Joseph Zarr

Pitching RHP Deivi García in this seventh frame in an 11-0 walloping has me thinking the Sounds staff wants him to close this out and stay warm for Game 2 30 some minutes afterward? Would this even be feasible? Just seems odd given he has been starting games for a month. Are they just keeping his arm active? So many questions, my friends.

I think the T-Rats pitching staff is out to set a six-game runs allowed record. They are hot on the trail to wherever they are trying to take this burning wagon train.

Dalbec is 0-for-3 today with 2 K (AB right now as I type) but adding him in the heart of this current Sounds line up is pretty dang enticing. This Sounds outfit, as they are playing, is built for a serious playoff run. I'd put them up against any team in the International League and feel confident they can at least split. This is a good Triple-A squad.

What a run he has been on. It's pretty easy to forget: He was hitting woefully to start his campaign. Clearly, he is getting comfy and we are all the better for it. He's playing fantastic ball.

My goodness have a Game 1 Anthony Seigler! 3-for-4 just a double shy of the cycle after an RBI triple bagger in the ninth. Sounds pounding the Redbirds 11-0!

Man, the return of LHP Sam Garcia is a godsend for the late innings options in Carolina. Fantastic outing so far today. Big innings there. He struck out two more to strand a runner in the 8th.

Walling! Two run jack. Muddies take the 7-5 lead bottom of seven. Woot woot.

It's hard to fathom two Midwest League teams have been playing more uninspired than the T-Rats in their own division. And, yet, apparently that is the case. Yikes.

'Dinges Dinger' 'Dinges Dubba' 'Destroyed by Dinges' 'Dinges Does Damage' The alliteration quality alone is meant for MLB broadcast booths. His quality of play truly lifts all 'Ding(hi)es'!

A Dinges dinger - a two run variety - has put the Muddies atop 2-1 in the bottom of the 3rd. Meanwhile, Payne's very rough string of AB's continues as he K's for the second time today to end the frame. That's now 12 K in 34 May AB. The young man is definitely slumping.

He played in the ACL last night. That is where he was moved to and assigned. It was just a strange bookkeeping data entry error.

I mean, I think it's apparent (?) I do this every season. BUT, now more than ever before we have dreams deep into the teenage talent realm. It's an incredible time to be a Brewers Minor League nerd. I just sincerely hope the org plays their cards right. Seeing how things have gone since the end of last season, my confidence isn't through the roof. It feels 50/50 they recognize a retool/rebuild is a worthy and beneficial pursuit for the health of the organization. We shall see.

