Tue. 8/18: T-Rats Two-Week Playoff Push with Home Games Begins Today

[Jim Goulart]

This thread will be utilized for any minor league news Tuesday.

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Tuesday's Birthdays:

SS Cooper Pratt celebrates his 22-year-old hamstring recovering well today. Have a great day, Cooper!

On the farm, RHP Luke Roupe, the 2025 17th round pick out of a North Carolina high school, will be celebrating his recent promotion to Wilson as he turns 20 years old today.

[Tedaldtada]

They could really use a phenom SS in Nashville right now.

[jay87shot]

I am really excited to see all the promotion from the weekend in there new places. It seems like most of the minor except Wilson could use a little pick me up, 

44 minutes ago, Tedaldtada said:

They could really use a phenom SS in Nashville right now.

Maybe next week we could see Made to AAA, Dickinson to AA, Ortuno/Ibarguen? to A+. and maybe Hughes or someone to A. It would be nice to get Made some AAA time but he is the type of prospect who should be able to go from AA straight to the bigs if needed.

[Tedaldtada]

Bitonti, O’Rae, and Boeve all deserve a bump as well.

[Jim Goulart]

I moved Sunday "exiting the game" updates on Eduardo Garcia and Braylon Payne to this spot, though hopefully both notes won't warrant future injury concerns.

[snoogans8056]

I feel like I follow the minors pretty closely…. Who the heck is Santiago Garcia (and to a lesser extent Josue Rodriguez)!?

[Ro Mueller]

Red-hot C Bo Naylor (3 HR, 5 RBIs over last 2 games) and the AAA Sounds play at Orioles’ affiliate Norfolk this week. LHP Colton Gordon makes his 6th start since being acquired (5.08 ERA, 23 Ks in 28.1 IP).

[Ro Mueller]

3B Luis Pena makes his AA debut, CF Braylon Payne is right back in the Biloxi lineup after exiting Sunday’s game early and LF Josh Adamczewski makes his first start since Wednesday, as the Shuckers open their series at Angels’ affiliate Rocket City. LHP JD Thompson (3 IP, 2 R, 4 Ks last week) makes his second start at this level.

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

Somehow Brock Wilken despite hitting .180 with a sub .700 OPS leads Nashville in RBI, XBH and BBs

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, JoeyWiemerTruther said:

Somehow Brock Wilken despite hitting .180 with a sub .700 OPS leads Nashville in RBI, XBH and BBs

Having 26 more PA than second most on the team and 72 more PA than third most on the team is probably the biggest reason. 

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Having 26 more PA than second most on the team and 72 more PA than third most on the team is probably the biggest reason. 

Wilken finally stays fulls healthy and puts up a stinker of a year

[Ro Mueller]

DH/SS Brady Ebel (.836 OPS in 493 PAs with 38 SBs) makes his debut at the  High-A level as Wisconsin host Guardians’ affiliate Lake County. Rehabbing SS Cooper Pratt sees his first action in 10 days. RHP Jacob Morrison was solid in his last outing (5 IP, 1 R, 5 Ks).

[Ro Mueller]

2026 first round pick, 17-year old SS Trey Ebel makes his professional debut as Low-A Wilson kick off their series at Red Sox affiliate Salem. 18-year old LHP Joan Pena makes his first start (2nd appearance) since promotion (3.2 IP, 1 R, 5 Ks last week).

 

[Tedaldtada]

Eric Bitonti must be itching to move up the chain with draft mate Cooper Pratt in town.

If memory serves, Bitonti had the higher bonus by about $500k. I remain super high on him and it’s just more evidence that Pratt is a freak outlier in his age group.

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

6 hours ago, Tedaldtada said:

Bitonti, O’Rae, and Boeve all deserve a bump as well.

