In most sports losing sucks. It’s a dreadful experience for a fan. But it is never worse, never more disheartening than in baseball. In football, even when you’re the 2008 Detroit Lions and your team loses all of its games, that event only happens once a week. In hockey or basketball, the incident only occurs […]
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Rolling Out the Barrel: Today’s Production or Tomorrow’s Potential?
Folks, apparently it was Brewers week over at Beyond the Box Score. If you’re not already reading them regularly (you should be), now’s the time to start. We’re rolling out the barrel today with a bunch of help from SB Nation’s sabermetrics blog, so if silly things like math and numbers get you all twisted, […]
How Brewers Should Rebuild: Spend Lots Of Money
According to Cot’s Contracts, the Milwaukee Brewers currently have $40.5 million committed to their Major League roster, not including the three pending arbitration cases for Jean Segura, Wily Peralta, and Will Smith. Everyone else who dons a Brewers uniform in 2016, as of now, will make the league minimum. For perspective, the club’s Opening Day payroll […]
Explaining Wily Peralta’s Slider
From the beginning, Wily Peralta has had stuff. You know the meaning of the term, and if you’ve ever seen him pitch, you can testify to it. This blazing heater… …plus this diving slider… …equals, in theory, a dominant pitcher. As we all know, however, Peralta hasn’t fulfilled expectations. His career ERA- of 103 and DRA- […]
Will Stearns Upgrade Center Field Next?
The Brewers entered the offseason with two gaping holes, in center field and at third base, and a couple of minor ones, notably first base and second base. Thus far this offseason, they have addressed three of those spots—first base, second base, and third base—although obviously to varying degrees. By bringing in Will Middlebrooks, Jonathan […]
The Brewers and the Year of the Prospect
Prospects mess with our emotions. They make us smile, they make us cheer, they make us angry, and they often make us question our sanity. But, in many ways, that’s what makes them so much fun. It’s these emotions and the boundless hope prospects bring that engage us in such a visceral emotional attachment. At […]
Introducing Catchella using Jonathan Lucroy Part I: Behind the Dish
As you hopefully know by now, Catchella launched today at Baseball Prospectus. If you are unfamiliar, folks who are much smarter than I am have labored hard to finally quantify en masse the defensive contributions of a catcher. The importance of this in baseball circles is hard to overstate. Other metrics — like Ultimate Zone […]
The Search for the Next Brewers Hall of Famer
This week, it was announced that Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July. Their election and the din and drama surrounding the whole process can be tiresome, but it got me thinking about the next Brewers Hall of Famer. The last time Milwaukee had a […]
The Brewers Should Take The Cubs’ Rebuilding Approach
By now, it has become pretty clear that the Brewers won’t vie for the NL Central pennant this upcoming season. Sure, they’ve imported a boatload of fascinating future talent — but in doing so, they’ve given up a tremendous amount of present talent. During the 2016 season, and perhaps in 2017, the Brewers will bring […]
Rolling Out the Barrel: Is Chris Carter a Hall of Famer?
Hello! I’m excited to welcome you back for the first 2016 installment of Rolling Out the Barrel. With the holiday season, we’ve been away for a few weeks — and to be fair, with the holiday, not much has happened. Anticipating my triumphant return, David Stearns turned up the hot stove a notch this week, signing […]