Anyone following this Brewers team knows that the bullpen has been the driving force behind the team’s success. The Brewers have the National League’s best record, and their offense is a solid but unspectacular sixth in OPS, while their starter ERA of 4.04 ranks eighth. The bullpen ERA, though, is second only to Arizona. This […]
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VR Baseball Too Much Like Regular Reality
I picked up an Oculus Go the other day, a nifty little self-contained virtual reality gadget. The Go doesn’t require you to insert your phone into the headset like the Gear VR and its ilk, and it doesn’t rely on an external computer or console. The simplicity makes for easy set-up and use, which is […]
Danny Reynolds’s Long Road
The MLB Draft is a time of optimism. Ask an average fan, and their team’s first five or so picks are guaranteed to be future stars. Even in the later rounds, most selected players offer something to dream on: 70-grade raw power in spite of a nonexistent hit tool, say, or a promising fastball that […]
Weekend Recap: Braun and Woodruff
The Brewers bounced back from their first real adversity of the season by taking two of three games from the Philadelphia Phillies over the weekend. They emerged from their mini-slump with an offensive explosion, scoring twelve runs on both Friday and Saturday. Those twelve runs equaled their combined total from the Chicago and Cleveland series. […]
Aces Don’t Exist: Third Time Charmers
The Brewers are gaining a reputation for becoming a bullpen squad, part of the MLB bullpen revolution, and rightfully so. Over the offseason, the Brewers lost out on all the major free agency starting pitchers, and never consummated a trade for one of the (presumably, oft-rumored) available aces, instead remaining satisfied with marginal moves involving […]
Weekend Recap: Suter and Cain
Another week, another chance to mention that the Brewers are in in first place. After starting the week by winning a home series against the Cardinals, the Brewers did suffer a setback to start their road trip. The interleague schedule granted Milwaukee three winnable games against a terrible Chicago White Sox team, and the Brewers […]
Kratz and the Journey of Catching Depth
“Teams always need catching depth, and that often seems to mean they need Erik Kratz.” – BP Annual, 2017 The odds have always seemed stacked against Erik Kratz finding a career in baseball. Kratz was born on June 15th, 1980, to a devout Mennonite family in Telford, Pennsylvania, which also happens to be Jamie Moyer’s home […]
The Next Big Steps
The Brewers exited their month of May with a much deserved day off, winning 19 of 27 games on the strength of a 134 Runs Scored (RS) / 104 Runs Allowed (RA) run differential for the month. By allowing 3.85 runs per game, the pitchers remained significantly better than average (+14 RA), but the story […]
Chase Anderson: FIP-Beater?
Chase Anderson’s 2018 season has been quite different from his 2017. His strikeout rate has dropped, his walk rate has risen, his ground ball rate has dropped, and his home run rate has risen. None of those trends are indicators of success, so it is no surprise that his ERA is almost two runs higher […]
Weekend Recap: Anderson HR
The Brewers blitzed through another week, plus Memorial Day, going 7-1 at home against the Diamondbacks, Mets and Cardinals. They scored fifty-one runs and allowed twenty three over the eight games, outpacing their seasonal averages of 4.31 runs scored and 3.70 runs allowed per game. While three teams in the National League have a better run […]