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Saturday 7/6: Postgame shows after the 5-3 Game Two loss in LA: Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts Via 97.3's "Baseball Postgame Show" - Tim Allen has the night off, but the show marches on

The Shuckers Audio Pre-Game Interview Archive Page rolls on. Red-hot OF Lamar Sparks is the latest entry.

Friday 7/5: AUDIO via "Foul Territory": "Trevor Megill has stepped into the closer role in Milwaukee and has stepped up. Is he thinking about the All-Star game? As a new closer, Trevor walks us through his routine and explains how it might change when Devin Williams returns from the IL. Trevor’s little bro Tylor is a starter for the Mets. What is it like having a big-league sibling and how have they helped each other's careers? The Brewers have a bench-clearing habit. Trevor takes us into a brawl and the long, awkward jog into the fights!" Via 97.3's "The Steve Czaban Show" (Hour Two): Paul Wagner (go to the 30:55 minute mark) Via WSCO's "The Show with Leo and Balky (Hour One): Jack Stern of "BrewerFanatic" (go to the 30:30 minute mark) VIDEO via MLB Network's "MLB Tonight": "Brewers reliever Bryan Hudson joins MLB Tonight to discuss the reasons for his success this season, his career and more" Via the "Wisconsin Sports Daily Show": Andrew Wagner of Forbes Sports Via the "Brew Crew Scoop" Podcast: "5 Grand Slams, Cubs Series Win, 2 ASG Starters, and the Aaron Civale Trade" Postgame shows after the 8-5 loss at Dodger Stadium: Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts Via 97.3's "Baseball Postgame Show" - Tim Allen hosts

Biloxi Press Release: OF CONNOR SCOTT ADDED TO SHUCKERS ACTIVE ROSTER BILOXI, MS – The Biloxi Shuckers and Milwaukee Brewers have announced that OF Connor Scott has been added to the Shuckers active roster after being signed by the Brewers as a free agent on July 2, 2024. Scott was previously assigned to the ACL Brewers on July 2. Scott will wear No. 34 and the active roster stands at 28 players. Scott, the former 13th overall pick of the Miami Marlins in 2018, has appeared in 475 games across five seasons in Minor League Baseball. Scott has appeared in 207 Double-A games during his career, all with the Altoona Curve, the Double-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Scott is set to make his Brewers’ organization debut with the Shuckers.

Carolina Mudcats activated RHP Josh Timmerman from the 7-day injured list. ACL Brewers activated LHP Caden Vire from the 7-day injured list. ACL Brewers released RHP Dencer Geraldo. Timmerman, 21 (22 next month), the 16th round 2023 pick out of Ohio State, tossed five effective innings on June 9th, his 10th appearance of 2024, but had been sidelined since. The 6'6" Vire, 20 (21 in September) joined the Brewers back in 2021, 12th round pick out of a Washington state high school. Vire was hit hard in three appearances to begin 2024 (in particular his first two). Maryvale is all Vire has known in his pro career. He missed all of 2023 with an undisclosed injury. The only "Dencer" in the history of professional baseball, Geraldo was signed as an 18-year-old in August of 2021, so he was a post-signing period lower dollar addition out of the Dominican Republic. Geraldo posted ERA's of 11.88 and 6.16 in '21-'22, respectively, in a combined 39 Dominican Summer League innings. Although never placed on an injured list in 2023, he made only two brief relief appearances in a 3rd DSL season. Even so, Geraldo was brought stateside this spring and has struggled in eight relief outings (game logs) - 2.63 WHIP, 7 BB, 5 HBP's in 5.1 IP. The guess here was that Geraldo has a huge power arm the Brewers were hoping to harness, but it has not happened to date. We wish Dencer well should he wish to pursue further baseball dreams.

