Brewers Minor League Thread

[Madtown343]

Nice to see Salome finally do something with the stick down at Nashville last night. I have been watching Salome vs Lucroy all year as I consider it the most interesting position battle the Brewers have in the minors and Lucroy impresses me with his plus walk to strikeout ratio so far this season. He has shown power in the past, and if he also possesses patientce he really could be a nice player.

Also Caleb Gindl interests me as well. The guy has shot up the Brewers prospects list, and although he is challenged by his small stature, he is showing he has a very good bat. He runs well, hits for some pop, and hits left handed which is always a plus when talking about the Brewers.

Anyone have news on when Taylor Green might start swinging after his wrist surgery?

[Madtown343]

Oh and Gamel has not made an error in a long time. I know 7 in 25 games is still alarming, but its been a while since his last one and I consider that a drastic improvement.

[behnke2017]

A run down of records and place in the standings...

• Nashville Sounds (AAA) 14-12 (4th of 4 in PCL American North Div)
• Huntsville Stars (AA) 11-12 (2nd of 5 in Southern League North Div)
• Brevard County Manatees (A Adv.) 20-6 (1st of 6 in FSL North Div)
• Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (A) 10-14 (6th of 8 in Midwest Western Div)

Does anyone know of a site to find minor league stats for the entire organization? I'd like to see the stats of ALL the players in the system regardless of team or league.

[behnke2017]

I tried to dig up a site with complete organization stats so I did my own for the hitting stats. It is a sortable Excel spreadsheet so enjoy...here.

I will try to get the pitchers and hitting stats updated regularly and will post it here if you guys would like this format. I probably won't get around to the pitching stats until next week.

[brewersfan729]

Anyone have news on when Taylor Green might start swinging after his wrist surgery?

Late May - Early June is when he's supposed to start playing again.

Does anyone know of a site to find minor league stats for the entire organization?

It doesn't give the whole organization, but I have four links for each team (six when the Arizona and Helena Brewers start.)

Arizona Brewers:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...cid=406&y=2009

Helena Brewers:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...id=t433&y=2009

Wisconsin Timber Rattlers:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...=true&sid=t572

Brevard County Manatees:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...=true&sid=t503

Huntsville Stars:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...=true&sid=t559

Nashville Sounds:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...=t_ibp&cid=556

Arizona and Helena don't start until late June.

[behnke2017]

I know there's numerous places to get stats for each affiliate. I was looking for it to be combined.

[brewersfan729]

I know there's numerous places to get stats for each affiliate. I was looking for it to be combined.

I know, there's all the links so you don't have to constantly update the spreadsheet. They're all in one post and are easy to sort through.

[behnke2017]

I want all the numbers together to kinda see how everyone is doing in one place. I could take the sheet even further and make them all Major League equivalent at some point.

[Madtown343]

Replace Julio with Chris Smith. ( Look at his numbers... he throws strikes)

[Madtown343]

Ohh and another good news type story... top 5 pitching prospect Zach Braddock has returned from his elbow issues and is striking out 2 batters an inning for high A ball.

I think if he stays healthy he has as good of a chance as anyone to be the first tier of drafted pitchers to start making an impact on the major league team. (still more than a year away)

[Madtown343]

On another note, I am infatuated with following Mat Gamel, and along with the fact that he has reduced his errors drasticly the past 3 weeks look at his numbers against LH pitching.

.432/.489/1.027 with 11 of his 20 Xbase hits, and over half of his RBI in half the AB's. Will be nice to have a player that platoon is not mentioned when he finally does arrive.

[Madtown343]

Oh and just to be fair... as I consider myself pretty much anti-Tony Gwynn, but I do respect what he is doing.

My biggest issues with him were no power, and when power is not present OBP most be present to make a player effective. Gwynn had neither.

So far this season at Nashville he has walked more than he has K'ed, he is hitting batting over .300, and he is stealing bases effectively 12SB without being caught. All stats that would support his case for getting another chance in the big leagues even if it isnt in Milwaukee.

Oh and he hommered today... his first of the year.

[behnke2017]

I really hope thats a product of Gwynn realizing his name wasn't going to keep him in the majors and that he finally needs to work on his game if he's going to be consistently on a Major League roster rather than rotting his talent that he does have in AAA.

[behnke2017]

Lawrie's move to second working out
Drafted as catcher, Crew prospect finding way at new position

By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com

05/11/09 6:30 PM ET

MILWAUKEE -- Runners at second and third base, nobody out and your team is trying to hold a two-run lead. You're playing second base and a hard chopper is hit your way.

