Top Play (WPA): Jonathan Villar had himself a night. He went 3-4 with two home runs and a double. His first home run came in the fifth inning. The Brewers at that point were up 3-2 and Matt Garza was pitching relatively well. Martin Maldonado got the inning started off with a walk, but it […]
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Game 156 Recap: Reds 4, Brewers 2
The Brewers blew a bunch of opportunities on offense and couldn’t make up for it pitching-wise; as the result, they lost their final home game — and final home series — of 2016, to the worst team in the National League. Yeah, that encapsulates 2016 pretty well. Best Play: Don’t say the Brew Crew didn’t put up a fight, […]
Brewers Fans Show Their Appreciation Again
The Brewers lost to the Reds on Sunday, but the result of the game between these two cellar-dwelling squads was secondary, as it is with so many September baseball games. No, Sunday’s game was notable because of the assumption around Brewers nation that Ryan Braun may have played his last home contest in a Milwaukee […]
Losing the Affiliate Shuffle
The great Brewers rebuild has been about selling the fans on the influx of “young, controllable talent” that has flooded the organization over the past year and a half or so. The club may not be competitive at the big league level right now, but Doug Melvin and David Stearns each have done yeoman’s work […]
Examining The Carter-Broxton Mold of Plate Discipline
When you think about plate discipline — specifically good plate discipline — what comes to mind? Sabermetricians fall into two broad schools of thought on what defines the term. On the one hand, some will look at how well a player can detect the difference between a ball and a strike. On the other hand, some will […]
Age in the Minors: Pacific Coast
Not unlike some of his highly-ranked, organizational teammates in Biloxi, Orlando Arcia received cool notes from the press in 2016. Throughout the season, fans and writers alike consistently pointed to Arcia’s Colorado Springs batting line as a sign that the shortstop should not be rushed, that perhaps 2016 was not indeed his year for the […]
Brewers and Miller Park Attendance
Last year, my colleague Jack Moore wrote about the Brewers quality attendance even in a losing season, “This year’s Milwaukee Brewers — a team that floundered horrifically out of the gate, won all of 68 games, and at no point from May onward came within 10 games within .500. And yet, a total of 2,542,558 […]
Comparing Cubs and Brewers Rebuilds
A few months ago, my esteemed BPMilwaukee colleague Julien Assouline wrote an excellent column entitled “Stop Comparing the Brewers to the Cubs.” If you missed it when it was originally published, I highly recommend going back and taking a look—particularly because I am here to tell you that you should absolutely compare the Brewers to […]
Game 151 Recap: Pirates 6 Brewers 3
Tl;dr: Pittsburgh jumped on Matt Garza for five runs and their bullpen shut down the Brewers in a 6-3 victory. Top Play (WPA): Matt Garza ran into trouble immediately. He allowed the first three Pirates batters to reach base. Adam Frazier led off with a single, Josh Bell walked, and Andrew McCutchen hit a double […]
Age-31: A Singular Season
The Brewers announced that they would shut down RHP Junior Guerra for the year. Yesterday, BPMilwaukee’s Jack Moore covered Guerra’s pitching profile and rookie season. Although Guerra played his age-31 season, he is relatively new to baseball as a full-time starting pitcher; the righty pitched one of his highest career innings totals, reaching an apparent […]