nashville posts on 'X' have you confused, the admins for the Sounds and Bulls have had a silly thing going mainly because Durham only awards some sort of beef reward to their own players who hit the scoreboard in Durham, but not visitors. It's time to drop the back-and-forth, but that'll explain any odd captioning on this Luke Adams HR, also 93.6 MPH.

Adams also doubled in the 5th (only 74.4 MPH off the bat), The prettiest of the Sounds' five base hits may have been this Luis Lara 96.8 MPH single poked the other way from the LH batter's box.

We'll give props to RH relievers Kaleb Bowman and Junior Fernandez for the six innings of one-run ball they provided.

 

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Catch up with the latest Biloxi pre-game audio interview archives - RHP Jack Seppings, recently up from Wisconsin, is the latest chat

Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Birmingham (White Sox) 3, Biloxi 2
Box Score and Game Log

Hurtubise Has Multi-RBI Game in Shuckers 3-2 Setback - Shuckers Walked Off by Barons for Third Straight Loss

The Southern League standings show a well-balanced eight-team quagmire of mostly mediocrity, but the Shuckers have now lost three in a row to the one league outlier - the Birmingham Barons are still only 24-37 after their three wins over Biloxi. Fortunately for Biloxi, division frontrunner Montgomery has also lost three in a row.

Barons first baseman Anthony DePino is on a tear, you'll see him victimize an otherwise strong Jaron DeBerry and then Travis Smith for the walk off in the two videos linked here. DePino had clubbed a three-run homer in Thursday's 8-0 Biloxi loss.

28-year-old OF Jacob Hurtubise pretty much made it a one-on-one tennis match with DePino, including clutchness in the top of the 9th.

Take away the DeBerry DePino deposit (see what I did there?) and Jaron would have pitched six shutout frames. DeBerry's game log shows five of his last six starts as very attractive.

Jesús Made singled in four trips (described as a sharp line drive to left), though his 11 June games have been sub-par to his standards. Made avoided striking out, something his lineup mates (save for Hurtubise) did not do, 14 K's altogether. 

 

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Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes (download link)
Final, Game One: Wisconsin 5, Great Lakes (Dodgers) 3, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

Via the Timber Rattlers, game details: 

Fischer Does It Again! - Rattlers slugger hits twentieth homer of the season to beat Great Lakes

Enjoy Chris Mehring's write-up linked just above and the two home run videos within. Then settle in and watch the long balls a second time as part of the overall game package here:

 

You'll notice no Luis Pena here (nor in the nightcap). Pena exited Tuesday's game early, limping after legging out a strike out on a wild pitch.

Not the sharpest final line for 6'5" 19-year-old (yes, 19 years old all season at High-A) RH starter Ethan Dorchies, but he looks the part on the mound and seemingly there were encouraging aspects of this outing, though three walks, a HBP and a wild pitch will be found within the stat totals. This was the best of RHP Tanner Perry's three relief appearances since his promotion from Wilson.

Now for a score copy-and-paste with a bit of unfortunate reversal -

Final, Game Two: Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 3, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

Via the Timber Rattlers, game details: 

Great Lakes Gains Split with 5-3 Victory over Wisconsin - Rattlers suffer costly loss in first half playoff race

Before you watch this next set of highlights, you are strongly encouraged to read the linked game summary for details on why the T-Rats were the road team here, the bleak playoff picture and much more.

"Ever so softly" - yes, that was the call on the key base hit vs. reliever Ayendy Bravo as he attempted to rescue starting southpaw Wande Torres from a bases-loaded situation. Bravo's a 19-year-old who was jumped to Wisconsin, bypassing Wilson, in an extreme need for the T-Rats back on May 17th. Torres, meanwhile, remains exceedingly frustrating, as he issued eight free passes (six walks, two HBP's).

Pena provides a right-handed bat, and it's missed. We've seen on several occasions this season where a left-handed reliever is lined up with a very LH-leaning Wisconsin lineup - speaking in general terms, the Rattler outfield mix (Adamczewski, Ragsdale, Payne, Castillo, plus the corner infield of Bitonti and Fischer). You likely noticed that late in the highlight package for Game Two.

Former Brewers draft pick LHP Justin Chambers (sent to the Dodgers for LHP Bryan Hudson before he ever saw action for the Crew) pitched for Great Lakes, the second time he has faced Wisconsin this season.

 

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Suspended, bottom of the first inning: Wilson 0, Hill City (Guardians) 0
Box Score and Game Log (thus far)

Unlike the Howlers, Wilson did not "waste" a starting pitcher with a brief outing. RHP Carlos Carra did not throw an official pitch, but surely went through his pre-game routine, and we'll have to see if he throws as scheduled in Saturday's resumed game, or perhaps the nightcap.

Shortstop Brady Ebel was among the players scheduled to have Friday night off.

Via the Warbirds:

LYNCHBURG, V.A. – The Wilson Warbirds and Hill City Howlers game on Friday night at City Stadium was suspended due to rain and will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 3:30 p.m. (2:30 Central)

The first game of the doubleheader will be picked up in the bottom of the first inning and will be a 9-inning contest while the second game of the twin bill will follow approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one and will be a 7-inning game.  

