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It'll be an interesting storyline to follow. That oppo power is quite nuts. 2025 High-A 2025 AA 2026 2A

Will try to make this a daily update and a monthly one including FIP as well.

Owens' stats back in college, pitch label not calibrated. Starter arsenal and a three-fastballs combo that Brewers like. Velos likely play faster due to his near-7ft extension. Might be a quite interesting one to follow this season.

Aggregated data from all levels, ranked by whiffs. Braylon Owens take the crown with 15 whiffs today, and once again hitters look completely overmatched against Manfredi. 7 whiffs in one inning is just nasty work, might not be long before a AAA promotion.

Stats from all games acrossed three levels, ranked by whiffs. Mercedes take the crown with his 18 whiffs and 46.2 Whiff% across five innings! Also, Manfredi had 9 whiffs in just two innings(64.3 Whiff%)👀

I'll be extremely worried if it's that high haha. Think I read it somewhere that his in-game bat speed is around mid-70s while able to maintain his zone-whiff% to less than 20% in the meantime. Intriguing to say the least👀

Rengifo for the past four seasons: 0.312 wOBA/ 0.306 xwOBA Durbin last year: 0.319 wOBA/ 0.312 xwOBA Against lefties Rengifo: 0.364 wOBA/ 0.334 xwOBA (2022-2025) Durbin: 0.317 wOBA/ 0.305 xwOBA I was guessing they would sign Ramon Urias simply because Rengifo's defense at third was horrendous, but maybe Brewers can fix something that Angels doesn't?

Those two had literally nothing in common, but if your're just randomly throwing names then sure I guess.

I'm sensing Eric Lauer vibe, but his above average changeup likely give him a better floor than Lauer's. The only concern I have is durability issue.

Interestingly, he actually positioned close to center of the rubber two years ago, as can be seen at clips below from 2024/08/02 It was near the end of 2025 season that he moved toward first base side of rubber, which I believe in part fueled his late season resurgence. Even though his four seam is in dead zone territory, his velo creates some room for error. It's probably still playable pairing with his sinker. It'll be interesting to see how Brewers distribute usage between 4-seam/sinker against righties. Late season when he had performance uptick it's mostly 50/50, but after promoting to big leagues 4-seam basically got scrapped.

AAA four seam zone rate: 50.4% FSL four seam zone rate: 48.6% In terms of his age, I would say his control is around average though. Sweeper is his best swing-and-miss pitch and he's able to zone it as well, so the high usage makes sense. I'm sure the usage will tone down as he climbs through levels.

A friend of mine is kind enough to give me access to Lance Brodzowski's minor league pitcher's note. Highly recommend all the pitching nerd out there pay his substack a visit, as the free articles are also well written as well. Along with some stats I compile, Performance split at High-A At Double-A Whole season stats

Starting pitcher preview for both sides.

Likely second appearance in bridge league for Chang Tzu-Chun Lin. (1 IP, 3 K) Two variations of offspeed pitches. Changeup on 1st K and split-finger on 3rd Ks. (Video from his instagram) 3k.mp4

Behind home plate view from BA writer.

Login • Instagram WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. Chang Tzu-Chun Lin debut in bridge league. 1 IP, 2 K, 2 H, 1 ER

Baseball America: Owens is a 6-foot, 228-pound righthander who played a key role in UTSA’s first-ever super regional run as a do-it-all arm in 2025. He posted a 4.47 ERA with 100 strikeouts and 40 walks over 90.2 innings across 21 appearances, including 14 starts. Owens sits 91–93 mph with his fastball, touching 96, and generates solid carry up in the zone. His best secondary is a mid-80s slider, while his changeup and curveball are used sparingly, each under 8% of the time. Owens will need to refine his command at the next level and likely profiles as a professional reliever. (Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to develop him as a starter.) Prospect Live: While Perry’s ERA rose by nearly a point from 2024 to 2025, his strikeout and walk numbers improved by a significant margin. He improved his strikeout rate from 18% to 23.1% and cut his walk rate from 13.% to 8.5%. Each of these improvements was sustained in the MLB Draft League, where he walked 3 and struck out 13 in 11 innings while putting up a much-improved 1.64 ERA. Perry’s got a good variety of pitches with a low 90s fastball, mid-80s cutter, low 80s change-up, and high 70s curveball. The curveball especially looks to be the best of the bunch, with excellent tunnelling paired with the fastball and a nasty late drop. He’s got elite extension as well at a little over 7 feet despite being just 6‘2. Like Niksch, his secondaries all possess good movement, but his rotation and overall potential heavily depend on the improvement of his fastball. Prospect Live Bonet is yet another guy who flashed his potential during the summer collegiate rounds. Although he posted a 6.08 ERA, Bonet struck out 19 batters in 13.1 innings, good for a 30.2% K rate. At San Jacinto as well, he showed his ability to get strikeouts, but immensely struggled with command, both at San Jacinto and at the MLB Draft League. His delivery is aggressive, and he may need refinement for fluidity in motion. He has a fastball that sits mid 90s with flashes of upper 90s with some tail as well. In the opposite direction, he also has a cutter that has some nice late movement and a low 80s slider. His breaking pitch will need more development to see sustained success, and his command will need vast improvement but his fastballs show the ability to be a reliable pitch from the bullpen.

From McCalvy's article, it seems like the area scout in Taiwan is staying with them to provide translation. I'll see if I can get Tzu-Chun's word in the offseason. His family stop by the Mandarin fanpage I'm running occasionally.

Possibly because of different ball from draft league, fastball ride is slightly less impressive in his 11 innings of work.

Sure move on from Ortiz and turn to a guy with worse underlying numbers both offense and defense wise.

IKF is just a luckier version of Joey Ortiz, but with a worse glove. Tbh I'll be extremely disappointed if that's the trade deadline acqusition. Also not sure why we're still using road numbers to evaluate Rockies' player performance, despite the hangover effect being mentioned time and time again as the ball move differently. McMahon didn't get moved in previous seasons because he specifically told GM he wanted to stay in Denver because of his daughter and wife.

Much appreciate for the recap! "twitchy" is an often seen term but I'm not entirely sure that meant. Is it ...hand quickness?