Image courtesy of Brewer Fanatic Transactions: LHP Brandon Knarr was placed on the full-season IL by the Biloxi Shuckers RHP Raymond Sarmiento (2025 International FA Class) was assigned to to the DSL Brewers Gold INF Roderick Flores was assigned to the Nashville Sounds from the DSL Brewers Gold ** it certainly appears as though this was a strange transactional typo as Flores was very much playing on the ACL Brewers tonight. We'll have to stay tuned but I imagine that was supposed to read '...assigned to the ACL Brewers...' ** C Edgardo Ordonez was activated from the 7-Day IL by the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Nashville will attempt their make-up doubleheader tomorrow: Carolina will look to make up their postponed game one Thursday: Final: Biloxi 10, Montgomery (Rays) 4 Via the Shuckerss' website, please be sure to click and read each of the affiliate write-ups as part of your season-long Link Report routine (believe me, it's worth it): Pratt's First Inning Home Run Sets Stage for Dominant 10-4 Shuckers Win - Box Score / Game Log Game Notes The Shuckers just keep winning. Does anyone else remember when the Brewers quietly signed their new hitting coach out from under the Yankees' noses? Kevin Martir (formerly of the Somerset Patriots - atop several Eastern League offensive leader boards last season)? I certainly do (and, I know @wiguy94 does). What a difference a year makes as these Shuckers are currently tearing through the Southern League at a fierce pace. If you weren't paying attention, since their woeful early April the Shuckers have climbed atop the Southern League Team batting leaderboard in: HR, OPS, SLG, OBP, RBI, R, 2B, BB, and they have the lowest K total. I mean, can we keep the Yankees hitting instructors coming? My goodness. 11 BB:10 K BB:K ratio on the evening. 3 HR. Double digit runs. I'm getting spoiled. RHP KC Hunt still isn't right but it's also quite apparent he's working through some type of right ankle issue. This is the second consecutive outing I've watched him pitch and earn a mound visit in the first frame to look at said ankle. He stayed in the game and gritted it out for his teammates and the pitching stables. He also tweaked that same ankle later in his outing when covering first base. I'm unsure what exactly is going on there - we haven't heard anything specific as of yet - but it's clearly not 100%. Does this explicate his ongoing inconsistencies? I'm unsure. But, it certainly isn't helping matters. Hunt completed 4.0 IP allowing 6 H, 3 BB, 4 K, 2 ER, 1 WP. He threw 79 pitches with 47 strikes. I'm going to give Hunt the benefit of the doubt here. He isn't sharp but he also isn't playing with a full deck physically. Three Quick Strikes: 1) In a game where the ongoing Shuckers power surge stole the show early and often, you know how I roll. I'm going to tell you about the reliever who came in 'protecting' a 9-2 lead. LHP Mark Manfredi threw the best relief inning I've seen from him since late last spring with High-A Wisconsin. I haven't seen him throw this purposefully since he first took late inning roles with the 2024 playoff Timber Rattlers squad. Tonight, he touched 96 mph on a few occasions. But, more than that, he was in and around the zone with purpose. No sliders were feet off the plate. Everything was flirting. 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 3 K is exactly how that frame went. More of this please, young man. If we could reclaim Manfredi's tools, that's a massive get for the Shuckers pitching staff. 2) 3B Brock Wilken's tear continues and, my oh my, it is beautiful: Now, context matters here: he likely was gifted a ball on a strike 3 on the outer black the pitch before. BUT, context also matters here: he did that on the next pitch. He has six long balls in just eleven games in May. He has a 0.921 SLG % over this same span. Man alive. This is what we call a 'heater', folks. 3) This being said about Wilken's heater, I personally found SS Cooper Pratt's evening as a whole even more impressive. 2-for-3, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 BB, 1 HR. Any time I see the immensely talented Pratt go opposite field with power I'm a kid in a candy store. I continue to insist he has this version of power innately in his bag: He simply needs more professional innings to access it more consistently. 19 K-to-15 BB on his season just sits so right. I love everything about this player. The opposite field power and gap ability is an inevitable growth in his game. It's a matter of time and repetitions for this heady and uber-talented player before it becomes a game-by-game regular thing. * Special Shout-Out: 1B Luke Adam's ascent to the lead-off role in the Shuckers line-up has revolutionized the entire offense. As he gets more comfortable in that spot, he's showcasing his entire package. He possesses that uber-rare threat of patience (BB and HBP) with innate athleticism and power. It's not every night you see a 2-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HR line from atop the batting order. He has a 0.479 OBP in May. The Shuckers improved to 21-13 on their young season. They remain 1.0 G ahead of Pensacola (20-14) who won in walk-off fashion tonight. Final: Beloit 17 (Marlins) , Wisconsin 3 Beloit Takes Series Opener - Wisconsin's Early 3-0 Lead Falls to Sky Carp Onslaught Box Score / Game Log Game Notes The Timber Rattlers actually led this game 3-0 early. That's all there is to say about that. I know the Brewers are pushing RHP Chandler Welch into a starters role early in 2025. I'm here to tell you fine readers: I personally see a bullpen arm when it's all said and done here. Welch sits 90-91 mph and touches 92 mph. He has a change-up and a slider in his bag. He leans on the slider and sprinkles in the change-up. But, Welch doesn't really possess a lot of deception or extension in his smaller build. I see a pitcher forced to live on precision and getting ahead of hitters. I consistently am seeing a pitcher who is falling behind, not getting the benefit of the edges of the zone, and is struggling in early 2025. Tonights 4.0 IP, 6 H, 3 BB, 2 K, 3 ER outing speaks to this. I've rarely felt he's been in command of innings so far in 2025. It seems as though it could fall apart at any time. Thankfully, he handed things over with the game tied 3-3. He did enough in his 85 pitches (50 strikes) to give a tie game to his bullpen. Three Quick Strikes: 1) The version of RHP Dikember Sanchez I see in early 2025 is nowhere near the version I saw in late 2024. The velocity is way down. The control is completely off the map. This is one of the more unfortunate (and, frankly, sad) developments of my early viewing season. 