Tl;dr: The Pirates won 3-2 via a walk off throwing error during a lead off Josh Harrison triple in the bottom of the ninth. No, I did not make that up. Top Play (WPA): Surprisingly not the Josh Harrison play! WPA sometimes produces a weird result, but let’s roll with this. According to WPA, the […]
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Will Middlebrooks Gets His Chance
Four years ago, Will Middlebrooks was setting the world on fire for the Boston Red Sox. From the time he came up to the big leagues in May until a hit-by-pitch broke his wrist in August, Middlebrooks hit .288/.325/.509 and mashed 15 home runs in just 75 games. People were already plenty excited about Middlebrooks’s […]
Scooter Gennett Can Hit Lefties
Each of the past three years in Spring Training, there has issued forth from Maryvale Baseball Park a repeated refrain: Scooter Gennett plans to play every day. This has always been an easily dismissed notion: entering the season, Gennett was the worst MLB hitter of all time against lefties, measuring by OPS: he owned a […]
Suter and Pitching Depth
Yesterday, our own Julien Assouline discussed the “importance of mediocrity” in a major league starting rotation. Ace-caliber starting pitchers are few and far between, and having a couple of hurlers at the back of the rotation that are capable of keeping your team in games and giving the club a chance to win on a consistent basis can […]
Nelson, Davies, Anderson: The Importance of Mediocrity
Jimmy Nelson is currently 27 years old. Thus far in his career he’s pitched to a 5.08 DRA in 2014, 4.94 DRA in 2015, and 4.95 DRA thus far this season. While some have noted that Nelson has struggled this year, this is probably the pitcher he is, and will be going forward. A slightly […]
Recapping the Brewers’ Month of June
So! The MLB season is more than halfway over — today, in case you don’t own a calendar, is the 13th day of July. The Brewers wrapped up their third month a couple of weeks ago; over the course of 26 June contests, they notched 12 wins to 14 losses. That makes for a slightly worse record than […]
Three Stats to Follow: Deadline Relief
Coming into the season, the trio of Michael Blazek, Jeremy Jeffress, and Will Smith were arguably three of the top four bullpen pieces in Milwaukee, alongside Tyler Thornburg. This piece examines some factors which may have affected their value over the past 4 months. While the potential headline trades involve names such as Braun and Lucroy, […]
Meeting the Deadline
If Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports is to be believed, the Brewers could be the biggest sellers of the 2016 Trade Deadline. Teams are already beating a path to One Brewers’ Way, as Rosenthal reported earlier this month, and the list of players who could possibly find their way out of Milwaukee is long and […]
Five Stats to Watch at the Break
The Brewers backed into the All-Star Break at a meager 12-18 in their last 30. But for what it’s worth, not a single National League Central team managed better than a 15-15 mark over the past month. With the entire division lethargic, all five teams have to be happy with the three-day respite coming up. […]
Credit the Process, Not the Result
Junior Guerra currently holds a 3.13 DRA. Among starting pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched, that ranks 19th in all of baseball. If we consider the idea that since there are 30 teams there are 30 “Aces” (Yes, some of you will disagree with this classification), Junior Guerra is performing like an “Ace”. This […]