Cool thing to me is that Monasterio actually bet on the Brewers. Signed a second minor league deal this past offseason despite all the competition for even AAA playing time. Here’s what I’d written earlier on him:
It’s nice to see Monasterio’s bet on the Brewers paying off. A minor league depth addition last year, he was crowded out from AAA Nashville in June 2022 and bumped down to AA Biloxi for nearly 2 months.
He finished the season with Nashville, then played two months of Venezuelan Winter Ball, racking up 160 plate appearances by late December.
In the meantime, he re-upped on a Minor League deal with the Brewers on December 20 despite knowing he’d be battling Turang, Toro, Owen Miller, Devanney and Dorrian for AAA playing time. And we also added Eddy Alvarez on that same December 20, then Josh VanMeter shortly after.
Monasterio just turned 26 years old in May and I hope he has a long, successful MLB career ahead of him.