Welcome to Week Six of the Weekend Recap. The Brewers had themselves a great weekend against the Mets, sweeping the series and capping it by scoring ten runs after the 5th inning to come back from a 7-1 deficit. Milwaukee won, 11-9. Weekend Series Mets Brewers Friday May 12 4 7 Saturday May 13 4 […]
Tag: 2017 Brewers
Aging Braun: An Expansion
Among Brewers fans, there is perhaps no player more divisive than Ryan Braun. As he should be: Braun is a complicated mix between one of the greatest players in franchise history and a true face of the franchise, and the last remaining contract (along with Matt Garza) that can be justifiably called a holdover from […]
Minor League Context: Bats
It’s been nearly three weeks since the first installment of “Minor League Context,” which is an attempt to understand the factors and environments in the minor leagues so as to not misjudge minor league performances. This is an essential antidote to “scouting the stat line:” given the minor league development assignments, different developmental standpoints, and […]
Hot Soup
With all due respect to my loving mother, the greatest birthday present I ever got was gifted to me by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and it’s not even particularly close. On my 27th birthday, they traded a Quad-A outfielder named Keon Broxton and teenage pitcher Trey Supak to the Brewers for platoon-limited first baseman Jason Rogers. […]
Rebuilding, Competing, and Spending
The Brewers have been, despite my expectations, a delightful team to watch thus far in 2017. Not only are the Brewers still playing .500 baseball a solid 20 percent of the way into the season, but when they’ve been at their best, they’ve been playing an explosively fun brand of baseball. Between their power hitters, […]
Tristan Archer Aims for Miller Park
Throwing a small object past a man holding a stick and standing 60 feet away doesn’t sound all that tough. But when the object has to land within an area slightly larger than three square feet and the man holding the stick has muscles the size of your head…. Well, there’s a reason I write […]
Fun With Pythagoras: Winning Now!
By curious coincidence, this ragtag bunch of upstarts now known as the Milwaukee Brewers are winning. The rebuilding campaign looked terrible after the 2016 trade deadline, as a young team fell to 10-20 after the removal of Jonathan Lucroy and Will Smith. But the roster elements converged, forming an aggressive offensive identity and fortifying their […]
Weekend Recap 5: Garza, Shaw, Thames
Welcome to Week Five of the Weekend Recap, where we’ll look at another disappointing weekend for the Brewers. They lost two of three games against Pittsburgh; the losses were a rain interrupted game on Friday and an extra inning loss on Saturday. Weekend Series Brewers Pirates Friday May 5 0 4 Saturday May 6 1 […]
Jimmy Nelson’s Revamped Arsenal
Last year, Jimmy Nelson was bad. There’s no way around it. He walked 86, plunked 17, both of which were league highs, and posted career worsts in DRA (5.83), FIP (5.12), and WHIP (1.52). He was making life miserable for himself, and this offseason, he vowed to change. His plan, as he told the Milwaukee […]
Orlando Arcia and Elite Fielding
Going big picture, with as big a picture as possible, Baseball Prospectus has tracked approximately 95,480 Batter Seasons in MLB history. Through this lens, Orlando Arcia’s 2016 and 2017 Fielding Runs Above Average (FRAA) ranks of 5,858 and 5,733, respectively, do not seem particularly great. There are a lot of MLB players that have been […]