On the first day of the 2014 first-year-player draft, the Milwaukee Brewers chose three teenaged prospects: left-hander Kodi Medeiros of Waiakea HS in Hawaii (12th overall), shortstop Jake Gatewood of Clovis HS in California (41st overall), and outfielder Monte Harrison of Lee’s Summit West HS in Missouri (50th overall). Medeiros, whose selection at the time was regarded as […]
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Will Smith and The Slider of Death
As our benevolent overlord J.P. Breen wrote yesterday, the Brewers’ bullpen has been (or has deserved to be) one of the few bright spots in this altogether miserable 2015. Perhaps no reliever on the staff has pitched better than Will Smith, the owner of a sparkling 1.35 ERA and even shinier peripherals in his 26.2 innings of […]
Brewers Farm Update: Thursday, June 25
Colorado Springs Sky Sox: (29-41), 17.5 GB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Col. Springs 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 10 0 Okla. City 1 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 13 2 RHP Tyler Cravy: 4.0 IP, 9 H, 6 […]
Game Seventy-Three Recap: Brewers 4, Mets 1
TOP PLAY (WPA): Leading off the top of the fourth, Curtis Granderson crushed a 94-mph fastball on a 1-2 count from Jimmy Nelson over the right-field wall for a solo home run, bringing the Mets within a run (.112 WPA). Looking back on the game, this solo home run was little more than a blip […]
Is The Brewers Pitching Staff This Bad?
Given the fact that the main site for Baseball Prospectus currently resides behind a paywall and BP Milwaukee does not, I recognize that some of our readers may not be familiar with BP and what makes it distinctive from other sites. In my opinion, BP offers the best baseball analysis on the internet. It also […]
The Milwaukee Brewers and Draft Trends
The MLB Draft is a complicated and inexact science. Predicting it can be an even harder process. That’s why so often we look and find that mock drafts aren’t great predictive tools, and perhaps that’s not even the purpose of mock drafts. On the FanGraphs podcast, Kiley McDaniel mentioned, “… the mock draft is more of an avenue to spread […]
Brewers Farm Update: Wednesday, June 24
Colorado Springs Sky Sox: (28-41), 18.5 GB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Col. Springs 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 Okla. City 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 x 5 5 0 RHP Drew Gagnon: (L, 1-9) 6.0 IP, 5 […]
Game Seventy-Two Recap: Brewers 3, Mets 2
TOP PLAY (WPA): Adam Lind doubled on a ground ball down the left-field line, scoring Carlos Gomez from first base after the ball caromed off the side wall and between Michael Cuddyer’s legs (+.231 WPA). With just one out in the seventh inning and Gomez on first base, the Mets opted to bring in lefty Sean […]
Does a Dominant K-Rod Have Trade Value?
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems baseball outside of Milwaukee has written off Francisco Rodriguez for years. It likely has to do with his 2012 campaign, which featured a 4.38 ERA to go along with seven blown saves and was arguably the worst season of his 14-year career. After that, he went unsigned throughout the […]
Taylor Jungmann and Tempered Expectations
The Milwaukee Brewers’ pitching staff owns a combined 4.50 ERA in 2015. Skillful, consistent pitching performances have proven too rare. Brewers starters have only tossed 27 quality starts, which ranks third-worst in Major League Baseball. Furthermore, the bullpen has only 42 “shutdown” outings, fifth-worst in the league. Thus, it’s understandable that Brewers fans have been […]