April Transactions - Parra Off DL, Holmberg On (Ankle)

[Mass Haas]

First a link to the now-retired Off-Season Transacton Thread:

 

p092.ezboard.com/fbrewers...mp;stop=40

 

Official Brewer Press Release:

 

milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com...p;c_id=mil

 

The Milwaukee Brewers have signed Minor League free agent 2B / CF Jason Romano, who will report to Minor League camp, it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Melvin. In addition, infielder Brian Dallimore announced his retirement.

 

Romano, 26, played in 19 games last season with Cincinnati where he hit .267 with one home run and three RBI. He also appeared in 56 games for Triple A Louisville (Reds organization) and one game with Triple A Albuquerque (Marlins). Romano made his Major League debut in 2002 with Texas and has since played with Colorado, Los Angeles, Tampa Bay and Cincinnati.

 

Dallimore, 32, signed a Minor League contract with the Brewers on November 23, 2005 and was set to join the team at Spring Training before his retirement announcement. Dallimore made his Major League debut in 2004 with San Francisco. He spent most of last season at Triple A Fresno (.302 average) but also played in seven games for San Francisco. Dallimore was originally drafted by Houston in the ninth round of the 1996 June First Year Player Draft.

 

Jason Romano Career Statistics:

Doug Melvin's First-Round Pick in 1997...

 

www.thebaseballcube.com/p...mano.shtml

 

Brian Dallimore Final Career Statistics:

Dallimore another Brewer "alum" in name only, not in statistics...

 

www.thebaseballcube.com/p...more.shtml

[Mass Haas]

Jason Romano must hold the record for the fewest combined big league at-bat's with five teams (191 AB's with Texas, Colorado, the Dodgers, Tampa Bay, and Cincinnati).

[pogokat]

funny that you mention that...when i read about the signing i looked at his signings...i thought he had gotten a large amount of at bats with some team at some point...i thought i remembered him getting like 400 ab's with the dodgers...but nope,

191 total...

 

weird... maybe i have him mixed up with someone else...jason repko?

[clancyphile]

Yost seemed pretty upset about Dallimore's retirement.

 

That said, Romano is younger, and still has some upside.

[Mass Haas]

Brewer Press Release:

 

MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Brewers righthanded pitcher Jerome Gamble has been reassigned to Minor League camp and righthanded pitcher Mike Jones has been optioned to Class A Brevard County, it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Melvin.

 

Neither Gamble nor Jones has seen action in the Brewers first five Cactus League games. Gamble was signed by the Brewers to a Minor League contract on January 11, 2005 and Jones was the Brewers first round (12th overall) draft pick in 2001.

 

Gamble pitched the entire 2005 season at Double A Huntsville and went 4-1 with a 6.33 ERA and five saves in 31 relief appearances. Jones did not pitch in 2005 as he was recovering from a right shoulder injury.

[djoctagone]

kind of surprised that brad nelson was sent to minor league camp so soon . . . especially given that krynzel is absent competition.

 

mitch stetter, carlos corporan and lou palmisano the other guys sent to minor league camp.

[Mass Haas]

Thanks for the update, dj.

 

Brewer Press Release:

 

MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Brad Nelson was assigned to Triple A Nashville while non-roster invitees catchers Carlos Corporan and Lou Palmisano and lefthanded pitcher Mitch Stetter were returned to Minor League camp, it was announced today by Brewers Executive Vice President and General Manager, Doug Melvin.

 

Nelson, 23, split the 2005 season between Triple A Nashville and Double A Huntsville and hit a combined .270 with 13 home runs and 77 RBI. In six games this spring, Nelson hit .300 (3-for-10).

 

Corporan, 22, played at Class A West Virginia in 2005 and hit .239 with nine home runs and 38 RBI. Corporan saw action in three games this spring and was hitless in four at bats.

 

Palmisano, 23, spent the entire 2005 season at Class A Brevard County where he hit .255 with five home runs and 49 RBI. In Cactus League play this season, Palmisano hit .500 (3-for-6) with one home run and four RBI.

 

Stetter, 25, split the 2005 season between Double A Huntsville and Triple A Nashville where he made a combined 59 relief appearances to lead all pitchers in the Brewers Minor League system. Overall, Stetter was 3-4 with a 3.16 ERA and eight saves. Stetter pitched 2.2 scoreless innings this Spring.

