Brewers Minor League Link Report (8/21): Youthful Batters (vs. Level) Can Prosper. For Pitchers, It's Been Rough Going

[Jim Goulart]

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Biloxi's glorified winning streak ended abruptly at one. Wisconsin also surrendered runs early and often. Wilson was up 7-0 after two innings but thankfully held on. DSL pool play will come down to at best a tiebreaker situation.

 

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Transactions:

• Nashville Sounds activated 2B/OF Jihwan Bae (Bae accepted the outright assignment by Milwaukee)
• Nashville Sounds activated 3B Luke Adams from the 7-day injured list.
• Nashville Sounds placed RF Luis Matos on the 7-day injured list.
• Nashville Sounds placed SS Freddy Zamora on the 7-day injured list (retroactive to 8/20).
• Nashville Sounds placed RHP Will Childers on the 7-day injured list (retroactive to 8/20).

 

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Postponed, Nashville at Norfolk (Orioles)

Doubleheader Saturday beginning at 3:35 pm CT

 

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Catch up with the latest Biloxi pre-game audio interview archives

Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Rocket City (Angels) 10, Biloxi 8
Box Score and Game Log

Shuckers Comeback Effort Cut Short in 10-8 Loss to Trash Pandas - Biloxi Ties Season-High with Eight-Run Inning in Rocket City

The box score isn't always fair.

RHP Bishop Letson only worked 3.1 innings and was charged with all the runs in Rocket City's four-run 2nd and four-run 3rd.

RHP Jack Seppings, while not netting a single strikeout, did follow Letson with 3.2 innings of one-run ball.

Guess who was charged with the loss?

Letson was taken off the hook by the eight-run Shuckers 4th inning you read about in the summary. One name you didn't read in the summary? Bishop Letson. Let's not accentuate the positive to the extreme that we overlook concerning performances among those considered top prospects, please.

Letson is just 21 years old for another month. A key contributor on our Minor League Forum, @sveumrules, pointed out last evening how the Brewers are consistently extremely young with arms, especially at the lower levels. If 2026 is an indicator, it hasn't been a particularly fruitful strategy. Then again, the Logan Henderson's of the world don't grow on trees.

Somebody else tried to keep Letson anonymous - the person responsible for the scorebug on the Trash Pandas broadcast. Robinson?

Sure, we can (and will) spotlight the videos from an eight-run Biloxi rally. But for many fans and analysts, the other eight "zeroes" in the linescore may outweigh the one big inning. Seven of the Shuckers' eight hits came in that 4th inning. So, consider that as you watch below.

Am I salty this AM? Perhaps, as chronicling losing 14 of 15 and capping a "winning streak" at one will do that.

You'll find the four Biloxi clips from that solely impressive 4th inning, including Dylan O'Rae's 4th career home run, via the Biloxi 'X' feed here. Oh, and that "Robinson" dude was the Rocket City starter, Letson mystery solved.

 

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Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes (download link)
Final: Lake County (Guardians) 8, Wisconsin 4
Box Score and Game Log

The game summary makes it pretty clear that this was a very uneven effort by the T-Rats. Lots of key strikeouts at the plate, poor RISP results, and the lone Wisconsin multi-run inning was set up by multiple walks from the opposition (taking a base deserves some credit, of course).

Likely the time of year where innings limits are an issue, so we see LHP Wande Torres enter to begin the 4th, and he struck out seven in his four innings of work while only allowing two runs, both unearned.

Daniel Dickinson posted a 1.095 OPS in 23 July games. So far in August (19 games), he's at 1.107.

RHP Daniel Corniel had been impressive in three prior appearances this month.

If not lightning, not fireworks, then what the heck was this?

 

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Wilson Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Wilson 7, Salem (Red Sox) 5
Box Score and Game Log

Warbirds Score Early, Hold on Late to Beat Salem - Encarnacion Tallies Three Hits and Three RBI in Victory

Directly from the game summary:

Diustin Mayorquin (W, 7-2) covered the final 4.1 innings out of the bullpen, allowing just one run and scattering three hits to notch the victory.

Still just 18 years old (until 10/28), the Nicaraguan native now sports a 1.01 WHIP in 27.2 A-Ball innings after toiling for 34.2 innings in Maryvale earlier in the season. Mayorquin has certainly justified the faith the Brewers placed in him as a very young promotional move.

Several contests this week (including at the big-league level) with early-game multi-run innings.

That Jose Anderson double was the lone clip grabbed by the Warbirds for display on 'X', but we also have this which opened the scoring and temporarily broke the time and space continuum (stay until the end):

Encarnacion with a more traditional highlight here.

RHP Tyler Renz needed 81 pitches to get through 4.2 frames, and Mayorquin stranded a runner for him.

Regarding the Jose Anderson double seen above, guess we had grown tired of detailing his now season-long K rate of 40.8%, as my fellow Link Reporter "Ro" noted entering Friday's action:

• RF Jose Anderson’s slump continues (7-for-last-70 with 42 Ks).

Most players would be thrilled with 22 HR and 68 RBI. Anderson's quite the statistical conversation piece.

Carsten Sabathia has come to the plate 33 times (only two walks, only five K's), so his early OPS is buoyed by a .480 BABIP, but it's been fun to follow so far.

 

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Final: DSL Brewers Gold 14, DSL Royals Ventura 8
Box Score and Game Log

We spent a good portion of the late morning / early afternoon discussing this game and the pool play implications (see our daily "as it happens" thread).

My favorite part of this video (from Thursday's game) is the interaction between pitcher and catcher as Josue Rodriguez rounded the bases, still trying to interpret the back-and-forth:

19-year-old Germany native RHP Paul Hoff (worth reviewing his regular season stats) shined in this one. Mad respect for Hoff, performing in such a new and different environment (2nd season). We can learn a lot by going back to listen to Jonathan Timm's recent very good interview with Hoff's Timber Rattlers countryman Yannic Walther, to get a sense of what Hoff must be going through to begin his pro journey.

So yes, 16 walks drawn by Gold batters helped the cause (Royals pitchers also threw five wild pitches). Your box score review will reveal all nine in the starting lineup reached at least twice, often more (Rodriguez five times as the DH, LF Carlos Done four times).

We can do without the three errors committed (two Royals runs were unearned).

Big matchup against the 2-0 DSL Mariners on Saturday, and then we wait to see if tiebreakers allow for Gold to advance. Is it fair that Seattle only fields one DSL team (that's rare). Not really, but Milwaukee's front office consolidated top talent to Gold a few days before pool play, so it evens out.

 

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It's a six-game slate Saturday as Nashville plays two in Norfolk. Enjoy your summer Saturday, we're quickly running out of them!

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[eklinka]

Guess im looking forward to next year for our pitching to take a step forward 😂 this year will just be character development