After a strong offensive performance on Friday night, the bats went cold and the Brewers lost the final two games of their series against the Diamondbacks this weekend. Rather than dwell on two disappointing losses, including another bullpen blowup, let’s take a look at the Brewers debuts of the top two prospects in the system […]
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Update: Cashing Out OFP 2
Earlier this week, I examined the surplus added by Brewers GM David Stearns, which is undoubtedly one of the reasons the club is performing quite well. Stearns, in stark contrast to recently famous rebuilds in Chicago and his previous front office (Houston), is building competitive clubs at the MLB level by cashing in on short-term […]
Eric Sogard: Oasis or Mirage?
Quickly, without Googling: through this past weekend’s action, among Major League players with at least 50 plate appearances, who tops the leaderboard for wRC+? Mike Trout? A good guess, if a predictable one, but he’s in second place. Eric Thames? You’re really, really close. As in, same team, same first name, close. I’m talking about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Analyzing Espino’s Whirl-windy Debut
My dad, who grew up in and around Chicago, remembers driving into Wrigleyville with a friend in the summer of 1969, when Billy Williams, Ron Santo, and Ernie Banks batted 3-4-5 for the Cubs. He was seventeen years old and was there to see his first-place Cubs take on the New York Mets. The Cubs […]
The Undeniable Average
A common line regarding the 2017 Brewers is that the pitching staff is the weakness of the club. It’s easy to see this: eight of the club’s 19 losses have occurred when the club scored five or more runs, which of course means that the pitching staff was either bad or horrible in those games. […]