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Brewers Place Jose Quintana On IL With Shoulder Impingement

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The Brewers announced today that left-hander Jose Quintana has been placed on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to May 11th, due to a left shoulder impingement. Right-hander Tobias Myers has been recalled in a corresponding move.

Quintana, 36, was originally scheduled to start today’s game. However, earlier this week, his start was pushed back to the weekend. He spoke to reporters yesterday about his status, with video relayed by Adam McCalvy of MLB.com, saying that he has been dealing with inflammation in his shoulder and biceps. The plan was to throw a bullpen this morning and then start on Saturday.

It appears that will no longer be the case. It’s unclear what happened with today’s bullpen, but the Brewers have decided to put him on the shelf. It’s unclear how long they expect him to be out, but he’ll miss at least a couple of turns through the rotation.

The Milwaukee starting staff has been in flux all year along. The club opened the year knowing that guys like Robert Gasser and Brandon Woodruff would be starting the season on the IL, but then spring injuries to DL Hall and Aaron Ashby further cut into the depth. As a reaction to those injuries, the club reached out to Quintana, who was still unsigned in early March. Early in the season, they also lost Aaron Civale and Nestor Cortes to the IL, prompting the club to acquire Quinn Priester from the Red Sox.

Though they have been spinning plates, the Brewers felt the group was starting to stabilize. Myers has seen his results back up a bit this year, so he was optioned to the minors three days ago. However, the Brewers have quickly had to pivot and recall him again. Woodruff was about to return after over a year recovering from shoulder surgery but a recent ankle injury has put another speed bump in his path. That and this Quintana injury have opened the door for Myers to return. Players normally have to wait 15 days before being recalled after being optioned but an exception is allowed if a player is going on the IL.

Quintana is now the seventh Milwaukee starter on the shelf, alongside Ashby, Civale, Cortes, Gasser, Hall and Woodruff. Assuming Myers is jumping back into the rotation, he slots alongside Freddy Peralta, Priester, Logan Henderson and Chad Patrick.

That is likely a temporary alignment, with some of the pitchers on the IL nearing returns. As mentioned, Woodruff was seemingly on the cusp before this ankle tendinitis popped up. It’s unclear how long that will push him back. Civale, Ashby and Hall are all on rehab assignments and could be back in the mix shortly. If Quintana’s issue is minor, he could be back later this month as well.

Despite all that tumult in the rotation, the club’s starters have a collective 3.77 ERA, good enough for 12th in the majors. However, the team’s offense has been underwhelming this year, a big reason why they are currently 20-23. Regardless, the club’s decision makers are surely hoping to get beyond this wave of injuries in order to have a more settled pitching staff.

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Brandon Woodruff Pulled Off Rehab Assignment Due To Ankle Injury

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Right-hander Brandon Woodruff seemed on the cusp of returning to the Brewers but that will have to wait a bit longer. He has some right ankle tendinitis and has been returned from his rehab assignment, per Andrew Wagner of Freeman Sports and 105.7 The Fan.

Woodruff, 32, is trying to work his way back from shoulder surgery. His 2023 was cut short due to an injury to his throwing shoulder and the subsequent operation prevented him from pitching in 2024. He was still working on getting healthy as the 2025 campaign began, which landed him on the 15-day injured list.

He didn’t seem to be too far off, as he started a rehab assignment pretty early, making a minor league appearance on April 12. Rehab assignments for pitchers can last as long as 30 days, so he was coming to the end of that window, making his sixth rehab start yesterday.

However, this new injury will prevent that from happening. It’s unclear how long the Brewers expect him to rest his ankle but, per MLB rules, he has to wait at least seven days before starting a new rehab assignment.

That will delay the return of a pitcher who was once a huge part of the club’s success. From 2019 to 2022, he posted a 3.02 earned run average over 528 innings for the Brewers. He struck out 30% of batters faced, only gave out walks at a 6.3% clip and got grounders on 42.2% of balls in play.

The Brewers non-tendered him ahead of the 2024 season but re-signed him to a back-loaded deal, accounting for his expected injury absence. He made $2.5MM last year and is making $5MM this year, followed by a $10MM buyout on a $20MM mutual option for 2026. Mutual options are almost never picked up by both sides, so that was just an accounting measure to kick some of the money into the future.

For now, the Brewers will have a few other rotation issues to deal with. The club optioned right-hander Tobias Myers yesterday morning, perhaps hoping that Woodruff would take his rotation spot, though that won’t be happening now. Pitchers optioned to the minors have to stay down for a minimum of 15 days unless they are being recalled to replace someone going on the injured list. That means Myers can’t be called back unless someone else gets hurt.

