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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
April 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. With more than two weeks worth of minor league games now in the books, let’s take a look at who has stepped up during the […]
2013 Top 10 Lists 3: The Players
Following my overview of the 2013 Baseball Prospectus Top 10 lists, I am presenting a detailed set of lists to showcase the full prospect class. This class features some stunning debuts by elite prospects (such as Carlos Correa), elite prospects morphing into steady MLB regulars (Gerrit Cole, Christian Yelich, and Julio Tehran, for example), and […]
2013 Top 10 Lists 2: The Organizations
The Brewers rebuild, only insofar as it is interesting, is interesting for primarily two reasons: President Doug Melvin and GM David Stearns have rifled through the MLB roster in an astonishingly short amount of time, almost completely remaking the organization in 20 months thanks to the 2015 and 2016 Drafts, as well as through trades […]
2013 Top 10 Lists 1: Value and Risk
Lately, two separate research questions have converged in my mind: How do Overall Future Potential (OFP) valuations based on historical MLB performances compare to valuations drawn from actual scouting rankings? What is the short-term performance value that the Brewers can come to expect from their 2017 Baseball Prospectus Top 10? These are two crucial questions. […]
Jorge Takes the Hill
The Brewers’ minor league affiliates are off and running, and early indications suggest that 2017 will be a special season up and down the rungs of the organizational ladder. Early coverage has rightly emphasized the glut of prospects clogging up the boxscores at Class-AAA Colorado Springs and Class-Advanced A Carolina. Meanwhile, right-handed starter Jorge López […]
The Carolina Rebuild
Yesterday was minor league Opening Day for full-season clubs around baseball, giving us our first chance to follow the box scores and watch the highlights of players that we hope to see in Milwaukee down the road. Well, it was Opening Day for all but one of the full season affiliates, that is; the high-A […]