Jim Goulart

Brewers release RHP Henry Garrido, who did not pitch in 2022. I provided this post back in February 2022 with as much as we knew about Garrido at the time.

Update:

Newcomer Owen Miller added to the top of our tracking post here. With Ponce in the Puerto Rico League, the infielder is at .346/.379/.385 (.764 OPS) after 29 plate appearances. He doubled, singled, and added a sacrifice fly in his most recent game Wednesday, in which he played both third base and second base.

Bandits now a stellar 18-3. That's Max Lazar in the photo. Good choice. His line: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K Up-to-date Brisbane stats (all players): Lazar has 37 K's and 3 BB's (three HBP's) in 29 IP, 3.10 ERA, 0.93 WHIP Bob Moore, again playing second base, as he has all season, 0-for-4 with a walk. He stole both second and third base and is now 10-for-12 in thievery attempts. Big game for catcher Darrien Miller, 3-for-5, two RBI, with two doubles, including this one:

RHP Nash Walters re-signs with the team that allowed him to sneak in an MLB debut on the final day of the ‘22 season, scroll down within the post:

Tuesday 12/13: Via Locked on Brewers: "The Brewers make a MONSTER trade as Tim Dillard joins in to discuss the 2023 outlook‪!‬!" Via the Journal Sentinel Podcast: Curt Hogg w/JR Radcliffe - "Is the Brewers' trade for William Contreras the heist it appears to be?" Via WSSP's Steve "Sparky" Fifer: "Senior Writer Jim Callis of MLBPipeline and MLB.com on Brewers trade for William Contreras" Via WSCO's "The Show with Leo and Balky: Jack Stern of BrewCrewBall (go to the 31:00 minute mark) *** Wednesday 12/14: Via Locked on Brewers: "The Milwaukee Brewers make a MASSIVE trade for an all-star‪!‬‬" Via the Brewers Unfiltered Podcast: Latest episode with Adam McCalvy and Tim Dillard - "The Brewers have some brand-new All-Stars joining the fold in Jesse Winker and William Contreras. Adam and Tim break down the latest acquisitions, plus discuss the Brewers leadership transition from David Stearns to Matt Arnold."

Thursday 12/8: Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts "Brewers Weekly" Reviewing the Brew's" Cold Brew Podcast: "Wong Trade, Winter Meetings Recap" *** Friday 12/9: Via Locked on Brewers: "Grading the Milwaukee Brewers off-season with former Brewer Vinny Rottino" *** Sunday 12/11: Latest Milwaukee Tailgate Podcast - "What are you, Ron Burgundy?" NOTE: If you are able, please consider giving to the MKE Tailgate Crew's latest donation drive for Hunger Taskforce of Milwaukee or to your own local food bank. They will match all donations up to $500 dollars. Latest "Brewers Babes" Podcast: "Winter Meetings, New Brewers, Baseball Holiday Wishes" *** Monday 12/12: Via Locked on Brewers: "Mailbag Monday: Roster, trades & more!"