Made will surely get a taste of AAA soon probably within 2-3 weeks, O’Rae and Boeve have done good enough at AA to maybe get a taste of AAA this year, however I wonder how they will divy up all these ABs between these guys, AAA will soon be extremely crowded in the infield. I wonder if they will just release a guy or 2 to make room, or demote someone underperforming to AA like Freddy Zamora, Eric Brown or Eduardo Rodriguez. They also have Brock Wilken, Ethan Murray, etc taking up infield ABs. Quero taking up ABs at DH. Luke Adams injury AFAIK doesn’t seem season ending and could be back soon. But now Burke is at AAA playing 1B too. Jett Williams also there in the IF if his injury isn’t season ending, he would probably move to OF. Fischer possibly gets a taste of AAA at the end of the year too. I kind of figured Adams would be included in a deal at the deadline as they have a ton of AAA/AA 1B/3B guys and he is rule 5 eligible this offseason, and I think would actually be selected by another team if not on the Brewers 40 man. Wilken, Boeve, O’Rae also rule 5 eligible but don’t think they’re of high enough pedigree to be poached by another team.

Made for 1 of Zamora/E. Brown/E. Rodriguez seems like an easy AA/AAA shortstop swap soon though or they can just release one of them to make room.

[Ro Mueller]

2 minutes ago, JoeyWiemerTruther said:

Made will surely get a taste of AAA soon probably within 2-3 weeks, O’Rae and Boeve have done good enough at AA to maybe get a taste of AAA this year, however I wonder how they will divy up all these ABs between these guys, AAA will soon be extremely crowded in the infield. I wonder if they will just release a guy or 2 to make room, or demote someone underperforming to AA like Freddy Zamora, Eric Brown or Eduardo Rodriguez. They also have Brock Wilken, Ethan Murray, etc taking up infield ABs. Quero taking up ABs at DH. Luke Adams injury AFAIK doesn’t seem season ending and could be back soon. But now Burke is at AAA playing 1B too. Jett Williams also there in the IF if his injury isn’t season ending, he would probably move to OF. Fischer possibly gets a taste of AAA at the end of the year too. I kind of figured Adams would be included in a deal at the deadline as they have a ton of AAA/AA 1B/3B guys and he is rule 5 eligible this offseason, and I think would actually be selected by another team if not on the Brewers 40 man. Wilken, Boeve, O’Rae also rule 5 eligible but don’t think they’re of high enough pedigree to be poached by another team.

Made for 1 of Zamora/E. Brown/E. Rodriguez seems like an easy AA/AAA shortstop swap soon though or they can just release one of them to make room.

Biloxi will be in the playoffs, so I actually don’t expect many more promotions to AAA.

Maybe Made goes to Nashville for 2 weeks, then returns to Shuckers for the playoffs. Makes sense to add Dickinson, Bitonti and Knoth for AA playoffs, if Wisconsin (2.5 GB two teams) doesn’t capture a berth.

[Tedaldtada]

Trey Ebel wasting zero time with it

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, alrighty then.

[Ro Mueller]

The RidgeYaks are putting up video game numbers against Wilson. 21 runs, 19 hits, 20 RBIs through 5 innings. Everyone has a hit. One player has 7 RBIs, another has 5 RBIs. My oh my.

[Ro Mueller]

Colton Gordon exited after 4 innings and 77 pitches, coinciding with an injury delay at the start of the bottom of the 5th inning.

Nashville had stormed back from down 4-0 to lead 6-4 (Black grand slam, Quero RBI double, Wilken homer), but have conceded 3 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning on 2 weak infield singles, a double and an error.

[wibadgers23]

Pretty crazy what has happed to Biloxi this month. We talk a lot about the pitching, but the offense has also really struggled. Feels like they are losing big every night I look at their boxscore.

[wibadgers23]

Brady Ebel with 3 walks in his first game in high-A.

[liveforoctober]

33 minutes ago, wibadgers23 said:

Brady Ebel with 3 walks in his first game in high-A.

Make it 4. His ability to draw walks is borderline dumbfounding.

[JoeyWiemerTruther]

Brewers signing these total bums Ji Wan Bae and Ornelas the past few weeks to fill in for Pratt makes me wish they just gave Freddy Zamora or Ethan Murray their cup of coffee at the MLB level but I digress

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

Make it 4. His ability to draw walks is borderline dumbfounding.

You always like to have at least one or two "Guys the Opponent Loves to Hate" type players. Not due to an abrasive attitude or anything, just always making it tough for them to beat you. I think B Ebel might have some of that.