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@Brewers: The Brewers have signed LHP Hoby Milner and OF Dylan Cozens to Minor League contracts with invitations to Major League camp.

 

Dylan Cozens has a career .802 OPS over 8 minor league seasons. Cozens was a 2nd round pick of the Phillies in 2012, and is the second former 2nd round pick they’ve signed to a minor league deal this week (Dustin Peterson was a 2nd round pick in 2013). Cousins is probably best know for hitting 40 home runs in just 134 games playing for Double-A Reading in 2016.

 

Hoby Milner was also a 2012 draftee of the Phillies (7th round). He has a 3.40 ERA over 614.0 IP in the minors. Milner has only thrown 55.2 major league innings thus far.

 

Both are likely ticketed for Nashville this summer, but are intriguing enough as additional opportunities to see if you can catch lightning in a bottle.

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dylan cozens is out of minor league options.

 

hoby milner appears to have two minor league options remaining but has been placed on outright minor league assignment before.

 

with these two transactions, the brewers have three non-roster invitees for 2021 camp.

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It might be hard to believe for some but even large market clubs like the Yankees and Dodgers have minor league teams filled with journeymen, AAAA players and former high draft pick busts.

 

To add to that, Justin Turner was waived by the Orioles, non-tendered by the Mets, and then signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers.

 

Max Muncy was DFAd by the A's, sgiend a minor league deal with the Dodgers.

 

Brandon Morrow was a non-roster invite with the Dodgers, didn't make the team out of spring training. Went on to put up a sub-2 ERA and pitch every game of the WS.

 

This is one of the very richest teams in the league "dumpster diving" and doing it well. I'm not suggesting these guys are the next Justin Turners, just some examples of how you can find real quality too.

 

Beyond Yelich, Cain, Garcia, Taylor there's not a ton of outfielders at the upper levels for the Brewers. So they fill a AAA spot with a 26 year old with real raw power (40 HR seasons in thhe minors with a non-juiced ball are rare) to provide depth and see if he can unlock that power. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. But seems to me like exactly the type of player you'd want to spend your non-roster invites on.

 

Hoby Milner has put up excellent AAA numbers, including in AAA with the super-juiced ball (If people want to dismiss any hitter stats from AAA in 2019 for that reason, they should also credit a 3 ERA in that same environment), and with Claudio gone and Hader likely to be either traded or in a 9th inning role, signing another LHP for depth makes sense.

 

Again, not building these guys up to be stars. Just to point out that every team does this, sometimes it works out really well and there's little downside when it doesn't. Yet every offseason these moves are met by the same reactions from fans. Pleasantly surprised at the ratio of comments so far though.

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Milner is a typical and very predictable signing for the Brewers. More of "let's find a pitcher with a funky delivery and hope it will take MLB hitters awhile to figure him out." They must think there is some tinkering left to be done with his delivery/release point, because MLB hitters have had no problem figuring him out so far (career 5.74 FIP in 55 2/3 innings).
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Milner is a typical and very predictable signing for the Brewers. More of "let's find a pitcher with a funky delivery and hope it will take MLB hitters awhile to figure him out." They must think there is some tinkering left to be done with his delivery/release point, because MLB hitters have had no problem figuring him out so far (career 5.74 FIP in 55 2/3 innings).

 

Milner is basically Claudio's replacement.

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Milner is a typical and very predictable signing for the Brewers. More of "let's find a pitcher with a funky delivery and hope it will take MLB hitters awhile to figure him out." They must think there is some tinkering left to be done with his delivery/release point, because MLB hitters have had no problem figuring him out so far (career 5.74 FIP in 55 2/3 innings).

 

Milner is basically Claudio's replacement.

I'm not expecting it, but if he's good enough that he turns out to be Claudio's replacement, that would be nice.

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Milner is a typical and very predictable signing for the Brewers. More of "let's find a pitcher with a funky delivery and hope it will take MLB hitters awhile to figure him out." They must think there is some tinkering left to be done with his delivery/release point, because MLB hitters have had no problem figuring him out so far (career 5.74 FIP in 55 2/3 innings).

 

Milner is basically Claudio's replacement.

I'm not expecting it, but if he's good enough that he turns out to be Claudio's replacement, that would be nice.

 

I guess I meant that more as who they are than what they'll do. They're both junk ball, sidearm lefties. I assume Milner will be in the bigs at some point in 2021 but I don't know if he'll be as relied on as Claudio was.

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I guess I meant that more as who they are than what they'll do. They're both junk ball, sidearm lefties. I assume Milner will be in the bigs at some point in 2021 but I don't know if he'll be as relied on as Claudio was.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing. Here is our Claudio without trading a draft pick.

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Yeah, I have no problem with signings like this. You just never know when you might "hit" on one of these guys who figures something out in their swing, or in their pitching mechanics a bit later in their careers? I just wish we could also sprinkle in a few impact major league signings as well.
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Well, to be fair, so far almost every MLB team has yet to make an impact signing. At least for now it's a function of a very slow market rather than the Brewers being behind, not that it would be surprising if the Brewers ended up behind the big-money teams at some point.
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Cozens has power but he's got 188 hits at AAA and 361 K's at AAA. Even my limited math ability tells me that's just about 2 strikeouts for every hit. He does walk some, and why wouldn't a guy who's got that much trouble putting the ball in play. Those kind of strikeout numbers facing AAA pitching doesn't bode well for how he'd do against major league pitching. We've seen this guy before at the plate. His name is Keon Broxton.

 

I get the poor man's Alex Claudio comparison for Milner. He kind of looks like Zach Davies and has a similar frame (6'3" 175) so I'm guessing he's not a hard thrower.

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