Today is Major League Baseball’s deadline to add eligible players to the 40-man roster and protect them from the Rule 5 Draft, and clubs all around the league have been busy announcing transactions regarding which prospects they’ll be safeguarding. The Milwaukee Brewers have not yet made an official announcement about who among their 50+ eligible players will be added, but there has been an early report regarding a pair of minor leaguers who will have their contracts purchased. Neither one is exactly a surprise:
The Brewers will add outfielder Corey Ray (No. 4 on MLB Pipeline's list of Milwaukee's top prospects) and reliever J.