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The Sounds, Timber Rattlers and Mudcats combined for just 14 base hits on Friday night. That didn't produce any victories, as one might imagine. Thankfully the Shuckers had some fun with their Mississippi brethren in Pearl, Biloxi's next-to-last game visiting the only other MiLB team based in Mississippi. The Braves affiliate moves to Columbus, Georgia in 2025. The rookie-level teams were all in action Friday as well. Image courtesy of BrewerFanatic Let's kick off the game review for the 5th, but first, our look at the day's roster moves -- Transactions: 3B Owen Miller cleared waivers and outrighted to remain at AAA Nashville RHP Janson Junk optioned to AAA Nashville from MLB Brewers NOTE: I've since been told that only options after Opening Day (March 28th) count towards the limit, so Junk's total stands at four (so far). Signed OF Connor Scott and assigned to ACL Brewers The former 13th overall pick of the 2018 draft, Scott spent about six years in the Marlins and Pirates' systems, stagnating at the AA level for the past 2.5 seasons. RHP Rafael Garcia activated from 7-day injured list and assigned to ACL Brewers Garcia threw 49.2 innings in the ACL in 2021 but has only pitched 1.1 innings over the last 2.5 seasons due to injuries. Congrats to Garcia for making it back to the mound! Thanks to my fellow Link Reporter @damuelle for some of the transaction commentary above. Meanwhile, a former alumnus wasn't on the open market long - Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes Final: Memphis (Cardinals) 7, Nashville 4 Box Score and Game Log Via the Sounds’ website, game details, and we encourage readers to review affiliate write-ups as part of their Link Report routine: Mejia's Grand Slam Not Enough, Sounds Drop Second Straight to Redbirds - Nashville hosts sellout crowd for second consecutive night in Hit City While the Redbirds' parent club is making things a bit more uncomfortable in the MLB standings for the Brewers. this was pretty much the extent of the positivity in Nashville, and as you just read, it came early: Joey Wiemer, playing right field, was slotted in the leadoff spot as Tyler Black was idle for the first time in July. Wiemer walked and scored on Mejia's granny. Counting his three MLB starts, you have to go back nine starts by Carlos Rodriguez to find a strong performance (AAA game log) It's a bit of a placeholder roster at AAA as of this moment, fairly uninspiring, but certainly that's not unusual across most MLB organizations. While individual games will provide us with occasional exciting moments, the Sounds are just kind of "there" - enjoy RH starter Chad Patrick in his upcoming outings and OF Isaac Collins for now. Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes Final: Biloxi 8, Mississippi (Braves) 3 Box Score and Game Log Shuckers Score Late, Earn Series Win with 8-3 Win over M-Braves - Brown Jr. tallies three-hit day, Shuckers score seven-plus for fourth time in last five games The lone full-season Brewers' affiliate to be on the road during the latter half of this 4th of July week, Biloxi continued its recent fine play. The Shuckers are 7-4 in the second half, 1.5 game lead. The Shuckers placed 18 baserunners on, Eric Brown Jr.'s two doubles the sole XBH's, but hard to quibble with that level of traffic. 23-year-old cleanup catcher Darrien Miller reached base four times, because of course he did. And when he didn't it was because he knocked a sacrifice fly. Miller's OBP is an incredible .432, and that leads not just the Southern League, but all of AA. Miller also threw out two of the three attempted base stealers on the evening (25.7% success rate on the season, that's fine). All that Biloxi offense and Dylan O'Rae (single, walk), Carlos Rodriguez (walk) and Brock Wilken combined for a 1-for-15 night in their official AB's. Nice work, lower portions of the lineup! Enjoy three other highlights from the Biloxi "X" feed that occurred prior to this: I need to ask Javik Blake how the Biloxi production team (Javik himself?) is pulling it off. Not only do they quickly post highlights from road games, but it's with Javik's call. Awesome. Young Javik deserves so many kudos since his 2023 arrival. Fantastic hire, and incredible how he's done after initially planning to be Garrett Greene's backup voice (Garrett doing well at AAA Sugar Land - Astros). Mike Boeve missed a week's worth of games starting on June 21st. Boeve played in two games (the 29th and 30th) but hasn't seen any July action. Bummer. Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes Final: Beloit (Marlins) 5, Wisconsin 1 Box Score and Game Log Sky Carp Homer Scraps Rattlers - Wisconsin falls 5-1 to Beloit At the tail end of these highlights, look for the "Yerlin Rodriguez" show (good and bad, but always interesting), and then Chris Mehring and Kyle Lobner discuss the fireballer near the top of their latest postgame podcast episode. Also to be viewed and then a discussion topic to be listened to (via Manager Victor Estevez within the podcast), Luis Lara is just amazing with the glove. The catch coming in was impressive, but the catch going back you're about to see was incredible. Chris and Kyle (one final reminder - invest 14 minutes with the podcast this AM!) tell us to look beyond RH starter Will Rudy's final line. He was solid and pitched into the 7th. If this had been a road game, there would not be much here to grasp. Thanks to the video and audio efforts out of Appleton, it's anything but a black hole of a game. We are spoiled as fans, folks. Beloit's LH starter, 19-year-old Thomas White, is going to be a beast, drafted 35th overall as the Marlins ponied up last summer. Massachusetts kid, but I'd say the same even without my own regional bias. Final: Down East (Rangers) 7, Carolina 1 Box Score and Game Log Wood Ducks Best Mudcats Josh Knoth has been locked into the "Friday Night Lights" spot all season long, but this wasn't his best evening by a longshot. The strike-to-pitches count wasn't awful (45 strikes, 69 pitches), but Knoth, 18, squeezed all those pitches into just three innings. Cooper Pratt's nearly six-week long stretch of reaching base in a game ended Thursday, and he doubled up on that emptiness Friday. Baseball, go figure. The different-look lineup (days off for Daniel Guilarte and Yophery Rodriguez) produced an RBI triple via Satchell Norman and not much else. Detroit missed out on not drafting Down East's starting pitcher. Final: ACL Mariners 6, ACL Brewers 4Box Score and Game Log Shortstop Tyler Rodriguez' second error of the night, the first play in the top of the 9th, led to two unearned runs, as three runs scored overall, costing the A-Crew the narrowest of leads heading into the frame. All seven Maryvale hits were singles. Third baseman Eric Bitonti had two of those singles, added a walk, and we await the post-Futures Game shuffle when hopefully we see Cooper Pratt move to Appleton and the 18-year-old Bitonti escape the desert for Zebulon. We referred to RHP Rafael Garcia in our transaction section above. Garcia, 23, last pitched July 30th of 2022, one of only three Maryvale appearances that season. Kudos to the Brewers for their faith in the young man from Panama, and the organization's training and strength staffs. Don't believe it was ever revealed what the nature of Garcia's injury was. The 6th inning game log will show that Garcia allowed three baserunners and a run, but that's not the story for Rafael this morning. Final: DSL Brewers #1 Squad 10, DSL Dodgers Bautista 3Box Score and Game Log Four Team Uno pitchers combined on a five-hitter, though it wasn't pretty, Cerveceros hurlers walked nine, plunked three, threw four wild pitches, and committed a balk. All three Dodgers runs scored against starter Joshua Quezada, the 20-year-old Nicaragua native acquired from the Yankees for LH reliever Clayton Andrews (who is now a minor league free agent). Quezada did scuffle his way through four innings, and the three relievers that followed managed to throw shutout ball despite all the traffic. For LA: Team RISP: 1-for-10. Team LOB: 13. Yes, that explains that. Your eyes are not fooling you, that is an 0-for-5 next to Luis Pena's name, dropping his OPS to "only" 1.140. Pena did not K, and his best chance for a knock was in his final at-bat when he lined out to third base. First hitless contest of Pena's career, snapping a 20-game hit streak. It was a bit more balanced here, but on a game-for-game basis, the demarcation of production between the upper and lower halves of the Squad #1 lineup is very pronounced. Jesus Made, playing second base with Pena at short, INF/OF Juan Martinez (LF here) and corner INF/OF Juan Ortuno (1B here) each had big games. Each, like Pena, is 17 years old. Made's OPS is oh-so-close with Pena's now at 1.135 after this game which included Made's 4th home run. Ortuno tripled and doubled. Martinez singled twice and stole his 6th base, caught just once thus far. On a daily basis, Team Uno is essentially throwing out the equivalent of the Betts-Ohtani-Freeman-Smith level of production atop the lineup. No better team to show that off to than Friday's LA affiliate. All those gaudy numbers, and we're just 23 games into the DSL season. Final: DSL Red Sox Red 9, DSL Brewers #2 Squad 6Box Score and Game Log Do the Red Sox Red boys play Go-Duck-Go during warmups? Whatever they are doing, it's working, as the Boston team is now 17-5. Checks standings - Red Sox Blue is only 8-14. Team Dos was outhit 16-6. Brewers bats did reach base via BB or HBP four times, but Milwaukee pitchers doled out seven walks on top of the 16 knocks allowed. Thirteen of the hits allowed were singles, but still not a stellar mound day for the Crew Dos. 18-year-old RHP Oliver Camilo, a 2nd-year Dominican native, allowed his first earned run in this, his 9th appearance of the season, totaling only 9.1 innings. That's a far cry from the 11.51 ERA Camilo posted in 12 games (three starts) in 2023. Batting: 3B: Anderson (1, Rojas); Quintana (2, Rojas). The exciting thing about the most exciting play in baseball (well, save for inside-the-park HR's) is that these two triples came in back-to-back at-bats from two prized prospects. Quintana has the huge bonus pedigree, but Anderson also clubbed long ball # 6, the 17-year-old sending it out to center field and beyond. Goodness, Anderson has 23 RBI in 21 games, but management has him hitting leadoff occasionally. including here. Weather: 1 degrees, Sunny. Funny, it was 80 degrees warmer for the Team Uno road game. 🙂 Full schedule including Jacob Misiorowski and Bishop Letson scheduled for starts. Enjoy, because it's the rare Sunday off coming up for all the affiliates, which will give the full-season teams consecutive days off through Monday. It's all a result of sharing the fireworks gate receipts among all MiLB teams this week. Have a nice summer Saturday, everyone! 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

