In a sentence that I still can’t comprehend, Wily Peralta went toe-to-toe with a Cy Young contender to help the Brewers win the series against the Cubs. Worst Play: Thanks to two second-inning singles — one of them off the bat of Peralta — the Brewers held a 2-0 advantage heading to the bottom of […]
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Assessing Junior Guerra’s Rookie Campaign
The Brewers announced this past week that Junior Guerra’s season is over, thankfully not due to a aggravation of the injury that forced him to miss nearly a month, but simply due to the 31-year-old reaching an innings limit. The #2016BrewersAce finishes his first season as a major league starter with a stellar 2.81 ERA […]
Domingo Santana Needs to Elevate
In a year where a stunning amount of Brewers have surpassed anyone’s expectations — Jonathan Villar, Junior Guerra, Zach Davies, Tyler Thornburg, even Hernan Perez to an extent — some of the players the team was counting on have fallen short. Obviously, these players outnumber the surprises; if they didn’t, the Brewers wouldn’t find themselves in […]
Brewers Minor League Awards
The minor league regular season wrapped up last week, ending the year for most of the prospects within the Milwaukee Brewers’ organization. As a whole the organization’s seven affiliates combined for a 328-423 record and had just two winning teams – AA Biloxi at 72-67 and low-A Wisconsin at 71-69. The Brewers had just one postseason entrant […]
Age in the Minors: Southern League
Now that the affiliated minor leagues are finished with their regular season games, I would like to investigate the context of minor league statistics in order to determine whether (or how) such statistics present meaningful information. Minor league statistics are extremely difficult to judge at a surface glance, since one may not know a player’s […]
The Next Brewers Reliever to be Traded
Jeremy Jeffress and Will Smith were closely linked at the back end of the Brewers’ bullpen once Francisco Rodriguez [was traded] after last season. They were tapped to enter the season as co-closers, they were used as a tandem to lock down the end of games once Smith returned from his knee injury, and they […]
Game 145: Reds 6 Brewers 4
Tl;dr: Sloppy defensive play in the bottom of the third inning led to four unearned runs which Milwaukee could not overcome as the Reds beat the Brewers 6-4. Top Play (WPA): Adam Duvall’s two run double with the bases loaded in the third inning put the Reds ahead 4-2 (.167). Garza actually did a good job pitching […]
Revising Replacement Theory
“These problems, as contrasted with the disorganized situations with which statistics can cope, show the essential feature of organization. We will therefore refer to this group of problems as those of organized complexity.” (Weaver, quoted in Jacobs 432) In 1961, Jane Jacobs published a scathing takedown of modern urban planning, the likes of which graced […]
Game 144: Reds 3 Brewers 0
Best Play (WPA): If you started watching this game anytime after the first inning, you missed all of the scoring. In fact, the bottom of the first was the only half inning that saw any scoring. Wily Peralta was pitching for the Brewers, and after striking out the leadoff hitter, he walked Eugenio Suarez. Joey […]
Game 143 Recap: Brewers 2, Cardinals 1
In a battle of two 23-year-old rookies, the outcome eventually came down to the bullpen, and although the Brewers cracked first, they’d get the last laugh — and the series split. Worst Play: Zach Davies blanked the Cards through seven innings, scattering four hits and a walk in that span. Thanks to a first-inning sacrifice fly […]