The Brewers are currently lead by a group of surprisingly valuable players, which is undeniably one of the reasons that the club remains steadily better than average. Entering Sunday’s game against the Dodgers, the Brewers’ top WARP belonged to: Eric Thames, nearly a handful of years removed from the MLB, previously a Korean Baseball Organization […]
Tag: 2017 Brewers
Jimmy Nelson’s Encouraging Two Months
The Milwaukee Brewers came into the 2017 season with a rotation full of guys they hoped could bridge the gap until starting pitching prospects such as Josh Hader, Luis Ortiz, and Brandon Woodruff make their way to the big leagues. It has not worked out as expected. Chase Anderson, who barely made the rotation in […]
May Prospects: 3 Up 3 Down
Last year at BP Milwaukee, we introduced the “3 Up, 3 Down” feature to take a look at how the prospects down on the farm are trending throughout the regular season. We took a look at a few players in each category back in late April, and now with about two months of the regular season complete […]
What (We Think) We Learned in May
Because more than some 2,000 years ago an emperor thought it was a good idea, we have months to divide up our year and, by extension, our baseball season. Seems like as good of a reason as any to check in with the state of the Brewers statistical profile and what, if anything, one can discern […]
Bandy-Maldonado or Win-Win
It’s quite easy, at the moment, to appreciate Brewers GM David Stearns by heaping praise on the young front office executive’s trades. After all, the slinging one has seen a few of the Brewers’ prized veterans collapse or experience injuries after their departure from Milwaukee (perhaps Jonathan Lucroy and Tyler Thornburg most notable). Some of […]
What Should the Brewers do with Matt Garza?
Coming into this season, I had low expectations for Matt Garza. He began the year on the disabled list so we already knew that he wasn’t completely healthy, and he was coming off of two horrendous seasons. In 2015, Garza threw 148.7 and posted a DRA of 6.18, which was good enough for a whopping […]
Counts with Guerra
Junior Guerra made his official return to the Brewers rotation for the first time since his April 3rd start against the Rockies, when he went down with a calf injury. As I mentioned earlier this year, Guerra is one of only two opening day starters in Brewers history, along with Mark Knudson in 1991 who […]
Weekend Recap 7: Thames, Nelson
With the holiday weekend, I’m going to skip the usual focus of the Weekend Recap of one series to expand our universe to include Monday’s game against the Mets. After another hitless game on Monday, Eric Thames has now gone nineteen at bats without a hit, drawing only three walks during that span. Everyone knew […]
Entering Upsidedown
Entering Memorial Day, the Brewers are playing true competitive (contending!) baseball; their basic Pythagorean W-L (based on Run Differential) has the club pegged for 87 wins, while park-adjusted metrics show the Brewers pushing the 90-win threshold with the bats 24 runs scored above average and the arms five runs better than average. A true average […]
Minor League Context: May 24
Over the course of the last month, the league environments throughout the Brewers farm system are shifting, yet to solidify as a few bats begin to surpass 150 plate appearances and top arms reach 40 innings. As Brewers fans focus on stat lines awaiting scouting reports on their favorite prospects, these contextual statistics should help […]