Yesterday, the Brewers signed two contracts that will keep key players from 2017 with the organization. GM David Stearns signed RHP Chase Anderson to a guaranteed two-year contract, which also includes escalators and club options that could extent to a four-year deal north of $30 million. This deal gambles on the distance between the gains […]
Tag: 2017 Brewers analysis
The Houston Adjustment
Outside my apartment is a deep and endless sea of orange. I live in Houston, where the Astros just dispatched the Yankees en route to their first American League pennant. While it’s hard not to get caught up in the city’s infectious enthusiasm, mostly I wonder when Milwaukee will experience a similar moment. I grew […]
Roster Surplus and Depth Questions
The 2018 Milwaukee Brewers are in quite a strange position, representing the bundle of contradictions that defined their uncanny 2017 campaign. On the one hand, the organization dropped a “rebuilding” narrative in 2015, meaning that industry writers, analysts, and fans alike did not expect the club to compete, let alone contend, for several years; on […]
What Does the Future Hold for Jorge Lopez?
After making his big league debut in 2015, Jorge Lopez did not appear at all with Milwaukee in 2016 and made just one appearance in 2017. He has now thrown twelve career innings in the big leagues, which has to be considered a disappointment after his 2015 season. We would have expected him to make […]
2013 Prospect Class: Impact
The 2013 Baseball Prospectus Organizational Top 10 prospects had quite an impact on the 2017 season. This impact includes the Milwaukee Brewers, who saw major trade Tyler Thornburg, roster-drop Scooter Gennett, and final rotational season for Wily Peralta define their in-house 2013 class. Jonathan Villar, Domingo Santana, Lewis Brinson, and Josh Hader made varying organizational […]
Refining WARP and OFP Pricing
Throughout the Brewers rebuilding effort, a difficult question occupied my mind: how does one assess a successful rebuild while it is occurring? There is obviously plenty of room for post hoc analysis, and perhaps room to create expectations about a rebuild (for example, one could say, “the Brewers rebuild is successful if they win 450 […]
Fluctuation Race
The 2017 Cubs had a good rotation, as far as typical, standard rotations go. The club entered the season with their four most productive starters locked in, and many pundits praised their depth moves to fill out the back of the rotation. When a team can prevent more than 100 runs on the front end, […]
Adrian Houser Returns
With the benefit of hindsight, there is little doubt which organization came out ahead in the 2015 blockbuster trade that was worked out between the Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros. Carlos Gomez and Mike Fiers went to Houston to help aid their playoff run, and the Astros did indeed make the postseason that year. Gomez […]
How Successful was the Brewers’ Season?
Given that the Brewers ended this season just one game out the second wild card spot, the season feels like a disappointment. The team undoubtedly took steps forward, and the future looks bright because the organization has been building sustainably. There are separate articles to be written about the steps taken by individual players, and […]
Weekend Recap: Santana and Wilkerson
The Brewers made it to the final weekend of the season still eligible for the postseason, but were officially eliminated from playoff contention in Game 161, their only loss of the weekend against the Cardinals. There will be plenty of debate on the appropriate reaction to this season (see here for some thoughts on a […]