I still love watching Prince Fielder play baseball. His energy — both the violent kinetic energy of his swing and the bright, joyful energy he brings to the dugout — is almost unmatched in Major League Baseball. Fielder is powering the Rangers’ run to the postseason, especially recently. Fielder has turned it on in the past […]
Author: Jack Moore
David Stearns Continues Baseball’s Ivy Invasion
With the Brewers set to hire Astros’ assistant general manager David Stearns, the Ivy League’s takeover of Major League Baseball continues. The 30-year-old will be the game’s youngest head executive, and the second youngest in league history after Texas’s Jon Daniels. Stearns represents what David Lennon called “baseball’s new executives” at Newsday: young, highly educated […]
The 2013 Brewers and the Absurdity of Protected Picks
After a rousing beginning to September, in which the Brewers gave Miller Park fans a sweep of the Pirates and won six of their first seven games, the Brewers have cooled down and dropped five of their past six. For a team that has been buried in the playoff race, there are far worse fates. […]
The Bogus Harvey-Sabathia Comparison
CC Sabathia will forever be fondly remembered in Milwaukee not just because of his amazing performance down the stretch in 2008, but also because of his willingness to start an amazing four times in a row on three days rest in September and into October. Not only was Sabathia sacrificing his body, but Sabathia was […]
The Blue Jays’ monster month and the 2011 Brewers
I am mesmerized by these Toronto Blue Jays. On July 28th, the Jays fell to 50-51 and eight games behind the Yankees in the American League East. After thumping Detroit 9-2 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep in which the scored an absurd 29 runs, the Jays are now 24-5 since dropping below .500. They […]
The 2006 Brewers and the Search for Hope
The Brewers have felt hopeless this season for the first time, at least to me, in a decade. Since the trading deadline in particular, with many of the club’s best players offloaded for prospects, contention has seemed stuck over the horizon, just out of reach. The major-league lineup isn’t competitive, and the next wave of […]
Coming Out: David Denson Makes, And Continues, History
This weekend, Brewers minor-league outfielder and first baseman David Denson publicly announced that he is gay, becoming the first actively-out gay player on a minor-league affiliate. The 20-year-old was a 15th-round pick of the Brewers in 2013 and plays for Rookie-level Helena. Denson’s history-making announcement adds him to a list of recent out gay pioneers […]
David Cone and the Trade that Sunk the ’92 Brewers
During the 26-year playoff drought Milwaukee endured from 1982 through 2008, the 1992 Brewers marked the nearest miss. It wasn’t a team of stars — Robin Yount was 36 and had lost his power stroke, the starting rotation was led by such luminaries as Bill Wegman and Jaime Navarro, and Doug Henry closed his way […]
An Ode To The Uniquely Bright Carlos Gomez
I hope everybody who was blessed enough to watch and root for Carlos Gomez as a Brewer over the last six (six!) seasons appreciates what we had in him. Gomez’s tenure in Milwaukee ended Thursday; over 697 games, the center fielder compiled a .267/.325/.452 batting line, a 110 OPS+, 87 home runs, 152 stolen bases, […]
Ryan Braun’s All-Star Appearance and Baseball’s Big Chill
It was refreshing to see four icons of baseball in the 1990s enter the Hall of Fame this weekend. Seven players have been inducted by the Baseball Writer’s Association of America over the past two years, as many as were voted in between 2008 and 2013. Especially after 2013, when players like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Craig […]