Jim Goulart

The only Brewers mention you'll find in Baseball America's "Best Tools" lists is Defensive Shortstop nod for the Florida State League to Yadiel Rivera.

Well, the Brewers just filled in some of the gaps here. Catcher Adam Weisenburger joins Shawn Zarraga on the DL, thus the need for De La Rosa at Huntsville. Also, Micah Owings joins the Stars from Maryvale. While the Stars roster reaches 25 with that move, realistically it's like 26 because of Owings' two-way versatility. When you consider Owings both a pitcher and hitter, the Stars have 14 arms available and 12 position players.

Catcher Anderson De La Rosa has been transferred by the Brewers from Nashville to Huntsville. De La Rosa had not seen much playing time with the Sounds as of late, and the Stars just lost Shawn Zarraga to a head/neck injury (see three posts above). The Stars roster is now at the 25-man limit, and still has Adam Weisenburger and Joey Paciorek available for catching duties if need be. Up in Nashville, Robinzon Diaz and Blake Lalli are the two catchers on the roster, and the Sounds now carry only 11 position players, 24 on the 25-man roster. No immediate news available on when or with who the Sounds will get back up to a full squad.

Happy 22nd bithday to Maryvale RHP Scott Harkin. The undrafted free agent is off to a nice start to his pro career.

Weather.com: Nashville, TN Huntsville, AL Grand Chute, WI (Appleton) Great Falls, MT Maryvale, AZ San Pedro De Macoris, DR

STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division Rookie Advanced - Pioneer League North Division Rookie - Arizona Summer League DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris Division *** NOTE: To view first half or overall standings for Huntsville, Brevard County, Wisconsin, and Maryvale, you'll notice options at the respective links for that. Otherwise it's second-half standings as the default view for those three leagues.

Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Helena has media notes; it's a unique link each day, but look for it just prior to game time each day within the "Stats and Scores" banner here.

To see tweets as to when the Link Report has been technically "completed" with available links, as well as to know when the new day's Report has been posted, please follow @Mass_Haas on Twitter.

Follow Tuesday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Wisconsin Helena Maryvale DSL Brewers New MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Tuesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: TBD (technically, LHP Chris Narveson is listed), we'll see) at home vs. Tucson (Padres), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $39.99 season-long package ($9.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Brooks Hall at home vs. Mississippi (Braves), 6:28 PM pre-game, 6:43 gametime Free Live Audio Link Alex Cohen is the play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. It appears four Southern League teams air their home games on MiLB.TV, and we'll let you know when those dates pop up on the schedule. ********** Brevard County: Idle ********** Wisconsin: RHP Jorge Lopez at home vs. Beloit (Athletics), 11:45 AM pre-game, 12:05 PM gametime Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from four Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: Many of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel and WACY-TV My NEW32 will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and will try to provide day-before DVR reminders, so regularly check with us. ********** Helena: RHP Eduard Reyes at Great Falls (White Sox), 7:40 PM pre-game, 8:00 gametime Free Live Audio Link Voice of the Helena Brewers Steve Wendt is back on board, and this year he's added Twitter to the mix @steve_wendt. We've been treated to Steve's work for many years now (ten!); he is among the very best at the art of the pre-game interview, especially considering how at ease he makes all these first-time professional ballplayers. MiLB.TV -- When the H-Crew makes their way to Grand Junction (August), those games will be available for viewing online. ********** Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Royals' complex in Surprise, 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league ********** DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Braves, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

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Final: @AZL Brewers 5, AZL Royals 4 AZL Brewers Box Score A-Crew broke a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the 7th, scoring an unearned run and held on nicely for the much-needed win. RHP's Jorge Ortega (6 IP), Milton Gomez, and Ryan Deeter (1st pro save) combined to strike out six and walk none, very impressive. Tucker Neuhaus, playing third base in this one, and RF Elvis Rubio each singled twice. 1B David Denson walked and singled to raise his OBP to .390, impressive in his age 17 campaign. Apparently veteran P/OF Micah Owings gave an inspired speech to the kids. Special condolences to catcher Paul Eshleman, who was playing with a heavy heart but dedicated his game to a former college teammate killed in a car wreck this past weekend. AZL Brewers Game Log

Looks like Tyrone Taylor (groin strain) will only miss seven days and will be activated Tuesday, as per his power-hitting teammate.

Rattler Radio, Postgame entry - Oh yeah, you know you want to read this one!

Stars Squander Early Lead Against M-Braves By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars A night after a walkoff walk that snapped their five-game losing streak, the Huntsville Stars squandered a two-run lead and lost against the Mississippi Braves by a score of 7-4 on Monday night at Joe Davis Stadium. For the Stars, their early advantage came on one swing of the bat in the bottom of the first inning. With outfielder Rene Tosoni on base after a one-out walk, third baseman Mike Walker launched a two-run blast off of M-Braves starting pitcher Michael Lee (W, 6-8) to put Huntsville up on top early. Unfortunately, that is where Mississippi took control of the game. After an RBI single from outfielder Dan Brewer cut the Stars lead to one in the second inning, a solo homer from outfielder Jose Martinez off of Huntsville starting pitcher Ariel Pena tied things up at two apiece in the bottom of the third inning. One inning later, second baseman Tommy LaStella came through with a bases loaded, three-run double to put the M-Braves up by a score of 5-2 and chased Pena from the game. The 24-year-old righty fell to 5-8 on the year after giving up five runs (four earned) in 3.1 innings pitched while striking out five batters in the process. From that point on, the Stars and the M-Braves traded runs for the rest of the contest. Huntsville got an RBI single from Hector Gomez in the third inning (audio) and a solo homer from Brock Kjeldgaard in the sixth inning as their only other runs while Mississippi got a pair of solo homers from third baseman Barrett Kleinknecht in the sixth and eighth inning respectively for their insurance runs. For Gomez, the RBI double increased his hitting streak to a season-high six games while Kjeldgaard paced the Stars offense with a 4-for-4 night at the dish. Kjeldgaard is the sixth Stars player this year to record a four-hit game and is the fourth player to do so over the last month along with 1B Jason Rogers, OF Chadwin Stang and C Shawn Zarraga. Speaking of Rogers, an 0-for-4 night at the plate snapped his hitting streak at 17 games. It was the longest hitting streak for any Stars player this season and the longest since 2008 when current Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy owned a 22-game hit streak of his own. The loss clinches a series victory for the M-Braves, On Tuesday, the Stars will finish up a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium against the Mississippi Braves. Huntsville will send RHP Brooks Hall (5-7, 4.14 ERA) to the bump while Mississippi will counter with LHP Ian Thomas (6-6, 2.81 ERA). First pitch is 6:43 ET.

