Joseph Zarr

Walling missed a three-run bomb by about 1/2" on the barrell. Instead we get a long, high fly ball to the base of the RF wall. Whew. Doesn't get much closer than that. Tough luck! On to the 3rd frame.

Guilarte nabbed at 2B on a beautiful throw and scoop and tag. That was really nice by the Nats.

Hall and Areinamo have both lined out hard to the OF. Neither drop for hits. Baseball.

Guilarte smacks a first pitch single through the 1B side. AND, Matt Wood does the same in West Michigan. Both balls cracked. Noice!

Manfredi looking very sharp early. He works around a quick 1-2-3 inning to open his start with a nice swinging K on an outside sinking change-up to end his 1st inning. Meanwhile, Rodriguez works around a bloop poke to shallow CF by getting a beautiful CS by David Garcia with a fantastic throw to 2B. Rodriguez then gets the weak end-of-bat roller to the mound to end the threat. On to the bottom of the 2nd. 0-0 in both knocks so far.

Rodriguez worked around a one-out double in the first. Scoreless with a K. On to the bottom half for the Muddies first AB's. Super annoying right now, however. For some reason we don't have an MiLB.TV feed. Weird. I guess I'll jump to the T-Rats as sole focus.

RHP Joel Kuhnel has been signed by the Milwaukee Brewers and assigned to the Nashville Sounds RHP Kevin Herget has been optioned by the Milwuakee Brewers to the Nashville Sounds INF/OF Adam Hall has been activated by the ACL Brewers (signed and assigned to the ACL Crew in late May of this year)

The DSL Brewers Uno (5-1) are now 3rd in Runs Scored in their 6 game sample. The trail only the League-leading Giants Black (7-0) and DSL Tampa Bay (4-3) but both have played 7 games. If we extrapolate out the Uno's ridunkulous 8.83 R/G average, they would lead Tampa Bay by a run. The Uno also hold the 3rd spot when it comes to Run Differential - 20 Runs difference...53 RS-to-33 RA. It's fair to say: this is a talented squad with Championship potential. The DSL Brewers Dos are really not all that far behind but it would appear, early at least, they may have more challenges with their pitching staff. The Dos have only played 5 games. Yet, they've given up three more runs than their counterparts in the Crew Uno pitching staff. Yet, holding a 3-2 record after today's shellacking of the same DSL Tampa Bay squad referenced above, they are still managing to plate an impressive 8.6 R/G. It is quite fair to say: both these Brewers DSL teams can mash. Which is quite fun! Offense remains the theme in the ACL where the ACL Crew are tied atop the RS leaderboard with 187 runs scored in 28 games. The problem here? The ACL Crew pitching staff has also allowed a League-Leading 207 Runs. This is 27 runs more than their next closest counterpart in the ACL Royals. Yikes. Averaging 6.68 R/G. Allowing 7.39. This quite easily explains a season spent below the 0.500 mark. They sit in 10th place overall in a 15-team League at 12-16. Their regular season will run until July 25th. Lotta ball games left...which appears to mean lots of runs on both sides of the diamond.

I personally like Eduardo Charles' 7 AB 1.727 OPS sample. It's a game of samples, folks. This one's a winner! 😜

Yup. We've been chatting about him quite a bit of late. He's essentially fitting the early Baseball America scouting write-up to the letter. Lesser heralded but a $60K signing bonus certainly indicates the Brewers were serious and he wasn't just 'a guy' in a pool of the $10K guys - which I don't mean in any way shape or form as disparaging. EDIT: I was like - when did he bomb?! Sure nough. The 8th frame. Man, the young men put some runs today late. Love it.

There's one more starting arm in Nashville that deserves an opportunity to see how his stuff fares at the MLB level - trade or no trade. That arm is RHP Chad Patrick. He was our return in the nationally recognized INF Abraham Toro trade 🤥. AND, simply put: he's been consistent and solid as a rock for that pitching staff. He tends to scuffle out of the gates for some reason but gets stronger and stronger as his outings progress. 7-of-11 GS's are Quality Starts. Legit mix of pitches to lean on. Never seems to lose control of an outing. On the season, batters are hitting 0.221 BAA while he sports a 1.14 WHIP. In his two June starts? 0.159 BAA and a 0.71 WHIP. In the very least, I'd love to see him get the opportunity Tobias Myers has gotten. I am not averse to going after a starting pitcher whatsoever. BUT, we also have one more candidate in house to potentially provide an important stop-gap given the broader starting pitching injuries at hand. Junis' velo is way down. Ross had a set back. Gasser likely done for the year etc. etc. They'll need more than a trade candidate. Patrick might be a serious option.

This is great. It's nice to see written word and description to what I was babbling about in the Minor League forums. It was quite obvious Paredes had legitimate MLB stuff and was getting insane whiff rates - the details in here help elucidate the 'why' and 'how'. He simply had to wait the due process of 40-Man shuffles and ensuing injuries to get his turn. I'm simply happy it happened.

