Jim Goulart

Via Kyle at BP Milwaukee -- Developing Wei-Chung Wang

All via MillerParkProspects, which as we've told you in the past, you should have bookmarked already -- *** 4/27 - Minor League Mailbag 4/28 - Brewers Organizational Leaders 4/29 - Chapman Stating His Case For Return to The Big Leagues

AUDIO via WTMJ Thurs. AM 4/28: New WTMJ Brewers Extra Innings host Matt Pauley *** AUDIO via WTMJ Fri. AM 4/29: GM David Stearns

The Colorado Springs roster decision on what to do with their 26th man after the Jungmann - Goforth swap can now be delayed a day or two until Jungmann officially reports to the team.

Taylor Jungmann's second option gets used; he can be optioned again in 2017 if need be.

Hi Link Report readers, I'll be making only my 3rd trip ever (2003, 2013) from Boston into Miller Park for Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon games next week vs. the Angels, and I wouldn't mind experiencing my first Milwaukee tailgate (I'll chip in...). If you wouldn't mind me stopping by with my buddy, shoot me a line at jgoulart at brewerfan.net, and we can exchange cell phone #'s. Thanks!

Friday's farmhand birthdays -- Hobbs Johnson is 25 Malik Collymore is 21

Look for these just prior to the respective game times -- Colorado Springs Media Notes - Linked on the Sky Sox official blog Biloxi Media Notes - Linked on the Shuck Dynasty blog Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog *** STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division AA - Southern League South Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division *** Sortable individual stat pages: Colorado Springs Biloxi Brevard County Wisconsin *** Weather.com: Des Moines, IA Biloxi, MS Grand Chute, WI

Follow Friday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Colorado Springs Biloxi Wisconsin MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

DVR ALERTS, Including tonight! Timber Rattlers Games Friday, April 29th, 6:30 PM -- My New32 TV Saturday, April 30th, 1:00 PM -- My New32 TV

Friday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Colorado Springs: RHP Hiram Burgos at Iowa (Cubs), 6:30 PM pre-game, 7:08 gametime Free Live Audio Link Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson) MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup. ********** Biloxi: RHP Jorge Ortega at home vs. Tennessee (Cubs), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:10 gametime Free Live Audio Link Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Thaddeus Krzus (@Shucks1stIntern) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast. MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them. ********** Brevard County: A rare idle Friday; the Tampa Yankees moved the game, scheduling a doubleheader Saturday ********** Wisconsin: RHP Marcos Diplan at home vs. Lansing (Blue Jays), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 gametime; expect RHP Freddy Peralta to pitch in a tandem role Free Live Audio Link 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 - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them. We'll let you know when a road TV feed is available. NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on local TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (10) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (29) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule (scroll to bottom of link) so you can coordinate your DVR activity.

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Final: Iowa 10, Colorado Springs 5 Iowa Claims Series Opener 10-5 Over Sox Despite home runs from Weisenburger and Cecchini, Iowa outlasts Colorado Springs on Thursday By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox *** Colorado Springs Box Score Andy Wilkins played in RF, only his 10th appearance as a pro in the outfield, and only his second career game in right; Garin Cecchini played first base; Michael Reed did not play, Ben Guez was the right-handed pinch-hitter in the 9th, the Sky Sox need to make a roster move Friday, hmmm, let the wondering begin... Colorado Springs Game Log So you want to send Taylor Jungmann down to work on things? Junior Guerra would have to be the choice, his 1.11 WHIP stands out among the starters' awful numbers, and he's on the 40-man. Gee, Jorge Lopez, your manager did not sound impressed in the audio linked above, throw strikes, young man. Two of your four starts have been in Memphis and Iowa, not exactly hitter havens, especially in April.

AUDIO: Sky Sox Warmup with Manager Rick Sweet Explains how Drew Gagnon made it to Iowa from Biloxi, but Nate Orf did not... Also discusses Jorge Lopez's difficulties (remember, this was before another disappointing start), and Shane Peterson's injury status...

