Jim Goulart

This is Conrad's final option year, so as long as the Rays have room on their 40-man roster, they can ping him back and forth to Durham all summer. Not a bad thing...

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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: AAA Nashville does not play a split schedule. The other leagues, including the rookie leagues, do. When you click on a standings link for Huntsville, Brevard County or Wisconsin, you'll then be able to choose 1st half and/or overall standings in addition to the current 2nd half standings.

Follow Thursday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Helena Maryvale DSL Brewers

Thursday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Marco Estrada makes his 2nd rehab start at home vs. Oklahoma City (Astros), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the new 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). We imagine the audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Josh Stinson at Jackson (Mariners), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page Alex Cohen is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. It's fantastic that Huntsville is returning to what will be a traditional broadcast format this year. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. MiLB.TV subsciption note: Huntsville road games in four locales (Mississippi, Tennessee, Jacksonville and Pensacola) will be broadcast. ********** Brevard County: RHP Brooks Hall at home vs. Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:35 PM gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Dunedin feed from the MiLB main audio page Once again this season, Brevard does not have its own audio coverage. It appears two teams in the Manatees North Division (within which the majority of games are played) have audio, and all six teams in the South Division have audio (at least for their home games), so there will be opportunities to listen to approx. 70% or Brevard's games this season, just all from the opponent's perspective. There are no Florida State League games on MiLB.TV this year. ********** Wisconsin: Idle until Friday for the All-Star break ********** Helena: RHP Leonard Lorenzo makes his stateside debut at Great Falls (White Sox), 7:45 PM pre-game, 8:00 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Helena feed from the MiLB main audio page We're lucky to have Steve Wendt back on board for another H-Crew season. ********** Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at home vs. the not-so-artful Dodgers' kids; 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league ********** DSL Brewers: at the DSL Tigers, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until late afternoon at the earliest

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Scooter Gennett to play in All-Star Futures Game

Adam McCalvy's update also indicates the Brewers have released Huntsville IF Matt Cline, the 22nd round pick in 2007. Cline voluntarily took a year off in 2009, came back with a strong 2010 at Brevard, but had struggled at the AA level. *** Looks like big Brock may be active as early as tonight.

Preston Gainey, the 11th round RHP out of the Naval Academy, should be in Helena or Maryvale soon (his bittersweet tweet). Reminder about his story

Here are some notes re: the finalizing of the Maryvale roster. RHP Mitch Conner has been placed on the 60-day DL at Maryvale. He underwent Tommy John surgery this week and tweeted a picture of himself post-op. Obviously, we all wish him the very best. *** Also on the 60-day DL are SS Orlando Arcia (fractured ankle) and OF Victor Roache, the 1st round pick who had major wrist surgery this spring. On the 7-day DL is RHP Rodolfo Fernandez, the Cuban newcomer who was originally listed as non-injured and in Helena. No word on his status, nor that of another 7-day DL'er, RHP Francisco Rivero, the 21-year-old Venezuelan entering his 5th year in the system. Rivero ended 2011 on the restricted list. *** Just a reminder that former outfielder Jose Garcia is converting to catcher for 2012. *** There is one draft pick that we had noted as signed, just based on hometown newspaper accounts and the fact that he does not have college eligibility remaining -- 32nd round RHP Nick Anderson. No sign of him as active, so we've dropped a note to that local sports editor to see what that gets us. *** Huntsville and 40-man roster OF Brock Kjeldgaard (torn thumb ligament) is listed as being at Maryvale on a rehab assignment. We'll see how soon he appears in A-Crew box scores. *** More miscellaneous Maryvale updates this afternoon...

From the Timber Rattlers (the Mike Strong news is new...) *** Brewers supplemental first round pick from 2012 draft joins Rattlers for second half Lance Roenicke starts second half with Brewers Midwest League affiliate, too GRAND CHUTE, WI – Just over two weeks ago Mitch Haniger was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 38 th pick in the 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft. On Friday, he will begin his professional career as a Wisconsin Timber Rattler when the Midwest League’s first half Western Division Champions open the second half of the season at Burlington. The Brewers and the Timber Rattlers announced roster moves today that included the promotion of three players the Florida State league, Haniger’s move to the Fox Cities, the activation of Michael Strong from the disabled list, and the addition of a player with a familiar last name. All-Stars Jason Rogers and Seth Harvey are moving up the ladder to the Brevard County Manatees, Milwaukee’s FSL affiliate. Rogers led the Rattlers in RBI (43) and doubles (24) with a .301 batting average and six home runs. Harvey was the closer for Wisconsin in the first half and had 13 saves with a 4-0 record. John Dishon, who was tied for the team lead in stolen bases (11) and outfield assists (7), also got the call to Brevard County. Haniger was selected by the Brewers with a compensatory first round pick out of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in the 2012 draft. Haniger was the 2012 Big West Conference Player of the Year at Cal Poly. He led the conference in homers (13), RBI (64), and slugging percentage (.626). The Timber Rattlers now have the last two Big West Conference Players of the Year on their roster. Nick Ramirez won the award in 2011 while at Cal-State-Fullerton. Outfielder Lance Roenicke was the 25 th round pick of the Brewers in the 2012 draft. He also played his college baseball in the Big West. Roenicke hit .310 with four homers and 35 RBI in his senior season at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Roenicke, the son of Milwaukee Brewers manager Ron Roenicke, had appeared in a pair of games for the Helena Brewers and was 4-for-8 with three RBI for Milwaukee’s Pioneer League affiliate. Also, left-handed pitcher Michael Strong has been activated from the disabled list for Friday’s game. Strong had been 1-0 with a 2.38ERA and 12 strikeouts in 11-1/3 innings pitched for the Wisconsin before going on the shelf. Wisconsin starts the second half of their schedule with a three-game series against the Burlington Bees in Iowa on Friday night. Timber Rattlers fans will get their first glimpse of Haniger and Roenicke when the team returns to Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium on Monday, June 25. Wisconsin will begin a six-game homestand at 7:05 pm on Monday night.

