This past February, my BPMilwaukee colleague Dylan Svoboda wrote a piece entitled “Blindspots in Aging Curves.” I highly recommend giving it a read if you haven’t. The crux of the post is essentially that so much of the focus on minor leaguers these days is in regards to their age that perhaps a small inefficiency […]
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The Platoon You Wish Existed
On February 2nd, first baseman Jesus Aguilar became a member of the Milwaukee Brewers, after being claimed off of waivers from the Cleveland Indians. Aguilar, a 26-year-old right-handed hitter, has only appeared in 35 Major League games, totaling 64 plate appearances. In an extremely small sample size, the Venezuelan slashed .172/.234/.190 during that three year […]
2017 Brewers Fantasy Preview
The Milwaukee Brewers are not the world’s most interesting team for fantasy baseball purposes. They have two good players and then a lot of interesting young ones, but not a ton in the middle. However, those young players are generally worth monitoring throughout the season, particularly if playing time develops in either the outfield or […]
Success with Opening Day Starters
What the Brewers are attempting on Opening Day has only been done eleven times in the past ten years, and the decision isn’t sitting too well with some fans. After the news broke that 32-year-old second year starting pitcher Junior Guerra would get the ball to start the season, Tom Haudricourt, a Brewers beat writer […]
Bold Predictions: 2017 Brewers
Yes, its that time of year: Bold predictions season. It’s late March and Brewers fans are all anxious for the season to start. The WBC has been exciting, but it can only do so much. With this in mind, here are some bold predictions for the 2017, ranging from mildly bold to (maybe) too bold. […]
Thinking Outside the Box 5: The First-Inning Pinch Hitter
Nobody ever expects much from pitchers forced to wield a baseball bat. It’s just an accepted part of the National League game that, one to three times, each starting pitcher will either sacrifice his spot in the order to bunt a runner over or, should he come up with the bases empty, flail about for […]
Optimism Part One: Three Weird Tricks to Get to .500
It’d be a mistake to assume that win totals are linear for a rebuilding baseball club like the Brewers. Prospects fail more often than not, trade value and free agent spending splurges are part timing and part luck, and there’s very much an open question over when a team has actually “bottomed out.” All that […]
Revisiting the Sabathia Trade
Throughout the offseason, I have worked toward developing a Benefit-Cost Analysis tool that monetizes MLB production and Overall Future Potential (OFP) in order to judge trades and assess franchise surplus value. Consistently testing this tool with Brewers rebuilding or counterbuilding moves, as well as problematizing the tool by assessing 2017 trades (such as the Brian […]
Examining the Brewers Outfield Defense
In recent years, we have become more appreciative of the value of defense. There has been an influx of defensive statistics that have been able (to some extent) to quantify the value of a player and a team in the field. Even for those who scoff at advanced defensive statistics, most could judge by the […]
Winning Jobs: Spring Training Stuff!
The Brewers have an almost absurd level of organization depth and MLB roster flexibility at the moment, which leaves many questions about the shape of the roster for the 2017 season. At this point it should almost be a given that the August 1, 2017 roster will not be the roster that breaks camp, in […]