Final: Brevard County 5, Lakeland 4 Sweet! Manatees snap nine-game losing streak with wild win over Lakeland Donald Rieber Jr., Manatees Examiner Nice photo of RHP Kender Villegas at the link... Manager Joe Ayrault's quotes sprinkled into the excellent detailed write-up... *** Brevard County Box Score HBP: Stewart (by Woodruff); Reaves (by Woodruff); Iskenderian (by Briceno, E); DeMuth (by Briceno, E); Iskenderian (by Briceno, E); Iskenderian (by Paredes). No brawls, no ejections, but three bruises for George Iskenderian, who had not been hit by a pitch in 80 plate appearances entering this game; tough reading about the Clint Coulter error in the game story, but that was his first charged error on the season... Brevard County Game Log The go-ahead three-run rally! Brevard County Bottom of the 8th George Iskenderian hit by pitch. With Dustin DeMuth batting, George Iskenderian steals (3) 2nd base. Dustin DeMuth walks. Pitching Change: Edgar De La Rosa replaces Willy Paredes. Fidel Pena singles on a ground ball to pitcher Edgar De La Rosa. George Iskenderian scores. Dustin DeMuth scores. Fidel Pena to 2nd. Throwing error by pitcher Edgar De La Rosa. Taylor Brennan strikes out swinging. Greg McCall strikes out swinging, catcher Kade Scivicque to first baseman Wade Hinkle. Fidel Pena to 3rd on the throw. With Omar Garcia batting, wild pitch by Edgar De La Rosa, Fidel Pena scores. Omar Garcia flies out to right fielder Ben Verlander.

Many of you may be aware of the devastating flooding in portions of Biloxi, yet as Chris Harris tweeted -- After all the rain in the last 12 hrs, grounds crew is having to put water on the infield. Surface is incredible. Couldn't believe they played last night after seeing the earlier reports...

AUDIO: Biloxi game highlights; check out the comments timing on the Chris McFarland home run ***

McFarland's 3-run bomb lifts Shuckers to 6-5 win over Tennessee Patrick Magee, Biloxi Sun-Herald BILOXI - The Shuckers rallied from down 3-0 to top the Tennessee Smokies 6-5 Thursday night in game one of a five-game series at MGM Park. The big hit of the game came off the bat of Biloxi second baseman Chris McFarland, who ripped a three-run home run off the left field scoreboard to give the Shuckers a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Jaye Chapman entered the game in the ninth, gave up just his second hit in 9 1/3 innings this season, but finished the game with a scoreless inning to record a Southern League-leading ninth save. Chapman struck out the side to give him 15 K's on the season and an ERA of 0.00. "Awesome, he's been awesome," Biloxi manager Mike Guerrero said. "There's nothing else I can say about it." The Shuckers are 15-5 with a 3 1/2-game lead on second-place Pensacola in the Southern League South. Brett Phillips had a nice night at the plate for the Shuckers, going 2-for-4 with a pair of important RBIs before a crowd of 1,570. Tennessee jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Shuckers starting pitcher Adrian Houser in the top of the third. Smokies second baseman Chesny Young had an RBI single in the inning and Billy McKinney capped the scoring with a two-run single to center field. Houser (1-2) recovered from his struggles in the third to earn his first victory of the season. He allowed four runs on five hits, striking out three and walking two. "That's the way this game goes," Guerrero said of Houser's recovery Thursday. "You've got to be able to compete." Rob Zastryzny (2-1) took his first loss of the season. He gave up five runs on seven hits in six innings, striking out three and walking two. The Shuckers got to Zastryzny in the the fourth with Jacob Nottingham singling to start the inning and later scoring on a double to left by Javier Betancourt. With two men on and two out, McFarland stepped to the plate and cleared the left fence for his first homer of the season for the 4-3 lead. "The first two swings, I was a little bit out in front. I was trying to do too much," McFarland said. "The next pitch, I was always sitting fastball. He gave me the fastball and I got a hold of it." Phillips provided a pair of insurance runs with RBI singles in the fifth and seventh innings. Tristan Archer, Jed Bradley, Stephen Kohlscheen and Chapman combined to hold Tennessee to one run on four hits in the final four innings to close out the win. Biloxi will go with Jorge Ortega (0-1, 1.53) as the starting pitcher in Friday's 7:10 p.m. game at MGM Park. Tennessee (11-10) has yet to name a starter for the contest.

