Jim Goulart

Alfredo Figaro very strong in his rehab outing, retired seven of eight batters with four K's (one ground ball single). Micah Owings with his Brewers debut as the DH in Maryvale Game One.

The Pioneer League first-half schedule ends after next Monday's games on the 29th. Heading into tonight, Helena has a three-game lead with seven games remaining.

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 victorious four-game series at New Orleans coming out of the all-star break, the quality-start victories by Johnny Hellweg and Jimmy Nelson, the recent hitting of newcomers Kentrail Davis and Robinson Diaz and the outlook for the team with 42 games remaining in the season.

Devin Williams starting Maryvale Game One (his tweet). EDIT: Whoa, the pre-box score just changed before my eyes. Figaro to start, likely Williams right behind.

Steve is tweeting some nice Helena pre-game nuggets tonight. *** Oh, and after two innings, Victor Roache is having a night.

Here's Helena's Media Notes, the traditional link above is invalid off their home page, at least as of this post.

VIDEO from Sunday: Yeah, Victor Roache hits 'em a long way...

Via the Brewers: Congrats to Jason Rogers, the Southern League's Player of the Week for July 15-21

PCL notes: Morris gets to sound off First baseman, Nashville squad struggle to find consistency By Chris Jackson / Special to MiLB.com Hunter Morris can sum up the Nashville Sounds' season to date in just a few words. "It has been confusing, stressful and frustrating," Morris said. The Sounds have the worst record (35-66) in the Pacific Coast League, and in many ways, it has affected the many Milwaukee Brewers prospects on the club, Morris included. Morris, a 24-year-old first baseman from Auburn, has hit just .239 this season, although he does have 19 home runs and 51 RBIs. Milwaukee's No. 3 prospect has been trying to find the same consistency he had at the plate last season, but it has eluded him to date. "It's been full of adjustments, certainly some frustrations," said Morris, who was the MVP of the Double-A Southern League last year when he hit .303 with 28 home runs and 113 RBIs for Huntsville. "I've tried to keep my routine the same way, make adjustments to my approach at the plate as much as is called for. "But just going back to the frustrating part, to have a good couple of days or put together a stretch of quite a few (good) at-bats, I feel great, and then the next thing I know, I'm not sure what I'm doing up there. That's kind of been how it's gone for at least the first half of the season. Hopefully, [i will] piece it together and finish strong the last couple of months." Morris said the problem with his hitting is not a simple mechanical fix nor a mental adjustment. "I think it's a little bit of both," he said. "I think it starts mechanically and then I let the mental side take over and try to fix too much. It might have been just one small thing to begin with. So the mental side prevents you from being able to make the physical adjustments you need to make. Hopefully I've got that all sorted out now and will try to put it behind me." Morris' inconsistency at the plate is a big part of the reason he has not been called up to Milwaukee this year despite the Brewers getting very little production out of their first basemen. With both Corey Hart and Mat Gamel out for the season, the opportunity has seemingly been there for Morris to step up and seize the job away from utility players such as Juan Francisco and Yuniesky Betancourt. "They've told us there are going to be opportunities for jobs," Morris said. "When they come up is not necessarily in our control. But what we can control is how you're performing when they're ready to give guys a chance. "We have a great front office in Milwaukee. They do a great job. I put all my faith in them, not just for me, but they want you all to have success. That's all you can ask for." Hunter Morris hasn't gotten the call yet to challenge for a job in Milwaukee. (Jim Redman/MiLB.com) http://www.milb.com/assets/images/7/4/0/54318740/cuts/mor270_bw7ppx6o_zem0depp.jpg

Baseball America -- One In Six Picks Will Click On Trek From Draft To Majors Interesting and sobering...

Weather.com: Nashville, TN Pensacola, FL Viera, FL (Melbourne) Dayton, OH Ogden, UT Maryvale, AZ San Pedro De Macoris, DR

Just in the last week, during which they lost five of six games, the Manatees have lost 1-0 games (twice) and also by 3-2 and 2-1 scores. Makes looking at another 2nd place position in the standings tough to take.

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, and Wisconsin, you'll notice options at the respective links for that. Otherwise it's second-half standings as the default view for those three leagues.

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Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Brevard County has media notes; as of now, 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. Also 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.

By the way, look for RHP Alfredo Figaro in the Maryvale box scores tonight.

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

Programming Notes: Pensacola has MiLB.TV coverage, so if you're a subscriber, you can watch this Huntsville series (live and/or archived). Dayton also has MiLB.TV coverage, so if you're a subscriber, you can watch this Wisconsin series (live and/or archived). *** We believe that Voice of the Sounds Jeff Hem rejoins the club in Nashville tonight, after enjoying paternity leave with his first child, a daughter -- congrats to the newly-expanded Hem family!

Monday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: LHP Chris Narveson at home vs. Albuquerque (Dodgers), 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 Andy Moye at Pensacola (Reds), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:00 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: RHP Jacob Barnes at home vs. Fort Myers (Twins), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the link based on listed schedule Manatees audio, hooray! Dave Walkovic is the first play-by-play voice of the 'Tees since 2007, he's joined by Andy Towne; follow the Brevard broadcast booth staff on Twitter @BCManateesRadio. All home games and many road games are scheduled to be broadcast. When road games are only available via the opponents' audio feed, we'll let you know that. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Austin Ross at Dayton (Reds), 5:40 PM pre-game, 6:00 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. ********** Helena: RHP Zach Quintana at Ogden (Dodgers), 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): doubleheader vs. the Giants' squad in Maryvale; 7:00 PM gametime, each contest slated for seven innings; never audio for games in this league ********** DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Mets #1 squad, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

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Suter describes his pitching style prety well midway through this June 20th audio interview.

2013 (Sr.) Posted a .377/.470/.470 line. 2012 (Jr.) Earned Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Year and first-team All-Big 12 honors after playing in 65 games, all starts ... Batted in top three spots in lineup in every game, including 50 times in leadoff spot ... Started as designated hitter in 50 games and in left field in 15 games ... Had 12-game hitting streak, which tied for second-longest on team, and had 24-game on-base streak, which tied for team's third-longest ... Broke Baylor and Big 12 records and tied for second nationally with 35 times hit-by-pitch ... Was hit by a pitch more often than 23 Division I teams ... Number of walks (33) matched number of strikeouts (33), and had more than twice as many free bases (68) as strikeouts ... Led Big 12 and tied for 33rd nationally with 61 runs scored ... Ranked sixth in Big 12 with .453 on-base percentage ... Was only Big 12 player to be hit-by-pitch three times in one game, and he did so twice ... Tied school record with three HBP in one game, which had only been done twice previously ... Was HBP 12 times more than any previous Baylor player in a single season ... Much more from Orf's 2012 season available via his bio page. So yes, he'll be 24 in February. Undrafted, yes. Fun? Yup...

No Brewers on John Sickels' revamped Top MiLB 75

MillerParkProspects.com -- The Farm Report: July 21, 2013

VIDEO from Saturday: Wisconsin's Victor Roache singles in a run as the Timber Rattlers beat Dayton, 6-2