Baseball America reports the Brewers released LHP Blake Lillis, their 25th round pick in 2016 out of a Kansas high school. The young man, now 22, missed all of 2017 with ulnar neuritis (inflammation of the ulnar nerve in the arm that results in numbness or weakness in the hand. The ulnar nerve is more commonly thought of as the “funny bone” and gives feeling to the little finger and half of the ring finger.) Lillis made his way through 46.1 innings in 2018 at Helena, but after just one start with Rocky Mountain in 2019, underwent Tommy John surgery last July. Wishing Blake the best. As part of his signing package, there likely was money promised for college should he decide to go that route.