Jim Goulart

To make room for RHP Claudio Vargas, Nashville RHP Brian Baker goes on the 7-day DL just before his scheduled start Friday night (retroactive to 5/16).

Send the repair bill to Josh Prince? *** So much for my Brian Baker post earlier... *** Now it's a classic AAA veteran matchup!

Wisconsin Media Notes

Baseball America's Prospect Hot Sheet: Andy Moye -- RHP, Brewers Pro ball had to wait a while to land Moye. Ranked among Baseball America's Top 200 prospects in 2006, he opted against signing as a 11th-round pick of the Mets. He also decided to head back to Georgia Southern for his senior year after being drafted in the 50th round by the Cardinals in 2010. Moye finally became a pro after the Brewers took him the 15th round as a senior sign last year. He's been making up for lost time since signing. Moye went 1-0, 1.80 in 11 innings this week, allowing one run and four hits while striking out 13 (he didn't walk a batter). That's par for the course for Moye this year, as he 3-0, 1.45 overall for the Timber Rattlers. At 24, Moye is extremely old for the Midwest League, but the Brewers have sped up his development, promoting him to high Class A Brevard County to replace the injured Jed Bradley.

Nashville Media Notes

Really, another start tonight from Brian Baker and his 7.33 ERA? After his 2011 6.62 ERA in the more pitching-friendly International League somehow grabbed the eyes of Brewers' pro scouts this winter, are they surprised with the 2012 results? Go ahead, Brian, as we await (ahem) Claudio Vargas' appearance, prove the Link Report Guy wrong tonight.

Minor League Tale of Love -- very cool: Brewers pre-game audio with Travis Ishikawa

Remember this, bidding period is now thru midnight (I imagine Eastern Time) Saturday. The Jungmann jersey bidding is competitive! *** From the Manatees, a very nice opportunity -- Bookmark the link by clicking on the red text below. Bid on a Breast Cancer Awareness jersey! ----------------------------------------------------------- The Brevard County Manatees will be wearing pink jerseys against the Fort Myers Miracle for Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend on May 17-19. The jerseys will be auctioned off online at manatees.milbauctions.com and all proceeds from the auction will go to benefit Health First Diagnostic Services. The auction will begin at 5 p.m. on May 17 and end at 11:59 p.m. on May 19.

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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

Follow Friday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF! All times are Central Nashville: RHP Brian Baker at Tucson (Padres), 8:50 PM pre-game, 9:05 gametime UPDATE EDIT: RHP Claudio Vargas now starting 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 Evan Anundsen at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 6:00 PM pre-game, 6:15 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page I-Phone friendly audio link 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: A total of 24 Stars' games (in Jacksonville and Tennessee) will be broadcast. ********** Brevard County: RHP Jimmy Nelson at home vs. Fort Myers (Twins), 5:35 PM gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Fort Myers 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: RHP Drew Gagnon at home vs. Burlington (Athletics), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 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 only two (Great Lakes) Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV; Chris' call provides the audio. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, all Timber Rattlers home games, and 24 Stars' road games (one Helena series this summer, too).

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Getting To Know The 2012 Sounds: Outfielder Logan Schafer

The unique tale of a non-drafted signee who never actually pitched at the college (four-year or juco) level. Nice scouting there by Ryan Robinson (who is no longer with the Brewers, it seems).

Stars Lose Third Straight in Series Opener CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.- In the series opener of a five-game road trip at AT&T Field, the Huntsville Stars fell to the Chattanooga Lookouts by a score of 6-3 on Thursday night. In the second inning, the Stars were able to get out to the initial lead. After shortstop Tommy Manzella and center fielder Juan Sanchez came through with back-to-back singles, third baseman Josh Prince delivered a two-out RBI single that scored Manzella and gave the Stars a 1-0 lead. Sanchez was thrown out at the plate by Lookouts’ CF Nick Buss. That lead was short-lived though. In the second inning, the Chattanooga offense broke out for three runs, highlighted by a two-run triple off the bat of pitcher Aaron Miller to give them a 3-1 lead. After Chattanooga was able to score another run in the third inning, the Stars cut the lead back to two in the fifth inning on a RBI double by first baseman Hunter Morris. For Morris, the double was his Southern League-leading 17th of the season. That was as close as Huntsville would get though Up 4-2, the Lookouts tacked on a run in the fifth inning as a byproduct of two Stars errors and then another run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by catcher Griff Erickson to increase their lead to four. However, the Stars had their chances. After another RBI single by Prince in the eighth inning cut their deficit to three, Huntsville squandered a chance as second basemen Scooter Gennett grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded. Then, with two-outs in the ninth and the tying run at the plate, Sanchez grounded out to Chattanooga first basemen Nick Wise to end the game. For Huntsville, starting pitcher Josh Stinson fell to 4-2 on the season with the loss, giving up five runs (four earned) and seven hits over five innings. For Chattanooga, LHP Aaron Miller improved to 2-4 on the season as he gave up just two runs over five innings of work. On offense, the Stars were still able to churn out 12 hits, with Morris and Prince leading the way with three apiece. The loss was the Stars third in a row and fourth in their last five games. The Stars and Lookouts will continue their series on Friday as Huntsville will send RHP Evan Anundsen (2-1, 2.48 ERA) to the mound to face off against Chattanooga RHP Matt Magill (3-2, 3.44 ERA). First pitch is at 7:15 ET (6:15 CT).

