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Haudricourt tweet -- Pitchers Chris Leroux and Tim Dillard will break camp with AAA Colorado Springs but will be on inactive roster at start. *** MiLB sure has eased up on "taxi squad" and "phantom reserve lists" in recent seasons. No harm, to organizational benefits...

Brewers Player Development Staff tweet -- Links to Baseball Reference pages... The Brewers have released IF Michael Garza, IF Alfredo Rodriguez, and RHP Seth Harvey. *** Garza (recently turned 25, 20th round, Georgetown) and Rodriguez (25 in May, 17th round, Maryland) were draftmates from the 2012 class, and have been teammates at Helena, Wisconsin, and Brevard County over the past three seasons (Garza split his rookie campaign between Helena and the Timber Rattlers). Both proved flexible defensively, with Garza spending most of his time in the corner infield and Rodriguez primarily up the middle. In the deflating Brevard climate, Garza posted a .286/.328/.369 2014 line, miscast as a first baseman. Rodriguez has a career .362 OBP and was at .255/.341/.319 last season. VIDEO / AUDIO: Mike Garza's MiLB.com interviews and highlights VIDEO / AUDIO: Alfredo Rodriguez' MiLB.com interviews and highlights *** 27-year-old RHP Seth Harvey did very well for a 37th round pick (2010, Washington State). From toiling in the Maryvale heat in 2010 to spending all of his age 23 season in Helena to making his way to Wisconsin and Brevard County by 2013, Harvey fanned 179 in 144 pro innings, allowing only 129 hits, with a little rough 4.1 walk ratio (65 total). Harvey underwent Tommy John surgery in June of 2013 and worked his way back late in 2014 in Maryvale and then Wisconsin. AUDIO: May 2013 audio interview Seth has already posted a classy goodbye tweet. We wish all three well in the future, whether they choose to pursue other baseball opportunities or not.

Via @BrewersPD - Saturday's rosters

Here's your reminder to review the notes from the @BrewersPD twitter timeline regarding Monday's games (we will probably get box score access later today via the Shuckers). For now, Biloxi's Chris Harris tweeted these observations.

Haudricourt tweet: (Gord) Ash said Josh Roenicke, nephew of manager, will stay in AZ and stretch out as possible No. 5 starter in AAA. *** McCalvy tweet: Taylor Green is going to Biloxi, so Triple-A infield will be 1B Matt Clark, 2B Elian Herrera, 3B Jason Rogers, SS Luis Sardinas. Juan Centeno will catch 100-110 games. *** McCalvy tweet: Brewers' Triple-A OF will be LF Bryan Petersen, CF Ben Guez, RF Shane Peterson, with Matt Long filling in everywhere. Guez is the lone RH bat among that foursome.

Hunter Morris Caleb Gindl Anthony Banda Mitch Haniger Gallardo Zarraga Quintana Estrada Shackelford Astin Rodolfo Fernandez Kentrail Davis Halton Hand Weeks Reynolds Gorzelanny Duke Delmonico Prince

When you look at Sky Sox voice Dan Karcher's timeline from Friday, you'll see Luis Sardinas had two base knocks.

Thanks to @BrewersPD and then via the Shuckers' Chris Harris, here are Thursday's three boxscores. Chris commented here. You'll also note that the Biloxi blog site has tracked all the AA stats cumulatively here.

Video report from the Biloxi team store about the excitement and anticipation around town -- among the questions posed to Babs Rogers, wife of GM Buck Rogers, by players-to-be from Arizona: "Are there pretty girls there?" Ha, love it...

Initially posted on February 7th, new article link follows: Often the stories behind signings are quite interesting - linked here is a detailed feature on Wallace from his hometown Vicksburg (MS) Post, includes the following text but is worth your full read. Wallace returned to Vicksburg and went to work at the Ergon refinery. It was a good job, but not what he wanted. What he wanted, was to play baseball. Wallace talked about it with his father, who convinced him to give it a go. The next step was a call to Hinds head coach Sam Temple, who helped arrange a one-on-one tryout with Brewers scout Scott Nichols, an old friend. A few days later, Wallace’s longshot comeback gained some legs when the Brewers signed him to a minor league free agent contract.

Via @BrewersPD - Friday's rosters

AUDIO 4/3: Tim Allen via the Bill Michaels Show *** From the Minor League Forum: AUDIO 4/3: Podcast: Ep. 2 (Chris Harris, Luis Aviles) From the Miller Park Prospects Site: In this month’s episode we discuss the recent trade of Hunter Morris, Brad’s trip to Arizona for spring training and some of the prospects he watched, and we’re joined by Biloxi Shuckers play-by-play man Chris Harris (9:10) and Milwaukee Brewers shortstop prospect Luis Aviles (26:10) as we look forward to the upcoming minor league baseball season.