 

The Brewers currently have 47 players in camp, including nine non-roster invitees. The roster consists of 25 pitchers, five catchers, nine infielders and eight outfielders.

[And That]

IIRC, Nestor Corredor will be added to the big league camp. Corporan was going to be there for the first few weeks and Corredor the next few weeks.

[brewerjamie15]

I'm watching ever so vigilantly for Bad Chad to get the hook.....

[And That]

Per the JS, Shane Nance has announced his retirement.

[djoctagone]

manny parra optioned to huntsville.

 

milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com...p&c_id=mil

[Mass Haas]

From the Brewers:

 

LHP Dana Eveland was optioned to Triple A Nashville today . . . LHP Wilfredo Rodriguez was returned to Minor League camp. The Brewers now have 44 players in camp including nine non-roster invitees. . . the roster consists of 22 pitchers, five catchers, nine infielders and eight outfielders.

 

Drew Olson:

 

Phoenix - Left-hander Dana Eveland, who entered spring trianing as a candidate for the Milwaukee Brewers' starting rotation, was optioned to Class AAA Nashville this morning.

 

Eveland, 22, reported to camp heavier than the Brewers wanted and began a weight-loss regimen when camp began. He never got on track on the mound. He pitched in four exhibition games and was 0-1 with a 15.75 earned run average. In eight innings, he allowed 19 hits and 14 earned runs. He walked six batters, struck out one and saw opponents bat .500 against him.

 

Manager Ned Yost said that Eveland will work as a starter in minor-league camp, where games begin today. Yost wants Eveland and other minor-leaguers "stretched out'' and ready to start in case Rick Helling or Ben Sheets are hampered by injury near the end of camp.

 

The Brewers also assigned lefty Wilfredo Rodriguez to minor-league camp. Rodriguez appeared in three games and gave up five hits, two walks and one earned run. Opponents hit .417 against him.

[JohnBriggs12]

I wonder how many figured Carlos Villanueva would be in major league camp longer than Eveland.

[bork]

The Brewers now have 44 players in camp including nine non-roster invitees.

 

This means 35 players left on the active roster, but I only saw 4 options (Jones, Nelson, Parra, Eveland). Did we miss an optioned player? Did Irribarren get optioned already?

 

EDIT: JS is reporting that Gwynn and De maria were optioned to AAA and Irribarren to A+.

[Mass Haas]

Brewer Press Release:

 

brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/ml...p;c_id=mil

 

MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers today announced a series of moves that pared the number of players in Major League camp to 41. Righthanded pitcher Chris Demaria, lefthanded pitcher Dana Eveland and outfielder Tony Gwynn, Jr. were optioned to Triple A Nashville; infielder Hernan Iribarren was optioned to Class A Brevard County and lefthanded pitcher Wilfredo Rodriguez was assigned to Minor League camp. The moves were announced by Brewers Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Melvin.

 

Demaria, 25, spent the majority of the 2005 season at Class A High Desert where he went 4-2 with a 2.23 ERA. He made his Major League debut last season with Kansas City and went 1-0 with an ERA of 8.00 in eight relief appearances. This spring, Demaria made three Cactus League appearances and went 0-0 with a 1.93 ERA.

 

Eveland, 22, began the 2005 season with Double A Huntsville before being called up by the Brewers in July to make his Major League debut. He finished the season with the Brewers, going 1-1 with a 5.97 ERA and one save in 27 relief appearances. In four Spring Training appearances this year, he was 0-1 with a 15.75 ERA.

 

Gwynn, 23, spent the entire 2005 season at Double A Huntsville where he hit .271 and was selected as a Southern League Mid-Season All Star. He hit .200 with two home runs, five RBI and one triple in Cactus League play this year.

 

Iribarren, 21, spent the entire 2005 season with Class A West Virginia where he hit .290 with four home runs and 48 RBI. He was named to the South Atlantic League Mid Season All Star team and participated in the Futures Game in Detroit. In Cactus League play, Iribarren hit .250 with three RBI in ten games.

 

Rodriguez, 27, played with Triple A Oklahoma and Double A Frisco during the 2005 season. In Spring Training action, he went 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in three appearances.

