Center field is a problem area for the Brewers. They don’t currently have a great option on the roster, as Domingo Santana best fits in right field despite getting the majority of the playing time in center down the stretch. They do, though, have minor-league options who are likely to be ready at some point […]
Author: Seth Victor
Rooting for Ryan Braun and What It Means to be a Fan
Brewers fans have a complicated relationship with Ryan Braun. The team has been stationed in Milwaukee since 1970, but they’ve really only been good for an extended period of time twice: the Robin Yount/Paul Molitor years and the Braun/Fielder teams of recent memory. And given that Molitor and Yount last played together during the 1992 […]
Insight into the Brewers’ Upcoming Trade Strategy
As a team that does not expect to compete in 2016, the Milwaukee Brewers shouldn’t be tied to any single player who isn’t a sho0-in to be an integral part of the organization’s next playoff team, a category which is basically limited to youngish superstars and high-quality prospects. The Brewers are light on superstars, but — […]
What Will the 2016 Brewers’ Bullpen Look Like?
The recent trade of Francisco Rodriguez means that the 2016 bullpen will look significantly different from the 2015 one. There will obviously be a new closer, but that specific title is less important than the specific leverage roles that each player will fill. Rodriguez was not just the Brewers’ closer; he was also one of […]
The Value of Jonathan Villar to a Rebuilding Team
On Thursday, the Brewers and Astros completed a relatively significant trade (in that it actually involved a Major League player) that sent shortstop Jonathan Villar from Houston to Milwaukee in exchange for minor-league right-hander Cy Sneed. This deal gives the Brewers extra middle-infield depth without sacrificing an impact prospect, which makes it a net positive […]
Milwaukee’s Struggles with Run Prevention
Baseball statistics can be broken up into two general categories: run scoring and run prevention. The Brewers’ run prevention has traditionally not been their strong suit. Even when the team was consistently good, they tended to win games by bludgeoning teams. This year, that trend continued, as they finished 24th in runs allowed as a […]
A Possible Brewers Free Agent Strategy
Like most rebuilding teams, the Brewers have to figure out how to invest in free agency heading into a season in which they are unlikely to compete for a playoff spot. There are two parts to this decision: They must first choose which (if any) positions to address this offseason, and they must then decide […]
Mark Attanasio: The Key To It All
The Brewers are undisputedly a small-market team. In fact, Milwaukee is the smallest American television market, and they currently suffer from one of the worst television contracts in all of baseball. The largest local contracts have obviously gone to the teams in bigger markets—the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Phillies, for example—but the Brewers’ deal does […]
Consequences of Picking up Adam Lind’s Option
In one of its first moves, the new Milwaukee front office recently announced it would be picking up Adam Lind’s option for 2016. Lind is a good player—he was one of the Brewers’ best hitters in 2015—and his $8 million price tag is extraordinarily reasonable for a player of his experience and talent level. He […]
Wily Peralta’s Odd and Unfortunate Skillset
In many ways, the Brewers are well setup for the future. The farm system is deeper than it has been in years, and it is starting to bear fruit at the Major League level. Three of the team’s top-five pitchers by season’s end were homegrown: Taylor Jungmann, Jimmy Nelson (until his head injury in mid-September), […]