Also, left-hander Jose Quintana has a minor issue of note. The lefty was scheduled to start Wednesday’s game but has a “cranky arm,” per Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The club plans to push him to Friday but that may depend on how he responds between now and then. Whatever issue he’s dealing with wasn’t apparent in the data of his most recent start, as his velocity on all his pitches was actually up relative to his previous outing.

With Myers optioned and Quintana out of action for a few days, the club is down to Freddy Peralta, Quinn Priester and Chad Patrick as healthy rotation options. Peralta and Priester are scheduled for today and tomorrow but the club will need a solution for Wednesday, and maybe another solution after that if Quintana needs to miss some time.

Patrick just started yesterday and won’t be available by Wednesday. Tyler Alexander has starting experience but pitched in relief for the Brewers in each of the past two days. Perhaps they could lean on him for multiple innings on Wednesday if they can stay away from him between now and then. Aaron Civale, on the IL due to a hamstring strain, threw four innings in a rehab outing on Thursday. That was his first rehab outing but he got his pitch count up to 50. Aaron Ashby and DL Hall are also on rehab assignment but Ashby’s most recent outing was just two innings while Hall’s was just three.

Elvin Rodríguez is on the 40-man but was optioned in recent days and is therefore in the same boat as Myers. Carlos Rodríguez just pitched on Saturday and wouldn’t be rested by Wednesday. Logan Henderson is on the 40-man and could be an option. Prospect Jacob Misiorowski could also be available, though he’s not yet on the 40-man roster.

All of these various injuries and others have left the Milwaukee rotation in a state of flux all year. That’s what prompted the late signing of Quintana and the early-season trade for Priester. With so many guys nearing a return from the injured list, some stabilization could be just over the horizon, but that won’t involve Woodruff for now.

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Brewers Option Tobias Myers

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The Brewers announced this morning that they’ve optioned right-hander Tobias Myers to Triple-A. Righty Elvis Peguero was recalled to the major league roster in his place.

It’s a surprising move for Milwaukee given that Myers was a key cog in the club’s rotation not only this year but also in 2024. The righty broke out last season as a rookie with the Brewers, posting a phenomenal 3.00 ERA (138 ERA+) in 138 innings of work spread between 25 starts and two relief outings. He’s followed that up with a 3.86 ERA across 16 1/3 innings across four starts and one relief appearance. Those solid top-level run prevention numbers are belied somewhat by less impressive peripherals, however. Last year, Myers posted a 3.91 FIP thanks in part to a relatively pedestrian 22.3% strikeout rate and an elevated home run rate, though his tidy 6.3% walk rate made up for it somewhat.

Things have taken a turn for the worse on the peripheral side of things this year, however. Myers has watched his strikeout rate dip to just 14.7% while his walk rate has crept up to 13.3%. That’s a walk rate that can prove untenable for even elite strikeout artists in a rotation role, and when paired with Myers’s paltry strikeout numbers from this year it’s easy to see why the Brewers may be concerned about his ability to continue providing quality production. Just 5.0% of Myers’s fly balls have left the yard for home runs this year, down from 11.3% last season. If that number were to normalize, his solid enough ERA would surely spike to a level closer to his 4.59 FIP or perhaps even his ugly 5.61 SIERA.

To this point in the season, the Brewers have had little choice besides simply sticking with Myers in a rotation role and hoping he gets right thanks to the bevy of rotation injuries they’ve been forced to navigate. Six starting rotation options are currently on the 15- or 60-day injured list in Milwaukee, a situation that forced them to sign Jose Quintana and trade for Quinn Priester just to keep a full rotation on the roster. That’s set to change in the relatively near future, however. Brandon Woodruff is poised to make what’s expected to be his final rehab start today, which would put him on track to return to the Brewers rotation as soon as next weekend. Aaron Civale and Aaron Ashby are expected to be ready to rejoin the club later this month as well.

Those incoming reinforcements on their own likely wouldn’t be enough to convince Milwaukee to pull the trigger on optioning Myers, but the club also has a day off this coming Thursday. That means the club can simply skip Myers’s next turn in the rotation without needing to lock Woodruff into Friday’s start against Minnesota, as today’s projected starter Chad Patrick will also be available on full rest that day. Optioning Myers now affords the Brewers an additional bullpen arm for their next few games while offering Myers the opportunity to sort out whatever issue may be causing his lack of strikeouts and uptick in walks this season in a lower-pressure environment.