 

Of the 41 players remaining in camp, eight are non-roster invitees. The roster consists of 21 pitchers, five catchers, eight infielders and seven outfielders.

[dominion114]

I wonder how many figured Carlos Villanueva would be in major league camp longer than Eveland.

 

OK, it's been a surprise that eveland hasn't performed like we all hoped he would and it's true many didn't figure Villanueva to be in big league camp still,but he is...

He keeps surprising alot of prople everytime he goes out there and gets a chance...

 

I believe he's gonna be a nice surprise and help the Brewers in the not so far future...

 

7 inn. (includes 2 inn. against Japan Qualifying team). 3 runs 9 k's 0 walks...not bad..:b

[Oswald Chesterfield Cobble]

Just heard on the brewers radio network that we signed alan simpson and invited him to major league camp.

 

 

from baseball prospectus

 

the hard throwing right hander with perpetual control problems started the season in colorado, then was traded to the reds for jose acevedo and finished the minor league season in louisville before beign given the shot of expresso in the quenn city. He pitched ectremely well in the high profile, which puts a bullet next to his nade on the roster of a team like the reds with a pitching staff in flux. A true coach's projects

 

 

sounds like maddux's latest reclamation project to me

 

EDIT: milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com...p&c_id=mil

[Mass Haas]

LHP Zach Jackson assigned to minor league camp, also -- because he's not on the 40-man roster, they don't have to name the exact squad he's assigned to yet (yes, most likely Nashville, but not etched in stone):

 

The Milwaukee Brewers have signed right-handed pitcher Allan Simpson to a Minor League contract with an invitation to Major League camp and assigned left-handed pitcher Zach Jackson to Minor League camp, it was announced today by Doug Melvin, Executive Vice President and General Manager. Simpson will report to Brewers Major League camp on Tuesday, March 21.

 

Simpson, who resides in Apple-ton, Wis., began the spring with the Cincinnati Reds before he was released on March 18. This spring he went 1-0 with two saves and a 0.00 ERA in five appearances (5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K). Overall, Simpson owns a 2-2 Major League record alongside a 6.22 ERA in 43 appearances, nine of those for the Reds in 2005. He was originally selected by the Seattle Mariners in the eighth round of the June 1997 free agent draft.

 

Jackson, 22, made four appearances/one start this spring and compiled a 2-1 mark alongside a 9.00 ERA. He was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays on December 8, 2005, as the player to be named later along with right-handed pitcher Dave Bush and outfielder Gabe Gross in exchange for infielder Lyle Overbay and a player to be named later (Ty Taubenheim).

 

The Brewers currently have 41 players in Major League camp, including eight non-roster invitees.

 

RHP Allan Simpson Career Statistics:

 

www.thebaseballcube.com/p...pson.shtml

 

EDIT: Fixed his city of residence.

edit: Al didn't edit in ezcodes mode. -ja002h

[pogokat]

hey, simpsons got a big fastball...add in a cutter and you've got the makings of a mike maddux reliever...

 

can't hurt to have this guy in AAA

[JohnBriggs12]

Simpson fanned 89 in something like 63 AAA innings last year. He also had not allowed a run in 5 appearences this spring with the Reds.

 

Seems to be a pickup in the Kolb/Turnbow mold, a hard thrower off the scrap heap. Maddux has worked wonders before.

[bork]

JS reports that Villanueva has been assigned to minor league camp, no mention of which team (Hunstville?). They should have said optioned.

 

www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=409410

 

With the last split squad game over and with a day off Monday, I would imagine we'll see a number of moves soon.

[ja002h]

I believe on Talkin Brewers Gord said he'd be in Huntsville to start.

[Oswald Chesterfield Cobble]

I know they picked up Arroyo this morning, but I still wonder why would you give up on a kid like Simpson. He pitched decent in the fall league, he was having a good spring and you let him loose....doesn't make sense to me...does anyone know anything about why he was let go

[deeswan]

does anyone know anything about why he was let go

 

Just a guess, but he's 28 and doesn't have a great track record. Probably had a marginal chance to begin with.

[Mass Haas]

The Brewers officially optioned RHP Carlos Villanueva to AA Huntsville today.