 

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Final: ACL Angels 13, ACL Brewers 9, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

We'll dive deeper in a moment, but your keys:

Behold the #4 and #5 spots in that box score for Maryvale, wow. In the #6 spot, Jonathan Rangel singled, walked, and reached via HBP. We'd love to see Rangel find a home with his glove, but the 19-year-old has now split eight errors evenly between catcher (Friday night) and first base.

Perhaps there isn't a better example in several years of a player benefitting more from repeating the Dominican Summer League than infielder Juan Martinez, as his MiLB Player Page yearly stat lines will show. His 2024 $125,000 signing bonus could prove quite the bargain.

Speaking of bonus bargains, hello to the $350,000 Alexander Frias received in January of 2025. 

As trade deadline season nears, we don't see Frias going anywhere, but other organizations would be wise to ask for a bonus add-on prospect like Martinez on any proposed deals.

18-year-old Dominican native Leonard Rijo made his stateside debut, drawing a walk and stealing a base (Rijo was 21-for-24 in SB attempts in 2025).

In a combined 98 DSL/ACL games the prior two seasons OF Engel Paulino hit two home runs. He clubbed his 4th here (105.8 MPH) in 51 at-bats though other aspects of his game have dropped in 2026 and he's seeing action in only about 60% of the team's games.

Undrafted RHP Caleb Nieman has been hit-or-miss in his seven appearances, this was a miss and a matter of getting work in as scheduled.

RHP Hayden Vucinovich with small steps of improvement, two scoreless frames that included two walks, two wild pitches and a hit batter, one unearned run allowed. Hey, you don't learn how to pitch around men on base unless, you guessed it, there's men on base.

In his four starts, this was the first time RHP Luke Roupe (2025 17th round pick out of a North Carolina high school) completed two innings. His pro debut was complicated and delayed a bit by an unspecified injury.

The Brewers K'd 15 times in the seven-inning game, which had a first-pitch temperature of 100 degrees.

 

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Final: DSL Padres Gold 9, DSL Brewers Gold 6
Box Score and Game Log

Game was tied at 5-5 through seven innings, but the golden San Diego players four-run 8th trumped the golden Milwaukee men and their one-run 9th.

That 9th inning run came off the bat of Ricki Moneys, his lone hit in five at-bats, but it was a line drive pulled out of the yard. Moneys was the DH here, and his small-sample 6-for-38 isn't exquisite, but four of the six knocks have gone for extra bases, and he has walked (six) nearly as often as he's K'd (eight) and remains 4-for-4 in SB attempts.

Speaking of going deep, infielder Osiris Ramirez, only five weeks removed from his 17th birthday, went deep for the 4th time in just 31 at-bats, well, hello there. Pipeline wrote this on January 15th:

"Another standout in the Amateur Scouting League, much like Moneys, was Dominican shortstop Osiris Ramirez. Although he will reportedly fetch just a $100,000 signing bonus from Milwaukee, there’s a ton of power coiled up in his right-handed swing, and he moves well laterally on the infield. His defensive home is a bit more of a question mark, but it’s the offensive profile that will earn his keep."

We've seen subsequent reports that Ramirez' final bonus figure was actually $450,000. Either way, the initial power reports are proving conclusive.

First baseman Matthew Moses' six-game sample is well, just six games, but he reached four times here (two singles, two walks) to lift his OPS to 1.108. 

First-year OF Manny De Los Santos turned 17 in March. In 28 plate appearances, he has walked ten times and stolen nine bases in ten tries. Baseball America indicated De Los Santos signed for a $325,000 bonus, with reports highlighting "his standout contact abilities, along with his strong baseball IQ and plus speed".

Despite three wild pitches, no batter put a ball in the air vs. suddenly exciting 2nd year southpaw Santiago Martinez, who will turn 18 in July. Of course, when batters are striking out eight times in four one-run innings, any ball in play is a story. Behold Santiago's game log for his two appearances thus far on the young season. Exciting!

 

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Suspended, bottom of the 5th inning: DSL Red Sox Red 3, DSL Brewers Blue 3, scheduled for seven innings
Box Score and Game Log (thus far)

Game at the Brewers complex was delayed by 40 minutes. Where's the roof?

This game will be completed on Monday, June 22nd as part of a doubleheader.

In just his 2nd pro appearance, 17-year-old Venezuelan native RHP Daniel Munoz dazzled. In four innings, the only three men to reach base against him were via free passes (two walks, one HBP). Munoz struck out seven.

Also making just his second ever appearance, 6'5 lefty Alexander Mercedes' outing to start the 5th was limited to just two batters - walk, balk, home run, then exit. Unless weather was complicating things, something to monitor? It's not like there's a three-batter rule at the complex level (we don't think).

Infielder Leander Matos, again playing third base here, doubled in each of his at-bats. He is 16 years old until July 2nd, and yes, the small sample on another mid-level bonus signing ($300,000) is very shiny in the box score line.

Premium bonus baby Diego Frontado walked both times up thus far, giving him ten in 41 plate appearances.

See you on the 22nd.

 

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We'll be reporting on six scheduled games when our next Link Report is out Sunday AM, including a matchup of Brewers' DSL clubs, 6-2 Blue at 3-6 Gold. The game in Arizona has the usual Saturday daytime start time despite the sun and heat, allowing folks to get to the rest of their weekend off. In late afternoon and then evening action, Wilson will play two games as referenced above.

Hope it's a wonderful Saturday for all!

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