Milwaukee Brewers Announce Initial Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Roster for 2024
GRAND CHUTE, WI – The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are in town and ready to start the 2024 Midwest League season. The Milwaukee Brewers have sent a team full of prospects and players with playoff experience north from American Family Fields of Phoenix to start the season with the Timber Rattlers
GRAND CHUTE, WI – The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are in town and ready to start the 2024 Midwest League season. The Milwaukee Brewers have sent a team full of prospects and players with playoff experience north from American Family Fields of Phoenix to start the season with the Timber Rattlers this week.
Download the Initial 2024 Roster here
He's 19-years old but has grown man strength
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) March 24, 2024
That's Luis Lara for you pic.twitter.com/9eeyOq2eYr
There are 32 players on the initial list of Manager Victor Estevez’s team. The roster will need to be down to 30 active players by Friday when the Timber Rattlers are scheduled to start the season at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium against the Peoria Chiefs with a scheduled 6:40pm first pitch as Estevez begins his first season as the manager of the Timber Rattlers.
MLB Pipeline ranks six members of the Timber Rattlers as prospects on their list of Brewers Top 30 Prospects: Luis Lara (#9), Mike Boeve (#15), Luke Adams, (#16), Dylan O’Rae (#21), Jadher Areinamo (#23), and Patricio Aquino (#29).
There are thirteen members of the 2024 team who played parts of the 2023 season with the Timber Rattlers: Alexander Cornielle, Stiven Cruz, Miguel Guerrero, Edwin Jimenez, Matt Wood, José Acosta, Boeve, Jesús Chirinos, Ben Metzinger, Jheremy Vargas, Terence Doston, Eduarqui Fernández, and Lara. Areinamo made appearances with the Timber Rattlers in 2022.
Five members of Milwaukee’s 2023 draft class are set to be Timber Rattlers this season. Boeve (2nd round), Tate Kuehner (7th round), Craig Yoho (8th round), Mark Manfredi (9th round), and Brett Wichrowski (13th round). Kuehner, Yoho, Manfredi, and Wichrowski were part of the Arizona Complex League Championship team in 2023 with Kuehner, Manfredi, and Wichrowski pitching in the playoff victory over the Rockies affiliate in the League’s semifinal game.
Brett Wichrowski up to 99 this weekend with 3 Ks in 3 innings and 7 whiffs to go along with 6 called strikes#ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/DQauPwm4yj
— Brewers Player Development (@BrewersPD) March 26, 2024
Estevez, the Carolina League Manager of the Year in 2023, had eighteen members of this year’s Wisconsin team on his Carolina Mudcats team last year. The Mudcats advanced to the Carolina League playoffs last season.
Initial 2024 Timber Rattlers:
Pitchers (17): Patricio Aquino, Will Childers, Alexander Cornielle, Chase Costello, Stiven Cruz, Brian Fitzpatrick, Miguel Guerrero, Edwin Jimenez, Tate Kuehner, Mark Manfredi, Jake Polancic, Yerlin Rodríguez, Will Rudy, Aaron Rund, Tyler Wehrle, Brett Wichrowski, and Craig Yoho
Catchers (3): Alejandro Rodríguez, Ramόn Rodríguez, and Matt Wood
Infielders (8): José Acosta, Luke Adams, Jadher Areinamo, Gregory Barrios, Mike Boeve, Jesús Chirinos, Ben Metzinger, and Dylan O’Rae.
Outfielders (4): Terence Doston, Eduarqui Fernández, Luis Lara, and Jheremy Vargas.
There are players from Canada, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the United States with the Rattlers. The states represented include California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio.
Who is the best pure hitter in the @Brewers draft class?
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) November 1, 2023
Mike Boeve.
He has impressive pure bat-to-ball skills and struck out at just a 4.3% rate this spring with Nebraska-Omaha.
(📽️: @BrewersPD)pic.twitter.com/SfCHY5WB4p
Fans can get their first glimpse of the 2024 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in action during Fan Fest on Wednesday, April 3 when the team practices on the field – weather permitting – at 12:30pm with a scrimmage scheduled for 2:00pm. Admission and parking are free. Game time for the home opener on Friday against Peoria set for 6:40pm.
Individual tickets plus full-season, half-season, mini-plan, and flex packages for the 2024 season are available online through timberrattlers.com, over the phone at (920) 733-4152, or in person at the Timber Rattlers Box Office located at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. The box office is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
25th Anniversary Green Bay Charity Softball Game Hosted by Jordan Love presented by Network Health
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Rattlers/Sky Carp Postponed on Thursday Night
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Sky Carp Fly Past Rattlers
GRAND CHUTE, WI – The Beloit Sky Carp jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the top of the first inning and didn’t allow the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to get back into Wednesday’s game at Neuroscience Group Field. The Sky Carp defeated the Rattlers 12-7 for their second straight win
Beloit Takes Series Opener
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Wisconsin Earns a Series Split with a Sunday Win at Peoria
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Peoria’s Early Lead Too Much For Rattlers to Overcome
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Chiefs Pull Away from Rattlers
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T-Rat Talk: Tyson Hardin
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Wisconsin Holds On After Taking Late Lead in Peoria
PEORIA, IL – In a staring contest between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Peoria Chiefs on Thursday night at Dozer Park, it was the Chiefs who blinked first. Wisconsin pitchers worked through jams all night, but kept the game tied until the offense could score a late run to
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Peoria Beats Wisconsin 3-1 at Dozer Park
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Rattlers Rally from Five-Run Deficit to Beat Peoria 14-9
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Wisconsin Earns a Series Split with 7-3 Win over Whitecaps
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Whitecaps Outduel Rattlers in 1-0 Decision
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Letson Ks Nine as Wisconsin Beats West Michigan
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Woodruff and Wisconsin Pick Up Win Over Whitecaps
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Ninth Inning Unkind to Wisconsin
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Culpepper Leads Kernels Past Wisconsin
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Pérez Powers Wisconsin Past Kernels
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Hedbert Pérez broke a 2-2 tie with a solo homer in the top of the eighth inning to push the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in front of the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin would go on to a 4-2 victory.