Some baseball players never get a real chance to shed the label of being a “quad-A” player. That is, a player with the skills to put on a show against Triple-A competition, but without enough ability to do consistent damage at the major league level. This descriptor could be applied to a number of players […]
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Thames is Still Good
This season’s Brewers storylines have been dominated by the bullpen, and with good reason: they wouldn’t be in first place in the NL Central without the top-three bullpen. Last season, though, the first half of the year was dominated by Eric Thames stories. He was so good in April that he was mentioned in early-season […]
Carbon Copies in the Outfield
Coming into the 2018 minor league season, expectations were down for former first-round pick Corey Ray. Ray had just wrapped up his first full season in the minors, spending the year at Class-A Advanced Carolina and scuffling to a .238/.311/.367 batting average (AVG) / on base percentage (OBP) / slugging percentage (SLG) line despite a […]
Weekend Recap: Jennings and Broxton
The Brewers won on a Sunday for the first time since the final Sunday in May, capping a great week in which they went 6-1 against the Twins and Braves. While the team played three close games against Minnesota, they outscored the Braves 23-14 over the weekend, with their lone loss coming in a game […]
The Shutouts
Getting shut out is never fun, and despite a successful season so far, the Brewers have been shut out a lot. It’s a bummer when this happens, and you can kind of see it coming most of the time with this team, but I wanted to take a deeper dive into why they happen. Getting […]
Winning…But For Rebuilding
The Brewers’ four-game weekend series against Atlanta’s ballclub highlights an uncanny and exciting aspect of the 2018 season: Atlanta and Phillies are fighting for the National League East divisional lead, Arizona is holding off the Dodgers thus far, and our beloved upstarts are holding off the Defending World Series Champions, too. Undoubtedly, the series evokes […]
BPMilwaukee Freelance Writer
While it feels as though the Brewers are in the midst of a tough stretch with their pitching staff, the Brewers hurlers closed June with a better than average performance once again. The performance simply was not as great as previous months’ production: the Milwaukee arms prevented approximately 14 runs in June based on the […]
Weekend Recap: Shaw and Kratz
For the second straight week, the Brewers split a two game series and a four game series to go 3-3 during the week. While the team still leads the division, the week’s results are disappointing because both the Royals and Reds have played poorly this season. The two weekend losses were spurred by silent bats […]
Are the Brewers a Playoff Team?
The Brewers are officially finished with half of their games, providing fans and analysts with a nice theoretical signpost to assess the club. So far so good for the first place Brewers, who are maintaining a tenuous lead over the Pythagorean (Run Differential, Runs Scored / Runs Allowed expected record) superior Cubs in the National […]
Dylan Moore Hits
Despite dealing away some of their most promising young players in the Christian Yelich trade this past January, the Milwaukee Brewers still have a strong assembly of minor league talent in their pipeline. Keston Hiura, the club’s #1 prospect, is obviously the most well-known, but Corey Ray is also finally making good on his tools […]