Following the original April 25 Minor League Context post, and yesterday’s note on the batting environments for Brewers affiliates, it is time to look into the environments faced by system arms. I looked at pitchers with 13.0+ innings pitched thus far, which produced a smaller batch of pitchers than bats. Yet, many of the environmental […]
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Minor League Context: Bats
It’s been nearly three weeks since the first installment of “Minor League Context,” which is an attempt to understand the factors and environments in the minor leagues so as to not misjudge minor league performances. This is an essential antidote to “scouting the stat line:” given the minor league development assignments, different developmental standpoints, and […]
Hot Soup
With all due respect to my loving mother, the greatest birthday present I ever got was gifted to me by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and it’s not even particularly close. On my 27th birthday, they traded a Quad-A outfielder named Keon Broxton and teenage pitcher Trey Supak to the Brewers for platoon-limited first baseman Jason Rogers. […]
Rebuilding, Competing, and Spending
The Brewers have been, despite my expectations, a delightful team to watch thus far in 2017. Not only are the Brewers still playing .500 baseball a solid 20 percent of the way into the season, but when they’ve been at their best, they’ve been playing an explosively fun brand of baseball. Between their power hitters, […]
Tristan Archer Aims for Miller Park
Throwing a small object past a man holding a stick and standing 60 feet away doesn’t sound all that tough. But when the object has to land within an area slightly larger than three square feet and the man holding the stick has muscles the size of your head…. Well, there’s a reason I write […]
Fun With Pythagoras: Winning Now!
By curious coincidence, this ragtag bunch of upstarts now known as the Milwaukee Brewers are winning. The rebuilding campaign looked terrible after the 2016 trade deadline, as a young team fell to 10-20 after the removal of Jonathan Lucroy and Will Smith. But the roster elements converged, forming an aggressive offensive identity and fortifying their […]
Weekend Recap 5: Garza, Shaw, Thames
Welcome to Week Five of the Weekend Recap, where we’ll look at another disappointing weekend for the Brewers. They lost two of three games against Pittsburgh; the losses were a rain interrupted game on Friday and an extra inning loss on Saturday. Weekend Series Brewers Pirates Friday May 5 0 4 Saturday May 6 1 […]
Competing and Pitching Reinforcements
Today is May 5th, and the Milwaukee Brewers are over .500 at 15-14. That’s a bit crazy to fathom, isn’t it? As fans, we have been conditioned to accept losing over the past few seasons while our favorite team rebuilds. After all, Milwaukee spent a total of ZERO days over the .500 mark during the […]
Don’t Give Up On Domingo
The opening month of the 2017 season did not go as planned for young Brewers outfielder Domingo Santana. After seeing his name near the top of average exit velocity leaderboards for the 2016 season, it seemed safe to assume the 24-year-old was due for a breakout. That has not been the case. Santana has come […]
Jimmy Nelson’s Revamped Arsenal
Last year, Jimmy Nelson was bad. There’s no way around it. He walked 86, plunked 17, both of which were league highs, and posted career worsts in DRA (5.83), FIP (5.12), and WHIP (1.52). He was making life miserable for himself, and this offseason, he vowed to change. His plan, as he told the Milwaukee […]