Bill Batterman is the Spring Training begins in less than a month and the Brewers will have no shortage of fresh faces at their Arizona compound. To help fans get acclimated with this year’s crop of newcomers to the organization, the Daily Brew will be publishing a series of player profiles over the next several weeks. This is the second installment in the Newcomer Breakdown series, which will cover major leaguers as well as selected minor leaguers.
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Perhaps the most famous selection in the history of baseball’s Rule Five Draft not named Roberto Clemente is Twins’ ace Johan Santana, the dominating southpaw acquired from Houston and then Florida in the 1999 edition of baseball’s annual lottery. And rightly so. But the Brewers acquired another talented member of that season’s Rule Five Draft class this October when they claimed right-hander Derrick Turnbow off waivers from Anaheim.