Winter League Action from Saturday, December 10 RHP Elvis Peguero - The 40-man roster member, acquired from the Angels in the Hunter Renfroe trade, now has 21 K's vs. one walk in 15.2 IP (2.30 ERA) in his native Dominican Republic. He allowed just an infield single with one K (veteran Melky Cabrera) in his scoreless 8th inning Saturday. His Aguilas team would win in walkoff fashion in the 9th. RHP Luis Contreras – It's been a rough go of late for the 26-year-old who split 2022 between Biloxi and Nashville. The June 2019 independent league signee inherited two baserunners with one out in the 2nd inning of his Venezuelan team's eventual 8-6 come-from-behind win. Contreras allowed both runners to score (wild pitch, two-run single), then saw a run charged to him when the first two men reached in the 3rd inning (single by the Brewers' Luis Chirinos, walk) before he was lifted. Contreras' ERA is now at 8.10 through 11 relief appearances. 1B Jesus Chirinos – 1-for-2 (now hitting .357, 20-for-56) – Chirinos grounded out in the 1st but was immediately lifted for a pinch-runner in the 3rd after the single mentioned above vs. Contreras, no notation of an injury delay. RHP J.C. Mejia – One perfect inning (one K) as his strong Dominican season continues *** Just an observation, but... I wish to remind everybody about RH reliever Abner Uribe's last outing as we posted the morning after: Winter League Action from Monday, November 28th Oh my, Abner Uribe now through three outings - 1.1 IP, 8 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 2 HBP, 1 K, ERA 47.25 On Monday night Uribe came in to begin the 5th inning (game log): HBP - ground ball single to LF - wild pitch - BB with another wild pitch on ball four, scoring a run And that was it. Three batters faced. Eight pitches thrown. Lifted. Hopefully not injury-related and we see Uribe on a mound again later this week. Uribe has not seen any action since. The fireballer had made his way to the Dominican Winter League after fine work in the Arizona Fall League, and his placement on the Brewers' 40-man roster. As noted above, this was only Uribe's 3rd winter league appearance, however, and normally pitchers would make a longer commitment. As the game log shows (5th inning), Uribe's final batter was a four-pitch walk. Sorry to throw up a red flag, but Monday marks two weeks, and the way Uribe was pulled after eight pitches adds to the intrigue even more than his absence since. What do the Brewers know, and what aren't they saying? And if everyone simply decided it was time for Uribe to head home for the holidays, then bad on me, and good for everyone else.

Hall would finish 1-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored in a 7-5 win in his nightcap. *** Early Sunday AM (US Time): Hall played all 11 innings in a 7-6 Perth win, starting at first base but then swapping positions with the starting catcher in the 10th. Hall was 0-for-5, one K, now batting .324 with an .879 OPS, a testament to a red-hot start. Brisbane with its seven Brewers prospects was idle on Sunday AM.

Early Saturday AM (US time): Game One: Perth catcher Alex Hall 0-for-2 with a walk, threw out the lone attempting basestealer Game Two: Alex Hall again behind the plate (really?), game still ongoing as of "press time" here" with Hall 0-for-2 *** Game One: Brisbane wins 6-5 in eight innings (scheduled for seven) - 2B Bob Moore reached base three times (single, HBP, BB). Moore scored twice, drove in a run, and K'd in his 1-for-2 effort. He also scored the walkoff run on a wild pitch. was a last-inning defensive replacement. RHP James Meeker netted the win by retiring seven men, allowing one hit, one BB, and fanning three. He was charged with a blown save when he entered with two out in the 6th with men on 1st and 2nd and immediately allowed a two-run double. Meeker's ERA remains at 0.00 despite the one-batter hiccup here. *** Game Two: Brisbane rolls 11-4 2B Bob Moore 0-for-2 with a wild two innings on the basepaths. In the 1st, he reached on an error, was picked off and subsequently caught stealing. In the 2nd, he once again reached on an error, then was thrown out at 3rd for the final out of the inning on the next batter's line drive single. Now, a lead runner did score on the play, so Moore's out perhaps was justified to ensure the runner scored. However, Moore was pulled from the game at that point. C Darrien Miller singled in four at-bats. RHP Brannon Jordan with two scoreless relief innings (2 H, 3 K).

Winter League Action from Friday, December 9 C Brian Navarreto – 2-for-4 (double), BB, R, RBI (hitting .341 with a 1.053 OPS) DH Mario Feliciano – 2-for-4 (double), R (.200 average, .483 OPS), Navarreto's teammate batted 8th in a 6-1 win, celebrated sneaking to the Mendoza line This was from Thursday's game -

Tuesday 12/6: Via WSSP's Steve "Sparky" Fifer: Tim Muma of "BrewerFanatic" *** Wednesday 12/7: Via Locked on Brewers: "Three free-agents the Brewers should target" *** Thursday 12/8: Via Locked on Brewers: "The future is now in Milwaukee" - David Gasper, editor in chief from Reviewing the Brew, is the guest

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Sunday 12/4: Latest Milwaukee Tailgate Podcast - "I Have Plays" *** Monday 12/5: Via the Journal Sentinel Podcast: Curt Hogg w/JR Radcliffe - "The Kolten Wong/Jesse Winker trade and other offseason moves" Via WTMJ's Afternoon News: "New Brewers' Chief Operations Officer Marti Wronski joins the show. She is the only female executive leader to hold the COO title for an MLB Club." *** Tuesday 12/6: Via Locked on Brewers: "Will the Milwaukee Brewers pay Corbin Burnes and should they?"

