Entering the 2018-2019 offseason, there remains a contentious debate among many Brewers fans about the need for the Brewers to improve starting pitching. Who can blame these fans? They just spent three weeks watching national analysts bludgeon the Brewers roster construction, bemoaning at nearly every chance that an ace would be preferable to whatever the […]
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Chase Anderson’s Fatal Flaw
Ace Chanderson was almost certainly the Brewers’ best starting pitcher in 2017, but he struggled with home runs in 2018, and hasn’t been seen since a very clever Dan Jennings/Freddy Peralta start replaced Anderson against the Cardinals in stretch run to take the division. It’s hard to say that Anderson was bad, as he posted […]
Series Preview: Brewers at Cubs
After an action-packed sweep of the San Francisco Giants at Miller Park, the Brewers head to Lakeview to continue the Cubs’ extended series of scheduled games. In one sense, it feels as though Milwaukee’s season boils down to the next three games against the Cubs. As of this writing on Sunday evening, the Brewers hold […]
Was Chase Anderson Good Last Year?
We are now multiple decades into the sabermetric “revolution,” and it is still unclear how to determine how good a pitcher is. There are metrics that have come into and then gone out of vogue, but there isn’t a consistent approach to these measurements the way there has been for offensive statistics. The earliest and […]
Brewers at Cubs: What is a Playoffs Rotation?
One of the frequent concerns Brewers fans state about their beloved Milwaukee club is that the roster lacks a “Playoffs Rotation.” This was a common complaint throughout the off season, and it was only amplified during a trade deadline that passed with the Pirates landing Rays ace Chris Archer while GM David Stearns spat on […]
Chasing 1988
I’ve dreaded writing this post for some time, the ultimate jinx post for the phenomenal 2018 Milwaukee Brewers pitching staff. In fact, they surrendered eight runs today while I researched this feature. Yet, as the games played total strolls over 100, it is worth broaching the topic of the place of the 2018 Brewers pitching […]
Chase Anderson: FIP-Beater?
Chase Anderson’s 2018 season has been quite different from his 2017. His strikeout rate has dropped, his walk rate has risen, his ground ball rate has dropped, and his home run rate has risen. None of those trends are indicators of success, so it is no surprise that his ERA is almost two runs higher […]
Weekend Recap: Anderson HR
The Brewers blitzed through another week, plus Memorial Day, going 7-1 at home against the Diamondbacks, Mets and Cardinals. They scored fifty-one runs and allowed twenty three over the eight games, outpacing their seasonal averages of 4.31 runs scored and 3.70 runs allowed per game. While three teams in the National League have a better run […]
Using Deserved Run Average
Baseball Prospectus officially released the new Deserved Run Average (DRA) this week, fresh with a new set of improvements, as always. The main site will have more information coming soon to highlight some of the specific methodological tweaks that were made for the latest DRA. In the meantime, the data are here to play with […]
Early Season Keys for Chase Anderson
As we all are aware at this point, Chase Anderson had a breakout season last year. In 25 starts, Anderson posted a DRA- of 86.1 and a cFIP of 94, which was the first time he had been better than league average by either of those metrics. His 8.5 K/9 and .265 BABIP against were […]