Sensible as it may be, it’s an aggressive move that shows how uncharacteristically uncomfortable Milwaukee is this year. The Brewers are just 19-21 so far this year and have fallen to fourth place in the NL Central, four games back of the Cubs for the division lead. That’s certainly not an insurmountable gap for the club with more than four months to go in the regular season, but for a team coming off a run of six playoff appearances (and four NL Central titles) in seven years, it’s been quite some time since they were firmly on the outside of the playoff picture in the NL.

Replacing Myers on the roster for the time being is Peguero. The 28-year-old has struggled to a 5.68 ERA in five appearances this year but has generally been a quality relief options for Milwaukee since joining the organization ahead of the 2023 season, with a 3.20 ERA in 112 2/3 innings of work over the past two seasons. He’ll likely join struggling righty Joel Payamps in a lower leverage role for the time being given the success right-handed arms like Abner Uribe, Nick Mears, and Grant Anderson have found to this point in the 2025 campaign.

Brewers Sign Bobby Dalbec To Minors Deal

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The Brewers have signed Bobby Dalbec to a minor league deal and assigned the infielder to Triple-A, according to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

After signing a minor league deal with the White Sox during the offseason, Dalbec’s contract was selected to Chicago’s active roster a little over three weeks ago, and he hit .222/.333/.278 over 21 plate appearances in his brief time in a Pale Hose uniform.  The Sox designated him for assignment earlier this week, and once Dalbec cleared waivers, he opted for free agency instead of an outright assignment to Triple-A, as was his right since Dalbec has previously been outrighted in his career.

It wasn’t long ago that Dalbec was a top-100 prospect, and viewed as a potential first baseman of the future in Boston.  A big .959 OPS over 92 PA in 2020 hinted at this potential, and a .240/.298/.494 slash line and 25 homers over a large sample size of 453 PA in 2021 seemed to be a step forward, even if his 34.44% strikeout rate that season underlined his major flaw at the plate.  Since Opening Day 2022, Dalbec has hit only .199/.272/.328 in 520 PA at the big league level, with 195 whiffs in those 520 trips to the dish.

Now 29 years old, Dalbec may be a depth option in Milwaukee, though the Brew Crew’s relative weakness at third base may provide an opening for more MLB playing time.  Rookie Caleb Durbin has been getting most of the time at the hot corner, and with Vinny Capra just designated for assignment, Dalbec now gives the Brewers a bit of experienced depth.  Dalbec has primarily been a first baseman for most of his career, but he has amassed a good chunk of playing time at third base, plus a handful of appearances as a right fielder at both middle infield slots.

Brewers Designate Vinny Capra For Assignment

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The Brewers announced Friday that they’ve designated infielder Vinny Capra for assignment. Infielder Andruw Monasterio and lefty Bryan Hudson have been recalled from Triple-A Nashville in a pair of corresponding moves. (Righty Elvin Rodriguez was optioned to Nashville yesterday, hence the recall of two players.)

Capra, 28, is out of minor league options and thus cannot be sent to the minors without first clearing waivers. He homered on Opening Day but has been in a lengthy slump ever since, recently snapping an 0-for-32 with a single. That prolonged cold spell leaves Capra with an eyesore of a batting line: .074/.121/.130. Between this year’s struggles and his sparse track record prior to 2025, Capra is just a .105/.170/.163 hitter in 96 big league plate appearances.

It’s a rough look, certainly, but the versatile infielder has unsurprisingly been worlds better in Triple-A. He’s appeared in parts of four seasons at the top minor league level and slashed .271/.366/.384 with 15 homers, 45 doubles, three triples, 21 steals (in 27 tries), a 12.2% walk rate and just a 16.5% strikeout rate. He’s compiled those results while splitting time between shortstop, second base, third base and (much more briefly) all three outfield positions.

Capra started five of Milwaukee’s first seven games but has seen his playing time diminish amid that cold snap and following the Brewers’ promotion of Caleb Durbin, whom they acquired from the Yankees in the offseason Devin Williams trade. Durbin hasn’t exactly seized an everyday spot with authority, but his .224/.313/.328 performance is a clear improvement over Capra and the already-optioned Oliver Dunn. Brewers third basemen have been far and away the least-productive group at the position in all of MLB this year, hitting just .168/.221/.256 (33 wRC+).