As will appear in Saturday AM's Link Report: Final: DSL Red Sox Red 9, DSL Brewers #2 Squad 6 Box Score and Game Log Do the Red Sox Red boys play Go-Duck-Go during warmups? Whatever they are doing, it's working, as the Boston team is now 17-5. Checks standings - Red Sox Blue is only 8-14. Team Dos was outhit 16-6. Brewers bats did reach base via BB or HBP four times, but Milwaukee pitchers doled out seven walks on top of the 16 knocks allowed. Thirteen of the hits allowed were singles, but still not a stellar mound day for the Crew Dos. 18-year-old RHP Oliver Camilo, a 2nd-year Dominican native, allowed his first earned run in this, his 9th appearance of the season, totaling only 9.1 innings. That's a far cry from the 11.51 ERA Camilo posted in 12 games (three starts) in 2023. Batting: 3B: Anderson (1, Rojas); Quintana (2, Rojas). The exciting thing about the most exciting play in baseball (well, save for inside-the-park HR's) is that these two triples came in back-to-back at-bats from two prized prospects. Quintana has the huge bonus pedigree, but Anderson also clubbed long ball # 6, the 17-year-old sending it out to center field and beyond. Goodness, Anderson has 23 RBI in 21 games, but management has him hitting leadoff occasionally. including here. Weather: 1 degrees, Sunny. Funny, it was 80 degrees warmer for the Team Uno road game. 🙂

