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Puerto Rico Box Sunday 11/8 SS Angel Ortega, the now-22-year-old 2012 6th round pick who posted an unsightly .490 OPS for Brevard County in 2015 in his age 21 season, made his winter debut with an 0-for-4 in his team's 7-2 loss.

Brewers' job came 'out of nowhere' for U High grad Johnson

Man, this kid was a tremendous baseball talent -- In Memory Of Charlie Donovan: One of Illinois' All-Time Greats

Via Melanie Newman -- You'll find audio interviews with OF Brett Phillips from earlier in the AFL season and RHP Jacob Barnes at the Fall Star Game here

Fall-Star Game VIDEO: Yadiel Rivera bare-handed play Reviewing the Brew with more

Hat tip to @BrewerNation for the video find.

Team USA Baseball is in Taiwan for the upcoming Premier 12 tournament. They played a "warmup game" this AM (our time) against Chinese Taipei, and down to their final out, this happened (tweet): .@Brett_Phillips8 hits a 2 out bomb over the right field fence! We are tied at 3-3 in the 9th. #TeamUSA It was Phillips' lone AB of the game. Of course, a good question might be what was USA doing down 3-2 in the 9th to Chinese Taipei -- it's a global game, everyone!

Puerto Rico Box Friday 11/6 21-year-old RHP Joshua Torres closed out a 7-1 win with a scoreless outing in his winter debut. Torres, the 2014 Arizona League ERA champ, struggled with the Timber Rattlers in 2015, was better with Helena. He saw action last winter as well. Santurce Top of the 9th Pitching Change: Joshua Torres replaces Freddie Cabrera. Emmanuel Marrero called out on strikes. Juan Centeno walks. Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Ismael Salgado replaces Jorge Padilla. Ismael Salgado strikes out swinging. Dainer Moreir pops out to first baseman Brock Stassi in foul territory.

UPDATED: Here's every single photo from Brewers 2015 Instructional Camp, sorted by individual player! The elusive Nattino "I'm not Marcos" Diplan photos LHP Jake Drossner RHP Kaleb Earls RHP Conor Harber RHP Karsen Lindell RHP Jon Olczak LHP Drake Owenby LHP Quintin Torres-Costa RHP Angel Ventura C Mitch Ghelfi C Dustin Houle C Max McDowell C Milan Post C Jose Sibrian INF Jose Cuas 1B David Denson INF Jake Gatewood INF George Iskenderian SS Gilbert Lara IF/OF Sthervin Matos SS Ignacio Otano 1B Tyrone Perry C/3B Beau Wallace OF Carlos Belonis OF Trent Clark OF Malik Collymore OF Omar Cotto OF Clint Coulter OF/2B Brandon Diaz OF Yeraldy Martinez OF Demi Orimoloye OF Troy Stokes

Dominican Box Friday 11/5 Jason Rogers (designated hitter) 1-for-5, K

Thirty-nine seconds of mowing them down -- http://compendiodeportivo.com.ve/sitio/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Junior-Guerra.jpg

Venezuela Box Friday 11/5 We're down to just 35 players on the Brewers' 40-man roster, but the most recent addition, waiver claim via the White Sox RHP Junior Guerra, is just killing it through six winter ball starts. Tonight's line: 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K, 99 pitches (65 strikes), GB:FO 8:4 Click the player link above for a reminder about his prior outings. Would be sweet if the Brewers planned to try the soon-to-be 31-year-old as a starter (reminder: does have two minor league options left). Maybe we'll get some overnight video. Margarita Top of the 1st Breyvic Valera lines out to shortstop Heiker Meneses. Eliezer Alfonzo singles on a line drive to left fielder Ronnier Mustelier. Jose Osuna lines into a double play, third baseman Alberto Gonzalez to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Eliezer Alfonzo doubled off 1st. Margarita Top of the 2nd Alex Monsalve flies out to right fielder Brian Burgamy. Yorman Rodriguez singles on a sharp ground ball to center fielder Carlos Arroyo. Maikel Caceres flies out to right fielder Brian Burgamy. Luis Maza grounds out, shortstop Heiker Meneses to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Margarita Top of the 3rd Edgar Duran strikes out swinging. David Gonzalez grounds out, first baseman Cesar Suarez to pitcher Junior Guerra. Breyvic Valera grounds out, shortstop Heiker Meneses to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Margarita Top of the 4th Eliezer Alfonzo doubles (4) on a fly ball to right fielder Brian Burgamy. Jose Osuna grounds out, first baseman Cesar Suarez to pitcher Junior Guerra. Eliezer Alfonzo to 3rd. Alex Monsalve called out on strikes. Yorman Rodriguez grounds out softly, pitcher Junior Guerra to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Margarita Top of the 5th Maikel Caceres grounds out, second baseman Carlos Colmenares to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Luis Maza flies out to center fielder Carlos Arroyo. Edgar Duran singles on a line drive to center fielder Carlos Arroyo. David Gonzalez lines out to second baseman Carlos Colmenares. Margarita Top of the 6th Breyvic Valera singles on a line drive to right fielder Brian Burgamy. Eliezer Alfonzo grounds into a double play, second baseman Carlos Colmenares to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Breyvic Valera out at 2nd. Jose Osuna flies out to right fielder Brian Burgamy. Margarita Top of the 7th Yonathan Daza remains in the game as the center fielder. Alex Monsalve pops out to second baseman Carlos Colmenares. Yorman Rodriguez grounds out, shortstop Heiker Meneses to first baseman Cesar Suarez. Maikel Caceres walks. Luis Maza strikes out swinging.

