In a much-publicized scheduling crunch, the Brewers are headed on a trek in which 21 games will be played in the 20 days leading to the All Star Break. Any baseball fan will look at their favorite team’s schedule for such an occasion and grimace. That the stretch’s extra contest comes at the cost of […]
Tag: 2018 Brewers
Weekend Recap: Miller and Guerra
The Brewers had the potential to make this one of the best weeks of the season. After splitting two games with Pittsburgh, they took the first two games of their weekend series against St. Louis as the Cubs lost the first two games of their series against Cincinnati. Unfortunately, their bats fell asleep again on […]
Jeremy Jeffress, Fireman
Brewers right-handed reliever Jeremy Jeffress has been the unsung hero of the bullpen while lefty Josh Hader gets (justifiable) national hype for his incredible strike out performance and prospect comparisons (some prospect sources are now writing about “Josh Hader-type roles”). But Jeffress…Brewers fans know Jeffress as the situationally flexible groundball mechanic who typically gets the […]
Weekend Recap: Knebel and Thames
After a promising start to the week, the Brewers ended it on a down note. Milwaukee won the last two games of their series against the Cubs, shutting out one of the best offenses in baseball according to TAv in both victories. After a huge Brewers victory on Friday night, Philadelphia won the last two […]
2018 Draft: Meet Drew Rasmussen
The three day, 40 round Rule 4 Draft is a marquee event for Major League Baseball held annually each June. The draft presents an opportunity for franchises to restock their minor league systems and provides high school and college players across the country the chance to join a professional organization and chase their dreams of […]
Recycle the Rebuild: The Great Non-Move
Last year, I criticized Brewers GM David Stearns for his lack of midseason moves to address a starting pitching rotation that became greatly diminished down the stretch. The criticism was a part of a general frustration that the club had not done enough to reach the playoffs. After executing a very swift rebuilding effort (that […]
Historic Pitching Profile
Anyone following this Brewers team knows that the bullpen has been the driving force behind the team’s success. The Brewers have the National League’s best record, and their offense is a solid but unspectacular sixth in OPS, while their starter ERA of 4.04 ranks eighth. The bullpen ERA, though, is second only to Arizona. This […]
Danny Reynolds’s Long Road
The MLB Draft is a time of optimism. Ask an average fan, and their team’s first five or so picks are guaranteed to be future stars. Even in the later rounds, most selected players offer something to dream on: 70-grade raw power in spite of a nonexistent hit tool, say, or a promising fastball that […]
Weekend Recap: Braun and Woodruff
The Brewers bounced back from their first real adversity of the season by taking two of three games from the Philadelphia Phillies over the weekend. They emerged from their mini-slump with an offensive explosion, scoring twelve runs on both Friday and Saturday. Those twelve runs equaled their combined total from the Chicago and Cleveland series. […]
Aces Don’t Exist: Third Time Charmers
The Brewers are gaining a reputation for becoming a bullpen squad, part of the MLB bullpen revolution, and rightfully so. Over the offseason, the Brewers lost out on all the major free agency starting pitchers, and never consummated a trade for one of the (presumably, oft-rumored) available aces, instead remaining satisfied with marginal moves involving […]