{"id":548226,"date":"2026-03-20T04:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548226\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:08:15","slug":"brewers-option-logan-henderson-blake-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548226\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Option Logan Henderson, Blake Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers made a few camp cuts on Thursday. Starter Logan Henderson<\/a>, outfielder Blake Perkins<\/a>, and corner bat\u00a0Tyler Black<\/a> were all sent out and will open the season with Triple-A Nashville.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Henderson had seemingly been well positioned for a spot in the Opening Day rotation. There are at least two jobs up for grabs after the Freddy Peralta<\/a> trade and with\u00a0Quinn Priester<\/a> beginning the season on the injured list. The Brewers have rotation roles committed to Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>,\u00a0Chad Patrick<\/a> and (assuming he\u2019s fully built up) Brandon Woodruff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Henderson was firmly in the mix after impressing over his first five MLB starts a year ago. His odds of breaking camp were set back when he reported minor elbow soreness<\/a> last week. Henderson had finished the 2025 season on the injured list with elbow inflammation. The team didn\u2019t consider this recent flareup especially alarming \u2014 he\u2019s already throwing again \u2014 but he hasn\u2019t appeared in a Spring Training game in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Skipper Pat Murphy indicated the demotion is largely about giving Henderson a chance to build his workload in the minors. \u201cPart of this move is to make sure he can go post regularly,\u201d Murphy told reporters (link via Adam McCalvy of MLB.com<\/a>). \u201cWe\u2019re not going to immediately build him up to five innings. We\u2019re going to let him go two innings and see how he responds, two innings and see how he responds. Just make sure he\u2019s responding each time because he\u2019s had (an injury) history.\u201d<\/p>\n

This probably paves the way for\u00a0Brandon Sproat<\/a> and\u00a0Kyle Harrison<\/a> to round out the rotation. Harrison left yesterday\u2019s appearance with a blister, but it\u2019s not expected to be an issue moving forward. Robert Gasser<\/a> and\u00a0Shane Drohan<\/a> are also still in the mix, with Drohan having the far more impressive camp of those two.<\/p>\n

Acquired from the Red Sox in the Caleb Durbin<\/a> trade, Harrison has allowed 12 runs (eight earned) across 9 2\/3 spring innings. That\u2019s obviously not ideal, but he has struck out 15 opponents while averaging 95 mph on his fastball. Sproat came over from the Mets as part of the Peralta return. He has allowed five runs with a 10:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio over nine innings.<\/p>\n

In any case, the Brewers will lean heavily on their bullpen while frequently shuttling starters up and down from Nashville. There\u2019s more clarity on the position player side, which is down to 14 a week before Opening Day. The final camp cut will almost certainly be third catcher\u00a0Reese McGuire<\/a>, a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n

McCalvy notes that the Perkins option means\u00a0Brandon Lockridge<\/a> is heading north with the club. The speedster won the fourth outfield role by hitting .314 with four homers and three steals in 12 games this spring. He\u2019ll join Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a>,\u00a0Jake Bauers<\/a> and utility infielder\u00a0David Hamilton<\/a> on the season-opening bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers made a few camp cuts on Thursday. Starter Logan Henderson, outfielder Blake Perkins, and corner bat\u00a0Tyler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[180212,33963,49,48,91663,31132,462,82,10829],"class_list":["post-548226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-blake-perkins","tag-brandon-lockridge","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-logan-henderson","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tyler-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}