Reviewing the Twitter feed on the young man's passing makes one realize he was as respected off the field as on.

Charlie Donovan, Brewers 18-year-old unsigned 2015 30th round pick, passes away This is so sad. Via one of the links below -- Charlie Donovan, a University of Michigan shortstop recruit and Milwaukee Brewers draftee from the Chicago area, died overnight. He had deferred his enrollment to January or next year following a bout with mono over the summer (originally was a fall 2015 recruit). *** Donovan would have been 19 years old December 12th. Here are the links available at this time. Charlie Donovan: 'Cool feeling' being taken in MLB Draft http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/_internal/cimg!0/tke7aw0522tphhpn74e0e8z1c2p2equ (Photo by Steve Bittinger for Shaw Media) Three-time POY Donovan passes away University of Michigan Sports Blog -- only a few things are known at this time, among the many RIP postings you'll see are tidbits about a recent post his father made, the wonderings of a physician, and that his younger brother is also a fine player and UMichigan commit. The Brewers' Illinois area scout is Harvey Kuenn, Jr. -- surely he'll be pretty shook up by this. More from last June post-draft: Only one number doesn't explain Donovan *** Our best to the Donovan family -- you may not have officially been a Brewer, but we mourn your loss with you.

With warmup video -- Jeff Levering's report Day 2 in the AFL: Friday’s headline – Josh Hader is Special

We can now save a bunch of typing on Hernan Perez' winter league season -- he's a minor league free agent after his outright off the 40-man roster today.

Chapman invited to early camp "Early camp" is a step up from the other standard camp invites, but it's not a full-blown big league spring training invite -- just a clarification.

Adam McCalvy with multiple AFL updates

Via BP Milwaukee -- NL Central’s Top-50 Prospects

This all appears to be a done deal now -- nice move among all involved: agent, player, team.

Cool post at Rattler Radio -- Orlando Arcia as a Timber Rattler

Not indicative of Yadiel's play thus far --

Sure looks like RHP Jaye Chapman will be back, and with a big league camp invite. Agent Josh Kusnick -- Will have free agent update today. Contract signed. 6 year guy w invite to early camp. One down I bet if you check who liked this tweet it would be funny. (Chapman did...) Although Josh tosses in a "maybe" in this Twitter conversation, Nothing as promised, perhaps waiting for a Brewers announcement...

Venezuela Box Thursday 11/5 Hernan Perez, batting 3rd and playing third base, 1-for-3 (triple, sacrifice bunt, run scored) in a 2-0 win *** That was it for Thursday's Brewers winter league updates.

Arizona Box Thursday 11/5 Craig Counsell was there... Here's Jeff Levering's full report Gameday did not include PitchFx data for this one. Nicky Delmonico was 0-for-4 and is batting .114, not exactly rooting for him. As for Friday's TV game ,we get LHP Josh Hader, as Jeff noted. We should get Yadiel Rivera as well. With Michael Reed (minor knee injury) done and Brett Phillips overseas, Brewer fans are done to two position players -- Rivera and taxi squad member Nathan Orf. Taxi players play on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but Orf missed Wednesday's game, hopefully he's OK. With the Fall Star Game on Saturday (Rivera, Barnes, Magnifico), perhaps the AFL will let the taxi guys play Friday and we'll see Orf on TV.