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2015-2016 Minor League Offseason Transaction Thread

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Good reads on the youngsters all:

 

BrewerNation has the press release from the Brewers

 

Baseball America

 

Disciples of Uecker (with videos)

 

Stearns via Tom H.: Massaki is recovering from Tommy John. Carlos Herrera likely targeted for Arizona Rookie League and Peralta for Class A Wisconsin.

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Via Rick Randall at Scout.com --

 

The three arms leaving the system – Daniel Missaki, Freddy Peralta and Carlos Herrera – aren’t without promise, as all three were in the conversation for inclusion in our upcoming Top-50 prospects in the system, with Missaki checking in at number 42 on that list a year ago. But the fact that they don’t come from the upper levels of Seattle’s system, which is where they are the thinnest and where the big club will be needing help from in the coming seasons is obviously great news for the club and a testament to Dipoto keeping an eye on the future in this deal.

 

Missaki contributed to a no-hitter for Clinton this past year but shortly thereafter had his season cut short with an injury and underwent Tommy John surgery on May 12th. He also missed time in 2014 with a forearm injury. He touches 90 with his fastball and pitches with a soft cutter, slow curve and changeup. He has a lot of effort in his delivery for the velocity that comes out of it, but obviously the command hasn’t suffered because of that yet, and he repeats very well.

 

Peralta – who was signed by Seattle out of the Dominican in 2013 – pitched for the M’s in the AZL and had a strong season as a 19 year old, posting 10.6 SO/9 and a better than 8-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio in 57 innings. He was showing a mid-90s fastball in fall instructs and repeats his delivery very well. Herrera – also out of the Dominican, but signed in July of 2014 – made his system debut in 2015, pitching to a 3.26 ERA in 14 starts with a 5.62 SO:BB ratio of his own. The slender (6-foot-2, 150 lbs) righty pitched this year at age 17 and I was told was reaching 93 with his fastball in fall instructs.

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From May 1st --

 

Missaki goes seven in L-Kings' no-hitter

Kerski, Scott throw last two innings after perfect game is broken up

By Josh Jackson / MiLB.com

 

http://www.milb.com/assets/images/9/7/2/121792972/cuts/Missaki960_j9l0qiou_c1zh7pg6.jpg

 

Daniel Missaki has recorded 30 strikeouts against four walks over 29 1/3 innings in four starts. (Paul R. Gierhart/MiLB.com)

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I'm sure Mass Haas will expound on this in a little bit, but the Brewers made the following selections in the AAA phase of the Rule 5 draft. These players are now Brewers property on minor league contracts and do not have to offered back to their original clubs.

 

Mitch Lambson, LHP, selected from the Braves

 

Kender Villegas, RHP, selected from the Cardinals

 

Via this Joe Block tweet, we learn Lambson was traded from the Astros to the Braves in the middle of last season, so there's a Stearns connection.

 

The Brewers did not make any selections in the AA phase of the Rule 5 draft. (The Marlins were the only team to make a pick in the AA phase.)

 

And the Brewers did not lose any players in any phase of the Rule 5 draft.

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How has Mitch Lambson not had a coup of coffee in the bigs? Dudes WHIP has hovered 1.000 his entire career and he's a lefty.
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Lambson looks to be a guy who's a nice fit to replace Strong in the system. He's certainly more advanced than Strong was at a similar age.

 

Villegas looks like a guy similar to the 3 they got in the Lind deal only a few years later and who's development has been slow.

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More on the day's minor league signings, including this one, during the overnight tonight, but here's the latest, courtesy of Baseball America --

 

Brewers sign 26-year-old (27 in March) RHP Daniel Tillman, he spent the past two years in the Dodgers' system after being drafted by the Angels in the 2nd round in 2010. Reliever with a record of high K rate, BB rate, and WHIP.

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More on the day's minor league signings, including this one, during the overnight tonight, but here's the latest, courtesy of Baseball America --

 

Brewers sign 26-year-old (27 in March) RHP Daniel Tillman, he spent the past two years in the Dodgers' system after being drafted by the Angels in the 2nd round in 2010. Reliever with a record of high K rate, BB rate, and WHIP.

 

December 2013 -- Scout.com Prospect Report

 

Tillman has made 12 appearances in the Puerto Rico Winter League, the most recent on December 1st (stats). Super impressive in the small winter sample.

