Brewers Minor League Link Report (5/30): It Was a DeBerry Good Night for Jaron

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UTL Eddys Leonard placed on the Nashville Temporary Inactive List
INF/OF Daniel Guilarte sent on rehab assignment from Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to ACL Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Yancarlos Vasquez to a minor league contract.
Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Deivy Gonzalez to a minor league contract.
Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent LHP Noel Cepeda to a minor league contract.

The Temporarily Inactive List is "a designated status for players who are unavailable to render active service due to excused personal obligations, family emergencies, or brief absences" (per MiLB). A player must spend a minimum of 3 days on the list. We hope all is well with Leonard, but we often don't learn the circumstances around TIL absences, which is fair.

Guilarte had last played on April 24th.

The bit of info we have on the young pitchers can be found here. These teenagers are just a tad bit older than the norm signed back as part of the January 2026 international class. So, they had made strides since that time, caught the Brewers eye, and Milwaukee determined there was room in the organization to slot them in.

FYI - the Phillies had recently traded some of their Dominican Summer League talent, deciding to pare back from two DSL teams to one. The Brewers clearly aren't anywhere near that type of decision.

Speaking of the DSL, the season opens Monday morning.

On Saturday, the Brewers formally finalized their two rosters, with all the new additions since January 2026 to the present assigned, and other players repeating the league, but migrating between the "Blue" and "Gold" rosters noted. You can view those transactions here.

Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Nashville 8, Gwinnett (Braves) 3
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:

Sounds Deliver a Backyard Beatdown to Take Series over Stripers - Zamora Collects Four RBI to Back Pannone's Quality Start

The other Brewers' affiliates do fine jobs on their game summaries, but across MiLB, it's tough to top what the Sounds compose on a daily basis. Touching on and following up some of the paragraphs from this game's report:

21-year-old Cooper Pratt on base four times to lift his OBP to .364, why yes, please. Reaching base 33 times via BB/HBP vs. just 31 K's, why yes again, thank you. We all agree that MLB and AAA pitching staffs are two very different animals, but there are certain skills that translate easier than others, and Pratt's skillset should migrate nicely. It won't dazzle, but much will carry over to the highest level.

If you think Pratt's plate discipline and avoidance of the dreaded strikeout is something, then remind yourself that Luis Lara has now received 40 free BB/HBP passes and has fanned only 31 times. The fellow 21-year-old is three months younger than Pratt, and it has to be a near-lock that no other organization has two 21-year-old's performing as well at the AAA level.

It's getting easier to picture 32-year-old veteran LHP Thomas Pannone (50 MLB games, including 13 starts) being inserted into the Brewers rotation at some point this season to help navigate upcoming long stretches without days off. Of course, his out-of-options status complicates things, but should rotation thinning continue via injury / ineffectiveness, keep this in mind.

I've been adamant that the Brewers will go the "ride-or-die to the end" route with William Contreras, just as they did with Willy Adames. It'd be impossible to replace via trade (one year's service time) what Contreras brings to the team. I'm not one for shooting down others' conversation topics, but whether it's national media or your buddy at the gym, please quickly dismiss their trade thoughts on Contreras this winter and set them straight, regardless of what Jeferson Quero is accomplishing.

Three games and counting since we last saw Brock Wilken.

Did you notice the four former members of the Brewers organization who saw action for Gwinnett Saturday? That's one way to make sure you review the box score.

Poor Freddy Zamora, it's taken us this long to highlight you on the video review level:

Kudos, Gwinnett social media team (sound up).

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

Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes
Final Game One, Biloxi 9, Columbus (Braves) 4, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

Final Game Two, Biloxi 5, Columbus 0, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

DeBerry's First Career Complete Game Shutout Leads Shuckers to Sweep - DeBerry records 11th complete game shutout in franchise history, 1st in career since 2021 in junior college

Like the linked game summary, we'll visit things chronologically.

Third Game One hit for Jesús Made, the 7th time this season with 3+ hits -

With boppers Blake Burke and Damon Keith sidelined again for the day (both games), an impressive offensive output, to be sure. The thing about Saturday absences is that they often morph into Sunday sit-outs as well, in order to take advantage of Monday's rest day. Just as was the case in Nashville's game, everyone in the lineup reached base at least once.

We mentioned age 21 as a key in the Sounds' write-up above. Let's remember that RHP Bishop Letson will also be just 21 years old for the entirety of this season. Making his first appearance in two weeks, if Letson's break was a fine-tuning reset, it was successful for the most part, no earned runs over five-and-a-third innings. Of his six baserunners allowed, four were via the walk. Even so, consider this a good step. Heck, Brandon Sproat is 25 years old. Is it possible to picture Letson even further along than Sproat in four years' time? Sure, though hopefully that timeline can be quickened a bit. My point is patience with Letson is needed.

As for Game Two (nice Trey Supak reference in the summary, by the way), keep in mind this was Mike Boeve's 11th appearance at first base (9th start) this season. If his glove even tips this a tiny bit as it scoots into right field, we're talking a no-hitter:

So, how's that 2024 3rd round bonus money spent on DeBerry look now (just $25,000 as a senior sign out of Dallas Baptist, allowing for bonus pool manipulation with the other picks). Completely disregard the current 4.84 ERA, the Brewers know what they have in DeBerry. Will it get to the point that the team petitions MLB to lower-case Jaron's "D" as in "deGrom"? Oh, that would be sweet.

22-year-old Dylan O'Rae singled and walked twice. You may win a pub bet by asking who has the higher OPS as of this morning, O'Rae or Jesús Made? Successful once and not successful once, O'Rae is 29-for-35 in SB attempts.

