PHOENIX -- "A big dude" is the way Brewers manager Craig Counsell describes 22-year-old Luis Ortiz, who briefly was rated Milwaukee's top pitching prospect following Josh Hader's ascension to the Majors last season. Ortiz says he has always been a big dude, from the day he was a 210-pound first-round Draft pick for Texas in 2014, or the day he showed up for his first professional Spring Training at 230.
Ortiz, listed at 6-foot-3 in the media guide, says he reported this year for his first big league camp with the Brewers at 250 pounds, feeling strong and more flexible after working with a specialist over the winter on ways to activate his glutes and hamstrings.