On Monday, Tracy Ringolsby of Baseball America reported that there was “a building consensus that baseball will soon be headed to a 32-team configuration,” with Portland and Montreal as the two most likely expansion team destinations. League expansion would trigger “major realignment and adjustments in schedule,” said Ringolsby. Expansion to thirty-two teams would almost surely […]
Author: Dylan Svoboda
2018 Potential Free Agent Targets
The 2017 regular season has come-to-a-close. The Milwaukee Brewers fell just short of a playoff spot, finishing 86-76, one game behind the Colorado Rockies for the second wild-card spot. The Brewers vastly outperformed their pre-season expectations. They competed with the defending World Series Champion Chicago Cubs for the National League Central title through mid-to-late September. […]
Career Year: Curves, Cutters, Soft Contact, Pop-Ups
In a season chock full of feel-good stories, the Milwaukee Brewer’s most pleasing development may be the emergence of soon-to-be thirty-year-old Chase Anderson. After posting a 4.26 earned run average in 418 2/3 innings over his first three full seasons in the big leagues, the veteran right-hander ranks seventh in baseball among those with at […]
Zach Davies has Recovered
Out of the gate, Zach Davies was one of the worst pitchers in baseball. Through April, he had the sixth-worst earned run average among those with over twenty-four innings pitched at 6.57. He walked over four batters per nine innings in April and allowed and batting average on balls in play close to .400. Davies’s […]
Corey Knebel is Making Brewers History
Prior to the 2017 season, Brewers right-handed reliever Corey Knebel was tabbed by many as the closer of the future. Neftali Feliz was slated to start the year as the teams closer, but if he faltered, Knebel would likely take his place. Exactly that scenario happened. By mid-May, Knebel was the Brewers closer. He is […]
What Happened to Jeremy Jeffress?
On July 31st, the Brewers traded right-handed pitching prospect Taylor Scott to the Texas Rangers for Jeremy Jeffress. Jeffress, a right-handed relief pitcher, is now on his third stint with the Brewers organization, spending time with the Royals, Blue Jays, and Rangers in between. Jeffress was a secondary, but still important, piece in the Jonathan Lucroy […]
Travis Shaw: The Brewers MVP
On December 6th, 2016, the Milwaukee Brewers acquired Travis Shaw, Mauricio Dubon, Josh Pennington, and a Player To Be Named Later (Yeison Coca) from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for Tyler Thornburg. At the time, the trade was headlined by Thornburg, who was supposed to bolster the Red Sox bullpen behind Craig Kimbrel. Since […]
Examining Orlando Arcia’s Impressive First Half
It’s hard to imagine the first half of the 2017 season going much better for the Milwaukee Brewers. The team finds itself five-and-a-half games up on the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs in the National League Central. Players are having breakout seasons up and down the roster. Perhaps the most positive sign for the […]
Where can the Brewers Improve?
The first three months of the season have not gone as expected. The Brewers find themselves a top the National League Central with 82 games to go. They expect to have a hell of a time holding off the defending World Champion Chicago Cubs. The Brewers are in a peculiar position because 2017 was supposed […]
Getting to Know the Brewers’ Top Five Draft Picks
Major League Baseball teams are lucky to get just two or three average big leaguers out of each draft class. That doesn’t stop anyone from getting to know and dreaming on their favorite team’s top picks. The Milwaukee Brewers seemed to go the risk-reward route with their top-five draft picks, selecting three high schoolers and […]