Speaking of Mr. Made, we love it when the Voice of the Shuckers takes a team tweet and enhances it:

Other highlights are available via the team's 'X' feed, including an Eric Brown, Jr. effort in center field that earns a 9.5 in Olympic scoring for the catch and a 10.0 for the subsequent tumbling routine.

Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes (download link)
Final: Peoria (Cardinals) 8, Wisconsin 3
Box Score and Game Log

Via the Timber Rattlers, game details:

Peoria’s Two-Out Rally in Sixth Sinks Wisconsin - Chiefs score five runs with two outs to take 8-1 lead

The video package supplements your game summary -

That Luis Pena play is worth another look -

This was RH reliever Ayendy Bravo's second appearance for Wisconsin, and first in nine days. In only his age 19 season, Bravo opened the season with five appearances for Wilson, making his full-season ball debut, whereupon he was shifted back to Maryvale. Bravo would make three brief appearances there before he was brought to Wisconsin at the time when giving up football scores (high football scores, actually) was becoming the norm for the Timber Rattlers. Bravo mixed in a balk and pitch timer violation into his less-than-ideal line. Should the Dominican native be in Appleton at this time? Not really, but the roster juggling act is a dance. We can all agree that his surname is going to be awesome to yell out at Am-Fam Field someday should his career path land him there.

Pretty much everything after the first four pitches of the game for Jason Woodward was pretty darn good.

With Jacob Misiorowski on the hill for the Brewers Sunday, and his bobblehead set as Sunday's giveaway for the T-Rats, it's worth posting Voice of the Rattlers Chris Mehring's two-tweet combo here:

16-7 away record, 9-15 at home, really? Odd...

Wilson Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Myrtle Beach (Cubs) 7, Wilson 5
Box Score and Game Log

Pelicans Rally Late to Sink Warbirds - Three-run Eighth Dooms Wilson

Good for Filippo Di Turi here, his lone hit of the game:

Do you know what was also good for the 20-year-old Venezuela native? His January 2023 $1.3 million signing bonus. The only real advancement Di Turi has made over a poor 2025 Mudcats season is on the basepaths, 13-for-14 this season, an unsightly 6-for-14 last summer. One hopes Di Turi and his advisors invested wisely, and I guess it's invisible within clubhouse dynamics for the most part (it's a sensitive topic, so it's not surprising we never hear it mentioned in various player or administration interviews), but it must be tough to ignore among teammates that certain players received massive windfalls, absolutely life-changing money.

Seeking more positives? How about RBI singles for Luis Lameda and Brady Ebel?

Lameda

Ebel

Tyler Rodriguez has reached via walk or HBP 15 times in 12 Warbird games this season.

It's been a minute since we checked on Jose Anderson's strikeout percentage, it's "down" to 41.9%.

Final: ACL Reds 6, ACL Brewers 4
Box Score and Game Log

NOTE: Huge thanks to my fellow Link Reporter "Ro" for this Maryvale writeup.

Two untimely errors resulted in 3 unearned runs allowed, as the Zona Crew (10-12) dropped their 9-inning, 11:00 AM home contest to the ACL Reds 6-4, despite outhitting them 6-3.

OF Brailyn Antunez (1-for-3, walk) was back in the starting lineup after exiting Thursday’s game early and the game started well with rehabbing RHP Daniel Corniel's 1-2-3 first inning and DH Luke Adams’ homer (his 3rd in four games; 2-for-4, HR, walk, 2 RBIs, SB today) to lead off the bottom of the 1st inning.

However, a two-out dropped fly ball to left field allowed two runs against Corniel (2 IP, 2 R (0 ER), 2 H, 0 BB, 4 Ks), then 4 walks, 1 HBP and 1 balk issued by 19-year old RHP Dariel Jaquez (2 1/3 IP, 2 R, 1 H, 2 Ks) helped push the deficit to 4-1.

Down 6-1 late, the first three Brewers reached in a two-run eighth inning (2 walks, Adams’ RBI single), then C Freider Rojas (1-for-3, walk) delivered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 9th inning to cut the deficit to 6-4. Adams followed with a seven-pitch walk, but 18-year-old 3B Yu-Lin Liao (0-for-3 today; 2-for-25 in his short career to date) flew out to end it.

The game had a funny way of finding Liao, who entered as a substitute for rehabbing SS Daniel Guilarte (K, BB in his first game since April 24), as he committed a run-scoring error in the 8th inning and also struck out for the team’s first out in the bottom half of that frame.

RHPs Jhosep Ospino (1 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 BB, 1 K) and Argenis Aparicio (1 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 BB, 0 Ks) were solid in relief to give the comeback a chance, while RHP Josue Toledo struggled a bit with control (1 1/3 IP, 2 R (1 ER), 0 H, 3 BB, 2 Ks). 2B CJ Hughes had a productive game (1-for-3, walk, 2 SBs) and Rojas gunned down 2 of 3 attempted basestealers.

Our young men in Arizona have an off day tomorrow but return to action at the ACL Dodgers (8-14) on Monday at 8:00 PM CST.

Afternoon action everywhere except in Myrtle Beach, home of their outstanding center field camera and gamebug with radar readings. Head over to your MLB.TV app at 5:35 Central to catch the early evening action there.

Happy Sunday Funday, everyone!

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Jim Goulart, though born, raised, and still living in Massachusetts, became a Brewer fan by random chance when he opened a pack of baseball stickers at age 10 in 1973 and has maintained a lifelong passion (OK, obsession) with the team ever since. Beginning in 2001, his Minor League Link Reports have detailed the daily action on the Crew's farm.

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