Simple fact: #Brewers are not bad enough to warrant multi-year rebuild. Figure out roster depth, advance prospects in '16; compete in '17. — BP Milwaukee (@BPMilwaukee) May 22, 2016 We often think of rebuilds in simplistic terms. A team gets rid of its notable assets. Loses many games, gets quality draft picks, rebuilds farm system […]
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The One Thing That’s Gone Right For Milwaukee Pitchers
Central in the Great Brewers Pitching Meltdown of 2016 has been a complete loss of control, on the part of pretty much everyone. The rotation has the seventh-worst walk rate in baseball, at 9.3 percent, and the bullpen’s 11.2 percent clip ranks third-to-last. Taylor Jungmann walked so many batters, he went down to Triple-A (where he’s […]
Pitching Staff and the Rebuild
It’s no secret that the Brewers’ pitching staff has struggled tremendously this year: they rank last in baseball in DRA, are the only group to have posted negative WARP, and are leading only Cincinnati in FIP. And unfortunately for the Brewers, many of the culprits are young pitchers who the club was hoping to be […]
Junior Guerra’s Splitter
Junior Guerra continues to be the surprise star of the Brewers rotation. His latest start Thursday against the Cubs was his most electric yet. He held one of the best lineups in baseball to just three runs on five hits and three walks over seven innings Thursday night, and his ability to miss bats was […]
Game 44 Recap: Mets 3 Brewers 1
Best & Worst Play: It turns out that Noah Syndergaard fella can pitch pretty well. Across seven innings, he allowed a lone run on six hits and no walks, while piling up 11 strikeouts. Once the Mets took the lead with a two-run fourth inning, the Brewers’ win expectancy never rose above 40 percent. The […]
All You Had to do was Swing
A few weeks ago, I addressed the Brewers extreme shift in plate discipline numbers. The team had moved from the highest O-Swing percentage in the league in 2015 (34.1 percent) to the lowest in 2016. With about double the sample size now in the books, that remains true: Milwaukee’s O-Swing percentage this season remains a […]
The Draft is Only a Tool in the Rebuilding Process
On June 9th, 2016, an event will occur. An event that happens every year around this time: The MLB Draft. One of the points of the draft is for losing teams to have the best chance of acquiring young talent. It’s, in theory, a mechanism to ensure parity around baseball. That’s why teams who finish […]
Game 39 Recap: Brewers 4, Cubs 2
Tl;dr: Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before losing his shutout and complete game in the ninth, but the Brewers hung on to win 4-2. Top Play (WPA): Jonathan Lucroy 4th inning solo home run which made the game 1-0 Brewers (.133) Worst Play (WPA): Dexter Fowler strike out to end the 6th […]
Chris Carter’s Home Field Advantage
Chris Carter hammered his 11th home run in Milwaukee’s 3-2 win over the Padres on Sunday, a mammoth blast off the right side of the center field scoreboard. Hit Tracker Online estimated its true distance at a cool 443 feet and its speed at 107.6 MPH off the bat, his longest home run of the […]
Tyler Thornburg Gets Moving
The collapse of the Brewers — the reason why David Stearns has undertaken a deep rebuild — occurred because the farm system stopped producing talent. Virtually every top draft pick from the middle years of Doug Melvin’s tenure either flamed out or was dealt in win-now type trades. As a result, the team placed in […]