The Brewers will have five days to trade Capra. If no deal comes together by then, he’d need to be placed on outright waivers or release waivers. He can be waived at any point beforehand, but waivers are a 48-hour process and, by rule, his DFA must be resolved within a week’s time. If Capra clears outright waivers, he’ll stick with the organization as a depth option. He does not have the requisite service time or prior outright needed to elect free agency after going unclaimed.

William Contreras Playing Through Fractured Finger

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Brewers catcher William Contreras has seen his power output decline this season, and MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy reports that he’s been playing through a fracture in the middle finger on his catching hand “for some time.” Contreras underwent x-rays last night that confirmed the presence of that fracture but did not reveal additional damage or injury. He’ll begin wearing a splint while catching to help mitigate some of the effects of the fracture but is expected to remain on the roster and continue catching.

Contreras, 27, is still getting on base at a hefty .358 clip, due in no small part to a massive 15.5% walk rate. He’s hitting .242/.348/.331 overall, however, which is a notable departure from the .283/.363/.472 output he produced from 2022-24. Contreras has just five extra-base hits this season — a pair of doubles and three homers — all of which came prior to April 14. He’s slugging .257 over his past 84 trips to the plate.

Even with Contreras scuffling a bit and minimal production from the left side of the infield, the Brewers remain a respectable offense. Milwaukee ranks tenth in the majors with 174 runs scored. Whether they can continue at that pace is a fair question to posit, however. Brewers hitters rank 18th in MLB with a combined .239 average, 14th with a .317 on-base percentage and just 25th with a .360 slugging percentage. By measure of wRC+ (91), their offense ranks 24th in the majors and has been nine percent worse than average.

While it seems there’s no immediate plan to sit Contreras down for any stretch of time, one would imagine that could change if his offense continues to lag. Eric Haase is Milwaukee’s backup and has hit .276/.314/.506 in a small sample of 93 plate appearances with the Brew Crew dating back to last season. That huge production has been propped up by a .400 average on balls in play and occurred despite a titanic 38.7% strikeout rate, however, making him a clear candidate for regression.

At the moment, the Brewers’ catchers in Triple-A Nashville include veteran Jorge Alfaro, former Yankees first-rounder Anthony Seigler and 2019 fourth-rounder Nick Kahle. Alfaro is hitting .213/.259/.417 in 28 games. Seigler, a catcher and second baseman, sports a .244/.416/.419 line in 113 plate appearances but is just getting back into catching after spending all of 2024 at second base in the Yankees’ system. (He signed with the Brewers as a minor league free agent in November.) Kahle was only activated for his season debut on April 22 and is hitless in his first 13 plate appearances.

Notably absent from that group is top catching prospect Jeferson Quero. The 22-year-old is widely considered to be among the sport’s top 100 prospects, but he missed nearly all of the 2024 season due to shoulder surgery and has yet to play in 2025 after suffering a hamstring injury late in spring training.

Red Sox Acquire John Holobetz As PTBNL In Quinn Priester Trade

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The Red Sox announced Monday that they’ve acquired right-hander John Holobetz from the Brewers as the player to be named later in last month’s trade that sent righty Quinn Priester from Boston to Milwaukee.

Holobetz, 22, was the Brewers’ fifth-round pick in the draft just last summer. The Old Dominion product didn’t pitch in 2024 following the draft but is out to a terrific start in 2025. He’s pitched 24 innings across five appearances in A-ball, logging a flat 3.00 ERA on 16 hits and five walks with 31 strikeouts. Holobetz has fanned 31.3% of his opponents and issued walks at just a 5.1% clip.

It’s a nice start to his pro career, but as a former college pitcher starting out in A-ball, Holobetz hasn’t yet been challenged by older and more advanced competition. How he fares in eventual moves up the ladder will be telling. The 6’3″ righty wasn’t ranked among Milwaukee’s best prospects heading into the season. He worked primarily as a reliever in college, but the Brewers have given him longer stints so far in pro ball.

Holobetz joins outfielder Yophery Rodriguez as one of two players the Red Sox acquired in exchange for Priester. Milwaukee also sent its Competitive Balance (Round A) draft selection to Boston in exchange for Priester, whom the Red Sox acquired ahead of the 2024 trade deadline in a swap sending former first-rounder Nick Yorke to Pittsburgh. Rodriguez has appeared in 19 games with the Red Sox’ High-A club and turned in a .224/.402/.418 batting line with more walks (21.8%) than strikeouts (17.2%) in 87 plate appearances.