1 1/3 IP, 6 H, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 8 ER speaks to the heart of his struggles. He's all over the place. He's getting absolutely zero benefit of the doubt from the home plate umpires as a result. It's quite simply a very hard watch. The deafeningly silent home crowd can attest to this. 2) RHP Yerlin Rodriguez's final line was the pinnacle everything Yerlin Rodriguez experience: 2 2/3 IP, 1 H, 3 BB, 1 ER, 5 K, 1 WP, 1 pitch clock violation. That wild pitch came on his first offering: a slider about three feet up and out of the zone off the glove of the desperately sliding C Blayberg Diaz and to the backstop. I'm at a loss with Rodriguez. I'm out of words. Raw tools for eons. I absolutely have zero idea where that ball is going to go when it leaves his hand. Pitch-to-pitch. Outing-to-outing. 3) Let's not go completely sour within this Timber Rattlers section. I honestly did not know CF Yoshwar Garcia had this type of line drive in his bag: Back when the feels were good. Back when the Rattlers were clinging to a shutout. Times were better then. With the lopsided loss, Wisconsin fell to 14-20 on their season. They are 7.5 GB first place Quad Cities (21-12). Final: ACL Brewers 15, ACL Dodgers 2 Box Score / Game Log It's hard not to get even more ridiculously excited about the wealth of young talent permeating the lowest of levels within the Brewers organization. We've all witnessed the scorching hot Mudcats offense in the Low-A Carolina League throughout the first month and a half. We are now witnessing the other wealth of talent constituting the first International Class (2024) lucky enough to work and play at last season's newly opened Dominican Academy. From our own @CheeseheadInQC: When one inning was over, the ACL Crew were already leading 7-0. Early, it was LF Handelfry Encarnacion's turn to go yard: he poked his first long ball of the season to put three on the board and add to that first inning rally. It obviously wasn't just Encarnacion's turn to party at the plate. There was ample food to share: Rehabbing C (mostly a DH for now) Jeferson Quero walked three times and hit a bomb in a 1-fro-1, 2 R, 1 RBI, 3 BB, 1 HR evening. What a sight for sore eyes. C Kevin Garcia launched two dingers in a 2-for-4, 2 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 2 HR night at the dish CF José Anderson went 2-for-3, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 2B in another impressive evening SS Juan Ortuno, batting behind Garcia, managed a 2-for-4, 2 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 2 K night The young Brewers just keep mashing and putting up runs at a pace well beyond their years. And, if this wasn't enough, I can honestly attest: the pitching output was likely more impressive to an aficionado such as myself. Just take a quick glance at these combined efforts: RHP Miqueas Mercedes - 3 1/3 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 8 K, 2 ER, 1 HR, 2 WP, 1 HB. Mercedes now has 14 K in 7 2/3 IP in two outings. RHP Joshua Quezada - 1 2/3 IP, 0 H, 1 BB, 3 K RHP Ethan Dorchies - last year's 10th round draft pick out of Cary-Grove HS may have put forth the most impressive outing of all throwing 4.0 IP of 1 H, 0 BB, 9 K work. What's more, he looks to have filled out quite a bit since being drafted: If you did the math there, that's a three pitcher combined 20 K night. Whewwww. Let me catch my breath. If I crunch numbers even further, what appears oddly clear in early 2025 is the further South your Brewers baseball affiliate is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin the better the Brewers brand of baseball. Folks, I think we just might be in for an absolute banger of a DSL season. Fasten your seat belts. The ACL Brewers moved to 7-2. They are 1/2 G ahead the ACL Angels in the ACL Central division. They have 73 runs scored - more than 20 runs more than the next closest team. They have a run differential of + 32 runs. The next closest offense is sitting at +17. Let's enjoy this while it lasts. RHP Patricio Aquino will be thrust back into a starting role as the utility knife in the T-Rats pitching ranks will try to stop the bleeding from tonight's debacle. RHP Travis Smith will look to bounce back from his last outing as the Mudcats will look to overcome the elements and play their newly minted game one. Nashville has yet to announce a starter for either scheduled double-header tilt. And, Biloxi will send talented RHP Coleman Crow back to the bump to try and keep that well oiled Shuckers machine humming. As always, thanks for reading and thanks for supporting Brewers Minor League baseball. Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores MiLB Audio Links Current Milwaukee Brewers Organization Batting Stats and Depth Current Milwaukee Brewers Organization Pitching Stats and Depth View full article

Apparently the 17-3 shellacking the T-Rats suffered in their home series opener has crippled the T-Rats media team. They are usually right up with all their media bits. THey haven't posted a single thing as of yet. I need them to get that out there so I can submit this report. 😂

The Crew have the largest run margin by essentially double the next team. They have scored more than 20 runs than the next offense. 😂

It really is flat remarkable for a collection of arms that young in that environment. What a far cry from last May! 😂

Definitely not the wiry thin kid we saw on the draft clips last summer. That young man put in some capital Work. You love to see it.

He struck out the side to end it. 4.0 IP. 1 H. 9K.

This ACL Brewers team has me unreasonably excited. WHY do the youngest players give me so much hope?! I am ready to be hurt again.

I see he walked (on down to Memphis?) Yeah. Weird. Minor Leagues always have to Minor Leagues across so many facets of, well, Minor Leagues.

José Anderson walk. Kevin Garcia second bomb. My gods. I can't stop typing. 😅

Sheesh, Dorchies goes ahead an K's 2 more. He and Mercedes have 14 K's between them in 6 1/3 IP!!! My gods. PLEASE give us a deck of Aces babayyyyyyy.