Our beleaguered Brewers, owners of a six game losing streak entering the break, have flipped the script thus far in the unofficial second half. Milwaukee has a 5-3 record (34 Runs Scored / 37 Runs Allowed), and GM David Stearns appears ready to will this club deeper into serious playoff contention after trading for Kansas […]
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Soria Prospects: Medeiros and Perez
The summer trading season is in full swing in Major League Baseball, with several moves, both major and minor, consummated around the league over the past few days. The Milwaukee Brewers fired their first salvo over the bow yesterday, landing right-handed reliever Joakim Soria in a swap with the Chicago White Sox. In exchange for […]
Searching for Brandon Woodruff
Brandon Woodruff has had an interesting 2018. He started the season in the majors and hopes were high, but he has been shuttled back and forth between Milwaukee and Triple-A Colorado Springs. His surface-level numbers look poor—4.80 ERA in 30 innings—but Deserved Run Average (DRA) thinks he has been much better than that; Woodruff’s 3.73 […]
Runs Prevented: Guerra vs Hellickson
It’s one of those beautiful gifts bestowed by the length of the baseball season, an absolute honor handed down from the mundane days of July, a happy accident from depth-oriented roster construction. Most of the baseball season is biding time, and while that can result in blissful anomalies such as Eric Kratz and Hernan Perez […]
Relief Riser: Miguel Sanchez
If you take a look at raw stats for Brewers pitching prospects this season, one name stands tall above the rest. After Saturday, forty innings, he’s struck out 55 batters for a pace of 12.4 per nine innings. That’s almost four times his walk rate (3.2 free BB/9). His worst DRA- at any stop this season […]
Weekend Recap: Williams and Miley
After a disappointing slump into the All-Star break, the Brewers endured another tough weekend on the field, losing two of three games to the Dodgers at Miller Park. The team could not put together a single game where the starting pitcher and bullpen both pitched well. The Dodgers outscored the Brewers 9-3 in the first […]
The Brewers Can’t Afford To Be Dumb
In the first half of the season Craig Counsell acted intelligently, especially about the use of is pitchers. This was important because the back half of the Brewer lineup was simply terrible, and to win games, they had to lock down the opponent. This is basically what happened as the Brewers surged to lead the […]
Jaws of July
This is it: the Brewers begin their true contending stretch, opening the unofficial second half with huge series against large market Dodgers and Nationals. In the minds of many Brewers fans, this will be an immediate proving ground for the aspirations and realities of contending, as the Brewers will have to right ship from their […]
Weekend Recap: Burnes and Saladino
Well, that was the definition of a no good, very bad week for Milwaukee. The Brewers were swept in a five-game series by the Pirates, they lost six games in a row for the first time this season, and, looking further back, they limped into the All-Star break with a 2-8 record in their last […]
Your Terrible, Very Bad Contenders
Say it with me: the Brewers are a good baseball team. Come on, just do it; you’re on your commute, having a cup of coffee, booting your work computer, so say it. These Brewers are a good team. In fact, the Brewers are a very good baseball team. The club has stomached a lethargic offense […]