Mike Vassallo tweet: On the heels of his 4-hit game, OF Lance Roenicke (son of Ron) was promoted from Rookie @helenabrewers to Class-A @TimberRattlers today. I'll also point out that Steve Wendt noted during his broadcast last night that on three occasions already, Roenicke came in on a fly ball only to have it go over his head. Pitchers love that...

Tyler Thornburg audio interview with Joe Block on the Brewers' pre-game Wednesday

Realities of life on the road, Pioneer League-style

Here was some of the chatter on this forum re: Velazquez' arrival this offseason. .550 OPS in 36 first-half games Worthwhile gamble that didn't pan out...

From the Manatees: OF Miguel Velazquez has been released from Brevard County. OF Michael Reed has been transferred from Brevard County to Helena. OF John Dishon has been transferred from Wisconsin to Brevard County. RHP Seth Harvey has been transferred from Wisconsin to Brevard County. 1B/LF/DH Jason Rogers has been transferred from Wisconsin to Brevard County. Dishon, Harvey and Rogers will all be active for tonight's game against Dunedin. Their numbers will be assigned upon arrival. *** With that, the Brevard roster is back to 25.

From the Tennessean, he's facing the Sounds tonight: Pitcher Armando Galarraga fights to return to major leagues Galarraga struggles to return to bigs after infamous bad call two years ago

VIDEO, Darnell Coles quote: Stars Focus On Second Half

Looks like OF John Dishon may be another Rattler heading to Brevard County

Link Report Bonus: Looking purely at the numbers, it was hard to fault the Brewers for releasing 2009 18th round LHP Caleb Thielbar after the 2010 season. Thielbar, the Minnesota native and South Dakota State product, persevered via the indy ball route in St. Paul and was subsequently noticed by his home state Twins. Now, in less than one season in their system, Thielbar is just one step from the big leagues. Awesome for Thielbar, his path thus far is remarkbaly similar to another released Brewer farmhand southpaw.

Audio from Nashville — A Brewers & Sounds Update from Dan O’Brien Jeff Hem's note -- Tonight’s pregame interview is with Dan O’Brien, the former Reds GM who now works in the Brewers’ baseball operations department as a special assistant to GM Doug Melvin and is in town to see the Sounds for the second time this season. He was here in April and joined us on the pregame show then, too.

22nd round LHP Taylor Wall out of Rice on his way to hook up with Helena in Great Falls (or "Gray" Falls) -- hey, as long as he gets there, congrats, young man...

Let the 2nd half promotions and moves begin -- as per a tweet from Timber Rattlers hurler Mark Williams, two of his teammates, closer Seth Harvey and 1B/LF/DH Jason Rogers, have earned their promotions to Brevard County. Congrats. The Manatees roster was already one under the limit, so look for one Brevard move to make room on Thursday.

Wednesday's Brevard/Lakeland game cancelled By Frank Longobardo / Brevard County Manatees LAKELAND, Fla. - The scheduled game on Wednesday, June 20 between the Brevard County Manatees and Lakeland Flying Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland has been cancelled due to inclement weather. Since Wednesday is the last day of the first half of the Florida State League season, the game will not be made up. Brevard County finishes the first half with a 29-39 record. It marks the third consecutive season in which the Manatees have had a losing record in the first half of the season. The Manatees will return home to Space Coast Stadium to open the second half of the season with a three-game series with the Dunedin Blue Jays, beginning on Thursday night at 6:35 PM (5:35 Central).

MiLB.com isn't listing the Florida State League standings as "2nd half" yet. As in past years, the technical end of the 1st half did not necessarily coincide with the FSL's All-Star break. That is good for the Manatees, who are 0-2 since the All-Star Game. Just confirmed that Wednesday's game marks the end of the FSL's first half. Go Manatees! But really start winning Thursday