Just a month or two ago, the idea of the Milwaukee Brewers as legitimate free-agency buyers seemed outright ludicrous. The team’s eyes were set firmly toward the future, and the crop of players hitting the free agency market trended towards “older” and “really expensive.” As the rival Chicago Cubs put in their bid to buy the NL Central for […]
Author: Colin Anderle
The Night Before the Winter Meetings
‘Twas the Night before Meetings, and this fan was boozing, Fed up with failure and tired of losing. Shots poured down the hatch, and my wheels started spinning, “Let’s get this poor, miserable team back to winning! It worked with the Bucks–hell, in just one short year, The ‘Midwestern Sixers’ revived ‘Fear the Deer!’ Last summer, we set […]
Was Kyle Lohse the Worst Opening Day Starter in Brewers’ History?
For some baseball fans, Opening Day is the quintessential symbol of hope. With everybody tied for first place, it’s easy to clutch tightly to a sense of optimism, even if that optimism isn’t entirely rational. Zero and zero is a record that teems with promise of things to come. After a long, patience-testing offseason, that […]
The 2015 BP Milwaukee End-Of-Season Awards
Lately, lots of talk surrounding the Milwaukee Brewers has surrounded the future of the team. And understandably so. The future appears to hold so many more positive, exciting things in store! But with the 2015 season so freshly minted, let’s take a look back and crown some winners for the First-Annual BP Milwaukee End-of-Season Awards. The […]
A Six-Pack of Cold-Filtered Brewers Optimism
If you are a Milwaukee Brewers fan, finding reasons to be upset in 2015 is not a difficult exercise. Jonathan Lucroy and Jean Segura are both emitting the unmistakable stench of cratered trade value. Kyle Lohse, Matt Garza, and Aramis Ramirez did nothing or worse, while drawing a combined salary approximately level with the GDP of Tuvalu. The […]
Brewers Lay Out An Unwelcome Matt
This month, the Milwaukee Brewers decided to move on from Matt Garza for the remainder of the 2015 season. Should this trial separation between the two parties turn into a divorce? ***** Two years plus one month ago, when Matt Garza was still pitching for the Texas Rangers, he gave Brewers fans a sneak peek into the […]
The Player-Hader’s Ball
It was Warren Spahn, one of the most talented major -league pitchers to ever ply his trade in the city of Milwaukee, who originally coined the baseball wisdom that “hitting is timing, and pitching is upsetting timing.” Over a half-century after Spahn upset timing well enough to bring a championship to Milwaukee, the out-of-contention Brewers added a […]
Brett Phillips: Newest Future Brewer
Sometimes, there is no questioning a ballplayer’s eventual greatness. Kris Bryant and Bryce Harper were anointed superstars before they could even be drafted — even at that point, their inevitable success was apparent to anyone paying attention. Brewer fans might remember Ryan Braun following the same path to success in his younger days. In a move […]
Game One-Hundred Nine Recap: Brewers 8, Padres 5
TOP PLAY (WPA) Sandbagged by a slow start and extended time lost to injury, Jonathan Lucroy has struggled through something of a lost year to this point in 2015. A six-win player last season, Lucroy has been marginally better than replacement-level this year, though his pre-injury performance played a big role in that. Still, manager […]
Handicapping the Gerardo Parra Sweepstakes
For the armchair general manager aspiring to a complete a total rebuild, this Brewers’ midseason trading period has been an endless parade of teasing and frustration. The first official white flag of 2015 was arguably flown on May 3, when the Brewers fired manager Ron Roenicke amidst a putrid 7-18 start. Almost immediately, the speculation […]