Entering the season, I saw this Brewers team as full of uncertainty. The starting rotation was full of crapshoots; the starting lineup full of talented but unproven players. On my first look at the roster, I thought the closest to a sure thing the Brewers had was second baseman Jonathan Villar. At just 25 years […]
Author: Jack Moore
On Collapse
It feels like half of Milwaukee’s fanbase has been waiting for the sky to fall. After being in first place for a couple months, the novelty of this team of nobodies topping the World Champion Cubs in the division has died down. Especially since the Brewers rode a 5.5 game lead into the All-Star break, […]
Building Off the Trash Heap
After a remarkable end to the first that saw the Brewers win six of seven games heading into the break, the shocking Milwaukee nine owns a 5.5 game lead over the vaunted Cubs and Cardinals in the National League Central. That the Brewers will only be sending one man to the All-Star game in closer […]
Claiming Vogt
The Brewers shook things up behind the plate on Sunday. Jett Bandy has been jettisoned to Class-AAA, and to replace him the Brewers snatched Stephen Vogt off the waiver wire from the Oakland Athletics. Vogt was an All-Star in 2015 and 2016 for the Athletics, partially because the weak Athletics roster had no obvious candidates […]
Call-Ups Reveal the Idiocy of Service Time Rules
What an exciting week to be a Brewers fan! The results were mildly disappointing at best following a home split against a poor Giants team and a series loss in Arizona. But the games took a bit of a back seat to the call-ups of pitcher Josh Hader and outfielders Brett Phillips and Lewis Brinson. […]
Heavy Hitting Brewers
Can anything slow down the Brewers offense? Over the past couple of weeks, they’ve dealt with absences from the Eric Thames, Ryan Braun and Travis Shaw — the entire heart of the order — and yet they’ve continued to produce. Even with Sunday’s loss to the Cubs, the Brewers are 10-2 over the past 12 […]
Rebuilding, Competing, and Spending
The Brewers have been, despite my expectations, a delightful team to watch thus far in 2017. Not only are the Brewers still playing .500 baseball a solid 20 percent of the way into the season, but when they’ve been at their best, they’ve been playing an explosively fun brand of baseball. Between their power hitters, […]
On Sore Losers and Steroid Panics
After the Brewers lit up Cubs starter John Lackey for four runs, including three homers, on Monday night, Lackey had some choice words about Eric Thames, Milwaukee’s leading hitter and one of the three men to go deep off Lackey in the 6-3 Brewers victory. From the Chicago Tribune: “You watch film on recent stuff and […]
Braun’s Generational Talent Still Shines
It was a supremely rough opening week for the Milwaukee nine, as the Brewers came out flat in their opening series against the Rockies and then were obliterated in the final two games against the Cubs over the weekend. Miller Park had the feel of Wrigley Field North once again — yet another symptom of […]
The Brewers Striking National Irrelevance
My first years as a real diehard Milwaukee Brewers fan came in the early 2000s, shortly after my family moved out from the boonies to the relative metropolis that was Trempealeau (population 1,315). Cable television was just one benefit of moving to civilization, and it was exciting to have a team like the Brewers on […]