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Looks like a combined 20% usage of the cutter/slider combo. 11 cutters. 5 Sliders.

I need to go back (I've been running farm dad errands all day) and peruse the Savant Pitch Breakdown and watch those innings. Need to see the Pitch Mix.

And, Jay strands the runner with a 3-1 inside 'heater' inducing a lazy chopper to Durbin who waits the short scoop and casually fires to 1B. We're on to the 8th frame.

2-2 Lazy fly to straightaway CF for out numero uno. Man on first. One down. Two more lefties coming up. Infield squibber flare to the SS/3B side. Delgado charges and catches the weird spinning hop and grabs the out at 1B. No chance for the inning ending DP. Two down.

Monasterio just K'd swinging on a slider down and in. Tossed his bat in total frustration. His early season has been a real grind. Monasterio then let's up on a seeing eye single seeing Durbin shadowing from second base up the middle. Would have been a very rough play had he dove full out. Avoids the hypothetical collision. AND, that's it for McWilliams as the man of many discussions on our board the past year, LHP Tyler Jay, comes aboard with a runner on first and nobody down here in the bottom of the seventh.

It is I, your Minor League Link Reporter aka 'NostraZarrmus' aka 'The Notorious Ball Knower': (From this morning's Link Report penned by yours truly)

- LHP Santiago Martinez and RHP Luis Velasquez (2025 International FA Class) have been assigned to the DSL Brewers #2

Watching 3B Brock Wilken K twice on video has me nostalgic for late 2024. The more things change...😅. I also had to laugh at the first video clip acting as though EBJ is still the everyday SS. They didn't even mention Mr. Pratt once in that segment. Fake News!😝

Happy Birthday to 'Les Miz'!

I just attempted to switch my flight to a one-way to Minneapolis/St. Paul on the 21st. I realized I can't do that from Spokane as only Delta allows direct to Mpls/St. Paul. My 24 hour trip down memory lane in the Twin Cities stays as planned - very very curious to see what has become of our old house past the bluffs of downtown St. Paul. I'll be driving to Green Bay Wednesday - oddly, nostalgically looking forward to that drive through Black River Falls and through the Pine Barrens. My current plan is to completely soak up Day 1 of the Draft - I pick up my good friend (and former boss from my days in the cellar at a well-known cidery in Oregon) that afternoon but we're going to soak up the full immersion draft experience me thinks. Days 2 and 3 are a bit free form. I'm sure we'll indulge in festivities in and around the draft - Titletown District and such. Our condo is about an hour away in Door County. Saturday night I am indulging at One Barrel Brewing with my Aunt and Uncle. Now that we're in April the trip is getting a bit more real. This will be my one and only NFL Draft experience. Looking forward to it.

Is Steve the guy who keeps punching your shoulder?

They massively updated their view on him and he is #2 on their Biggest Risers list:

From the expanded article: I'm going to keep dreaming. I want my own Brewers Clemmey who throws even harder dang it!😅

