BA's Top 10 Brewer Prospects

by roguejim on Jan 13, 2009 6:54 PM CST Comment 11 comments

Baseball America's prospect list for the Brewers isn't due out until January 19th, but our BA mole, Tom Haudricourt, gave us a sneak peek at the Brewers' top 10:

1. SS Alcides Escobar
2. 3B Mat Gamel
3. C Brett Lawrie
4. RHP Jeremy Jeffress
5. C Angel Salome
6. OF Lorenzo Cain
7. OF Cutter Dykstra
8. 3B Taylor Green
9. OF Cole Gillespie
10. C Jonathan Lucroy

as compared to our Top 10:

01. Alcides Escobar SS (22)
02. Mat Gamel 3B (23)
03. Jeremy Jeffress RSP (21)
04. Angel Salome C (23)
05. Brett Lawrie C (19)
06. Jonathan Lucroy C (23)
07. Lorenzo Cain CF (23)
08. Taylor Green 3B (22)
09. Jake Odorizzi RSP (19)
10. Cole Gillespie LF (25)

The most notable thing about both lists is three catchers (yay!) and only one (or two) pitchers (boo!). The lack of pitching especially hurts because, well, we're kind of short on pitching on the major-league level too.

Although the order is a little different, the players are the same except that BA likes Cutter Dykstra (#11 on our list) better than Jake Odorizzi. Tom H. believes our last home-grown catcher was Mike Methany. That was a long time ago.

Enjoy!

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What kind of pitcher could we expect in return

if we traded one of our catchers?

Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9

by NoahJ on Jan 13, 2009 8:45 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yay professional journalism!

This is downright embarrassing. See if you can spot the error in TH’s first sentence. This is the kind of stuff you expect from a third-grader:

I just got my latest addition of Baseball America in the mail.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Jan 13, 2009 10:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I felt the affects of that in my laugh.

…

by HRF on Jan 14, 2009 1:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The marketing director

for my company used to use that when she’d send out the weekly company newsletter.

I always wondered if she left if she would send out “this week’s subtraction”.

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 14, 2009 7:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Homegrown Catchers

Tom is close with Mike Matheny…but not quite right.

The last homegrown Brewer to appear at catcher was Vinny Rottino in 2006.
The last homegrown Brewer to start a game at catcher was their regular catcher in 1999, Dave Nilsson.

Even their AAA teams haven’t had much homegrown talent in the line of catchers. The regular catchers for the Brewers AAA teams over the last few years are:

2008 Rottino (MIL)
2007 Mike Rivera (DET)
2006 Rivera
2005 Julio Mosquera (TOR)
2004 Mike Johnson (CWS)
2003 Cody McKay (OAK)
2002 Marcus Jensen (SF)
2001 Kevin Brown (TEX)
2000 Creighton Gubanich (OAK)
1999 Alex Andreopoulos (MIL)

AA has been a little better:
2008 Salome (MIL)
2007 Lou Palmisano (MIL)
2006 Palmisano
2005 Jeff Winchester (COL)
2004 Joel Alvardo (MIL)
2003 Kade Johnson (MIL)
2002 Eleizer Alfonzo (STL) – who later went on to catch for the Giants and even had a decent year in 2006
2001 Brian Moon (MIL)
2000 Moon
1999 Jeff Alfano (MIL)

by Infield Fly Rule on Jan 13, 2009 10:46 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Correction

The last homegrown Brewer to start at catcher was actually Brian Banks who started the last game of the 1999 season.

by Infield Fly Rule on Jan 14, 2009 6:36 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Cole Gillespie

If there were an opening, is he ready for the big league?

by ol Pete on Jan 14, 2009 9:05 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

he’s had solid lines, but if he’s a LF, i’d like to see if his power develops at AAA first. that BB% is nice, though. if only he were a CF.

"Nothing is working right now with a lot of the guys. We're trying to see pitches and see what we can do. ... I'm not going to sit there and walk, though. I'll eventually find it, and hopefully we'll still be in it." -Corey Hart

by baumann on Jan 14, 2009 7:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Cain

Seems to be the heir apparent to CF. Although that may yet be a couple of years off.

Now, if we could replace Weepy Hart in RF, that would be fine with me. I’m sure he’d command a decent trade. Of course this would likely need to happen after the 2009 season (unless Gillespie could be ready mid-season), and as long as Hart doesn’t continue his exploration of the midden heap that started the second half of last season.

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 14, 2009 7:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Unfortunately, Gillespie is pretty much limited to left

Surgical repairs to his shoulder. He can play right, but the arm strength isn’t quite adequate there.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Jan 14, 2009 7:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Ahh

That’ll do it. And Brendan Katin isn’t welcome here!

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 15, 2009 12:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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