![]() Put it all together and the Brewers believe they have a future everyday catcher in the big leagues, not a one-day wonder. 273/.324/.477 with 19 home runs in 116 games.īut he also has shown great improvement behind the plate, displaying great agility and a strong arm, with improved technique to help him nab even more basestealers. The Brewers believe in Feliciano’s bat, which was on full display during his MVP season in the Carolina League in 2019, when he hit. Shuckers go back-to-back-to-back in stunner Nottingham caps two-homer game, seventh-inning comeback Jake Nottingham is 3-for-7 with three homers and four RBIs in his last two games for Biloxi. Then he scored the winning run on Travis Shaw’s two-out single as the Brewers rallied for three runs after the Dodgers scored twice in the top of the 11th.įeliciano, who said his 2-year-old daughter said the word “papa” earlier in the day, was optioned the next day to Nashville, effectively skipping Double-A, where he played three games in 2019. BILOXI, MS Jacob Nottinghams solo blast in the second inning was all the offense necessary Tuesday, as the Biloxi Shuckers topped the William Carey. Manager Craig Counsell turned to Feliciano as a pinch-hitter when he ran out of players.įeliciano worked lefthander Alex Vesia for a seven-pitch walk. Sure enough, the game went into the 11th inning. The Brewers' plan was to get through the home game that night against the Dodgers without using Feliciano, then replace him the next day with Jacob Nottingham, who had been reacquired from the Mariners in a cash deal. “There’s really no words to describe it.” “It’s a dream come true,” said Feliciano, a 2016 supplemental second-round pick out of the Beltran Academy in Puerto Rico. It was heady stuff for a player who had spent virtually all of 2019 at High-A Carolina and then lost the 2020 minor league season to the pandemic. While we unfortunately won’t be able to bring you any live baseball until 2021, let’s take a look back at this date in Biloxi Shuckers history. That's when the Brewers summoned him unexpectedly to the majors because Milwaukee catchers Omar Narvaez and Manny Piña had gone on the injured list. 27, 2017, Jacob Nottingham launched the third of a trio of consecutive home runs in a Biloxi win over Jacksonville, keeping the Shuckers playoff hopes alive. Javier Betancourt tied the game with a two-run single in the fifth inning, Jacob Nottingham belted a solo homer to give the Shuckers the lead in the sixth, and then Biloxi broke the game wide open with a five-run seventh. It was a dizzying 24 hours for the 22-year-old Feliciano on May 1. On this day in 2016, Biloxi received contributions up and down the lineup in an 83 victory over the Generals in Jackson. He first played a game in the major leagues. ![]() A funny thing happened to catcher Mario Feliciano en route to his assignment to Triple-A Nashville this spring. ![]()
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