The correct play is to first base, for the sure out. Brett Lawrie, the Brewers' second base prospect, pivoted and fired to third.

"He threw the guy out at third base, and it was like, 'Holy mackerel!'" said Brewers farm director Reid Nichols, who was in the stands in Appleton, Wis., that April day for a game between Lawrie's Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Peoria Chiefs.

"It was a bad decision," Nichols said, "but it was a good play."

So continues the education of the 19-year-old Lawrie, who is hoping to be the next Prince Fielder or Rickie Weeks or Ryan Braun, all former first-rounders now drawing big league paychecks in Milwaukee. Lawrie was the 16th pick overall in last year's First-Year Player Draft, the top Canadian pick in history, and he was a catcher then. Over the offseason, he decided to switch to second.

The Brewers approved, though the move has been mostly panned outside the organization. Nichols, not exactly known for throwing around unwarranted praise, has a radically different take.

"I didn't think he could do it," said Nichols, who has overseen Milwaukee's Minor League affiliates since November 2002. "And I certainly didn't think he could do it this quickly.

"But he has good range, good hands. I have been pleasantly surprised."

Considering Nichols' usually low-key assessment of even the hottest of prospects, that qualifies as a ringing endorsement of Lawrie, who began his Brewers career last month about 100 miles up the road from Miller Park at the Brewers' new Class A affiliate.

"I love it back there," Lawrie proclaimed on Draft day, professing his affinity for catching.

So much for his excitement about being a backstop. Over the offseason, after Lawrie had played for Team Canada in the Junior World Championships and the Beijing Olympics, his outlook changed.

"I've always liked second base," Lawrie said. "I like catching, too, but it wasn't a position I could see myself going to the park every day and playing. Catching just wasn't really there for me. It didn't feel proper to me. I think it's one of those things you have to pick up when you're young."

Lawrie insists the decision to move to second base was his own. It had to be approved by club officials and went all the way up the ladder to general manager Doug Melvin.

"When Brett was drafted, he was drafted for his bat," Melvin said. "It wasn't firm where he was going to play, and [second base] might not be his last position, either. He's athletic enough to play a couple of positions."

In the Draft room, scouts debated a number of defensive projections for Lawrie. Catcher obviously came up, but so did first, second and third base and left field.

The scouts mostly talked about his offensive potential, and so far Lawrie has not disappointed. He's hitting .298 with four home runs, 21 RBIs, eight stolen bases and a .350 on-base percentage. He's among the Midwest League's top 10 in homers and RBIs, and he went 3-for-5 in the Rattlers' April 24 "Border Battle" against Peoria in front of 17,880 fans at Miller Park.

"For now, this is the position he's playing," Melvin said. "And he wants to play there. It's important that the player buys into it."

Nichols had initial doubts about the switch and so did Lawrie's manager, Jeff Isom. One unnamed scout who watched Lawrie play a Spring Training game called his play there, "a joke."

"No way, no how he's going to be able to stay there," the scout told the Web site Baseball Prospectus.

Yes, Lawrie read that report.

"They always say, 'You can't do this or that,'" Lawrie said. "But that doesn't bother me. I know what I can do and what I can't do. It just makes me strive harder to get it done."

Lawrie did have some experience at second base for the Canadian junior national team. His switch to second could prove a savvy move.

Brewers catcher Jason Kendall turns 35 next month and is in the final year of his contract, but the team has a pair of exciting catching prospects in Triple-A Nashville's Angel Salome and Double-A Huntsville's Jonathan Lucroy, both 22. Defense-first catcher Carlos Corporan projects as a backup, but he climbed so high on the depth chart in Spring Training that the Brewers currently have him in the big leagues while Mike Rivera rehabs an ankle injury. At second base, meanwhile, Weeks is a free agent after the 2011 season. The team's top infield prospects all play other positions. Mat Gamel and Taylor Green are third basemen, and Alcides Escobar and Brent Brewer are currently shortstops. Isom doesn't just think that Lawrie could pass in the Major Leagues as a second baseman, but that he could be a good one.

"I saw him in Spring Training ... and I didn't know what to expect," Isom said. "There were some rough times, but you saw a lot of athleticism. We would see things in games and have to mention, 'You need to be doing this and that.' "The thing about Brett Lawrie is that you tell him once about game-situation stuff, and you don't have to tell him again. In Spring Training, it was daily that we talked about two or three things. As the season started, we haven't had to tell him a thing. He's a 'baseball guy.'"

Brewers.com

[Burm3]

Jefferies and Gamel are proving that they are both getting close to ready