According to Cot’s Contracts, the Milwaukee Brewers currently have $40.5 million committed to their Major League roster, not including the three pending arbitration cases for Jean Segura, Wily Peralta, and Will Smith. Everyone else who dons a Brewers uniform in 2016, as of now, will make the league minimum. For perspective, the club’s Opening Day payroll […]
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Bud Selig vs. The World
Over the past 30 years, no single person has made more noise about the plight of small-market teams than Milwaukee’s own Bud Selig. Whether as baseball’s commissioner or the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, Selig has acted as a small-market evangelist, preaching the impending doom of Major League Baseball should the game’s economic system not […]
The Search for the Next Brewers Hall of Famer
This week, it was announced that Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July. Their election and the din and drama surrounding the whole process can be tiresome, but it got me thinking about the next Brewers Hall of Famer. The last time Milwaukee had a […]
The Brewers Should Take The Cubs’ Rebuilding Approach
By now, it has become pretty clear that the Brewers won’t vie for the NL Central pennant this upcoming season. Sure, they’ve imported a boatload of fascinating future talent — but in doing so, they’ve given up a tremendous amount of present talent. During the 2016 season, and perhaps in 2017, the Brewers will bring […]
Carlos Gomez & Fundamental Attribution Errors in Baseball
Although he struggled with the Brewers and Astros in 2015, Carlos Gomez still remains one of the best and most exciting players in all of baseball. What makes Gomez so exciting, however, is not simply his great athleticism and his skill for the game, but also his passion for baseball. Every time Gomez steps on the […]
Why We Need To Examine Small Market Rhetoric
Milwaukee is a small market. It ranks 35th in the nation by television market size, just behind Cincinnati and just ahead of that famously booming metropolitan area, Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson in South Carolina. No city in Major League Baseball serves a smaller potential fanbase, and more importantly, no Major League city has a smaller base of cable […]
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Just Which Mat Latos Would We Be Signing, Anyway?
Just a month or two ago, the idea of the Milwaukee Brewers as legitimate free-agency buyers seemed outright ludicrous. The team’s eyes were set firmly toward the future, and the crop of players hitting the free agency market trended towards “older” and “really expensive.” As the rival Chicago Cubs put in their bid to buy the NL Central for […]
Top Brewers Storylines of 2015: Resurrection of the Farm System
On Monday, my colleague Jack Moore covered the departure of Doug Melvin, one of the bigger developments to emerge from this year. While Melvin certainly had his strengths as General Manager, his failures ultimately outweighed his successes — and chief among the former was, as Moore cited, Melvin’s utter inability to construct a respectable minor […]
Top Brewers Storylines of 2015: Stearns In, Melvin Out
The number one story here at Baseball Prospectus Milwaukee has been the reorganization of the front office in the wake of the Brewers’ dreadful 2015. On September 21st, general manager Doug Melvin transitioned to an advisory role within the organization and made way for a new GM, David Stearns, formerly the assistant general manager for […]
Why Didn’t Wily Peralta Break Out In 2015?
Heading into 2015, the Brewers hoped for a few things out of their starting pitchers. They wanted Kyle Lohse to continue beating his peripherals; Matt Garza to regain a bit of the velocity he lost in 2014; Mike Fiers to put memories of 2013 away for good; and Wily Peralta and Jimmy Nelson to develop […]