Spring training invitations serve two purposes. For the team, the players invited to big-league camp serve mainly as extras for drills, or to make sure certain positions (like catcher) have bodies to handle all the pitchers. But for the players—the prospects who have a hope of one day reaching the majors—a spring training invite is a chance to open the eyes of the coaching staff and front office, possibly even with another team.
The Milwaukee Brewers sent out another round of invites that popped up on the transactions page recently. Those went to six players, two of whom were in the Brewers’ system last season. Those two are catcher Darrien Miller and infielder-outfielder Eduardo Garcia.
Miller was a ninth-round draft choice by the Brewers in 2019 out of a California high school, and has slowly made his way up the system. The soon-to-be 25-year-old played the last two years at Double-A Biloxi, with slash lines of .212/.392/.291 and .192/.381/.329, respectively, in a combined 174 games.
Garcia was an international signing in 2018, only playing his first season in the U.S. in 2021. The 23-year-old split 2025 at High-A Wisconsin and Double-A Biloxi, after getting a brief taste of Biloxi in 2024 (10 games). A versatile defender and athlete, he played 58 games at shortstop and 54 in center field between the two stops, while also getting time at third base, second base, and left field. After a slash line of .252/.341/.435 with 13 homers and 47 RBIs in 96 games at Wisconsin, Garcia had a .212/.297/.265 showing with no homers and nine RBIs in 33 games at Biloxi. He also made 22 starts at short this winter in Venezuela for the Cardenales de Lara, who posted the best regular-season record in the league. He had a .324/.395/.581 slash line with six homers and 19 RBIs in 34 games.
As for the organization newcomers, right-handers Gerson Gerabito and Drew Rom had previously signed minor-league contracts. You can find more about their path to the Crew here.
Shortstop Eddys Leonard signed a minor-league deal in November and just formally got his invite. Leonard, who turned 25 in November, was originally signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an international free agent in 2017 and was still a top prospect in 2022, with MLB Pipeline ranking him eighth in the system. But the Dodgers cut him loose in 2023, trading him to the Detroit Tigers after designating him for assignment. After the 2024 season, Leonard was DFA’d by the Tigers, but returned on a minor-league deal. Late in spring training, the Tigers released him. Atlanta scooped up Leonard a few days later, and he put up a .239/.304/.435 slash line with 20 homers and 61 RBIs in 126 games at Triple-A Gwinnett.
Last, but not least, is outfielder Greg Jones, the only one of this group to have played in an MLB game. Originally a first-round draft pick (22nd overall) by the Tampa Bay Rays out of North Carolina-Wilimington in 2019, Jones has appeared in nine MLB games over the last two seasons: six with the Colorado Rockies in 2024 and three with the Chicago White Sox in 2025. Jones has a career minor-league slash line of .262/.346/.434 with 51 homers and 194 RBIs in 380 games across six seasons, but his calling card is his speed and defense. He has 172 steals in 197 attempts, with a career-high 46 swipes in 2024. He signed about a month ago, but the Brewers’ transaction log called Saturday’s move a signing as well. Both moves are on Jones’s MLB.com player page.
There will be more spring invites handed out, especially to some of the Crew’s top prospects, as we get closer to pitchers and catchers reporting in less than a month.