For much of the season so far, Priester has been more or less what a Brewers team that was desperate for starting pitching had hoped. He’s been a serviceable back-end starter capable of providing five-inning efforts that keep the Brew Crew in the game. His ERA exploded to 5.79 when the Cubs clobbered him for seven runs yesterday, but Priester had worked to a 3.79 ERA through his first four turns.

Overall, it’s not an appealing set of numbers, though. The 5.79 ERA — inflated by one particularly poor start or not — is accompanied by ugly strikeout and walk rates of 15.7% and 14.8%, respectively. Priester has walked at least three batters in each of his past four starts. He’s posted an excellent 56.8% ground-ball rate, but that’s a small consolation when juxtaposed with the lack of missed bats and worrying command issues.

That said, the Brewers have control of Priester for the next six seasons, and he still has a minor league option remaining. He’s a former first-round pick and top prospect who’s still only 24 years old, and he has a solid minor league track record. The Brewers will hope as the season goes on that he can refine that command and cement himself as a reliable member of the staff. They’ve shuffled up his pitch mix a bit, adding a new cutter that sits just over 92 mph to complement his sinker-focused approach. That pitch has been hit quite hard so far, so it’s not clear he’ll stick with the offering.

For now, Priester remains set in a rotation alongside Freddy Peralta, Jose Quintana, Tobias Myers and Chad Patrick. Milwaukee has pitchers Brandon Woodruff, Nestor Cortes, Aaron Civale, Aaron Ashby, DL Hall and Robert Gasser all on the mend from injury, but only Woodruff is close to a return at the moment.

Brewers Notes: Peralta, Frelick, McKendry

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Freddy Peralta and Sal Frelick have been two bright spots for an underwhelming Brewers team so far in 2025. Peralta ranks among the top five qualified NL starters in both innings pitched (45 1/3) and ERA (2.18). His 2.94 xERA (eighth among NL starters) is similarly impressive, while his 3.57 SIERA and 3.45 FIP suggest he’ll continue to deliver the kind of reliable performance the Brewers have come to expect. Meanwhile, Frelick leads Brewers batters (min. 50 PA) with a 123 wRC+. The wide gap between his .351 wOBA and .319 xwOBA suggests he’s due for some regression, but even so, both of those numbers represent an improvement over his .292 wOBA and .278 xwOBA from 2024. He’s making more contact and hitting the ball harder than he did in his first two seasons. The early results have been a good reminder of why he was once a first-round pick and a consensus top-50 prospect in the game.

So, when both Peralta and Frelick exited early on Sunday, potential injury concerns put a damper on what was otherwise a good day for the Brewers; they beat the Cubs 4-0 to avoid a series sweep at the hands of their division rivals. Perlata exited after his sixth scoreless inning with a sore groin, which manager Pat Murphy later relayed to reporters (including Adam McCalvy of MLB.com). Thankfully for Milwaukee, Peralta is not particularly concerned, suggesting he left the game out of an abundance of caution, more so than anything else (per McCalvy). That’s not hard to believe, considering his shutdown performance against the team that has boasted the NL’s best offense over the first several weeks of the 2025 season. Peralta needed just 89 pitches to cruise through six frames, striking out seven and walking one. Only one runner reached scoring position against Peralta, and he only got there due to an interference call against first baseman Rhys Hoskins on a pick-off attempt. In short, Peralta was dominant, and the Brewers will hope he can pick up where he left off in his next start. An off-day on Thursday will allow him some extra rest before his next scheduled start against the Rays on Saturday, May 10.

As for Frelick, the young outfielder was lifted in the top of the fourth inning yesterday after hurting his left knee on a swing two innings prior. “Left knee discomfort” was the initial diagnosis the team offered reporters (including McCalvy), but they were concerned enough to send him for imaging (also per McCalvy). They will presumably know if it’s anything more than just discomfort following an MRI. Even a short stint on the IL for Frelick would be tough for Milwaukee to stomach, given how much he has meant to the team on both sides of the ball. Not only has he been one of the Crew’s best hitters and baserunners, but his glove in the outfield is especially important with Blake Perkins and Garrett Mitchell on the IL. Defensive metrics like DRS and OAA haven’t been thrilled with Frelick’s performance thus far in 2025, but he is only one year removed from a Gold Glove-winning season. The Brewers’ outfield depth is already being tested, and losing Frelick would make that problem substantially worse.

