PHOENIX -- Spring Training formally begins for Brewers Minor Leaguers on Tuesday, so it was time for the organization’s top prospect to bid farewell to big league camp and begin preparing for the regular season. The Brewers returned 18-year-old Jesús Made to Minor League camp amid a flurry of roster

MILWAUKEE -- Halfway through Spring Training, the Brewers’ pitching picture is only slightly more focused than it was at the start of camp. “We’ve got a lot up in the air,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said over the weekend. So, repeating the caveat that more spring signings, trades or waiver

PHOENIX -- Infielder Ethan Murray is not usually mentioned among the Brewers’ prospects with light tower power. But maybe he should be. Murray, a 25-year-old who split last season between Double-A Biloxi and Triple-A Nashville, crushed a go-ahead three-run home run in Sunday’s 6-3 Brewers win over the Mariners that

With half of the Spring Training schedule in the books, MLB.com Brewers beat reporter Adam McCalvy held an Ask Me Anything on Reddit with fans at r/brewers during Sunday’s game against the Mariners. This mailbag features questions and answers from there, lightly edited for clarity. The full AMA can be

TEMPE, Ariz. – It seems like yesterday to Brandon Woodruff that he joined the Brewers in St. Louis, strained his right hamstring warming up, then had to wait two more months to make his Major League debut at Tampa Bay. But that wasn’t yesterday. It was 2017, and Woodruff is

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MIAMI -- A bruised left hand kept budding Brewers star Jackson Chourio out of Venezuela’s lineup for its opening game of the World Baseball Classic on Friday, a 6-2 victory over the Netherlands. Milwaukee officials, however, have “no concern” about his long-term availability, a source said. Chourio was struck on

PHOENIX -- Spring Training is a time for smart teams to push boundaries, and the Brewers found the limit this week as they explored optimizing MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System. If you watched the dugout closely during Milwaukee’s 10-8 win at the Rockies on Thursday, you would have seen

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Who will start on Opening Day for the Brewers? It probably won’t be Brandon Woodruff, who is healthy but building up cautiously in light of his injury history, and is currently behind other pitchers in camp. And now it’s increasingly obvious that it won’t be Quinn Priester,

PHOENIX -- Brewers top prospect Jesús Made batted leadoff in last year’s Spring Breakout game against the Reds, so he’s no stranger to the prospect showcase. But he’ll look a lot different when he takes the field this time around. Made, a shortstop who ranks No. 3 on MLB Pipeline’s

PHOENIX -- Longtime Brewers coach Jason Lane has logged enough time in baseball to remember when Major League hitting coach was a one-man job. That era is long gone, replaced by big data and bigger staffs. Or, in Milwaukee's case, a three-man crew of hitting coaches under Lane, who has

PHOENIX -- Leave it to Great Britain to bring a touch of refinement to the World Baseball Classic. While other nations may be content with a team photographer, the Brits are traveling with a team artist. Andy Brown has made a career of painting the game of baseball after falling

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- There’s a car wash on just about every corner in greater Phoenix, and that’s a good thing, because Brewers manager Pat Murphy keeps talking about sending his pitchers there. Get ready to hear all season about the “H&H Car Wash,” which is Murphy’s reference to the Brewers’

Four years ago, Willson and William Contreras thought they had reached the professional pinnacle of brotherhood, representing the National League as teammates at the All-Star Game. It turns out that was just a prelude to what will take place starting this week, when they join forces for Team Venezuela in

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PHOENIX -- Brewers manager Pat Murphy has revealed his semi-annual prediction for the player poised to take a “quantum leap” in the coming year.

PHOENIX -- It’s not uncommon to hear a pitcher who’s just been traded talking with excitement about the changes proposed by his new team. A new pitch. A new grip. A new mix. That sort of thing drives Brewers pitching coach Chris Hook, “[bleepin’] crazy.” “It’s like, ‘I’ve never even

SURPRISE, Ariz. – Big surprise: Aaron Ashby was one of the openers when Brewers pitchers got their first looks at hitters in Spring Training. Ashby and fellow lefty Robert Gasser were first to go when pitchers threw live batting practice at the start of Spring Training, prompting pitching coach Chris

PHOENIX – You don’t see many 14-pitch plate appearances in Spring Training. You don’t see many grand slams sail over the batter’s eye, either.

PHOENIX – Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell wasn’t the only one hurting last year after he reinjured his surgically repaired left shoulder. Another season was lost. His shoulder ached. His Type 1 diabetes went haywire. His love for the game wavered.

MESA, Ariz. – There’s nothing like a six-RBI afternoon – including a rare, three-run single – to boost a hitter’s confidence. That’s just what Brewers bench hopeful Tyler Black is seeking this spring.

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PHOENIX -- Jacob Misiorowski is already throwing heat as he ramps up for his first full season in the Majors and Cooper Pratt is one of the Brewers’ best prospects. No, the latter did not risk his life so the former could show off his fastball. But the Brewers’ video

PHOENIX -- Opening Day isn’t the target for Brandon Woodruff. A healthy season is. The 33-year-old Brewers right-hander threw 26 pitches in a simulated game on Monday morning at American Family Fields of Phoenix, his first action against hitters since his comeback season ended due to a lat strain last

PHOENIX -- Major League Baseball can’t implement the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System this season without knowing every hitter’s precise height, right down to the millimeter. So, like a flashback to the first day of elementary school, Brewers hitters lined up Monday to be measured. Major Leaguers have been weighed