Pitching at Brevard County

[splitterpfj]

I'm doing this on the fly, I may leave someone out, please correct me if I do.

 

Take a look at the staff in Brevard right now - Hader isn't there, Woodruff isn't there, etc - but for the most part, Brevard County is where you find the future of the Milwaukee Brewers on the mound.

 

Phil Bickford, Bubba Derby, Marcos Diplan, Kodi Medeiros, Freddy Peralta, Condy Ponce - this, friends, is pitching depth in the minor league system.

 

Not everyone will make it, and among those that do, some of these guys are bound to wind up in the bullpen as they advance, I know all of that - the point is, these are multiple, real, viable pitching prospects, clustered together at the same level.

 

I haven't said that about the Brewers much - I like it.

 

14 of 30, are pitchers now ...

 

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=mil

[TheCrew07]

You know with everyone linking the MLB pipeline top 30 prospects all the time it sure would be nice if BA would move that content from their handbook to the web... but then I guess there's not a reason to buy the hand book. I actually didn't buy it this year, you can't link to it so it's difficult to use it as source material.

 

I agree the pitching depth is exciting, now we just need more top of the rotation candidates and things will look pretty good. Ortiz is the only pitcher I'd put into that category today, we have some pitchers with potential but we don't have anyone of Gallardo quality yet where there's no doubt he's going to be above average. I'm chasing 2s and pretty much all I see are 3s... and poor Taylor Williams isn't getting much love from anyone anymore... outta sight, outta mind.

[And That]

Taylor Williams isn't getting much love from anyone anymore... outta sight, outta mind.

Between Williams and Kirby, it will be like two exciting new prospects next year.

[Madhawk23]

I'm doing this on the fly, I may leave someone out, please correct me if I do.

 

Take a look at the staff in Brevard right now - Hader isn't there, Woodruff isn't there, etc - but for the most part, Brevard County is where you find the future of the Milwaukee Brewers on the mound.

 

Phil Bickford, Bubba Derby, Marcos Diplan, Kodi Medeiros, Freddy Peralta, Condy Ponce - this, friends, is pitching depth in the minor league system.

 

Not everyone will make it, and among those that do, some of these guys are bound to wind up in the bullpen as they advance, I know all of that - the point is, these are multiple, real, viable pitching prospects, clustered together at the same level.

 

I haven't said that about the Brewers much - I like it.

 

14 of 30, are pitchers now ...

 

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=mil

 

Now, if we could just figure out how to hit a baseball in that league and score a few more runs for those pitchers. I know wins/losses don't matter much in the development of these players, but it sure would be nice to score just a few runs per game for some of these exciting arms in Brevard.

[JohnBriggs12]

You missed Jon Perrin who's been pretty solid despite his 2-7 record.

 

Bubba Derby is having a tough year to say the least. Can't see him in the top group.

[brewmann04]

I agree on Perrin hope like you say that at least 1-2 become solid starters.

[igor67]

I wouldn't view them as new prospects it's more like the benefit of having the depth is that the number of guys to follow stays the same as the new crop sitting out for injuries are replaced by those recovering. It's a nice change that's for sure.

[CheeseheadInQC]

And while it might lose a little bit of star power, next year's high-A staff should be really deep. Even if one of the Peralta/Diplan pair end up in the Biloxi rotation (let's say it's Peralta for the sake of argument), assuming everyone is healthy you still could see a starting five consisting of five guys from the mlb.com top 30 prospects list:

 

Kodi Medeiros, Marcos Diplan, Miguel Diaz, Devin Williams, Nathan Kirby

 

Plus a bullpen consisting of some combination of four guys who in past years likely would have been given another chance to start (Bubba Derby, Eric Hanhold, David Burkhalter, Conor Harber), Taylor Williams if they want to ease him back in, and three guys who've had good years for the Rattlers (Nate Griep, Scott Grist, Drew Owenby).

 

And that's not even mentioning the guys who'll likely be anchoring the Wisconsin rotation who in past years might have started off in A+ (Zack Brown, Corbin Burnes, Jordan Yamamoto) or the possibility that the PTBNL might slot in here too if it is someone such as Payano.