Tuesday 12/22: Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts "Brewers Weekly" *** Friday 12/3: Via Locked on Brewers: "New host Brandon Sneide dives into the vision, or the lack thereof, of the Brewers with the latest trades"

Winter League Action from Friday, December 2 C Mario Feliciano - 1-for-5, one K, in Carolina's (Puerto Rico) 5-4 win C Brian Navarreto – Did not play, but no news as it relates to "possibly" being related to the injury post yesterday. Catchers do get days off, after all. Jesus Chirinos – His home run seen in the prior post was Chirinos' lone hit in four at-bats but he also added a sacrifice fly for two RBI on the day. His club dropped the game 9-7. RHP Luis Contreras came on in the 6th inning after his starting pitcher had tossed five scoreless frames and his team had just jumped ahead 2-0. Contreras faced three batters - walk, ground ball single to center, walk, then was pulled. All three runners came around to score and his Lara team (Venezuela) would allow seven runs that inning. Final score 7-2. Ouch. 2B Andruw Monasterio was 1-for-4 with a walk and sacrifice fly in his Venezuelan team's 8-7 walkoff 11-inning win. The sacrifice fly tied the game in the 11th. RHP Matt Hardy entered in the 8th inning with his Puerto Rican team up 2-0. For the first time this winter season, it was a struggle as the game log here will show you. Hardy did record two outs via strikeout, and his teammate had the big assist, retiring old friend Isan Diaz to escape the inning with his team up 2-1 (the final score also).

Early Sunday AM (US time): Catcher Alex Hall singled twice for a consecutive day for his Perth Heat team in an 4-1 loss. He scored a run and fanned once in his 2-for-4 effort. .364/.444/.527 (.971 OPS) for the switch-hitter through 15 games and 55 at-bats. For the Brisbane club, a 3-1 win to move to 13-3 on the season. Second baseman Bob Moore doubled and singled, scoring one run in four at-bats. He also was successful on three stolen base attempts, including third base twice. Catcher Darrien Miller 0-for-3, one K. RH reliever Brannon Jordan finally gave up an earned run, his first in six appearances (11 innings). It came on a solo home run leading off the 8th after Jordan had pitched a scoreless 7th. Jordan was lifted after the blast. RH closer James Meeker tossed a perfect 9th for save #6, striking out one.

I suppose if a team was hoping to sign Eddy Alvarez as the Brewers just did, for instance, but Alvarez chose to sign with Milwaukee instead, then yeah, it would make sense for both parties to announce the signing after the draft. But we're really grinding the remotest minutia here now. I bring up his name every year, but sometimes the Brewers will expose a player below the AAA level just to give him an opportunity elsewhere. Eric Farris was taken by Seattle in the December 2012 Minor League Phase of Rule 5. Farris had been on the 40-man for 2012 but was outrighted off that October. To your other point, if a team's 38-man AAA roster is full, they can't make a minor league phase pick, so teams will often leave a few spots open and only roster maybe 35 at the top level. If an organization loses a player in the Major League Phase, that suddenly opens up a spot to allow for a minor league phase pick. We're digging through the weeds here, but minor league phase picks have been very occasionally productive, rare as it is - Justin Bour carved out a decent career, for instance. Finally, and several of baseball's finest journalists have fun pointing this out from time to time, but it isn't and never has been "Rule V", it's just "Rule 5". No Super Bowl commonality here.

Thanks for pointing out the Baseball Reference discrepancies. I say it in plural because others have reached out to me as well about their favorite (or family) players. Brock (owner) has set up the forum to auto-link to B-Ref player pages but I have noticed as well that they can quite often miss the mark. I will point this out but not sure what we can do on that one. Quite often, depending on the circumstances, I will manually link to the proper MiLB Player Page. With a list of 63, letting the auto-process do it’s thing caused the non-matching. I just went through the list, there were four incorrect links, manually fixed now.

Also noted in our Rule 5 Eligibles thread -

And just like that, we add player #63:

The prior thread on this topic can be found here, which prompted a formal article on our home page here.