As will appear in Saturday AM's Link Report: Final: DSL Brewers #1 Squad 10, DSL Dodgers Bautista 3Box Score and Game Log Four Team Uno pitchers combined on a five-hitter, though it wasn't pretty, Cerveceros hurlers walked nine, plunked three, threw four wild pitches, and committed a balk. All three Dodgers runs scored against starter Joshua Quezada, the 20-year-old Nicaragua native acquired from the Yankees for LH reliever Clayton Andrews (who is now a minor league free agent). Quezada did scuffle his way through four innings, and the three relievers that followed managed to throw shutout ball despite all the traffic. For LA: Team RISP: 1-for-10. Team LOB: 13. Yes, that explains that. Your eyes are not fooling you, that is an 0-for-5 next to Luis Pena's name, dropping his OPS to "only" 1.140. Pena did not K, and his best chance for a knock was in his final at-bat when he lined out to third base. First hitless contest of Pena's career, snapping a 20-game hit streak. It was a bit more balanced here, but on a game-for-game basis, the demarcation of production between the upper and lower halves of the Squad #1 lineup is very pronounced. Jesus Made, playing second base with Pena at short, INF/OF Juan Martinez (LF here) and corner INF/OF Juan Ortuno (1B here) each had big games. Each, like Pena, is 17 years old. Made's OPS is oh-so-close with Pena's now at 1.135 after this game which included Made's 4th home run. Ortuno tripled and doubled. Martinez singled twice and stole his 6th base, caught just once thus far. On a daily basis, Team Uno is essentially throwing out the equivalent of the Betts-Ohtani-Freeman-Smith level of production atop the lineup. No better team to show that off to than Friday's LA affiliate. All those gaudy numbers, and we're just 23 games into the DSL season.