I have a sneaky feeling this is what 2023 DSL Dodgers zealots felt like. Man those Dodgers DSL teams were juggernauts.

AND how about a 3-run 9th w Made triple in der for good measure?!? He just passed Pena's 1.440 OPS!

I mean Made n' Pena batting 1-2 again: 7-of-9, 6 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 2B, 1 SB Set the tone much? 10-6 Crew headed to the money innings.

All I am going to say is Pena and Made are ridunkulous. My goodness. Crew Uno come back to take a 7-6 lead after trailing 6-1. Crew Dos leading 12-3. Broca allowed 2 runs in 2 IP for the Dos BUT he also K'd 6! Whewwww.

Hello RHP Jesus Flores! 5 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 1 ER, 9 K for the DSL Cerveceros Dos. Offense also having a day. They lead 9-1 top of 6th. Everyone but 9-hitter INF (2B) 17-year-old Moises Polanco with a knock. There are many an intriguing storyline going on in both DSL squads at present. Let's use an oldy but a goody: 'Tickled pink!' at these ongoing developments. I say...I say

1/2 inning played for the DSL Brewers Uno. Pena already has a knock, a run, and a stolen base. SHEEEEEESH. Crew lead 1-0. CF Engel Paulino knocked him across via a single to SS.

Staying in the Atlantic League for a brief moment: Recent Mudcats and T-Rats hurler RHP Miguel Guerrero, released by Wisconsin in late April, has been scooped up (5/2) by the Long Island Ducks. He has appeared in 9 G totaling 10 1/3 IP allowing 8 H with 13 K and 10 BB. He is sporting a very Guerrero-like 6.96 ERA. Hopefully, he can find the runway and take-off. (Sidebar: Interestingly, Jackie Bradley Jr. is on the Long Island Disabled List. Huh) One-time highly-touted Brewers hopeful, INF Jake Gatewood, is a core member of first place (South Division) Gastonia Baseball Club's infield. Winners of 6 straight (not to be confused with North Division's second-place Lancaster Stormer's 13 G winning streak 😯), Gatewood has appeared in 37-of-41 Gastonia tilts. Through 127 AB's, he has 34 H, 5 2B, 11 HR, 30 R, 29 RBI, 28 K, 21 BB, and 5 SB while hitting 0.268 with a 0.944 OPS. Heck of a season so far for Gatewood!

Ol' Shucker farmhand, uber-talented RHP Zach Vennaro, was just picked up by the second place (South Division) High Point Rollers of the Atlantic League (6/8). Anyone who watched Vennarro knows: he has talent for days he simply lacks the fine-tuning of his mechanics and arsenal. He has already appeared in 1 G pitching a scoreless, hitless, walkless, 1 K inning in relief during their 6-0 victory over Staten Island. Best of luck to Mr. Vennarro as he aims to get back to affiliated ball. Who was in that Staten Island line-up? None other than former Brewers and Padres farmhand, INF/OF Korry Howell who was apparently released a day later. This same FerryHawks roster also has ol' Brewer farmhands RHP's Robbie Baker and Nate Griep (!!) in their pitching stables. Baker has 6 SV on the season and a 3.46 ERA in 15 G / 13 IP / 13 K / 4 BB. Good work, Mr. Baker!

I have to say putting forth two eight-run in innings and losing is quite the feat. An instant ACL classic.

Oooof. The Bobby Petrol pump just started Gassing and we are already getting serviced. Hurt me!

Let me ride some of this thunder... Former Brewers Farmhands Also in the 2024 American Association: RHP Brady Schanuel - a stablehand of Joey's in Winnipeg - 0 GS / 8 1/3 IP / 10 K / 7 BB / 6.48 ERA / 0 W - 1 L OF Je'Von Ward - playing for the Kane County Cougars - hitting 0.284 in 87 AB's 5 2B / 1 3B / 1 HR / 11 RBI / 18 K / 13 BB / 7 SB 1B Thomas Dillard - playing for the Cleburne Railroaders - hitting 0.224 in 99 AB's 5 2B / 1 3B / 6 HR / 17 RBI / 33 K / 32 BB / 7 SB LHP Pablo Garabitos - playing for the Milwaukee Milkmen - 1 GS / 14 IP / 15 K / 6 BB / 5.78 ERA / 1 W - 1 L

Can we just take ONE moment to acknowledge what Yoho says in this interview?!? Last year was his first year pitching. Uh huh. He developed his change-up - an elite ELITE ELITE pitch - over a single 2022 summer with his dad throwing to a towel on a fence. My. Baseball. Gods.

I have to say, your post really got my juices flowing. As perhaps the biggest Yoho Stan on this here site (I know. I know. There are many in the Yoho Tribe. Fear not, I know you are all worthy), this drove me to dig deeper. I went straight to yesterday's relief work. This camera angle opened things on first contact in the 8th frame. Here's the thing...if we dig deeper. Then justttttt a little bit deeper. Well, the revelation appears. It shook me. Not gonna lie.