Ticket pricing isn’t a very sexy topic; it’s one that isn’t readily discussed by the media or even in sabermetric circles, but it remains vitally important. Like so many parts of baseball, ticket pricing is getting smarter. We so often, as fans of the game, prefer to forget that baseball is a business and that the […]
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How The Pilots Became The Brewers and the Absurdity of Franchise History
A Lowe’s Hardware store sits in Seattle, Washington, in the space that used to be Sick’s Stadium, home of the Seattle Pilots. Home plate is still there, marked with a plaque, directly in front of the fencing section. The Pilots were a financial disaster. Their attendance in 1969 was not awful — at 677,944, the Pilots sold […]
Brewers Farm Update: Monday, June 29
Colorado Springs Sky Sox: (30-44), 18.5 GB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Col. Springs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Memphis 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 x 9 12 1 RHP Josh Roenicke: (L, 4-4) 6.0 IP, 6 H, […]
Game Seventy-Seven Recap: Brewers 5, Twins 3
TOP PLAY (WPA): Ryan Braun launched a two-run homer off a hanging slider from Casey Fien (+.280 WPA). Each team scored their first runs in the seventh inning, but the most influential play of the day came in the eighth. The Twins sent one of their better relievers, right-hander Casey Fien, to the mound. He had […]
Game Seventy-Six Recap: Twins 5, Brewers 2
TOP PLAY (WPA): For those who watched this game, the top play is rather obvious. It happened in the top of the sixth inning, with runners on first and second and nobody out. Matt Garza and Eduardo Escobar were mired in a battle. Escobar fouled off a couple of good pitches, but with the sixth pitch of […]
Game Seventy-Five Recap: Brewers 10, Twins 4
TOP PLAY (WPA): After allowing a leadoff homer to Gerardo Parra (more on this later), a ground-rule double to Jonathan Lucroy, and back-to-back singles to Braun and Lind, right-hander Trevor May induced a weak comebacker off the bat of Carlos Gomez. May attempted to start a double play, but threw the ball into center field. Braun […]
A-Ram: Before He Turns Into A Pumpkin
The Brewers’ rebuilding plan has no room for error–but in one special case, time is the mitigating factor. ***** It wasn’t supposed to go anything like this. When Aramis Ramirez told reporters, back in January, that 2015 would likely be his last campaign as an active major-league player, both he and the Milwaukee Brewers envisioned him going out […]
Gerardo Parra and Increasing Trade Value
Attempting to guess what [Player X] could bring back in a trade is often a fools errand. Outsiders like us don’t know how the teams in play value that asset. We don’t know what the trading team is looking for in return. We don’t know what the acquiring team is willing to make available. We don’t know […]
Brewers Farm Update: Friday, June 26
Colorado Springs Sky Sox: (29-42), 18.5 GB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Col. Springs 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 11 1 Okla. City 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 8 0 RHP Tyler Thornburg: 8.0 IP, 5 H, 2 […]
Game Seventy-Four Recap: Mets 2, Brewers 0
TOP PLAY (WPA): The first run of the game went to the Mets in the sixth inning. With Michael Blazek on the mound and Michael Cuddyer already at first base Wilmer Flores struck a sharp double to left field. Shane Peterson played it off a carom and hit the cutoff man (+.203 WPA). In this instance, […]