GRAND CHUTE, Wis. -- Brewers 2017 first-round Draft pick Keston Hiura has been tearing it up at the plate in his first month with Class A Wisconsin. Now, he is rapidly approaching his first professional game in the field.
"We're hoping to get him in a ballgame here mid-month," Timber Rattlers manager Matt Erickson said of the second baseman, who has been limited to designated hitter because of a right elbow injury that predated the Draft. "We don't have an exact date, but I can tell you that he's progressing nicely from the first day he got here.