Alumni Thread

[Mass Haas]

Corey Patterson to Seattle on a minor league deal with a camp invite

[battlekow]

Steve Woodard is hosting a pitching clinic in Alabama featuring current Alabama-born Brewers Zelous Wheeler, Del Howell, and Donovan Hand.

[Mass Haas]

Chris Duffy gets a spring training invite with the Phillies.

 

Duffy, 29, started last season with the Milwaukee Brewers, hitting .125 with three RBIs in 19 games. He played three games with Triple-A Nashville before leaving the team for personal reasons. He has hit .262 with six home runs and 52 RBIs in 212 big league games with Pittsburgh (2005-07) and Milwaukee (2009).

[Mass Haas]

Houston Scouting Director and former Brewer crosschecker Bobby Heck grabs long-time farmhand, now 25-year-old OF Freddy Parejo.

 

Remember 2B Alejandro Machado? He was briefly on the 40-man at the end of 2003.

 

July 10, 2003: Traded by the Kansas City Royals with Wes Obermueller to the Milwaukee Brewers for Curt Leskanic.

March 29, 2004: Sent to the Montreal Expos by the Milwaukee Brewers as part of a conditional deal.

 

The Mets signed Machado to a minor league deal.

[battlekow]

I'll always remember Machado for a play involving two other former (at that point future) Brewers while all three were on the Red Sox. Gabe Kapler was on base when Tony Graffanino hit a homer, but Kapler tore his Achilles while he was rounding the bases, and Machado pinch-ran for him mid-trot.

[Mass Haas]

Catcher Andy Bouchie, the 2006 7th round pick released after three seasons in Milwaukee's system, has found his way back to affiliated ball after going the independent league route.

[Mass Haas]

Baseball America:

 

Minor league deals:

RHP Greg Aquino -- White Sox

OF Laynce Nix -- Reds

RHP Nic Ungs -- Marlins

RHP Matt Ginter -- Astros

RHP Elmer Dessens -- Mets

RHP Jeff Bennett -- Rays

UT Joe Dillon -- Rays

 

Released:

LHP Edwin Walker -- Yankees

[Mass Haas]

Reliever Brian Wolfe (Corey Koskie trade), surprisingly effective for Toronto in 2008, is off to Japan.

[Mass Haas]

RH reliever Saul Rivera to the Indians.

 

OF Jay Gibbons to the Dodgers.

 

RHP R.A. Dickey to the Mets.

 

C Mike Rivera to the Yankees (as discussed elsewhere previously).

 

None include 40-man roster spots.

[Mass Haas]

Normally we don't "report" on each and every independent league transaction involving former Brewer farmhands (we'd all be overwhelmed), but we do like to mention when recently released Brewers find homes in the indy ranks.

 

RHP Josh Wahpepah is a Kansas City T-Bone of the Northern League, with details in this press release.

[Mass Haas]

Good for LHP Sam Narron, who managed to get a big league spring training invite with his Detroit Tiger minor league contract, as did Max St. Pierre (the infamous Ben Hendrickson trade).

[Mass Haas]

Brad Nelson discusses his minor league re-signing with the Mariners with his hometown paper.

[battlekow]

BP's Kevin Goldstein named Roque Mercedes the Diamondbacks' 13th-best prospect, with the comment "The former Brewer has big-time arm strength; he should reach the majors as reliever." Cole Gillespie was not mentioned.

[Mass Haas]

Baseball America (some which may have been discussed on these forums previously):

Minor league deals:

RHP Chad Paronto -- Red Sox
RHP Jorge Sosa -- Red Sox
LHP Brian Shouse -- Red Sox
C Mark Johnson -- Cubs (re-signed)
RHP Justin Lehr -- Reds (re-signed)
LHP Zach Jackson -- traded by Indians to Blue Jays for a player to be named
OF Jason Bourgeois -- Astros, outrighted to Triple-A, removed from 40-man
C J.D. Closser -- Dodgers (re-signed)
LHP Adam Pettyjohn -- Mets (re-signed)
INF Chris Woodward -- Mariners
2B Callix Crabbe -- Blue Jays

[battlekow]

As I noted in the Major League forum, Mark Loretta is retiring.

[twobrewers]

Add Philadelphia's Tyler Walker and Milwaukee's Seth McClung to the short list of free agent relievers on the Marlins' radar. Florida also was impressed by former Brewers closer Derrick Turnbow's recent workout.

 

Miami Herald

[battlekow]

The Rockies are also interested in Turnbow.

[battlekow]

Indians Prospect Insider ranks Rob Bryson as the Tribe's 46th-best prospect:

During most of the time Bryson was rehabbing his shoulder from surgery

he was only topping out at 88-89 MPH, but his arm strength slowly

returned and by the end of Instructional League he was sitting in the

low 90s and topping out at 94 MPH.

 

...

 

Bryson is officially off the rehab list, which means he has no

structured throwing sessions or any restrictions on what kind of

pitches he can throw so he will be able to throw his slider and

changeup at will right out of the gates this season.

[craigharmann]

The once promising youngster Ben Sheets signed with the A's. Not sure if anyone remembers his time with the Crew.

[battlekow]

The Orioles DFA'd Dennis Sarfate.

[Mass Haas]

Brady Clark pulls a Jim Edmonds -- sits out 2009, signs a minor league deal with the White Sox.

 

RHP Ruddy Lugo (3rd round, 1999, then the Devon White trade) re-signs with the Tigers

[berniebrewer4life]

Turnbow signed with the Marlins today.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/83037387.html

[Mass Haas]

Frank Catalanotto signs a minor league deal with the Mets.

[battlekow]

The A's DFA'd Dana Eveland.

[trwi7]

Seth McClung to the Marlins on a minor league deal.