The Brewers lost to the Reds on Sunday, but the result of the game between these two cellar-dwelling squads was secondary, as it is with so many September baseball games. No, Sunday’s game was notable because of the assumption around Brewers nation that Ryan Braun may have played his last home contest in a Milwaukee […]
Author: Jack Moore
Assessing Junior Guerra’s Rookie Campaign
The Brewers announced this past week that Junior Guerra’s season is over, thankfully not due to a aggravation of the injury that forced him to miss nearly a month, but simply due to the 31-year-old reaching an innings limit. The #2016BrewersAce finishes his first season as a major league starter with a stellar 2.81 ERA […]
Ryan Braun, Spoiler Extraordinaire
The Brewers have been making this a surprisingly fun September. After destroying the Pittsburgh Pirates’ hopes with a three-game sweep last weekend, the Brewers made things unexpectedly rough for the St. Louis Cardinals this weekend. Milwaukee mustered a four-game split in the four-game series at Busch Stadium, where the Cardinals have been a downright shockingly […]
Can Keon Broxton Make Enough Contact?
Out of nowhere, center fielder Keon Broxton has made a case for himself as Milwaukee’s best player in August. He has four homers and 11 stolen bases in just 24 games this month, and his .414 OBP leads all Brewers regulars to go with a .292 batting average and a .514 slugging percentage. After going […]
The Ball-in-Glove Renaissance
The Brewers ended a six-game losing streak thanks to a four-run comeback in the ninth inning Sunday night against the Mariners. If not for a total meltdown from Mariners reliever Tom Wilhelmsen, in which he managed to record just one out and allowed four runs on four hits, including homers, the Brewers would have gone […]
Ryan Braun Justifies the Price of Admission
Jonathan Lucroy’s exit following this month’s trade deadline deal with the Rangers has left the Brewers with just one player left on the roster who suited up for 2011’s National League Central championship squad: Ryan Braun. The Brewers, having shipped out much of their relevant talent, are likely to take a beating throughout the dog […]
The Future of the Crowded Brewers Infield
Orlando Arcia has been Milwaukee’s shortstop of the future since well before his call-up and Brewers debut this Monday. His arrival has been perhaps the most anticipated part of the 2016 season, a rebuilding year destined for a fourth-place finish from the start. But the brightest star in Milwaukee’s season so far has been Opening […]
Lucroy Takes Control of His Future
Saturday night, everybody thought Jonathan Lucroy was on his way to Cleveland, dealt in exchange for four exciting young prospects. But come Sunday morning, Lucroy had exercised the no-trade clause in his contract, putting an end to a move to the first place Cleveland squad despite his repeated desires to play for a championship contender. […]
On Context and Happiness as Sports Fans
The @JSComments Twitter account is essential for understanding the true feelings of the Wisconsin Sports Fan™. When you need a hot take like “Jeff Janis is basically Randy Moss” or “the Packers should trade Aaron Rodgers for Jay Cutler” or “baseball uniforms are confusing,” @JSComments is there for you. Nearly every Brewer "prospect" is struggling […]
Will Middlebrooks Gets His Chance
Four years ago, Will Middlebrooks was setting the world on fire for the Boston Red Sox. From the time he came up to the big leagues in May until a hit-by-pitch broke his wrist in August, Middlebrooks hit .288/.325/.509 and mashed 15 home runs in just 75 games. People were already plenty excited about Middlebrooks’s […]