Here are two links to last year's August 9th Link Report detailing the 2-0 Helena loss in which LHP Mike Strong, who struck out nine in four innings tonight, struck out 13 in seven innings.

Audio from Arizona — “(Jordan) Brown’s Town” May 17, 2012 by Jeff Hem Tonight’s interview is with Sounds outfielder and Tucson resident Jordan Brown, who flew home from Nashville on Tuesday night after the day game so he could enjoy a true off day at home with his family yesterday here in Arizona before the start of the road trip tonight. That’s one of several topics we discussed with the former Cleveland Indian, who was in Spring Training this year with the Astros before getting let go and heading to the Mexican League before the Brewers called.

Sounds Handed 13-0 Loss By Tucson In Road Trip Opener Wily Peralta Touched For Nine Runs In Three Innings Nashville Sounds TUCSON, Ariz. - The Nashville Sounds opened an eight-game road trip with a 13-0 defeat to the Tucson Padres on Thursday night at Kino Stadium. The defeat was Nashville's worst since the club dropped a 17-3 contest to the Oklahoma City RedHawks on April 16, 2009 at Greer Stadium. Plating runs in seven of nine innings, Tucson's 13 runs in the game were the most scored against Nashville this season, while the 17 hits given up matched a season-high. With the loss, Nashville (14-25) has been held to two runs or less in 12 of their 19 road games and moves to 4-15 when playing away from Greer Stadium this season, the worst mark in the PCL. Sounds starting pitcher Wily Peralta (1-4) suffered one of the worst starts of his professional career. The young right-hander gave up nine runs on 10 hits (both matching career highs) while walking and striking out three in three plus innings. Six of Peralta's 10 hits allowed went for extra bases. The hits and runs allowed by the 23-year-old also set Nashville highs for pitchers this season. The Sounds' offense went 0-for-14 with runners in scoring position and left 10 runners on base. Third baseman Andy Gonzalez was the lone Sound to have two hits, while outfielder Corey Patterson was responsible for Nashville's only extra-base hit, a double in the seventh. The Padres scored their first run in the bottom of the first as leadoff hitter Blake Tekotte doubled to center and later scored on a two-out RBI single from Matt Clark. Tucson batted around and plated five runs for a 6-0 lead in the third, matching a season-high for runs allowed in an inning. Blake Tekotte led off with a single and scored five pitches later on a Logan Forsyth RBI triple. Later in the inning, after a Jeff Gyorko walk, Peralta surrendered an RBI single to Clark and consecutive two-out RBI doubles to Daniel Robertson and Beamer Weems. The Padres hit for the cycle as a team and quickly extended their lead to 10-0 in the next frame. Logan Forsythe crushed a two-run homer after Peralta issued an inning-opening walk to Tekotte for the first two runs. Gyorko then doubled to remove Peralta from the game, and was followed by a Clark RBI triple. Yasmani Grandal singled to score Clark and complete the cycle. The scored moved to 11-0 in the sixth as Gyorko and Clark reached to open the frame against reliever Amaury Rivas. Gyorko later came into to score on a Yasmani Frandal double play. Tucson made it 12-0 in the seventh as Rivas loaded the bases by walking one and hitting two in the inning. Daniel Robertson would later score on a passed ball by Martin Maldonado. An eighth-inning sacrifice fly by Anthony Contreras pushed the lead to 13-0. Victor Garate gave up one run on three hits in two innings. Rivas allowed two runs in 1 2/3 innings. Rob Wooten gave up one run in 1 1/3 innings to end the game, although he did successfully strand three of Rivas' baserunners in the 7th. Tucson starter Matt Palmer (4-2) pitched seven scoreless innings for the win. The Sounds and Padres continue their series at 9:05 pm CT on Friday Night at Kino Stadium. Right-hander Brian Baker (1-2, 7.33) will start for Nashville against Tucson left-hander Colt Hynes (0-4, 5.08).

Huntsville Media Notes

TimberRattlers Notebook: Andy Moye callup, Matt Erickson and aggressive baserunning Kudos to Nicole, that's just fantastic work and effort at that link.

BCB with a Nick Ramirez interview feature

Nashville Media Notes *** Wisconsin Media Notes

Nicole from BrewCrewBall was at last night's Rattlers game

From the Manatees, a very nice opportunity -- Bookmark the link by clicking on the red text below. Bid on a Breast Cancer Awareness jersey! ----------------------------------------------------------- The Brevard County Manatees will be wearing pink jerseys against the Fort Myers Miracle for Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend on May 17-19. The jerseys will be auctioned off online at manatees.milbauctions.com and all proceeds from the auction will go to benefit Health First Diagnostic Services. The auction will begin at 5 p.m. on May 17 and end at 11:59 p.m. on May 19.