In another bit of Brewers news, McCalvy reports that they have traded minor league right-hander Evan McKendry to the White Sox in exchange for cash considerations. McKendry, 27, was originally drafted by the Rays in 2019. The Brewers acquired him at the deadline in 2023 in return for catcher Alex Jackson. The righty has a 5.23 ERA and a 5.15 FIP in 36 games (19 starts) and 139 1/3 innings at Triple-A since joining the Brewers organization.

Brewers Notes: Woodruff, Hall, Ashby, Civale

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It’s been a difficult start to the season in Milwaukee, as the Brewers have posted a lackluster 16-18 record and currently sit five games back of the Cubs in the NL Central. The losses of Willy Adames and Devin Williams this offseason certainly haven’t helped matters, but perhaps the most glaring issue with the club this year has been the starting rotation. Only Marlins and Orioles starters have posted a worse figure than Milwaukee’s 4.94 rotation FIP, and while they’ve outperformed their peripherals so far a 4.02 ERA is still below average and a far cry from the days of Corbin Burnes and Brandon Woodruff helping carry the team to the postseason.

Burnes is long gone, already on his second team since departing Milwaukee prior to the 2024 season, but Woodruff remains in the organization after missing 2024 rehabbing surgery to repair a capsule tear in his shoulder. He’s yet to make his 2025 debut while finishing up his rehab process, but the right-hander’s return to the majors appears to be imminent. As noted by MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy, Woodruff is expected to make two more rehab starts before he makes his return to the majors: one this coming Tuesday, and one on May 11. At that point, Woodruff will run out of time on his 30-day rehab assignment and need to be reinstated to the big league roster unless he suffers a setback that necessitates the team pulling him back from his rehab assignment.

Woodruff’s return can’t come soon enough, given how talented the right-hander is. One of the best pitchers in the majors since his breakout 2019 season, the right-hander has looked good in four rehab starts this year, with a 2.45 ERA in 18 1/3 innings. His strikeout rate of 21.6% is well below his usual mark, though it’s worth noting that figure has jumped to a much more robust 29.4% since he was promoted to Triple-A, suggesting his stuff is improving as he shakes off the rust from more than a year away from the mound. If Woodruff can offer Milwaukee ace-level production in his age-32 season, it would be a game changer for their chances in the NL Central and give the club an elite 1-2 punch alongside Freddy Peralta.

While no other pitcher in the organization can be expected to offer the sort of elite production Woodruff has posted when at his best, he’s far from the only potential rotation arm on the mend. Southpaw DL Hall began a rehab assignment yesterday and, as noted by Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is being built up as a starter with an eye towards a return later this month or early next month. Acquired alongside Joey Ortiz in the Burnes trade, the 26-year-old struggled to a 5.02 ERA in 43 innings of work with the Brewers last year but is a former first-round pick with impressive stuff and plenty of potential. If Milwaukee can harness Hall’s arsenal, it would hardly be a surprise to see him emerge as a quality piece as Tobias Myers did last year and Chad Patrick appears to be doing this season.

Meanwhile, veteran right-hander Aaron Civale appears to be nearing a rehab assignment of is own, with Hogg suggesting that the soon-to-be 30-year-old hurler is poised to begin a rehab assignment next week. That would seemingly put Civale, who made just one start this season before going on the shelf due to a hamstring strain, behind Hall in terms of preparedness to return, though perhaps after having a full spring training Civale won’t need as long of a rehab stint as the southpaw. The righty posted a 3.53 ERA in 14 starts for the Brewers after being acquired from the Rays last July, and would be a solid addition to the middle of Milwaukee’s rotation upon his return.

While Civale seems all but guaranteed to return to the Brewers rotation when healthy and Hall is at least being stretched out as a starter, the future is murkier for southpaw Aaron Ashby. He’s been sidelined since Spring Training by an oblique injury, and was expected to build up as a starter at that point, but has yet to begin a minor league rehab assignment. Hogg suggests that a return this month isn’t “out of the question” for the southpaw, but such a short window for return would seem to require the Brewers to bring him back into the fold without fully stretching him out. Given that the club has added Jose Quintana and Quinn Priester to its rotation mix since Ashby last pitched, it’s possible that the club is changing gears with the lefty and plans to use him in long relief this season. It’s a role Ashby looked quite good in last year, as he posted a 2.86 ERA and 2.81 FIP despite being limited to just 28 1/3 innings of work.

Brewers Select Daz Cameron, Place Garrett Mitchell On 10-Day IL

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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.

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