Congrats to IF Nate Orf, who will be making his AAA debut after his transfer from Biloxi to Colorado Springs. The Sky Sox will need to free up a spot by making a corresponding move on Friday. Catcher Parker Berberet, one of the final "taxi squad" guys yet to see action, has been transferred from the Maryvale roster to Biloxi's.

Sky Sox blog feature on RHP Tim Dillard

Via @BrewersPD -- RHP Drew Gagnon has been transferred to Col Springs. LHP Mitch Lambson has been placed on the DL. LHP Hobbs Johnson activated from Biloxi DL *** No word on the nature of Lambson's injury. Also, when Hernan Perez was brought back to Milwaukee, catcher Adam Weisenburger was activated from the paper Helena taxi squad and saw his first action of the season Thursday night.

Rattler Radio Blog Postgame Entry - Includes multiple postgame AUDIO interviews

Link includes VIDEO interview with LHP Jake Drossner, with some of those quotes detailed below Timber Rattlers win 5th straight behind pitching Tim Froberg, Appleton Post-Crescent GRAND CHUTE - Mathematically, you get nothing when you add a string of zeroes. When a baseball pitching staff is responsible for those zeroes, it’s different. It adds up to a lot of production, and that’s what the Wisconsin Timber Ratttlers are getting from a much-improved pitching staff. Three Timber Rattlers pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout Thursday afternoon to extend the Rattlers’ winning streak to five games with a 1-0 victory over the Great Lakes Loons at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. In sweeping a three-game series from the visiting Loons, Wisconsin overcame a rough game in the field (three errors) due primarily to its stellar work on the mound. Rattlers pitchers Conor Harber, Alex Farina and Jake Drossner combined for 11 strikeouts and issued just two walks. Twenty-one games into the season, Wisconsin (10-11) has the second-lowest earned run average (2.82) in the 16-team Midwest League behind only Kane County (2.17). “Our pitching has been outstanding,” said Wisconsin manager Matt Erickson. “Today was a prime example. We’ve been throwing a lot of strikes and attacking hitters. Walks create big innings and we haven’t been walking too many people.” A Timber Rattlers staff guided by pitching coach Gary Lucas has issued just 53 walks, which ties them with the Cougars for the lowest number of free passes in the league. Wisconsin pitchers have racked up 179 strikeouts, the second-highest in the Midwest League, and allowed 155 hits, the fifth-fewest in the league. “Our pitchers have also done a nice job of holding runners, so we’re not getting killed in the running game,” Erickson said. “We’ve been good in all aspects of pitching. It’s not just brain dead heaving it up there. We’ve done a nice job of getting ahead of hitters, containing the running game and making pitches with runners in scoring position.” Drossner, a 21-year-old left-hander who was Wisconsin’s opening-day starter, was especially effective pitching with runners in scoring position. With runners on second and third in the top of the eighth following back-to-back Wisconsin errors, Drossner choked off a potential Loons rally by striking out Ariel Sandoval and Omar Estevez for the final two outs to keep the game scoreless. Sandoval and Estevez were the No. 2 and No. 3 hitters in the Loons’ lineup. “We gave them two extra outs that inning, but Drossner was outstanding,” said Erickson. “He earned the opportunity to go back out there in the ninth.” It was the best outing of the year for Drossner, who picked up his first win as a Timber Rattler by allowing just one hit and striking out six with no walks in five innings. Harber was the starter and was also sharp, allowing one hit and fanning five in 2 2/3 innings before departing due to pitch-count issues. Drossner had been struggling and the five shutout innings lowered his ERA from 7.24 to 5.30. “I took the mentality that the past is the past and just went out there and tried to be myself,” said Drossner. “The last couple starts, I had been putting too much pressure on myself. So I just tried to relax. I didn’t try and do too much and just went out and competed. That’s the type of pitcher I can be when I just try to be myself out there.” The Rattlers like to use pitchers in tandems early in the season, and it was the first time that Drossner has been used in the late innings as the second half of the tandem. He had been a starting pitcher in his four previous appearances. “It was kind of a role change for me and I don’t think I’ve been in a late-inning situation like that since high school,” said Drossner, a 10th-round selection by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2015 draft. “I felt real confident going out there for the ninth inning.”