A few transactions...

...and not the good ones.

Brewerfan.net is the only place that I have seen this so far.

Of the five minor league players released by Milwaukee, two had Timber Rattlers ties.

Catcher Derrick Alfonso was a Rattler very late in the season last year.

Pitcher Juan Sandoval was a Rattler back in 2003. I was a fan of Sandoval in his time with the Rattlers. I became an even bigger fan of his after he came back from a horrible incident in the Dominican Republic to pitch.

[Sandoval was] a professional pitcher and rising prospect hoping for a promotion to Class AAA by the Mariners.

But that all changed Feb. 4, 2006, when Sandoval was dining at a restaurant in his Dominican Republic hometown of Bonao. There was a nearby argument between the restaurant's bouncer and a drunken man. The man left, but returned moments later with a shotgun. Sandoval heard the gun's pump-action, turned to see what was happening and took a blast to the upper torso and face.

Three of the shotgun pellets lodged in his right eye, leaving it permanently blind.

Good luck to both.