TODAY: As expected, the Brewers officially selected Cameron’s contract and placed Mitchell on the 10-day IL due to a left oblique strain. Outfielder Blake Perkins (who has yet to place this season due to a shin fracture) was shifted to the 60-day injured list to create space for Cameron the 40-man roster.
APRIL 25: The Brewers intend to select Daz Cameron onto the major league roster, reports Francys Romero. Milwaukee had acquired him from the Orioles for lefty reliever Grant Wolfram a few weeks ago. They’ll need to create a 40-man roster spot to finalize the promotion.
That seems to be tied to Garrett Mitchell’s status. Milwaukee’s center fielder departed tonight’s loss in St. Louis after experiencing tightness in his left side. Manager Pat Murphy told reporters (including Todd Rosiak of The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) that Mitchell will go for an MRI on Saturday. Any kind of oblique strain would lead to an injured list placement.
While the injury opened an outfield spot, Cameron has certainly earned the call. He has been on fire at Triple-A Nashville since the trade. Cameron has connected on five homers while hitting .372 in 10 games. The former supplemental pick and top prospect has a career .253/.341/.436 batting line over seven minor league campaigns.
Cameron has yet to find much success against big league competition. He’s a .201/.263/.330 hitter with 10 homers through 430 major league plate appearances. The 28-year-old appeared in a personal-high 66 games with the A’s a year ago. He hit .200 while striking out at an elevated 27.4% rate. Cameron can play all three outfield spots and provide some right-handed power off the bench.
Switch-hitting Isaac Collins replaced Mitchell in center field after the injury. He has hit .163 with a near-35% strikeout rate over 46 major league plate appearances. Collins had a strong year in Nashville in 2024, batting .273/.386/.475 with 14 longballs and 24 stolen bases. An extended absence for Mitchell could open up his first real opportunity for regular playing time. Milwaukee could also slide Sal Frelick over to center field if they’re comfortable with Christian Yelich taking regular work in left field. They’ve been cautious with Yelich’s defensive workload so far. He has made 20 starts at designated hitter and only five in the outfield.
Has there ever been a larger discrepancy between the careers of father and son in baseball history? Mike Cameron is a Hall of Very Good charter member. Daz Cameron is, at best, a fifth outfielder.
Maybe George and Dick Sisler.
Sure, my friend Logan’s dad Don August pitched for the brewers and Logan never even played college ball. Crazy…
well played
Kody Clemens just went to the twins after a dfa. Not baseball but Michael Jordan’s kid was awful. There’s probably dozens of more examples of all star athletes decendents not working out who don’t even make the pros. It’s hard to make it to the pros even with great genetics.
Ken griffey Jr. was good even though his dad was a major leaguer. Prince fielder. Fernando tatis Jr. Bo bichette(even though he had a bad year, but every one hits a slump at some point). Vladdy Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr’s brother Craig Griffey was a career minor leaguer. I remember he was short and stocky, but he tried. Mariners may have even given him an honorary “one day call up” so he could play with his brother officially for one day…but I may have dreamt that.
Jesus, he was absolutely awful lmao. Imagine having a brother with over 600 home runs while your career minor league slugging percentage wasn’t even .300🤣
Clearly I was referring to this who made the majors, but interesting anecdote nonetheless
Pete Rose’s kid didn’t amount to much, and currently Roger Clemens kid isn’t doing much
Pete Rose Jr was never banned for betting! Lol
Kody Clemens is a fair contender, too
Tony Gwynn Jr. was pretty awful. Had a little bit of value because of his defense, but his hitting was terrible.
Prince Fielder had success early on, he did well in his time in Milwaukee. Even with his career cut short, he racked up pretty good numbers.
@acoss I assume you mean prince had the better career. More hits, same homeruns, and higher war than Cecil. Higher BA and better ops. Prince played in more games than his father.
Prince would have been a HOF lock had his neck not retired him way before he should have. At least 500 homers, if not more. That swing was so violent, it likely didn’t help things.
He was a decent fourth outfielder for a few years, so I’d put him ahead of Daz
@slam Gwynn Jr hung around MLB for part of 8 seasons while contributing +WAR. I would not consider that great or even good, but hanging around for that long and being a net positive at the games highest level is anything but awful.
I know this is comparing to other MLB talent, so I’m not going to to mebtuon the cliche that even a cup of coffee is a huge accomplishment. As for Gwynn Jr, he hung around a bit while adding value, that simply is not awful.
Yogi Berra / Dale Berra
Dale put up a handful of WAR
Fewer WAR than Dick Sisler. And Dale Berra wasn’t mentioned in “The Old Man and the Sea”.
Deion and shedeur sanders! Lol
And a handful of blow.
Roberto Clemente’s son never made it beyond A ball back in the 1980s.
Clemente’s nephew played a little bit with the Rockies, without much success.
Troy..Thats a bit harsh dont you think? In case you didnt know Mike Cameron didnt become a regular in mlb until he was 24. Daz is currently 25…seems he is kind of right on schedule with his dad assuming he carrys over the minor league success hes had to start this year..
Mike Cameron was a “Hall of very good player?” On what planet? He was very average at the plate, but a great fielder. Is Walt Weiss in the “Hall of very good” too?
As a type 1 diabetic, I hate that Mitchell can’t stay healthy. It’s a big reason he slipped in the draft. Diabetes sucks. Daz, welcome to the club, looking forward to seeing your dad watch you play where he used to.
What happened to Blake Perkins? He did well last year and can play CF.
Perkins fractured his shin in ST. He won’t be ready til about early or mid May at best
But exactly how does the disease affect his play? Does it cause him to be more injury prone, or does it just affect his ability to heal on time? I’ve been confused about the reasoning…
Google is your friend.
I prefer to use Bing and DuckDuckGo instead of Google nowadays.
Bing…Microsoft named it so Because It’s Not Google!
Google definitely sucks but I don’t like those two either, they give limited results. Check out Brave search and Mojeek. You get completely different, and I think better, results. And they don’t track and keep you anonymous.
Tiger fans still waiting for Daz to live up to expectations for being part of Verlander package, of which only Jake Rogers has panned out.
In other former Tigers news. Tribe is giving Kody Clemens a test drive.
And the White Sox just traded for Gage Workman while DFA’ing Nick Maton…wild day for ex-Tigers
Prospects are often suspects.
Hoping that the WS don’t keep Workman and he is offered back to the Tigers organization. I think with more seasoning he can be a quality bench piece