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 first installment in the Newcomer Breakdown series, which will cover major leaguers as well as selected minor leaguers.
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Signed as a minor league free agent in early January, Jerome Gamble is a hard-throwing right-hander with a history of arm problems that have derailed his once-promising career. A product of Benjamin Russell High School in Alexander City, Alabama, Gamble was selected in the fourth round of the 1998 June Amateur Draft by the Boston Red Sox and joined the club’s Gulf Coast affiliate early that summer. In eleven games, the 18-year old impressed his new organization by compiling a 4.43 ERA and impressive peripherals (49 strikeouts, 19 walks, and 33 hits in 42 and two-thirds innings).