Brad continues his series -- Future of the Franchise: Outfield

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Nashville — “Mondays with Mike” Here is this week’s installment of “Mondays with Mike” with Sounds manager Mike Guerrero, who discusses the team’s recent hot streak, what Kentrail Davis and Eugenio Velez have done at the top of the lineup, the consistency the lineup has had over the past several games and the hitting and defensive improvement he has seen in Hunter Morris.

MiLB.com's Danny Wild reminds us about Will West's somewhat unique amateur background and signing -- The lefty from Tallahassee, Fla., attended Georgia Tech and Tallahassee Community College after graduating from North Florida Christian School, where he threw back-to-back no hitters during the 2009 season. He never pitched collegiately, though, and quit baseball while in college. The southpaw then moved back home to work in construction but was scouted by the Brewers during a summer adult league game and later signed a free agent contract with the organization in 2011.

Tonight's Rattlers game is on TWC SportsChannel. Nice opportunity to watch prior to or instead of Brewers West Coast game.

MLB announces 50-game suspension for Brewers minor league LHP Will West for 2nd violation for drug of abuse. On AZL rookie roster. *** Just turned 21 last month. Bad year in this regard for Brewer LHP's -- Alan Williams is wrapping up his own suspension.

Via the Manatees: RHP Damien Magnifico has been activated from the disabled list. He will start tonight for the Manatees in their series finale against the Charlotte Stone Crabs in Port Charlotte. Brevard County's roster is now at 25 active players, which is the Florida State League limit. *** Via the Stars: On Monday, Stars C Shawn Zarraga was placed on the disabled list after being removed from Sunday's game in the sixth inning. In 59 games played with the Stars this season, the 24-year-old catcher is hitting .325 with a homer and 12 runs batted in. He has 11 hits in his last 16 at-bats. No corresponding move has been made at this time. The Stars active roster sits at 24 players, one under the Southern League maximum. Here is a description of the play we noted in Sunday's Link Report.

As we'll document in the transaction thread in a moment, it'll be Damien Magnifico back on the hill for Brevard tonight, it'll be good to give a recently-struggling Brent Suter another day off. From the 'Tees: RHP Damien Magnifico has been activated from the disabled list. He will start tonight for the Manatees in their series finale against the Charlotte Stone Crabs in Port Charlotte.Brevard County's roster is now at 25 active players, which is the Florida State League limit. Back on the 29th when he was placed on the DL a second time with the blister issue, Magnifico was a bit beyond frustrated. Look for him to be pumped tonight. *Of course, Damien, a very entertaining Twitter presence, also indicates on his byline -- "*WARNING* Full of sarcasm, dont read too much into tweets"

Wisconsin OF Michael Reed is the Brewers' representative on the NL sleepers list over at minorleagueball.com: *** "Reed has proven himself this year in his first year of full season ball. He got a taste of AA and high A at the end of last year but he saw limited action. He started this year in Wisconsin hitting .323 in April and hasn’t let up yet. He’s got plenty of extra base hits even though only one has left the park, due to his plus speed and good instincts on the basepaths. In the field he has a strong arm but does not show the speed and athleticism to handle center. He’s shown great plate discipline walking in over 12 % of his AB’s, but he’s also striking out a little over 2% more than league average at 21.7%. He’s also hitting line drives almost 20% of the time, 5% more than the average Midwest League hitter. Reed has the tools to become a solid table setter in the lineup but doesn’t profile well with his lack of power and speed limiting him to the corners. If the power does develop though, Reed will be a force at the dish and will become Milwaukee’s future RF. I’d like to see Reed finish out the year in Wisconsin and make the jump to Brevard County to start 2014."

Huntsville's Jason Rogers was Joe Block's guest on the Brewers pre-game Sunday. It's a darn shame that MLB put the kibosh on WTMJ archiving each pre-game interview on their site, but if you're an MLB audio or video subscriber, you know how to find it. Go to the 19:00 minute mark.

Couple of issues with your post -- Nelson and Jungmann are not currently on the 40-man, so we leave them off the discussion for this point. I mentioned yesterday via the Link Report and Twitter that every healthy position player on the 40-man roster has already seen big league action this year. That alone is very rare. So on to the pitchers -- healthy 40-man roster pitchers who have not seen big league action in 2013 are: Pena, Manzanillo, Olmsted, Sanchez. Sanchez should definitely get a look in September. So Pena, Manzanillo, and Olmsted are very likely to be the only healthy players on the 40-man roster in 2013 who don't see big league action, and with a hot August (not trending well), Pena might sneak in as a September call-up.