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Checking out how Brantley and Salome look defensively would be nice. Also, if Aguilar gets into the game, how hard he's throwing and how his breaking ball looks. Thanks pogo.

Odorizzi's signing bonus was $1.06M, "plus money for college." link

At least Lucroy hit his first A+ homer.

Ramlow's start ended up not being too bad. 5/0 K/BB in 5.7 innings with 7 hits is not a disaster. Hope he gets some more chances.

That is interesting.

Why do you think that? "Our" Austin Adams confirmed to me that he's on the Hyannis Mets.

Schafer made his debut tonight, so help has arrived.

He's still not on the roster, but this article confirms he's on the team:

He has an MiLB.com page that has him assigned to Helena, so I guess it's true.

And Fasano had another impact on the Brewers in 2006, badly spraining J.J. Hardy's ankle on a collision at home.

The whole to-do with Lintz and Haudricourt earlier stemmed from Lintz too eagerly reporting his own signing. Based on that, I would be surprised if he doesn't sign.

49th-rounder Dan Meadows signed (a week ago--whoops). link

I talked to Donn Roach, a high school teammate of Brandon Garcia, the 28th-round pick from Bishop Gorman HS in Nevada. He said:

Hey MH, Adams confirmed that he's on the Hyannis Mets, so you should check him out.

"Huntsville Stars right fielder Matt LaPorta left the game due to an injured neck/shoulder." Anyone listening to the radio broadcast know what happened?

You're right, my bad. Are you going to get a chance to see him on the Cape, Mass?

Tidbits: An FIU poster thinks they might lose Stosh Wawrzasek. Garrett Sherrill and Mark Willinsky will share closing duties for Helena. The Brewers haven't made an offer to 27th-round pick Austin Adams yet.

I'd have to think so. He's a second-team All-America who's only caught full-time for a year and hit .341/.444/.628.

Highland star, Odorizzi, relishes title By Ken Roberts Ever since he was able to play baseball, Jake Odorizzi wanted to accomplish one thing - win an Illinois high school baseball championship. Never mind that the 18-year-old sensation from Highland is a professional prospect on the rise (he was the 32nd choice in the major-league amateur draft by the Milwaukee Brewers), or that he was named the Gatorade Illinois player of the year this season, or that he is the 2008 Post-Dispatch player of the year. Taking home a state title was something he wanted when he began playing 13 years ago. "That's the most important thing," he said after earning his third save of the season for the Bulldogs in their 6-2 title victory June 7 over Rock Falls at Silver Cross Field in Joliet. "Because that can't be taken away from you. That will be forever." What also will be forever are the ridiculous pitching numbers he put up this season. The 6-foot-2, 175-pound righthander was 14-0 and ended his career with a 25-game winning streak. He had a 0.08 earned-run average, allowing just one earned run, and three runs all season, in 89 2/3 innings. Odorizzi gave up just 33 hits and six walks with 146 strikeouts while throwing fastballs that touched 97 mph. On the offensive side, the slick-fielding shortstop set a school record for home runs with 15 and drove in 41 runs while batting .409 with 31 steals and a .922 slugging percentage. "It just seemed that nobody ever put a solid bat on the ball in enough of a consistent pattern to score against him," said Triad coach Jesse Bugger, whose team managed one hit against Odorizzi this season. "… To go along with the tools that he had, he was a tremendous competitor." That special talent helped Highland through the playoffs as Odorizzi was 4-0 with two saves in his team's seven games. At the plate, he had three homers, five RBIs and five steals. Bulldogs coach Joel Hawkins, whose team set a school record for wins with 36, was at a loss for words as he tried to describe Odorizzi's season. "I'm not even sure what to say," he said. "I watched it happen. I watched what he did and I'm not sure what he did is even doable. Hundred forty-six to six, strikeouts to walks. One earned run, three total runs. I don't know. I can't imagine having a kid doing it again. Can you? It's remarkable. It's astounding. It's miraculous. Yet he did it." And Odorizzi did it without celebration. He was never shaken despite pitching all season in front of scouts from every major-league organization with radar guns pointed. "He was the leader," said fellow pitcher, third baseman and best friend Danny Gifford, who was 10-0 with a 2.11 ERA this season. "Without him, some of those big games, who knows, we may not have even won. His presence out there was just amazing. Just what he does." picture of Odorizzi scoring the winning run in the semifinal game

The signing deadline is 8/15.

Colby, assuming Lawrie takes awhile to sign (perhaps until after the World Junior Baseball Championship, which ends 8/3) and Kemp hits well at Helena, could Kemp then be bumped up to WV and Lawrie take his place for the Baby Brewers?

Nice to see Eric Fryer taking some walks.

Josh Romanski signed for $247K. link

Humanizing story about Josh Romanski from an article about an American Cancer Society fundraiser:

I don't know how far back we want to go, but Byron Batson, a 42nd-round pick in 2000 who only spent one season in the Brewers' system, signed with the Somerset Patriots of the independent Atlantic League a couple weeks ago. link