#LetGingerCook

Losers of four straight, the Sounds bats are deep asleep. It's always a tough watch when a collective team's best weapon in a given game (or series of games) is the free pass. A second consecutive night with double digit strikeouts as a group, a mere two pokes but no extra base hits, but there are those five zesty walks. Unfortunately, even with the free passes the Sounds were 0-for-4 with RISP. There's no putting lipstick on this baseball pig at present: Sounds baseball currently just isn't pretty. The 1-4 record is every bit the 1-4 record. Thankfully, the collective bullpen rescued RHP Deivi García from his wild outing and salvaged a more palatable score when all was said and done. Let's get into the report! Image courtesy of Brewer Fanatic Transactions: No official transactions BUT there was important news on the prospect front pertaining to the Nashville Sounds: Let's simply hope this 'slight hamstring issue' doesn't linger. Final: Gwinnett (Braves) 4, Nashville 1 Via the Sounds' 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): Sounds Held to Two Hits in Wednesday Loss to Gwinnett - Sounds Bullpen Holds Stripers to One Hit Over Final 4 1/3 IP Box Score / Game Log Last year the Sounds had one of the best bullpens in the entire International League for large portions of the season. As bullpen arms were plucked by the Brewers to give them innings with the big club, the Sounds arms kept churning. This year, the bullpen continues to show flashes it has the horses to hold their own - they've now allowed a single earned run over their last 13 1/3 IP. Today's battery mates were RHP Blake Holub, LHP Grant Wolfram, RHP Jesús Liranzo, and RHP Craig Yoho. Once again, they gave their team every chance to make a game of it. The starting pitching remains a different story. Outside of a single Jacob Misiorowski outing, the starting arms have not looked the part. RHP Deivi García darn near replicated LHP Bruce Zimmerman's work from game one: 3 1/3 IP, 4 H, 3 BB, 1 HB, 1 WP, 4 K, 4 R (3 ER). Nearly a 3.00 WHIP in game two. Garcia topped out at 93.3 mph on his four-seamer and averaged a mere 91.4 mph. He mixed in a cutter and a change-up but threw the heater nearly 70% of his outing. Needless to say, Garcia's overall output just isn't going to do any favors for a struggling offense. Addendum: we're five games in. The early season loss of C Jeferson Quero and INF/OF Tyler Black (as well as a rest day for one INF Caleb Durbin) has made its mark in the early going. Let's hope the veteran bats wake up and start delivering some more production. Three Quick Strikes: 1) There isn't all that much to discuss offensively, but a very early bright spot would have to be the improved early discipline from 1B Ernesto Martinez Jr. He has only collected three pokes in 16 AB but he's sporting a 4:3 BB:K ratio. He grabbed two of the team's five free passes in the loss. He also collected a single. Despite the small sample induced 0.188 BA he has managed a respectable 0.663 OPS as a result. Unfortunately, his error in the fourth frame led to the Stripers final run. 2) INF Freddy Zamora saw his second action of the season in his seemingly entrenched nine-spot in the Sounds batting order. He managed an 0-for-3, 2 K outing. Zamora has yet to grab a hit or a free pass in his meager six AB. Like many others on the Sounds roster, he's looking to find a spark. It will be interesting to see if he is given another chance tomorrow when INF Caleb Durbin surely returns to third base duties. 3) As alluded to above, the offense has been struggling. How bad has the struggle been through five games? The bats as a whole have struck out a whopping 54 times in 161 official PA. That's good for a team K-rate of 33.5%. This is not a typo. DH Wes Clarke has certainly done his part in this department with 10 whiffs in just 16 AB. It isn't just Clarke, however - as a team the swing and miss has been a major problem. There are far too many veteran hitters in this line-up to see this level of futility last for much longer. I'm calling for a breakout tomorrow. My over/under is the Sounds scoring five runs. I'm taking the over. Game Three starts at a more reasonable 5:05 CST and RHP Logan Henderson will look to rebound from an erratic first outing. Let's hope the Sounds bats wake up as a group and the men can pull out an elusive victory. Until then, 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

This has been my overwhelming main gripe. And supported by the nascent refinement of raw tools beyond most in the system - Closer/ Middle Reliever/ Starter he had proven he could do a little bit of everything. He had developed the slider in the AFL and it was coming along and already had a plus curve amd change up (in my book). And now he is routinely showing up on Pitching Ninja's page. Anywho. At this point, it simply is what it is. And, the best path forward for me personally is to sincerely wish all players involved in the greater conversation to excel and turn into the best versions of themselves.

I don't care what haters say: I love me a picture purrrrfect bunt. A thing of beauty and so often absolutely butchered. That was gorgeous.

Yeah, it has been brutal. No way of getting around it.

Clarke has now begun his 2025 campaign taking things up a notch in the swing and miss department: 16 AB. 10 K. Yikes! Just yikes.🫠

My gods. Clarke struck out on three pitches.😅

Sounds have crafted another RISP oppo here in the 9th. Seigler and EMJ have walked. 0-for-3 (3 more K) Wes Clarke with a massive opportunity. Sounds trail 4-1. Two down. Men on 1st and 2nd.

😅. I didn't even notice. Nice job, Admin!😅 As a dad, and a connoisseur of 'Dad Jokes' I've come to understand a good joke is just as much about execution as it is the content of the joke. In this regard, this is a Joke Fail. Poor form!

I am well aware and am merely making a reference to the Bear's infamous double doink FG fail. Tis all.😁

And, all this being said, the Sounds as a whole could really just benefit from some more opportunistic hitting with RISP. They had opportunity late last night with the bases juiced. They just had two men aboard to start the 7th frame and immediately hit into a rally killing DP before EMJ grounded out. So, not only are they hitting ineptly as a whole but when they muster those rare opportunities they just aren't capitalizing in any way in the very early part of the season. The problem here is: these opportunities are too rare at the moment. At some point in time, the baseball odds would tell us that is going to shift in some capacity.