The discussion surrounding the rise in contract salaries has been a common theme around the baseball-verse. It seems that every season, a new superstar player gets signed to another record contract, raising concerns that players are being overpaid. The idea, though, that players are actually getting overpaid is complicated. As Matt Swartz pointed out, while salaries are definitely increasing, […]
Author: Julien Assouline
Brewers & Historical Trade Deadlines
Last year’s trade deadline seems to linger so closely, it could’ve been yesterday. The Rays, Tigers, and Mariners combined for a blockbuster three-team deal sending David Price to the Tigers; Nick Franklin, Drew Smyly, and Willy Adames to the Rays; and Austin Jackson to the Mariners. The Red Sox went nuts as well, almost revamping their entire […]
Ryan Braun & The Return of Power
This year baseball has seen the re-emergence of three outstanding power hitters: Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, and Mark Texeira. Each player can reasonably claim that he’s one of the best stories in baseball. All three were counted out by just about everyone before the season started — and with reason. All three are old, stuck in long-term contracts, […]
The Beginnings Of A Rebuild
The All-Star game is over; teams are therefore gearing up for one of the most exiting and stressful events in all of baseball: the trade deadline. MLBTrade Rumors is in full force, Ken Rosenthal is talking to everyone, and Jon Heyman is tweeting every second; yes, the winds of trades are swirling around the baseball sphere. […]
Injury Data On Brewers (Part 2): Pitchers
On Monday, I looked at which Brewers position players can be labeled as injury-prone. Today, I’ll move on to determine which pitchers on the Brewers can be labeled as injury-prone, and a little more. While injuries definitely suck, pitcher injuries are the worst – especially if it’s an elbow or shoulder injury, as those can be […]
Injury Data On Brewers (Part 1): Position Players
Injuries suck! They’re no fun, they hurt physically, and they can linger mentally. They obviously affect one’s play on the field. They can make a player miss a substantial number of baseball games, while lingering afterwards. They can even end careers. The Brewers have not been immune to injuries this season (nor has any other team). They’ve seen […]
Overtaxing The Brewers’ Bullpen
On Monday’s game versus the Phillies, the Brewers found themselves in an all-too-familiar situation. Their starter, Jimmy Nelson, wasn’t pitching well, giving up a pair of runs in the first and second innings, which put the Brewers in an early 4-1 deficit. Nelson settled down, but he only managed to go five innings. The Brewers bullpen had to come […]
A Sudden Rise In Brewers Ticket Prices
Ticket pricing isn’t a very sexy topic; it’s one that isn’t readily discussed by the media or even in sabermetric circles, but it remains vitally important. Like so many parts of baseball, ticket pricing is getting smarter. We so often, as fans of the game, prefer to forget that baseball is a business and that the […]
Game Seventy-Six Recap: Twins 5, Brewers 2
TOP PLAY (WPA): For those who watched this game, the top play is rather obvious. It happened in the top of the sixth inning, with runners on first and second and nobody out. Matt Garza and Eduardo Escobar were mired in a battle. Escobar fouled off a couple of good pitches, but with the sixth pitch of […]
The Milwaukee Brewers and Draft Trends
The MLB Draft is a complicated and inexact science. Predicting it can be an even harder process. That’s why so often we look and find that mock drafts aren’t great predictive tools, and perhaps that’s not even the purpose of mock drafts. On the FanGraphs podcast, Kiley McDaniel mentioned, “… the mock draft is more of an avenue to spread […]