While Brewers fans chew on the midseason BaseballProspectus Top 50, BPMilwaukee will continue to augment that list with looks at “up” and “down” prospects in the system. Yesterday’s feature included some of the prospects with highest regard in the system, so today’s feature turns to depth. One cannot overlook the system depth, even if one […]
Author: Nicholas Zettel
Midseason Prospects: 3 Up 3 Down
While Brewers fans undoubtedly learned to follow the minor league box scores during last year’s rough MLB campaign, turning increasingly more attention to prospects and future value, there’s no better time to summarize fan prospect gazing than the All-Star Break. Our beloved Milwaukee Nine won’t play until Friday, so BPMilwaukee is running an extended “Three […]
Game 83 Recap: Brewers 5 Nationals 2
The Brewers continued their season-long mastery of the Washington Nationals, this time using a couple of mid-late game home runs to establish an insurmountable deficit. According to the WTMJ broadcast, the Brewers won their season series against the Nationals for the first time since 2010. Top Play: Once again, the Brewers found themselves in the […]
Pricing Lucroy Trade Value
It has been my intuition that trading Jonathan Lucroy will be more difficult than many people believe. This intuition stems from Lucroy’s value, which is nearly prohibitive: Lucroy is such an elite catcher, in terms of both offensive and defensive production, that the Brewers can arguably seek an elite package in return. Three of the […]
The Brewers By Elo Rating
FiveThirtyEight followed their fascinating NBA and NFL franchise value Elo Ratings by introducing such ratings for MLB franchises. Their published results are fascinating because they blend zero-sum judgments of each team (when the Brewers beat the Nationals, for example, the Nationals lost exactly the same number of points that the Brewers gained) with weighted predictions […]
One-Year Roundtable: State of the Brewers
On June 22, 2015, BPMilwaukee launched, adding to the Internet a concise and rapidfire analytical spin on our beloved Milwaukee Nine. I know this because I began my acquaintance with BPMilwaukee as an everyday fan, and BPMilwaukee quickly became a necessary read. There was instantly a sort of crisp, consistent presentation that let each point […]
The Pains of Almost Winning
Building a Brewers narrative for 2016, it’s easy for many fans and analysts to focus on the negative. After all, the team was not expected to compete coming into the season, and given the number of second-chance players winning jobs, or roster stopgaps working for the big club, many simply expected the team to be […]
Opposing Rebuilding Economics
If you’re a resident of the Five County area, and you buy into the extended version of the Brewers’ rebuild, you’ve won the privilege to pay approximately $140 million in debt service while the Brewers “aim for the future.” (That paces the club for “truly” contending around 2020). A recent article supporting Miller Park as […]
Game 66 Recap: Giants 10 Brewers 1
It was with great anticipation that I ended my work shift with the intent to listen to some afternoon baseball…only to immediately find our beloved Milwaukee Nine four runs in the hole. The Brewers would never recover, but if you like fringe bullpen depth, the afternoon was not entirely lost for Milwaukee. Top Play (WPA): […]
The Call-Up: Matt Garza
Tonight, Brewers veteran righty Matt Garza makes his 2016 debut against the San Francisco Giants. Garza faces no small hurdle in Madison Bumgarner for the Giants, who enters the game with a 2.81 DRA in 86.0 innings. Yet, there is a sense that the start offers no pressure for Garza, who is replacing struggling righty […]