In a season chock full of feel-good stories, the Milwaukee Brewer’s most pleasing development may be the emergence of soon-to-be thirty-year-old Chase Anderson. After posting a 4.26 earned run average in 418 2/3 innings over his first three full seasons in the big leagues, the veteran right-hander ranks seventh in baseball among those with at […]
Tag: 2017 Brewers
How Real is Travis Shaw’s “Breakout”?
Travis Shaw has undoubtedly had a better season this year than last. In roughly the same number of plate appearances (562 thus far in 2017, compared with 530 last season), he has a TAv nearly fifty points higher and has more than doubled his WARP. Entering the weekend against Miami, his .292 TAv ranked fifty-first […]
Deconstructing the Pirates
With the Brewers embracing a systematic rebuild following the 2014 and 2015 collapse, it is worth scrutinizing other building cycles around the MLB. As the Brewers play in Pittsburgh, the Pirates are winding down their second disappointing season following their 2013-2015 contending run. Pittsburgh fully rebuilt their baseball operations, analytics, and player development system under […]
Weekend Recap: Walker and Thames
The Brewers completed a successful “away” series this weekend against the Miami Marlins, winning two of three games held at Miller Park. The weekend was defined by the bats, as the team scored twenty four runs across the series, highlighted by two eight run innings. Overall, Milwaukee went 4-2 on the week, but lost ground […]
Considering the Keystone
Heading into the 2017 season, few Brewers fans were worried about second base. Jonathan Villar had spent the previous summer making good on his potential, authoring a 4.7 WARP season along the way. Scooter Gennett and Yadiel Rivera provided a decent insurance policy: one could be relied on for some decent at bats, while the […]
Weekend Recap: Hader and Braun
The Brewers concluded another up and down week at its highest point, completing a sweep of the Chicago Cubs over the weekend to bring the squad within two games of the division lead. The weekend once again featured strong pitching performances from the starters and the bullpen. The Cubs mustered only three runs over the […]
Going Forward Without Jimmy Nelson
Because baseball, like life, is pain, emergent Brewers ace Jimmy Nelson is now out for the season after suffering a torn labrum sliding back into first base after hitting a long single off the wall in Friday night’s win over the Cubs. Watching it in real time, I was afraid he was going to pull a hip […]
Freddy Peralta and Quality Depth
Corbin Burnes is going to win the Milwaukee Brewers’ organizational minor league pitcher of the year award, and deservedly so. In his first full season as a professional, Burnes authored a pristine 1.67 ERA across 145.7 innings split between Class Advanced-A Carolina and Class-AA Biloxi. Only two pitchers across all of the minor leagues reached the 100 innings […]
Zach Davies has Recovered
Out of the gate, Zach Davies was one of the worst pitchers in baseball. Through April, he had the sixth-worst earned run average among those with over twenty-four innings pitched at 6.57. He walked over four batters per nine innings in April and allowed and batting average on balls in play close to .400. Davies’s […]
Brewers Home Run and Strikeout Tendencies
A common criticism levied against the Brewers has been that they are over-reliant on home runs and too prone to strikeouts. The Brewers do lead the league in team strikeouts, but they are not an outlier in terms of the relationship between their total runs scored and the number of home runs they hit. It […]