MILWAUKEE -- The last time the Brewers drafted a player straight out of a Wisconsin high school was in 2010, a right-hander named Conor Fisk from Grafton, just north of Milwaukee. He wound up going to college, was drafted again by the Blue Jays four years later and made it

MILWAUKEE -- Time will tell where baseball takes Brewers fourth-round Draft pick Marco Dinges, but it doesn’t take a scout to know one thing. Toughness won’t be a problem. The Brewers drafted Dinges as a catcher out of Florida State University on Day 2 of the MLB Draft on Monday

MILWAUKEE – Brewers first-round pick Braylon Payne doesn’t lack confidence -- “I’m a true five-tool player,” he said Monday -- but even he was surprised when his agent Ryan Ware called during the middle of the first round of the MLB Draft on Sunday night. Payne was hopeful he’d be

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DENVER -- The Brewers, leading the National League Central every day since the start of May despite a slew of injuries to starting pitchers, made another move Wednesday to support that group when they acquired right-hander Aaron Civale in a trade with the Rays for infield prospect Gregory Barrios, who

This story was excerpted from Adam McCalvy’s Brewers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers liked Mike Boeve, or they wouldn’t have drafted him 54th overall last year out of the University of Nebraska Omaha.

SAN DIEGO -- Reluctantly, Brewers pitching prospect Robert Gasser is pulling the plug on his promising debut season with an eye toward being healthy by this time next year. The 25-year-old left-hander, rated Milwaukee’s No. 4 prospect by MLB Pipeline, has elected to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery after getting

MILWAUKEE -- Brewers pitching coach Chris Hook is still cultivating a relationship with the latest young arm to find his way to American Family Field, but Hook knows this about 22-year-old Carlos Rodriguez: he likes the uniform number. In Tuesday’s 3-0 loss to the Blue Jays, Rodriguez, the Brewers’ No.

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MILWAUKEE -- As one Brewers pitching prospect faces the possibility that his promising rookie season may be over, another is on the way up for a team thriving with a patchwork starting rotation. Colin Rea delivered seven innings of one-run ball and Willy Adames homered as part of a two-RBI

MILWAUKEE -- One of baseball's top-catching prospects took a break from rehabbing in the Arizona heat for a reminder of why he's working so hard to come back from shoulder surgery. Jeferson Quero, MLB Pipeline's No. 2 Brewers prospect and No. 25 overall, was at American Family Field and was

What exactly is a pure hitter? It’s a term that many discuss, but few define. On last week's Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo detailed what a pure hitter is and took it a step further by ranking the top 10 pure-hitting prospects.

This story was excerpted from Adam McCalvy’s Brewers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MILWAUKEE -- If you’re up for a lesson in MLB Draft economics, here’s the story of how the Brewers’ shrewd construction of last year’s

There's been a lot of fluctuation on the rookie front in the past 30 days or so. Not all of the Top 100 prospect debuts made some noise, and as a result, some others with more notable performances over the last four weeks played themselves back into contention for the

This story was excerpted from Adam McCalvy’s Brewers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MILWAUKEE -- MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list has a new look this week. You’ll no longer find Jackson Chourio’s name near the top.

MILWAUKEE -- It was two and a half hours before the first pitch he’d always dreamt about when Robert Gasser got grounded. Wearing a Brewers-issue navy blue hoodie and matching shorts while the sun shone down on batting practice at American Family Field, Gasser, a left-hander who is MLB Pipeline’s

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MILWAUKEE -- Triple-A Nashville manager Rick Sweet tried to slow roll the news, but one of the Brewers’ top pitching prospects was savvy enough to know he was headed to the big leagues. Left-handed starter Robert Gasser, Milwaukee’s No. 5 prospect, joined the Brewers on Thursday and is lined up

MILWAUKEE -- Baseball's youngest position player group got even younger on a night Brewers prospect Tyler Black and his family will never forget. The Brewers called up their No. 4 prospect -- and No. 42 overall -- before Tuesday's 8-2 win over the Rays, adding him to a roster that

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Tyler Black homered twice Sunday for Triple-A Nashville, marking his first multihomer game in the Minor Leagues. Two days later, he isn’t in the Minor Leagues anymore. The Brewers are calling up MLB Pipeline’s No. 42 overall prospect for his Major League debut, a source told MLB.com's Adam McCalvy. MLB

Tyler Black loves playing in Triple-A Nashville. So when he had the chance of ending Sunday's game and sending the Sounds faithful home with a victory, MLB's No. 42 prospect risked it all to record the final out. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Omaha’s Cam