 

http://www.milb.com/images/534581/generic/180x270/534581.jpg

 

From earlier this season --

 

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I'm sure Mass Haas will expound on this in a little bit, but the Brewers made the following selections in the AAA phase of the Rule 5 draft. These players are now Brewers property on minor league contracts and do not have to offered back to their original clubs.

 

Mitch Lambson, LHP, selected from the Braves

 

Kender Villegas, RHP, selected from the Cardinals

 

Via this Joe Block tweet, we learn Lambson was traded from the Astros to the Braves in the middle of last season, so there's a Stearns connection.

 

The Brewers did not make any selections in the AA phase of the Rule 5 draft. (The Marlins were the only team to make a pick in the AA phase.)

 

And the Brewers did not lose any players in any phase of the Rule 5 draft.

 

On Lambson --

 

May 2015 -- Prospect Spotlight: Mitch Lambson is locked in

 

June 2015 Self-Scouting Video Interview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx7dTMcQh2M

 

June 2014 Q&A Interview -- Worth your while...

 

More video -- October 2014

 

March 2013 --

 

 

In 2015, Lambson faced the Sky Sox once and the Shuckers twice. If you wish, dig into the game log links here to see those matchups.

 

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Not a lot from a scouting perspective available on the 22-year old RHP, Kender Villegas. Please contribute should you come across anything, thanks.

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After unearthing the Greinke Angels trade thread it was interesting to see that Tillman was the other guy it was rumored we were getting along with Segura,Pena and Hellweg....

 

It indicates to me that Melvin is more than a cursory member of our management team

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The Brewers have released 22-year-old OF-turned-RHP Yunior Santana, who struggled to a .495 OPS with the Maryvale Rookie Brewers in 2014. That came after two less than scintillating seasons in the Dominican Summer League.

 

Dominican Summer League Transactions Page

 

For his three-year pro career (as a position player), Santana was successful on 39 of 53 stolen base attempts, including a pretty 16-for-19 effort in Maryvale in 2014, but when the 6'3, 210 lb. Santana was signed in November of 2011 for a $110,000 bonus, power was supposed to be the projectable tool. Baseball America's Ben Badler stated at the time, "raw RH power, athletic, likely a corner OF".

 

So for 2015, Santana was converted to pitcher and returned to the Dominican Summer League, where in his age 21 season, he was now two years older than most of his competition. But that conversion did not go well, as Santana made 12 relief appearances totaling only ten innings, posting a 10.80 ERA, walking 19 while throwing ten wild pitches.

 

It should also be noted that according to a roster provided by the Brewers last spring, Santana was listed at 6'4", 241, for the start of 2015 season.

 

Other members of that international class include OF Carlos Belonis ($550,000), who should reach full-season ball for the first time with the Timber Rattlers in 2015, first baseman Juan Ortiz ($375,000), who has yet to see Helena after four pro seasons but was promising in Maryvale last summer, and the hopeful prize of the group, RHP Miguel Diaz, signed then as a 17-year-old, and now in the Brewers' Pipeline Top 30.

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During the evening and overnight, we'll give each of these players their proper due by at minimum noting worthwhile achievements during their Brewers tenure:

 

McCalvy tweet -- Minor League releases

 

RHP Tanner Poppe, who had been on the Temporary Inactive list, retired.

 

Perhaps some found out earlier, but two days before Christmas?

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Osmel Perez survives another year.

 

For those not in on the reference (most of you ;)), Venezuelan RHP Osmel Perez (link to his MiLB player page) just completed his 4th consecutive year of no appearances, yet still remains on the Brewers MiLB.com Dominican Summer League roster.

 

Remarkably, he's still just 22.

 

Here's a June 1st, 2013 tweet from Brewers Player Development on Perez, whose numbers were actually quite impressive for a 16/17 year old.

 

Osmel Perez quit and is no longer active.

 

But darn it, MiLB.com and the Brewers still await his return. Is he still 6'3, 196?

 

P.S. Whenever a player fails to provide formal paperwork upon "retiring", the Brewers do place them on a restricted list as they retain their rights (remember Brent Brewer, Michael Marseco, and many more?). But those players don't normally endure in infamy on the MiLB roster pages. Long live Osmel!

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