AUDIO 4/3: Podcast: Ep. 2 (Chris Harris, Luis Aviles) From the Miller Park Prospects Site: In this month’s episode we discuss the recent trade of Hunter Morris, Brad’s trip to Arizona for spring training and some of the prospects he watched, and we’re joined by Biloxi Shuckers play-by-play man Chris Harris (9:10) and Milwaukee Brewers shortstop prospect Luis Aviles (26:10) as we look forward to the upcoming minor league baseball season. Brad of MPP also posted one of his excellent player profiles / interviews, this one with just-turned 20-year-old Luis Aviles.

AUDIO 4/2: Adam Rygg of @BrewerNation via the Talking Cheeseheads (go to the 25:00 minute mark)

Shuck Dynasty Blog with a closer look

The Twitter timeline of the Voice of the Sky Sox, Dan Karcher, includes some notes from Thursday's game.

Brad Krause of Miller Park Prospects with a nice read about his prospect observations from his Arizona scouting trip.

AUDIO 4/3: Doug Melvin via WTMJ's Sports Central *** AUDIO 4/2: Jerry Augustine, also via WTMJ's Sports Central *** It should go without saying the Brewers' official site (video page) and the JSOnline Brewers' page (formal beat guys and the "Peanuts & Cracker Jack" blog) should be must-view stops on your daily Brewers web journey. Depending on your subscription status, you may need to be judicious with your JSOnline clicks.

AUDIO 4/2: Brian Anderson via 105.7 FM WSSP - Brewers team (and announcing) talk begins at the 9:45 minute mark *** AUDIO 4/2: Another Brian Anderson interview, this one via ESPN 540 Milwaukee - Brewers talk begins at the 14:45 minute mark *** AUDIO 4/2: Anthony Witrado, who is now with Bleacher Report, via the Bill Michaels Show *** From the Minor League Forum -- Here is the second audio interview with Dan (4/2), in what will be a three-part series this week.

Here is the second audio interview with Dan (4/2), in what will be a three-part series this week. Dan notes that eight of the first twelve Sky Sox games are against Nashville, and that the Brewers organizational leaders would love to get off to a quick start vs. that club, now with the Athletics.

Via @BrewersPD - Thursday's rosters and Friday's projected starting pitchers

Via Adam McCalvy -- RE: RHP Hiram Burgos -- Start at Brevard. Hope is AA by mid-May and AAA by All-Star break.

Via Adam McCalvy: Johnny Hellweg has been shut down with thoracic strain, but feeling better & progressing to throwing, per Gord. Hope is Brevard by late April. *** Coming off Tommy John surgery, as many of you know...

Via the Brewers Player Development Twitter account, we learn of additional recent releases: Good luck to each of these gentlemen... OF D'Vontrey Richardson - Primarily a CF in his four-years of action (stepped away from the game in 2012 for a season), Richardson was the Brewers 5th round pick out of Florida State in 2009. The former college QB posted a .648 OPS in 318 AB's for Huntsville last season, and the 26-year-old (27 in July) was likely deemed not ready for AAA and in the way of the Brevard OF trio moving up (Roache, Taylor, Reed). *** RHP Manny Barreda, also 26, a client of Brewer-friendly agent Joshua Kusnick, was very busy for his Mexican Winter League club this past offseason. Barreda was quickly signed to a minor league deal by Milwaukee last July within hours of his release by his original club, the Yankees. The hard-throwing Barreda then re-signed with the Crew during the minor league free agent signing period in October. *** OF Edgardo Rivera turns 21 next week - he was drafted in the 8th round in 2013 out of a Puerto Rico high school. Rivera saw action in 57 games for Helena last season, posting a rough .245/.327/.277 line, with only six XBH's in 188 AB's (all doubles). *** Catcher Jack Cleary was the Brewers' 39th round pick in 2013 out of the University of Maryland. Cleary turns 25 in June, spent all of 2014 in Helena, and apparently wasn't able to be in the mix for a spot at Wisconsin or the more age-appropriate Brevard County. *** The Brewers also formally indicated the retirements of RHP's Tommy Toledo and Taylor Stark, and the releases of RHP's Greg Holle and Chris Razo, which were all previously noted in this thread.

Via his own well-worded tweet, RHP Chris Razo (MiLB page), the 24th round 2013 pick out of Illinois State, indicated he was released. Razo spent all of 2014 with the Timber Rattlers, but posted a 1.61 WHIP in 28 relief appearances. Good luck to Chris, who can now resume his Cub fandom.