RHP Deolis Guerra minor league deal; non-roster invitee

[djoctagone]

the brewers have signed deolis guerra to a minor league deal and invited him to spring training.

 

guerra is out of minor league options and has been outrighted to the minor leagues before. if the brewers add him to the 25-man roster and wish to outright him back to the minors, he has the right to refuse the minor league assignment (voiding his contract) and become a free agent.

 

the brewers have three non-roster invitees in 2019 camp.

[Lathund]

Very solid K/BB ratios in both the minors and majors. DRA quite likes him too. HRs has seemingly been a problem for him. Either way, I like the profile and seems like very useful depth to have in the minors.

[Eye Black]

The Brewers list of Spring Training Non-Roster Invitees is now at four...

 

RHP Deolis Guerra

 

C Tuffy Gosewisch

 

LHP Angel Perdomo

 

IF Jake Hager

[reillymcshane]

The Brewers list of Spring Training Non-Roster Invitees is now at four...

 

RHP Deolis Guerra

 

C Tuffy Gosewisch

 

LHP Angel Perdomo

 

IF Jake Hager

Sounds like the members of a boy band.

 

Tuffy, Jake, Deolis and Angel. Teen heart throbs.

[JohnBriggs12]

Very solid K/BB ratios in both the minors and majors. DRA quite likes him too. HRs has seemingly been a problem for him. Either way, I like the profile and seems like very useful depth to have in the minors.

 

Hey he was 35th ranked prospect by BA. Unfortunately that was 11 years ago. That's an example why ranking low level arms so high is pure folly, especially from big market organizations like the Mets.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Very solid K/BB ratios in both the minors and majors. DRA quite likes him too. HRs has seemingly been a problem for him. Either way, I like the profile and seems like very useful depth to have in the minors.

 

Hey he was 35th ranked prospect by BA. Unfortunately that was 11 years ago. That's an example why ranking low level arms so high is pure folly, especially from big market organizations like the Mets.

 

I think that's an example, too, of these ranking services disproportionately ranking guys for big markets higher than similarly talented players in small market organizations. The big markets can spend money to market the heck out of their younger prospects, which puts them on the national radar sooner, making them more valuable to idiot GMs who take national rankings seriously. If Guerra would have been in the Brewers organization 11 years ago, dollars to doughnuts says no one knows who he is, perhaps even guys running his own organization. This is another case where baseball is unequal.

[clancyphile]

Very solid K/BB ratios in both the minors and majors. DRA quite likes him too. HRs has seemingly been a problem for him. Either way, I like the profile and seems like very useful depth to have in the minors.

 

Hey he was 35th ranked prospect by BA. Unfortunately that was 11 years ago. That's an example why ranking low level arms so high is pure folly, especially from big market organizations like the Mets.

 

I think that's an example, too, of these ranking services disproportionately ranking guys for big markets higher than similarly talented players in small market organizations. The big markets can spend money to market the heck out of their younger prospects, which puts them on the national radar sooner, making them more valuable to idiot GMs who take national rankings seriously. If Guerra would have been in the Brewers organization 11 years ago, dollars to doughnuts says no one knows who he is, perhaps even guys running his own organization. This is another case where baseball is unequal.

 

On the flip side, that means a Brent Suter can surprise the heck out of everyone...

[jerichoholicninja]

Very solid K/BB ratios in both the minors and majors. DRA quite likes him too. HRs has seemingly been a problem for him. Either way, I like the profile and seems like very useful depth to have in the minors.

 

Hey he was 35th ranked prospect by BA. Unfortunately that was 11 years ago. That's an example why ranking low level arms so high is pure folly, especially from big market organizations like the Mets.

 

I think that's an example, too, of these ranking services disproportionately ranking guys for big markets higher than similarly talented players in small market organizations. The big markets can spend money to market the heck out of their younger prospects, which puts them on the national radar sooner, making them more valuable to idiot GMs who take national rankings seriously. If Guerra would have been in the Brewers organization 11 years ago, dollars to doughnuts says no one knows who he is, perhaps even guys running his own organization. This is another case where baseball is unequal.

 

Fans are the only ones who put any value into prospect rankings. Organizations are smart enough to pay zero attention to those anymore.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

 

Fans are the only ones who put any value into prospect rankings. Organizations are smart enough to pay zero attention to those anymore.

 

I agree ... yet they are continuously brought up here when we talk about prospective trades and when people claim how the Brewers farm system is now garbage. It's all lip service.

[brewerfan82]

Fans are the only ones who put any value into prospect rankings. Organizations are smart enough to pay zero attention to those anymore.

Agree that organizations rank/value players using their own systems rather than using MLB Pipeline, etc. However, as a fan on a message board who doesn't study baseball for a living and primarily focuses the time I do invest in it on a single team, I pretty strongly disagree that a professional, "less biased", publication's rankings aren't a better starting point for comparing prospects than anything I'd come up with on my own from my couch. Rankings should be taken with a grain of salt, but I do think they add context beyond what I can see on the back of a player's minor league card.

 

Now, that said, if you have access to each team's evaluations, I agree, those would be preferable for these conversations

[True Blue Brew Crew]

Agree that organizations rank/value players using their own systems rather than using MLB Pipeline, etc. However, as a fan on a message board who doesn't study baseball for a living and primarily focuses the time I do invest in it on a single team, I pretty strongly disagree that a professional, "less biased", publication's rankings aren't a better starting point for comparing prospects than anything I'd come up with on my own from my couch. Rankings should be taken with a grain of salt, but I do think they add context beyond what I can see on the back of a player's minor league card.

 

Now, that said, if you have access to each team's evaluations, I agree, those would be preferable for these conversations

 

One thing that's been shown here and all over the internet is that even when people get insight into the team's evaluations, they'll still maintain that their own opinion is superior.

[sveumrules]

 

Fans are the only ones who put any value into prospect rankings. Organizations are smart enough to pay zero attention to those anymore.

 

I agree ... yet they are continuously brought up here when we talk about prospective trades and when people claim how the Brewers farm system is now garbage. It's all lip service.

 

They are brought up continuously because they are the best publicly available tool for measuring the relative worth of prospects.

 

Every Major League organization devotes far more resources than any publicly available service possibly could in attempt to identify & appropriately value prospects...& yet they still get it wrong all the time.

[MNBrew]

Small bit of trivia: Deolis Guerra is the last remaining active player of the 4 guys the Twins got from the Mets for Johan Santana.

[djoctagone]

deolis guerra has been reassigned to minor league camp.