The Brewers on Monday announced their initial player pool for the 2020 season. Pools can contain up to 60 players, and only players in a team’s pool will be eligible to participate in summer training camp or regular/postseason games. Teams are free to change the makeup of the pools as they see fit, but once a team’s pool reaches 60 players, a player must be removed (released, traded, waived, etc.) in order to make a new addition. That player becomes ineligible to return to that same team in 2020.
Not all players within a team’s pool are ticketed for MLB playing time, of course. Most teams will include well-regarded but still far-off prospects as a means of getting them training reps with no intention of running them onto a major league diamond this season. A comprehensive review of 2020’s unique set of rules can be found here.
Here are the 45 players in the Brewers’ initial pool (* indicates player not on 40-man roster)…
Right-Handed Pitchers
- Ray Black
- Zack Brown*
- Corbin Burnes
- Jake Faria*
- J.P. Feyereisen
- Justin Grimm*
- Adrian Houser
- Corey Knebel
- Josh Lindblom
- Shelby Miller*
- Mike Morin*
- Freddy Peralta
- David Phelps
- Drew Rasmussen*
- Bobby Wahl
- Devin Williams
- Brandon Woodruff
- Eric Yardley
Left-Handed Pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
- Orlando Arcia
- Jedd Gyorko
- Ryon Healy
- Keston Hiura
- Brock Holt
- Mark Mathias
- Logan Morrison*
- Jace Peterson*
- Ronny Rodriguez
- Justin Smoak
- Eric Sogard
- Luis Urias
Outfielders
Lo Mo, alright alright
One of the best players in the league. According to himself.
Haudricourt said today that he expects the brewers to carry 17 pitchers going into the season.
Imo that means the position players should be mostly set for the crew, the one spot that’s up in the air is the 4th OF, which should almost definitely be Ben Gamel, but could be Keon Broxton or some combo of Brock Holt or Mark Mathias, both of whom looked great in super utility roles in the spring.