VIDEO: Lamar Sparks' five base hits for Biloxi

Here are the highlights from that last SportsCenter:

Thursday 7/4: Postgame shows after the 4-3 loss at Coors:Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts, Jerry Augustine is Dom's guestVia 97.3's "Baseball Postgame Show" - Tim Allen hosts

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Final: DSL Brewers #2 Squad 14, DSL Royals Fortuna 5Box Score and Game Log Five-run 4th and six-run 6th, yeah, that'll work for Team Dos, now with a 13-9 record. Before we discuss 14 tallies, appreciation for 18-year-old Venezuelan native and 2nd-year starting RHP Argenis Aparicio, who went exactly five innings for the 4th consecutive appearance, allowing only five earned runs over that 20-inning span. Aparicio allowed only a solo home run here, walking just one with two K's. The Brewers only had seven base hits, four for extra bases, but were handed 14 free passes and an HBP. Though in his second season, Dominican INF/RF Roderick Flores is still just 17 years old. He drew four of the walks, bumping his 16-game-sample OBP to .443. Well, hello again, CF Jose Anderson! A triple shy of the cycle and on base five times, including round-tripper #5, 13 of his 22 hits now for extra bases. Nearly as many walks (15) as K's (17). The K rate is manageable at just over 18%. Switch-hitting top bonus baby ($1.7 M) SS Jorge Quintana doubled and also walked twice, driving in three. The OPS is up to .714 after a slow start. Speaking of big $$ investments, infielder (second base in this game) Kevin Ereu somehow went 0-for-5 among all the baserunning company, though he did draw a walk and drove in one run. Ereu and his $1.4 M bonus struggled in his age 17 rookie season with a .553 OPS. His .785 mark through 79 plate appearances in 2024 is more palatable (.274/.430/.355).

Final: DSL Brewers #1 Squad 7, DSL Cubs Red 4, seven innings as scheduled Box Score and Game Log Team Uno trailed 4-0 heading into the bottom of the 3rd, not an ideal situation in a planned shortened game. But 18-year-old Venezuelan rookie RHP Carlos Canales allowed only two baserunners (HBP, single) over his four scoreless innings on the backside of the linescore, far surpassing his four prior mound efforts. The comeback began with two familiar names in the Team Uno lineup. Shortstop Jesus Made opened with a walk - Made would reach all four times up, with two singles and a triple. Made's fellow 17-year-old partner-in-crime Luis Pena followed with a line drive double, moving Made to third base. In very DSL fashion, three runs scored in the inning, all forced in via HBP or walk, and the deficit was down to one run. Said deficit was erased in the 4th when 17-year-old INF/LF Juan Ortuno (DH'ing here), lined a two-run single to center field. Ortuno, with two singles and two walks, joined Made with perfect days at the plate. Ortuno spiked his OPS to 1.000, now sporting a .373/.529/.471 line in 68 plate appearances, rivaling his teammates Made and Pena for being ridiculously impressive in the early going. Cerveceros Squad #1 moves to a nice 14-8 record.

For Friday AM's Link Report: Final: ACL Brewers 5, ACL Giants 2Box Score and Game Log In the blink of an eye, the A-Crew were up 3-0 as the road crew in this one, before the capacity 4th of July crowd of fireflies were settled in. 19-year-old second baseman (yet to see action elsewhere on the diamond) Josh Adamczewski walked to open the game. It was the first of four times on base for the 15th round 2023 pick out of an Indiana high school (two subsequent singles and a 9th inning home run for insurance, yanked to right field, his first as a professional). Back to the first inning, A review of the game log shows that hijinks ensued after Adamczewski stole second base. A Luiyin Alastre RBI single punctuated with a Giants error, then a walk to Eric Bitonti, Bitonti's own stolen base, then a run-scoring passed ball immediately followed by a run-scoring wild pitch. Boom, lead never lost. The A-Crew had seven base hits, the Adamczewski home run the sole one for extra bases, but also drew seven walks, three by corner INF/OF Pedro Ibarguen, who only turned 18 years old this past Tuesday. That inched his 2024 OPS to just .502, coming off his remarkable .884 line in the 2023 DSL that netted him the stateside callup at a very young age. There were a couple of 6th inning substitutions for the Maryvale boys, but no dreaded notation of "injury delay" in the game log. It was 99 degrees at first pitch. Mound efforts were important. Nine-year pro (well, eight, pandemic year) and cup-of-coffee big leaguer Easton McGee is now up to four appearances covering six innings in his Tommy John rehab. Ultra-young (18 years old the day before this game) RHP Melvin Hernandez made the Brewers' Nicaraguan pipeline proud with five one-run frames with no walks and four K's. Unlikely Milwaukee will get to enjoy near exclusivity to that nation's talent in coming years. The victors improved to 19-25.